Category: Arts & Culture

Faubert’s one-man business, which he formed seven months ago, has found success by filling a niche in the photo industry. Faubert uses his own materials and the equipment in the labs of the image arts building. Unlike most studio photographers, he only offers one product—black and white headshots.

A sheep is sold, transported and slaughtered. As the camera steadies on the blood dripping from its white fleshy neck, most people in the audience cringe. A few stare resolutely at the screen. 

"[This year's designers] are trying to move men away from the pre-existing thought-patterns concerning fashion," says Janelle Cagodan, one of the designers featured the show. She says guys need to be more conservative" Kelly says. "If a man wear something that's too flamboyant,he tends to be teased about it." 

Ades runs UPward Motion, a consulting and training company that focuses on youth and uses theatre to recreate conflicts in the workplace. She took her presentation to Ryerson last week, leading workshops at the school of retail management.

Ryerson dance students have been busy preparing 26 pieces for the theatre school’s production called Choreographic Works 2000.

Three Ryerson fashion students are one step away from getting international exposure—all they have to do is win a competition against some of Canada’s top fashion design students.

Her experiences with the children compelled her to writer her own poetry. She remembers a man in the audience of one of her show objecting to a poem about child abuse. “He said, ‘Can’t we just hear something happy?’” she recalls. “But I said to him, ‘If you, a grown man, can’t listen to it, how do you think a nine-year old feels when she’s dealing with it on a day-to-day basis?’”

By Dino Sossi The biggest surprise during my trip to Jamaica was that there were, well, no surprises. Sure there were your garden variety surprises. Golden hour vistas. Superb food. Incredible characters. But, for the most part, I felt like Kevin Spacey signed an autograph as “Kaiser Sose.” Or like I watched Rosie wax self-righteously […]

By Shane Dingman Two weeks ago, I attended a performance of  The Creatures From the Board of Directors Part MVII at Oakham House. It was billed as a rollicking assault on dignity and the efficacy of student representation, and ended up being all that and more.  The staging of a great political thriller cum comic […]

Oakham House’s floundering arts and culture magazine may have found its rescuers. Dave Fielding and Justin Anderson, two third-year magazine journalism students, have taken control of OH! Magazine.

First-year image arts students got a taste of exhibitionism for two glorious evenings last week on campus. The submissions to the first-year film festival and Sections, a combined media show, varied in style as much that this reviewer felt poked, provoked and vanked in innumerable ways.