Channel Surfing in the Sea of Happiness gets launched at long lastLocal writer and former fashion columnist Guy Babineau launched his debut book of short stories on Wednesday, July 3, just in time for Victoria’s pride season. The book, Channel Surfing in the Sea of Happiness, collects material from Babineau’s life as a young gay man, and builds those experiences into a series of fictional vignettes […] Continue Reading |
Past the End of the Road series of unmemorable nostalgic reflectionsPast the End of the Road: A North Island Boyhood is a new autobiography by Canadian septuagenarian Michel Drouin. Growing up in Port Hardy in the 1960s was clearly a whole different way of life than nearly anybody reading this newspaper is likely to have any inkling of. At the time, the immediate world consisted […] Continue Reading |
Camosun student puts on third annual music festCamosun student Sierra Nicholson is doing something that most students would consider impossible to pull off—and she’s doing it for the third summer in a row. Nicholson, a first-year Arts and Science Studies student, is the festival director for Sick Day Festival, a multi-genre music festival she created featuring artists from across BC. The idea […] Continue Reading |
New multi-tiered festival comes to Government HouseArtisTREE is a new festival coming to Government House, and it could really go one of three ways. According to ArtisTREE music curator Mike Roma, fest producers Market Collective are marketing it as three separate events. “They wanted to market ArtisTREE as just music if you just wanted it to be; ArtisTREE is just vendors […] Continue Reading |
Present Laughter a delightfully dramatic farcePresent Laughter is a stage play written by Noël Coward in 1939, following the life and antics of actor Garry Essendine and his closest friends and enemies. Produced by the Langham Court Theatre under director Don Keith, the original script is presented completely faithfully, and the strength of the writing is evident in the immense […] Continue Reading |
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria opens two galleries to show new viewThe Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (AGGV) recently made a big change in how it displays its collections. Having amassed a substantial archive of Asian, Indigenous, and Canadian art and artifacts, the AGGV has opened two ongoing galleries to permanently display their collections to the public. The new venture is called A View From Here, […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Peter Bibby’s Drama King excruciatingly mediocrePeter Bibby Drama King (Spinning Top Records) 3/5 Drama King—the fourth album from Australian indie-rock artist Peter Bibby—is excruciatingly mediocre, as the good songs don’t make up for the bad ones. The first four songs on the album are a slow buildup of tension to “Baby Squid,” a track that puts you into the less-than-sober […] Continue Reading |
Vision Disturbance helps people see hopeVision Disturbance is an odd love story written by Christina Masciotti, and Theatre Inconnu is bringing it to the stage this month. The play follows Mondo, an immigrant woman in the middle of a divorce so vicious that the stress begins to affect her eyesight—this leads to a budding romance with her optometrist. The pair […] Continue Reading |
The Lehman Trilogy offers behind-the-scenes look at financial crash and so much moreI’ve been fascinated with the backstories of the 2008 financial crash since it happened. I’ve wondered many times about what could possibly have led to such immense chaos. The Lehman Trilogy, currently running at The Belfry Theatre, gives those of us who wonder a closer look into the crash—starting out with an innocent dream of […] Continue Reading |
The Marriage of Figaro exciting and beautiful operaOpera is a tricky thing. People either love it or are seriously frightened of it. I grew up in an arts-appreciative family and had a fair amount of experience with opera from a young age, so I was excited, to say the least, when I heard that The Marriage of Figaro was being performed at […] Continue Reading |
