Summer has been passing by in the blink of an eye. It’s hard to believe that we are almost half way through! This summer, I have had the great fortune of being able to travel to and live in Montreal for five weeks while learning French at the Universite of Montreal. It was the first…
Whether you are travelling to a foreign place with friends, going on a vacation with your family, or staying in Calgary to earn loads of money, taking the time to read a few good books is definitely a summer activity you cannot miss out on.
Calling out to all high school students in Diefenbaker, Pearson, Churchill, and Western! This February-March, a picture taking marathon is taking place to raise awareness and money for Red Cross’s Child Advocacy and Rehabilitation Program in Liberia. The money raised will help rehabilitate child soldiers and orphans back into society. You can participate by picking…
Even though language has become an integrated part of our lives, most of us do not pause to consider the importance in which it plays in our perception of the world around us. Language is a product of social norms, tradition, culture, and even history. In fact, many historians have even found evidence of geographical…
Winter break is almost here and it’s time to shout a big Hallelujah! It’s that time of the year again when you can say goodbye to tests, quizzes, tedious homework assignments, lectures, et cetera for a good two weeks. For a lot of us Grade 12s, it’s also the last winter break we get to spend as…
Christmas is just around the corner, and our lovely city is already blanketed in snow. People are putting Christmas lights everywhere. It feels rather festive already even though a whole bunch of homework and assignments are weighing us poor high school students down deep inside our hearts. Well, no worries, because once winter break hits,…
2010-2011’s Empty Bowls event has officially been launched! On Nov. 18, the first orientation meeting for the making of bowls took place at the Wild Flower Arts Centre. Volunteers and steering committee members were given the opportunity to tap into their artistic talent to make clay bowls with a creative twist. All of these bowls…
Mozart’s contemporary Joseph Haydn once said this about him: “posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years.” The extent to which this prediction was right is controversial, because along came Beethoven followed by Chopin in a couple of decades. However, the fact that Mozart was an artistic genius who pushed the boundaries…
Music has become a commodity in our everyday lives. When you’re bored on the bus, when you’re trying to study in the library, when you’re exercising in the mornings, when the person beside you won’t stop talking to you… just pop in your earphones! We have gotten so used to carrying all 10,000 (okay, I…
Everyone is familiar with the story of the Odyssey, of the heroic adventures of Odysseus that took him ten years to return home to Ithaca after the fall of Troy, but what about the women’s version of the story? Based on a novella by Margaret Atwood, the Penelopiad (performed by Alberta Theatre Projects) explores what…
If you are a Calgarian involved with classical music in any way, you’ve probably heard of the dashing young Polish-Calgarian pianist Jan Lisiecki. At the young age of fifteen, he is already making a name for himself on the international stage as a musical sensation. Having performed as a soloist with world renowned orchestras like…
“Art is the focal point of all the great civilizations of the world. The spirit of the community is found in the arts.” When most of us think of Calgary, we think of the bustling roads that criss-cross our busy, oil-oriented city, and the wide rolling landscape of golden canola plants and wheat. But Calgary…
(picture courtesy of http://appletravel.cn/news-10032.html) The Chinese Opera Festival was one of the performing arts highlights of the Calgary Chinatown Centennial celebration. With the unique collaboration of traditional BeiJing Opera artists and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jubilee Auditorium was filled with lively Eastern music. It was certainly a rare treat for Calgarians to see this…