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.
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“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.
“The manuscripts are there and we’re handling them, reading them, looking at them and exploring them,” said Echard of the value behind adding these items to the resources at Rare Books. “There’s nothing like the look, the feel and the smell.”
Tognetti has created a photography project detailing the vulnerabilities and obstacles that individuals face on a daily basis. Her powerful project became very popular among UBC students and the general public.
“Both characters I’d say have some sort of thing they’re missing, that they’re looking for in the other person. That’s something we can all relate to. Trying to fill the void in our life with other people and with what other people have.”
Participating students, quickly realized that the question, “What does democracy mean to you?” first had to be answered in order to discuss what bringing it home entailed. Even beyond that, students realized perhaps the statement was flawed itself.
The nominees for this year’s 32nd Annual BC Book Prizes include at least one UBC alumnus for all seven categories, which is an incredible feat in itself. Some of these authors will also be taking a month-long tour around schools in British Columbia.
Whereas “deaf” is often used to describe a level of hearing loss, the term “Deaf” describes those who identify with other members of the Deaf community – a cultural distinction, rather than a medical one.
The concept of an “unconference” is built around the idea that attendees are tired of listening for hours to speakers drone on about various topics. It “flips” the conference, putting the attendees in charge of presentations and workshops.
Dr. Ramer is bearded and ascotted while belting a show tune in a local production of The Pirates of Penzance. By day a scientist, by night an actor — this professor is an excellent model for following one’s dreams in a practical, balanced capacity.
In 1998, a University of Wyoming student named Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten and left for dead on the hills outside of Laramie Wyoming for being gay. The murder brought attention to various states for having a lack of hate crime laws.