Reading Time: 2 minutes“Life and Death of Languages” looked in extreme detail at how Hill and his team are working to revitalize the Tuscarora language, which has only one truly fluent speaker remaining.
Arts & Culture
Reading Time: 2 minutesZanette has recently launched an initiative towards setting up an anti-harassment inclusion policy to be implemented universally in arts programs across Canada with the goal of better protecting LGBTQ+ members and those of other vulnerable groups.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt flawlessly straddles the border between 70s glam and 80s new wave—in fact, the album is often viewed as Bowie proclaiming his dominance as the original freak over a new generation of artists.
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew facilities, show schedules, policies, and advertising are all working together in a top-to-bottom revamp that aims to capture the diversity of Canada’s artistic scene.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAlthough most students shop at big-box grocery stores, there’s still a lot that students can do to reduce their waste.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPRD is a club that meets weekly, preparing vegan meals with food that would have otherwise been thrown out.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDostoyevsky left no place for laughter in his novel. His message, among many, is clear: Actions have consequences. And some consequences can drag you into the unimaginable depths of hell.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen it comes to representation, mental health may not be the first thing you think of, but luckily, the creators of these shows have.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe recipients of the 2018 Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards were announced on Thursday, March 8 at an event in the Canada Council building attended by some of the recipients.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBased in Nepean, Click eSports is aiming to create a space where gamers of all skill levels can gather to discuss, watch, and play the world’s most popular competitive video games.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are panels on animal theory and animal rights, co-existing with nature, consumer society, geographical spaces in literature, environmental activism, and a creative writing panel on how the current age of ecological crisis affects creative writing.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat begins as a “safari of other people’s pain and suffering,” as Mtuli put it, turns into the photojournalist intensely following the illegal romance of Alexander, an ethnic Serb, and Mirela, a Muslim.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat I hadn’t realized was that the Irish take the GAA championships as seriously as many Canadians take the NHL playoffs. This was the Stanley Cup game of hurling. So, I was wrong about the atmosphere. I was very, very wrong.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe music of Godspell is a major selling point, with a mix of traditional musical theatre, vaudeville, gospel music, and 70s-style pop and rock.
Reading Time: 3 minutesJesus Christ Superstar holds a big place in theatre, as one of only two major Broadway musicals about Jesus Christ—the other being Godspell—and it’s definitely the bigger, more dramatic of the two.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year, the club is tackling materialism, with all proceeds going to LGBT Youthline, a charity that offers counselling, advice, and an outreach hotline for LGBT youth.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile Brown might be getting a lot of the coverage, the dive wasn’t a one-man affair. He dives with a team of about 10 others who make the explorations possible.
Reading Time: 3 minutes When you fast forward 12 years later and people still ask you, “Do you have hair under that?” or “Did your parents force you to wear that?” you realize that the questions have evolved from innocent inquiries to judgmental remarks. My hijab became a conversation starter—to discuss the political and economic state of Muslim countries.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLalonde pointed out that the number of artists using multimedia in this exhibit is part of a growing trend in the wider art world. As technology increases and becomes more accessible, artists are exploring ways to use common technologies in unique ways.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe event explored a diverse range of issues including racism, socio-economic subjugation, populism, slacktivism and language rights through an equally diverse spread of mediums from videography to poetry.
Reading Time: 2 minutesVR headsets won’t be replacing your television anytime soon, but options are starting to open up for those who want to get ahead of the curve. Among them is local Ottawa startup Colony VR.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTownes sticks out a bit in the Ottawa music scene. Inundated with punk, hardcore, and metal, there aren’t a lot of pop or synthpop artists.
Reading Time: 7 minutesUndercurrents is a non-mainstream theatre festival in the heart of downtown Ottawa.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMan of The Woods, released on Feb. 2, encapsulates a wide range of elements, from his signature pop style to the heavy roots of southern soul and country.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) and the University of Ottawa’s department of history have a number of events lined up to celebrate Black history both now and throughout the year.
