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With the immortal Xenotext, poetry gets stranger than fiction

The “world’s best-selling poet,” University of Calgary’s Christian Bök, is hard at work on The Xenotext, a project for which he’s used genetic modification to implant an enciphered poem into…

Events Calendar: March 31–April 14

ART Synoptic Media Festival The festival includes film screenings, media workshops, and student-made creations. Tuesday features a film screening and presentation at 1 p.m. At 6:30 p.m., seven Applied Ethnographics…

Macklemore, could you please explain this unruly mess you’ve made?

I was rooting for you, Macklemore. When you won Best Rap Album at the Grammys over Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d. city, Drake’s Nothing Was the Same, Kanye West’s Yeezus…

Ballet Victoria brings classic Shakespearean tragedy to life

On March 9, Ballet Victoria proudly presented an adapted choreography of Sergei Prokofiev’s much-acclaimed 1935 ballet, Romeo and Juliet. Of the many Shakespearean plays that have been re-imagined for ballet,…

First Peoples House showcases indigenous artists with pop-up art show

There are few buildings that could double as a pop-up art gallery as beautifully as the First Peoples House at UVic. The venue made for a perfect home for the…

PHOTO: Mystic Vale

Amidst the chaos of courses and exams, places like Mystic Vale truly remind me of how connected we are with mother nature and how much peace we can find if…

POETRY: When a feather falls to earth

When a feather falls to earth Today should be marked by soft treading on a carpet the colour of blood exsanguinated from my lifeless shell. My skin should be dried…

POETRY: Fermented Love

Fermented Love I’ve been sipping on my own vanity for too long and the tea bag’s turned me bitter. I’ve been yours for so long that I’ve forgotten I am…

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