Victoria Film Fest movie Coral Ghosts explores climate change through coral reefs, familyConsidering the current state of our economy and society, grocery stores, hospitals, and law enforcement are completely essential. There is no doubt about that. However, with its line-up of powerful films that bravely take on important themes, this year’s Victoria Film Festival (VFF) successfully establishes just how essential movies are to us in 2021. One […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Chris Garneau’s new album a stripped-down successChris Garneau The Kind (The Orchard) 4/5 NYC-based singer-songwriter Chris Garneau’s fifth album The Kind is pretty close to perfect for a cold pandemic day huddled away in your apartment. This album addresses what we try to hide: smothering relentless shame, the strength we can find in darkness, and how we manage to get by. […] Continue Reading |
An Inside Voice: Our screens, ourselvesSo, it’s two weeks into the semester, and we’re just starting to get that feeling of familiarity, of “This is how things work, and I think I understand things.” We probably have a bit of a pattern established of how and when to complete our weekly readings, of how much or how little we can […] Continue Reading |
Student Editor’s Letter: Walking on in silenceWe are all living a slightly different pandemic. Being a writer and a student means I’ve scarcely left my apartment for anything other than groceries or walks for almost a year. And that does funny things to me. I wake up five or six times a night, never sleeping for more than an hour or […] Continue Reading |
Victoria NDP MP Laurel Collins sponsoring petition for student aidVictoria NDP MP Laurel Collins has sponsored a parliamentary e-petition that calls on the Canadian government to increase supports for students in light of COVID-19. The petition, signed by 9,580 people, asks that the government uses the remaining funds from the $9 billion in aid allocated for the Canada Student Services Grant that was originally […] Continue Reading |
Freedom from Addiction: Romantic relationships and waking upAddiction is about staying asleep, so to speak. Part of the function of being swaddled in the dark cloud of addiction is, more or less, to block out reality. In Pia Mellody’s book Facing Love Addiction she writes that all addicts—including sex, love, and relationship addicts—find reality “intolerable.” Addiction recovery is about waking up from […] Continue Reading |
Artist Kegan McFadden looks at love and loss in A Separate PeaceWhat’s first striking about the work of local artist and A Separate Peace, and other bouquets curator Kegan McFadden is how ordinary the images selected for the sprawling title piece of the show are. A Separate Peace is a collection of 500 images of men facing away from the camera, caught in moments very different […] Continue Reading |
Camosun launches student creativity contest with cash prize for winnersCamosun first opened its doors to students on September 16, 1971. As part of the 50-year anniversary celebrations happening now, the college has launched the 50th Anniversary Student Creativity Contest. There are three categories—2D/3D art, written word, and audio art—in the contest, and the winner of each category will receive a $1,000 prize. The prize […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Online learning at Camosun good but not greatAll throughout 2020 there were many hurdles for students to face. One of the major hurdles our college community is dealing with is the transition from in-person classes to online classes. Although most of us have gotten used to this, this rigorous transition has its ups and downs. Let’s start with some of the ups: […] Continue Reading |
Student Editor’s Letter: It’s time to break out those rations“COVID brain” is a real thing: some people with COVID-19 report a brain fog for months after their diagnosis. So it’s not exactly correct to use that phrase to describe what I’m currently experiencing. Let’s call it “isolation fog.” In the last couple weeks in particular, I’ve noticed pants and sweaters fit a little looser; […] Continue Reading |
