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...
Ballet Victoria brings classic Shakespearean tragedy to life March 24, 2016 Salma Eddiani On March 9, Ballet Victoria proudly presented an adapted choreography of Sergei Prokofiev’s much-acclaimed 1935 ballet, Romeo and Juliet. Of the many Shakespearean plays that have been re-imagined for ballet,...
First Peoples House showcases indigenous artists with pop-up art show March 17, 2016March 16, 2016 Cormac O’Brien There are few buildings that could double as a pop-up art gallery as beautifully as the First Peoples House at UVic. The venue made for a perfect home for the stunning...
VISUAL ART: Artwork by q̓aa kʷiit Grace-Anne Thunder March 17, 2016March 16, 2016 Grace-Anne Thunder ...
PHOTO: Mystic Vale March 17, 2016March 17, 2016 Yamila Franco Amidst the chaos of courses and exams, places like Mystic Vale truly remind me of how connected we are with mother nature and how much peace we can find if...
POETRY: When a feather falls to earth March 17, 2016March 16, 2016 Mike Alexander When a feather falls to earth Today should be marked by soft treading on a carpet the colour of blood exsanguinated from my lifeless shell. My skin should be dried and...
POETRY: Fermented Love March 17, 2016March 16, 2016 Simone Blais Fermented Love I’ve been sipping on my own vanity for too long and the tea bag’s turned me bitter. I’ve been yours for so long that I’ve forgotten I am my own...
Local artist carves a space for memorializing women March 17, 2016March 16, 2016 Cayden Johnson UVic will soon be home to a towering sculpture, carved from cedar, honouring murdered and missing indigenous women. The Martlet spoke with its sculptor, Rande Cook, about raising awareness of...
