Hachioji Kuruma Ningyo: Traditional Japanese puppet theatre
The Hachioji Kuruma Ningyo Company from Japan performed at UVic on May 2 to a capacity audience in Hickman 105. Kuruma ningyo is a rare form of puppetry in which the puppeteer sits on a small seat on rollers and manipulates a life-sized puppet to the accompaniment of a narrator, called a gidayu, and a musician playing a shamisen, a three-stringed instrument sounding rather like a banjo.
Q&A: Viewpoint from centre stage
The University of Victoria’s "City Talks" series focuses on what our cities mean to us. An initiative of faculty across campus, the downtown lecture series was launched last year by UVic’s Committee for Urban Studies, under the guidance of UVic historian Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross. One of the participating faculty members spoke with The Ring about this year's first session.
Talking up the city
What does your city mean to you? Where do the arts fit into your urban experience?
On Sept. 22 at 7:30 p.m., a free public lecture will focus on theatre in the city, kick-starting a series of discussions about city life in UVic’s second annual City Talks lecture series at the newly reopened Legacy Art Gallery.
Five by Five: Visual Arts MFA students face their own "Eviction"
Five students, five semesters, five solo exhibitions. Such is the challenge undertaken by the current crop of visual arts graduate students, who succeed only by creating their own eviction—from the program, true, but also the annual MFA thesis exhibition, this year dubbed "Eviction."
"Inside" Daniel MacIvor
Calling actor, director and playwright Daniel MacIvor a busy guy is a bit of an understatement. Within the span of the past few months, he opened his latest movie, Trigger, now playing in film festivals across Canada, and took over as a last-minute replacement director for David Mamet’s The Cryptogram at the Belfry Theatre.
Make space, Hawking
The next generation of Marie Curies, Albert Einsteins and Stephen Hawkings is sitting in classrooms across the country right now, and University of Victoria researchers and students are hoping to keep inspiring these empirically minded kids with dynamic presentations about the wonders of scientific and engineering discoveries throughout the year.
Richard Wagamese believes in changing the world, one story at a time
Want to change the world? According to the Department of Writing’s 2011 Harvey S. Southam lecturer Richard Wagamese, it’s easier than you think—all you have to do is talk to your neighbour. “It’s an elemental thing,” the Ojibway author and journalist explains. “The boundaries and perceived limits of your world change when you stop and talk to another human being. When you exchange stories—where you came from, how you got there, how your life is going—the addition of that one story to your reality changes your world.”
Why science matters to Brian Greene
How does three go into six? When string theorist Brian Greene asked it of a Grade 2 class, a student eagerly ran to the board, drew a massive 6 and wrote a tiny 3 inside. While that wasn’t exactly what he was looking for, he said that the spirit of eagerly giving your best shot at an answer was bang-on for a budding scientist.
New Legacy exhibit encourages community to curate and create
If Michael Williams were alive today, he’d be very pleased to know that his extensive collection of Pacific Northwest art is helping build community and inspire the artists of tomorrow.
MASTERMINDS LECTURE SERIES
For several decades, gastrointestinal infections have been among the world’s top four leading causes of death. Now Canada is experiencing a growing list of new food-borne pathogens. In an April 15 public lecture, Dr. Edward Ishiguro (biochemistry and microbiology) will speak on “What Everyone Should Know About Listeria, Salmonella and Other Food-borne Pathogens.”