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Latin American and Spanish Film Week returns to Cinecenta
Week of film and music is back for the 15th year running From Sept. 16 to 21, the Hispanic Film Society of Victoria will celebrate the 15th annual Latin American and Spanish Film Week on campus at Cinecenta. Dr. Dan Russek, UVic Hispanic Studies professor in the UVic...
UVic alum Esi Edugyan’s novel comes to life in new Disney+ adaptation
Adapting her novel to the screen was a “bizarre and quite wonderful,” says Edugyan Esi Edugyan is a UVic Writing alum (1999), a two-time Giller Prize winner, and a Booker Prize finalist. Her third novel, Washington Black, set in the 1830s, follows a young man named...
Finding the ‘clown state’
Pedro M. Almeida Siqueira’s masked performances move emotions without words In a dark theatre in 2018, Pedro M. Almeida Siqueira found himself crying. The theatre filled with late summer air, but what the other theatre-goers called “warmth” on Vancouver Island was a...
Love letters are more than an antiquated ideal
Put down the playlist, and pick up a pen Romance often seems lost nowadays. Meet-cutes in coffee shops have turned into an endless scroll of left- and right-swipes that lead nowhere, and most relationships never seem to make it out of the dreaded “situationship”...Our Digital Print Issue
