"Don't Dress For Dinner" is a chaotic play, full of layers of deception, romance and alcohol. With a standout performance from Tess Degenstein as Suzette, and a story which escalades to feverish levels of craziness, this is a play sure to entertain.
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If you look at the subject matter in most of my plays, a lot of them are rooted in social justice issues. The Valley very much fits that. At the end of the day, all my plays first and foremost follow the lens of family to look at those things.
There's a ramshackle quality to most of the structures and it's an interesting juxtaposition to see a group of men and women wearing their finer clothing while standing with the mountains and forests in the background, looking thoroughly out of place
Blood, Sweat and Beers is a collection of different pieces written by students that had taken creative writing courses this year. Although the stories span different genres and tones, none of them share any thematic connection to each other.
Wait, there was also this one friend of mine who said she was going that didn’t reply back to my messages? Those savages. All that said, here is my final event review of the year: Block Party 2016, from the eyes of a man irrationally scorned.
Whispers of Life aims to raise awareness about suicide among transgender and gay youth, as well as reduce anti-gay bullying. The students who saw the screenings were encouraged to create artwork of their own relating to the film's subject matter.
“I heard my dad say ‘Folk songs were the original social media.’ I believe this to be very true. Music will always be important; it is a reflection of who we are, who we were, and gives us the clarity to see who we can become.”
The atmosphere is perfect for sharing secrets. As the show progresses, the questions grow heavier. How many friends do you have? How intelligent do you want your friends to be? Has your friend ever slept with or pursued your sexual partner?
At the Moving Trans History Forward conference last weekend, Mary Ann Saunders, an English professor at UBC, presented her paper exploring the character of Ariel in Shakespeare’s The Tempest as a lens into the struggles of transgender individuals.
Russian lit classics are often recalled in terms of their hard-edged realism and excessive number of pages. So it’s refreshing to see the Silver Commissions Project offer a fun, light-hearted take on Eugene Onegin, one of the genre’s greatest works.
“There is something helpless in being a witness,” the book opens. The necessary act of witnessing despite feeling powerless and the role stories play in that witnessing are themes Maracle alluded to in the rest of her talk as well.
"Once you get it into computer language, there’s very little difference between, 'I’m turning a knob on this computer,' to the the sound of an instrument coming on or an actual video. A lot of the project is about what can we explore and control."
“By the time I had children and wanted to get back into a music career, my Ukrainian identity was something that I needed to respond to as a musical vehicle,” she continued. “It spoke to my soul, there was something about it.”
"The album will help the crisis by spreading awareness. I think what we need is a lot more empathy. I think that’s certainly going to be something Anoushka’s album does — generating empathy for people who are pushed in to such a desperate situation."
Let’s get to the root of the matter — you may be in the dark about this category of vegetables. Gnarly tubers deserve their day in the sun too. Some of these underground gems might be buried in obscurity, but their secrets are easily unearthed.