The first time I saw this poem by William Carlos Williams was in Grade 9 LA class, and it still remains one of the most strange poems in my memory. This is it: so much dependsupon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the whitechickens Ambivalent ideas organized in an even more ambiguous structure —…
In 1980’s Harlem, the entirety of the queer community was hidden. In New York, the queer community survived in artful safe spaces of dance, creation, and expression. The drag ball scene is illuminated issues of race, gender, and sexual orientation faced by the marginalized communities of New York, and by extension, society as a whole.…
On March 14, 1979, Judy Chicago’s art instillation, “The Dinner Party,” was opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. That instillation pushed feminist art to the limelight, changing the lives of women, and forever defining Chicago as a legend. Now, “The Dinner Party” is permanently installed in the Brooklyn Museum, but the life…
Did you know that there is a project, a sort of Wikipedia, for sheet music in the public domain? The International Music Score Library Project, also called the Petrucci Music Library, currently owned and run by the company Project Petrucci LLC, was created in 2006 to provide free music scores through the internet. Its goal…
A twist on the classic paper snowflakes, these trihexaflexagons will leave you mesmerized by their multiple sides and kaleidoscopic effect. Hexaflexagons are polygons with multiple faces, discovered by Arthur Stone in 1939. They can be made out of paper, then pinched and turned out to reveal the other sides. Being hexagons, they can easily be…
Frida Kahlo is recognized as Mexico’s, if not the world’s, greatest painter. She is a Marxist, reconstructionist, disabled, bisexual painter and activist. Kahlo completely revolutionized the way we view art, gender, and society. Her art, particularly her self-portraits share a personal story of pain and suffering, but also a profound resilience. Kahlo explained, I paint…
Listening to music has shown to positively affect your mood, blood pressure and heart rate. In all, this helps to increase your motivation which also leads to the rise of productivity levels. Research has shown that the same music you would listen to while studying something low mental efforts affects you differently than studying something…
When we consider contemporary art, most of us imagine to the likes of Pollock or Warhol, anything that invokes a sense of “oh, that’s modern art.” But what is our perception of modern art? Basically, anything that we can’t describe. Campbell soup can certainly draw contrasts with Van Gogh’s pieces, but if anything, there is…
It’s fall. The weather is colder, the days shorter. The green of the leaves pulls back to reveal the hidden gold in preparation for the surrender to the winter ahead. This display is well-known and romanticized. The withered foliage murmurs softly in reply to the whispers of the breeze and the shuffling of boots. But…
Are you looking for a festive place to spend time with your friends this summer? August is already here, and Calgary has a collection of lively events planned out! Here is a list of 10 must-attend festivals before the 2018-19 school year: Calgary Fringe Festival The popular annual film festival event is ready for its next August events in Calgary from…
Music is an essential part of human history, with different styles present in different societies throughout different eras. Some pieces of music are mind-bogglingly difficult to play, some evoke strong emotions, and some are just background noise. However, new ideas are constantly developing, which leads to the composition of some odd pieces in the modern…
What looks like a piano and sounds like a harmonica? A melodica! A melodica is a free-reed wind instrument, which means that the sound is made by air vibrating a reed against a frame. It’s played by blowing into a tube and pressing down keys. Unlike most wind instruments, melodicas have a keyboard that is…
A piece of me is being torn away. I don’t need it, they say It was temporary anyways. But I want it back. Have I no longer right to declare that It was mine for some time And it has become a part of me, As essential to me as my heart and my…
It’s interesting how people often surprise you with their unexpected preferences, and one example I’ve been reflecting on lately is music. It’s not uncommon to see people walking around wearing earbuds, living in a world of music that the rest of us cannot hear or understand. But I do often wonder what it is people…
A poem about averageness.