Victoria Festival of Authors brings writing community together

Danielle Geller knows the importance of events like The Victoria Festival of Authors. The creative non-fiction writer first attended the Victoria Festival of Authors (VFA) in 2019; this year, Geller will present on VFA’s New Works panel, where the authors discuss their current works. She describes her first experience at VFA as important because she […]

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Treasures From Byzantine Manuscripts showcases live ancient Greek music

While most Westerners are at least tangentially familiar with classical music, few are likely to have even heard of ancient Greek music, and this is precisely what Early Music Vancouver (EMV) hopes to rectify through the performance of Treasures from Byzantine Manuscripts, a component of the Pacific Baroque series. EMV artistic director Suzie LeBlanc says […]

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Victoria Fringe Festival roaring success of indie performances yet again

On Sunday, September 4, the 35th annual Victoria Fringe Festival came to a close after 12 days of indie performances. I checked out five of the 28 shows, and I was surprised, engaged, and entertained with what I saw. I started out with Outpost 31’s The Sci-Fi Sampler. This is presented in an interesting format, […]

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One Wave Gathering returns with an eye to climate-change impact

The impact of climate change in South Pacific and Indigenous communities in Canada is a big topic, and it’s what One Wave Gathering is exploring this year. The annual day-long arts and culture celebration, put on by the Pacific Peoples’ Partnership, will also be an open door for community members to learn about South Pacific […]

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Coping with the pandemic—and life—with Game of Thrones

I’ve spent the last year trying to discover what was hiding under all my fear. Since 2019, we’ve all been in the middle of a plague and were forced to adapt. But society has moved on and the world has been dealing with a great deal of sadness. COVID-19 was a just an undergarment to […]

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The Nexus fall movie preview guide

Well, we made it past summer movie season, and now it’s time to talk about the fall blockbusters. While not as packed as last year, this fall movie season offers up plenty of action, suspense, and fun that’s sure to make movie-goers happy.  Here’s a look at just a few of the flicks hitting the […]

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Jeremy Dutcher enchants audience at University of Victoria

Jeremy Dutcher is an operatic Indigenous musician from the Wolastoq First Nation. On his 2018 debut album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, Dutcher breathed new life into 1900s wax cylinder recordings from his community, rearranging and combining them with modern jazz to create a synergy of the past and the present. And last weekend, he brought his unique […]

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Exhibit celebrates 131 years of Ukrainian-Canadian immigration

In 2016, the Royal BC Museum partnered up with the Ukrainian Canadian Congress and Honorary Consulate of Ukraine in Vancouver to produce Bread & Salt, an installation that celebrated 125 years of Ukrainian immigration to Canada. Now, the exhibit is once more being displayed, updated to honour the most recent wave of displaced Ukrainians driven […]

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Jeremy Dutcher tackles themes of Indigenous identity and connection in music

Toronto-based singer/musician Jeremy Dutcher is coming to town this month, and he’s bringing with him his music’s themes of Indigenous identity, our relationship to our surrounding world, and our connection to each other. “Because I sing in Wolastoq language, my Indigenous language, the themes are definitely exploring identity through language and also our relationship to […]

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Destination Unknown examines life as a gay teen during AIDS epidemic

The dedication in Bill Konisgberg’s new novel, Destination Unknown, really hit home for me. Konigsberg writes: “To my friends who didn’t make it to the 21st century. I miss you.” I find this to be an incredibly poignant dedication in a novel that dives into the realties of navigating everyday life as a queer person—in […]

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