The Youth Animation Project is a program for community action through animation involving 16 participants between the ages of 15-30. For 20 weeks, participants work as a team to create animations on issues related to youth, social action and the environment. The Youth Animation Project welcomes all youth, including immigrant youth, Aboriginal youth, street-involved youth…
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…
First off, I would like to say that this is a pretty good movie. It is a little creepy in some scenes but nothing too bad. This movie is based on this orphan named Esther. She seems to be a cute and innocent child that loves to draw pictures. But most of the pictures she…
George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer of exponential talent, composing many operas, oratorios and concertos. Handel’s works are most famously attributed to his use of word painting, a technique used in music to have the melody mimic the literal meaning of the lyrics. Handel’s Messiah interprets the Christian view of the Messiah, or…
Il Giardino: “The Ultimate in Italian Food and Fun,” 344 – 17 Ave S.W. I was fortunate enough to receive a gift certificate to write a restaurant spotlight. I took my parents, who were very excited. I’m glad I took them, since my dad is quite the cuisine connoisseur and his enthusiasm for the restaurant…
For those who understand French, here’s a little history of liberalism for you, written for a social assignment. Le libéralisme classique, une mode de vie idéalisée par plusieurs pays autour du monde, n’est pas tous ce qu’on imagine; il y a des faiblesses accidentelles et inhérentes qui le rendent moins-que-parfait. Ceci amène à des réactionnaires…
WeiJia and I will be able to have the great chance to see the Calgary Philharmonic Chorus and several soloists perform Handel’s Messiah in the Jack Singer Concert Hall. To ignite some Christmas spirit with song, here’s a uplifting video featuring the Chorus Niagara performing Handel’s Messiah, random flash mob style, in a food court with an…
Alaska is covered with snow and ice shields, and also excluded from the large territory in the United States. Its boundless wilderness has attracted countless adventurers’ desire. “Into The Wild” describes a young teen who wanted to give his soul to Alaska. In 1992, inside an abandoned bus at Alaska, people found a decomposed body.…
Samuel de Champlain was a wonderful draughtsman, cartographer, ethnologist, soldier, diplomat, geographer, chronicler, explorer, and French navigator. He was nicknamed the Father of New France and he just may have been related to King Henry IIII. But do you know what Champlain really was? He was an investor. Most of the important things he has…
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,…
I recently got the opportunity to see the movie Case 39. This movie was quite scary, so if you’re planing on seeing it…watch out! This movie’s main character is played by Renee Zellweger, who is a social worker. She gets a call to go check out a house where the parents might be abusive. So…
The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) is the home to approximately 65 world class musicians, and Robert Penner is one of them. Penner fortunately happened to be the father of a very good friend, and having been overwhelmed by the grand majesty of the CPO like in the Wonder of Chopin concert and the Mozart and…
It’s after dark, 5 p.m., and when I walked into the Calgary Zoo, I was greeted by an enlightening path of brightly lit red and gold candy canes. The bridge had been hung with ivy-like vines of blue lights and cute shapes of kangaroos and butterflies lit up the zoo. Quite amazingly, patterns of monkeys…
What are they? So maybe you haven’t seen oxfords around, let alone knew what they were until I introduced them today. Oxfords are almost like dress shoes but a bit more casual. That’s not necessarily the true way to define them, but it makes it easier to point them out. You’ll also notice that almost…
WeiJia, fellow blogger and I had the extraordinary chance to meet and interview Jan Lisiecki at the Wonder of Chopin concert playing in the Jack Singer Concert Hall. When do you have the chance to meet a 15 year old piano prodigy? Not everyday, at least for me, but perhaps for his friends at Western Canada…