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Camosun Comics and Graphic Novels students are getting ready to show off their 28-page comics at the sixth annual Camosun Comic Arts Festival. Comics and Graphic Novels program co-founder Ken Steacy says tabling—where students put their work on a table and interact with passers-by about what they’ve created—is an important part of growth in the […]

Camosun to deliver new culinary arts program with Songhees Nation The provincial government announced in the last week of March that $665,000 would go toward starting up a new Aboriginal Culinary Arts, Hospitality and Tourism Management program at Camosun College. The program will be a partnership with Songhees Nation and delivered at the college. Camosun […]

Camosun indigenous artist in residence Margaret Briere focuses on Coast Salish art, a genre found largely in the Pacific Northwest; much of Briere’s art deals with issues surrounding mental health. She says her art does not represent mental health in a typical way, often using birds as symbolism. “In my mind, if I didn’t say […]

If you notice that students seem a bit happier this week, not to mention falling over drunk, that’s because an error on the part of work crews occurred while installing a new pipeline that has replaced the school’s drinking water with local craft beer. A spokesperson for Camosun College says this couldn’t come at a […]

With the stress of final exams looming, the tension on both Camosun’s Lansdowne and Interurban campuses is palpable. Camosun students are wandering like time-bomb zombies, waiting to explode with the pressure of mounting assignments and tests; some students, apparently, have, literally, not slept for three years. Lucky for the tension-riddled masses, a solution has been […]

Keen eyes may have noticed that there’s basically always a lot of construction happening at Camosun College’s Lansdowne campus. The Slum Building has been caught up in a legal battle for years now, and students can’t actually walk around it. Meanwhile, Wisher’s construction, slated to be done by September 1 of 1998, is still not […]

Spring has arrived, and students and faculty are enjoying being out of the dull greyness of constant cloud and rain. So the name of the year-end exhibit for first-year Camosun Visual Arts students, Out of the Grey, makes perfect sense, which Visual Arts instructor John Boehme acknowledges with a laugh. He says that Out of […]

William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, adapted by Jeffrey Renn, brought me great joy last night at the University of Victoria’s Phoenix Theatre; it’s a creative and colourful farcical comedy and the soundtrack to this “pop musical reboot” of the play is great. As those who are familiar with the play know, it’s all about […]

Women’s voices reach out across the pitch-black room in a tune that sounds almost mournful. When the lights come up, two women wearing bathing suits sitting in a soaker tub are illuminated on centre stage. The floor, ceiling, and curtains shroud the stage in funerary black, contrasting the virginal white bathtub and swimsuits. So begins […]