It all began at a top-secret location, which was disclosed the night before the show. Everyone was gathered uncomfortably in groups here and there in the waiting area.
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Although the atmosphere was carefully set, the organizers did not shy away from the fact that the evening would be inevitably threaded through with conflict. With a room full of people passionate about different ways of approaching the issue of sustainability and necessary change, how could it not be?
Schneider credits the UBC community as an important starting point in his career. Schneider has played several shows for The Calendar and is set to perform at this weekend’s Generocksity event. According to Schnedier, however, UBC sometimes feels like a self-contained bubble that is hard to break out of.
When one man can make a room full of adults laugh, cry, feel excessively uncomfortable and mourn for a man they never knew all in 90 minutes, it's undeniable that something special is happening.
The app is simple: first, you choose the outlet you want, then choose the menu item(s) that fit your diet and then pay by credit or debit card.
Members of the UBC Improv team took to the stage in the AMS Student Nest Blackbox Theatre to provide an hour of improv shenanigans with the aim of relieving all of the pent up election stress that is no doubt churning in the hearts of every politically-conscious student out there.
During this period he wrote a letter to his former lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, who, according to Dr Gregory Mackie, a Wilde scholar in the department of English, was “one of the greatest shits in the history of English literature.”
“I don’t think Mike Bartlett was interested in saying anything, I think he was more interested in asking questions…[COCK] doesn’t have a strong message…rather a challenge for the audience to consider things they haven’t considered before.”
Before there was Youtube, there was television. Before there was television, there was film. And before there was film, there was Eadweard Muybridge, who created the first moving pictures in the 19th century through stop-motion photography.
Two weeks, several hundred films, thousands of audience members and the best of Canadian and international cinematography – this is the Vancouver International Film Festival.
To further convey this sense of detachment, Saarsgard breaks the fourth wall throughout the film and stares directly into the audience. This is not to say that he appears aloof; his voice and demeanour are weighed down by a certain melancholy, perhaps at coming to terms with the dark implications of his findings.
The movie concludes with Williams’ funeral, and a spontaneous group rendition of the movie’s namesake song, “I Saw the Light”. It’s another moment that would be almost unbearably melodramatic, if it weren’t for the fact that it actually happened.
In the end this becomes more of an academic work than an emotional one, and though all performances are excellent, and there is evidently great thought put into its production, Anton Chekhov—1890, can be no more than an interesting film, which is not quite enough for it to be a memorable one.
Dr. Jean Barman, a now-retired UBC professor, was awarded the gold medal for scholarly research for her book French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Pacific Northwest, published by UBC Press in 2014.
Experts note that stress plays a large factor in students lives as soon as they enter campus and are required to adjust to a whole new reality incredibly different from high school.