Journal launch celebrates UVic undergraduate writing April 14, 2016April 13, 2016 Cormac O’Brien Writing is a solitary art — as a writer, I know that we, by nature, are shy, introverted creatures, often appearing only at night and very rarely in groups of more than...
Dirt bag geniuses: How planting trees gives artists room to grow April 14, 2016April 13, 2016 Cayden Johnson [pullquote] Tree planting culture is basically kind of like that group of kids from Peter Pan who throw the colourful goop at each other, but with a couple grumps [in the...
Poe Dameron #1 earns its high-flying namesake April 14, 2016April 14, 2016 Myles Sauer There’s no better time to be a Star Wars fan than right now — and better still if you’re into comic books. Marvel’s unprecedented partnership with Disney and Lucasfilm has allowed them...
Events Calendar April 14–April 28 April 13, 2016 Cayden Johnson ART I Thought I Was the Only One Concocted by Kerri Flannigan and the Youth of Island Sexual Health, this collaborative show has been in the works for six months. Art illuminates...
Victorious Voices festival champions spoken word talent April 12, 2016 Sarah Lazin No props, no musical instruments, no costumes. Those rules aside, anything can happen onstage at Victorious Voices, a spoken word festival taking place right now. From April 11–13, the festival will...
Want to join the Mild High Club? March 31, 2016March 31, 2016 Cayden Johnson Mild High Club may have cancelled the Victoria stop of their West Coast tour, but I got a chance to chat about upcoming projects and other neat things with the...
The Zolas set out in raw, new direction March 31, 2016March 30, 2016 Cayden Johnson While speaking on the phone with the Martlet, the Zolas vocalist Zachary Gray was frequently interrupted by all the excitement of the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. Between location...
With the immortal Xenotext, poetry gets stranger than fiction March 31, 2016March 30, 2016 Lee van der Kamp The “world’s best-selling poet,” University of Calgary’s Christian Bök, is hard at work on The Xenotext, a project for which he’s used genetic modification to implant an enciphered poem into...
Events Calendar: March 31–April 14 March 30, 2016 Cayden Johnson ART Synoptic Media Festival The festival includes film screenings, media workshops, and student-made creations. Tuesday features a film screening and presentation at 1 p.m. At 6:30 p.m., seven Applied Ethnographics film students...
Macklemore, could you please explain this unruly mess you’ve made? March 24, 2016 Emmett Robinson Smith I was rooting for you, Macklemore. When you won Best Rap Album at the Grammys over Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d. city, Drake’s Nothing Was the Same, Kanye West’s Yeezus...
