by Juliana Rupchan | Sep 21, 2018 | Culture, Events, Theatre
The 2018 Fringe Festival results are in, and UVic’s theatrical talents are award-winning. The Fitting Room, put on by RoseMarie Productions — a team made up mostly of UVic grads — received the Overall Favourite Show prize at this year’s Pick of the Fringe Awards. The...
by Juliana Rupchan | Aug 28, 2018 | Culture, Theatre
Four teens, a mom, and a rabbi walk into a fitting room . . . The Fitting Room has returned to the stage for this year’s Fringe festival, revised and refreshed. The work of local artists, nearly all of whom are UVic writing and theatre grads or current students, is...
by Juliana Rupchan | May 14, 2018 | Culture, Literature
If you want to learn a lot about fishing without looking like you’re reading about fishing, this might be the book for you. I read Bill Gaston’s new memoir, Just Let Me Look at You, in my backyard, enjoying the first of the summer weather, and it’s a setting I’d...
by Juliana Rupchan | Mar 21, 2018 | Op-eds, Opinions
Provincial governments should step up to help students Does a valuable education have to come at the expense of students’ wallets? UVic’s budget strategy suggests that the answer is yes. At a time when a post-secondary education is becoming increasingly essential in...
by Juliana Rupchan | Jun 8, 2017 | Culture, Literature
What the Soul Doesn’t Want is Lorna Crozier’s seventeenth book of poetry, and the mastery that comes with long practice certainly shows. The collection launched with a reading at Munro’s Books on May 30th, where Crozier, a Professor Emeritus at UVic and a legend among...