“I had a lot of young women [in Seoul] coming up to me saying ‘Oh I feel like that character’ and I couldn’t believe it because it’s a different language [and] culture," she said. "But maybe certain things there are universal like heartbreak [and] feeling lost.”
So maybe leave the car once in a while on your way to campus, or venture into any of the trails around UBC. This Movember, in addition to the glorious array of beards that will start to pepper the campus, we might start to start to see accompanying spandex and sneakers in show of support for men’s health.
The cards are thrown up into the air at the beginning of the performance, and the actors take a random card from the pile of 52 cards on the ground and act out the scene. When that scene is finished, the actors then select another card from the deck randomly and act that one out. This process is done until the end of the program and eventually all the cards come together to form a story.
It spoke to how music is a universal language and how integral music is to us all across the different seasons of life. This night was indeed a portrayal of music and dance – where it did not move our bodies it certainly did move our hearts.
For a play with such a (perhaps) off-putting title, Cock is surprisingly PG. Sex happens, yes. It’s very passionate, but at no point do clothes come off, there is very little man-to-man or man-to-woman contact, yet the tension and passion in the scenes is electrifying.
Fast, healthy, and cheap: the trifecta of student food that too often goes unfulfilled. (Of course, these terms are all relative, especially with food: what is quick for one person might be more involved for another, and budgets and diets vary from person to person.)
“Sex and murder is basically how we communicate in opera,” said Philippe Castagner, who will be singing the role of Le Chevalier des Grieux in UBC Opera’s production of Manon.
Tsai composed, arranged, recorded, mixed and mastered the song. The typical length of time for a professional studio to properly cover all these aspects of music production is two months. Tsai did all these in three days, all the while bracing herself for two midterms.
“Buddhism is more than a religion but a way of life and thinking, it involves in philosophy and a different way of looking at the world,” said Zhihan. “November 1 is a day for everyone to come and practice wisdom and compassion, and we will share with everyone.”
He describes the protagonist, played by Louis Dupuis, as “an ex-military man, dishonourably, honourably discharged.” In terms of character, he is “very gullible, very likeable [and] always trying to please his passengers.” As a result of his passengers, “they lead him into outrageous situations.”
Broca's mosaics are far more contemporary than the traditional roman style. "Doing mosaics, it seems to me, is taking a fragmented world and putting those fragments together to make the world whole," she said. "In that sense it is very contemporary."
Brett on the other hand, explored our relationships with the "other" by detailing his 25 year-relationship with his pet bird Tuco, who was the main inspiration for the book. His work examines what it means to be ‘othered’, to become something different from what people would associate as ‘normal’ and is linked to his traumatic experience of being bullied for his androgyny.
In Belonging, a Q&A event part of the Vancouver Writers Fest, all four writers personally attested to experiencing being “othered” throughout their lives. Whether through excerpts from their memoirs or discussing feelings on the spot, they also focused on how their personal turmoil translated into their literature.
Having a good costume is scary. Having no costume is way scarier. Between the new season of American Horror Stories and midterms, it's certainly no surprise that Halloween can creep up on you.
It was jarring but stuck to the theme of DYSTOPIA in a sense that it was not what it seemed. Generally, books are to be read and this practice rendered of using black marker rendered reading meaningless. This piece was unnamed but it was one of the strongest of them all.