Reading Time: 2 minutesBalancing graduate school with music isn’t easy, but to Lu it’s essential.
Arts & Culture
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is enough personal and professional intrigue to earn the play’s description as being about “the abuse of power, political expediency, and the masks we wear to carry on as if everything is as it should be.” I think, acutely aware of my privilege as a white cisgender male, the key word here is abuse.
Reading Time: 3 minutesArmed revolution, ground-breaking art, youth culture, a huge push forward in the history of teenage rebellion, and the stodgy British class system might seem unlikely to fit together, but all that and more came out of Britain’s most elite, aristocratic schools.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDonnie Darko is an independent film that was the product of a first-time director, so it certainly wasn’t a blockbuster.
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe asked volunteers what everyone should know about Islam, and why.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFriday’s Soul Expressions, an annual talent night organized by the Black Student Leaders Association, was not only about showcasing talent from the black community but also about looking to the future.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“I like that it’s a lot more than female impersonation now,” Queene said. “I think that if you have your heart committed to a song or a character it’s going to look good. You don’t need to do wig reveals or splits to get people going, you just need to have that energy and spark in you.”
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Because people always tend to look at STEM and arts as being very distinct and that makes things very stagnant — it doesn’t allow for innovation, it doesn’t allow people to think creatively.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis album is LOUD. Sleater-Kinney were always on the noisier side of indie rock (understandably, given the band’s punk background) but on The Woods, they really bring the noise.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUniversity of Ottawa students filled the Sala San Marco Centre Conference Centre on Feb. 27 for a night showcasing cultural and artistic displays from the black community. This year’s theme, “Surviving Violence,” was punctuated by a keynote address by Keke Palmer on her experiences as a black woman.
Reading Time: 2 minutesKarolyne Pickett—actress, producer and University of Ottawa alumna—was there recently shooting her debut independent film Broken Waters/ Eaux Troublés. It tells the story of a young female psychiatrist in mid-1980s Ottawa, focusing on her struggle against the then-mainstream concept of chemical psychiatry with her own firm belief in humanistic psychotherapy.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe group, whose mission is focused on empowering women of colour and Canadian newcomers, provides skill workshops and leadership training to foster personal and professional success.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUniversity of Ottawa alumna Chuqiao Yang won the prestigious bpNichol Chapbook Award for her work Reunions in the Year of the Sheep, which deals with questions of Chinese-Canadian identity.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe collection of essays focuses on children’s literature, a major discipline in literature studies, and the places that authors create for their stories.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA selection of poems from the campus-based small press’ latest anthology, Currents.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“When they performed the pieces in the camp, that was probably the highlight of the day or the week—(it is) when they were able to escape the reality (of the Holocaust).”—Ulrike Anton, the flautist at the concert.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Visual and Media Arts awards honour lifetime achievements in the fine arts, such as ceramics, sculpture, multimedia and audio-visual, painting, and photography. All forms of artistic expression were included this year.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBut Ottawa is also crowded with smaller museums devoted to a single topic or local history that are just as fascinating as the big ones.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom April to August, the OSA will offer a variety of courses, exhibitions, and events during its Spring (April-June) and Summer (July-August) terms.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe vernissage is the biggest night for the visual arts department, with professors, faculty, family and friends, and artists and gallery owners coming through
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe more time you spend in a place, the more that it feels like it’s a part of your identity and the harder it will be to break the connections and friendships that you’ve made.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe interpretations of “avian” ranged from life-like ceramic owls to performance pieces about Twitter.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThey are a non-confrontational group that hopes to give students knowledge and awareness on how to live a cruelty-free life.
Reading Time: 2 minutesScott has noticed that people come to Irish culture for different reasons. Irish music and dance are popular, she noted, and so she tries to work the Irish language into dance or music classes.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe play itself deals with some dark themes, and its characters are complicated and flawed. They are often contradictory and always conflictual.
