D-Day film tells the stories of 14 survivors, 75 years later June 2, 2019June 3, 2019 Kate Korte 75 years ago, troops advanced onto beaches in the Normandy region of France for the D-Day invasion — the largest seaborne invasion in history. A new History Channel documentary tells
UVic Grad inaugural winner of CBC Next Up comedy contest May 19, 2019May 20, 2019 Emily Fagan Three years ago, Alistar Ogden wrote his first comedy set as a playwriting student at UVic. This April, Ogden performed as CBC Comedy’s inaugural Next Up contest winner at the
Happy Days: the theatre of the absurd May 19, 2019May 20, 2019 Brianna Bock The play Happy Days, written by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, is best known for a style called ‘Theatre of the Absurd’. Like in his other masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, Beckett
Maya exhibit premieres at the Royal B.C. Museum May 17, 2019May 17, 2019 Brianna Bock Maya: The Great Jaguar Rises is the largest Mayan exhibition to ever be shown in North America. Many of the artifacts are from Guatemala, and have never been shown internationally
Korean fundraiser seeks to reunite Somali refugee family May 17, 2019June 13, 2019 Kate Korte An upcoming local fundraiser looks to help Marwo Abdi, a Somali woman living in Victoria, reunite with four of her family members. Abdi came to Canada in 2008 after receiving
Gender and sex aren’t synonyms April 27, 2019April 20, 2019 Cay Burton It’s important that parents, caregivers, and educators have a basic understanding of the difference between terms such as “gender,” “sex,” “cis,” “trans,” “binary,” and “non-binary” in order to prevent bullying
Youth poets showcase talent at 10th annual Victorious Voices Festival April 24, 2019April 20, 2019 Josh Kozelj After months of hard work, high school students across Victoria were given a chance to express themselves, to perform the poems they spent hours writing, rewriting, and writing again for
Patrick Boyle to play at latest ‘Blues for Eric’ concert on April 13 April 11, 2019April 8, 2019 Joseph Blake Trumpet star and UVic professor Patrick Boyle will celebrate the seminal music of Louis Armstrong while raising funds at the ninth 'Blues for Eric' benefit concert. The show starts at
UVic’s Japanese Culture Club hosts first Japanese Equinox Festival April 4, 2019April 23, 2019 Mike Graeme From the drums of the Uminari Taiko group that made the Michele Pujol room rumble to the Furusato Dancers twirling with branches of flowering cherry blossoms, the Japanese Equinox
Northern-Irish singer-songwriter SOAK to release second album April 3, 2019March 24, 2019 Anna Raptis At age 22, Northern-Irish singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson, known by her stage name SOAK, is set to release her second album in April 2019. Grim Town will include fifteen original songs,
