Art out loud: poetry that’s meant to be heard

Art out loud: poetry that’s meant to be heard

by | Apr 4, 2013 | Culture

Slam poetry is meant to be heard. The slam, a poetry competition judged by the audience, emerged in the 1980s. According to Canadian poet Johnny MacRae, slam began as a rebuttal to the then-common theory that the best voice for a poem was the one most distant from the...

Hardcore for Christ

by | Feb 7, 2013 | Culture

Atheist punk rocker and filmmaker Justin Ludwig’s pillars of hardcore are “self-reliance, progressiveness, heresy and hedonism.” So when he found out that evangelical Christians were moshing to the same riffs while praising Jesus, his foundations shook. “I was upset...

The dust settles for Chris Ho

by | Jan 31, 2013 | Culture

Victoria-grown singer-songwriter Chris Ho tries to get his music out to anyone who may want to listen — but he wasn’t always this outgoing. “Well, they say that a lot of being successful is just showing up, but I never showed up,” says Chris Ho, 23, from his apartment...

The New Souls of Victoria funk

by | Jan 17, 2013 | Culture

You know a band has potential when they can fill a dance floor on a Monday night while being short a key member. That is exactly what up-and-coming funksters The New Souls did as they played a free show at Felicita’s on Jan. 7. Theirs was a slick set of almost all...