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Annual Latin American & Spanish Film Week a great success

“The event has evolved,” said Professor Dan Russek. “ This year [we did] something that we’ve never done…. a film conversation.”

‘Once Upon a Dreadful Night’ experiments with improv and actual play

On Oct. 15 and 16, a new production group in Victoria will be putting on their inaugural improvised show, Dread Noir.

The meating talks liminal jazz, music access, and why they love playing in the CARSA parkade

“I remember trying out a bunch of parkades in Victoria, and then I eventually came across P-zero,” Micu said, “the sound in there is insane.”

‘The Women of the Fur Trade’ is a hilarious, unmissable production

The Women of the Fur Trade is an anarchic and hilarious exploration of Canadian history, and the unresolved threads of the Red River Rebellion that continue to affect our world…

‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ is a chaotic exploration of sex and violence in horror

The film, which has scenes filmed at UVic’s CARSA, is both a playful evocation of and meta-commentary on the horror/slasher genres.

WARA-WARA exhibition opens at the UVic Legacy Art Gallery Downtown

The gallery is hosting WARA-WARA, an exhibition of street art and graffiti from Yogyakarta, Indonesia, from Sept. 16. to Dec. 5. 

What does Kate Bush’s ‘The Dreaming’ have to offer us 44 years later?

What The Dreaming can teach us 44 years later is this — the journey to self-actualization is painful, wretched, and does not always create popular and widely understood content.

Eiafuawn’s ‘Endless Body’ still feels ‘fucked up and whatnot’

Coming 20 years after 'Birds in the Ground,' the album’s sound oozes with slow guitars, hazy vocals, and a kind of slack-jawed feeling.

OFFBEAT | CFUV shares top August albums

Reveal Yourself, Buildings and Food, mary in the junkyard, Lido Pimentia, and knitting counted among CFUV's top charting artists in August.

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