Chargers alumni create community through basketball

Two Camosun alumni are really taking to heart the meaning of paying it forward. After Jade Montgomery-Waardenburg and Ashley McGinnis graduated from Camosun’s Early Childhood Education and Community, Family and Child Studies programs, respectively, and hung up their Camosun Chargers women’s basketball uniforms, they were sponsored by the Indigenous Sport, Physical Activity & Recreation Council […]

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Camosun student helps college create virtual reality witness blanket

Camosun College has hired a team to create a virtual reality witness blanket, inspired by traditional Indigenous woven blankets. Second-year Camosun visual art student Louise Black, Camosun Innovates director Richard Gale, and applied research and development technologist Matt Zeleny recently went to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg to spend several days scanning […]

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Documentary about breast-milk issues screening at Camosun

Milk, a 2015 documentary by Noemi Weis about how political and commercialized childbirth and infant feeding has become, is being shown at Camosun College this month. Event organizer Samara Oscroft, who is also a Nexus contributor, says that although getting this screening together with her Geography 102 class has been a lot of work, she’s […]

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Rande Cook to lecture on campus about Indigenous art

On March 16, Rande Cook, a Kwakwaka’wakw artist born in Alert Bay, will give a lecture at Camosun on contemporary Indigenous art and its origins as part of the college’s Visiting Artist Series. Cook is an accomplished multimedia artist who has apprenticed, researched, and honed his craft while working all over the world. That’s why […]

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Camosun student faces societal issues with repair café

Just because something can’t be used doesn’t mean it can’t be saved. It just means it hasn’t yet seen the hands of first-year University Transfer student Savannah Barratt. Barratt is part of the Camosun Innovates Innovators Club. The club will be hosting an upcoming repair café, where students and staff can bring their broken goods […]

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Camosun Chargers get new student athlete from down under

The Camosun Chargers women’s basketball team have a new player, and she’s come all the way from Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Codi Tiedeman is here playing for the Chargers for the rest of the winter semester. Tiedeman, a first-year Marketing student, was contacted by Chargers women’s basketball head coach Justin Thiessen last year. “He contacted […]

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Student plans talent show for mental-health awareness

Out of pain comes creativity. That’s what second-year General Science student Jordan Bell proved when she decided to take her experiences with mental health and turn them into something beautiful and creative. “I struggled with mental health for quite a while,” says Bell. “Artistic expression is something that really got me through that time. It […]

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