Draining the Swamp: A Musical Tweet Written by Rajiv Joseph Directed by Mel Tuck — Donald Trump is a fraud, a con artist and a clown. That’s how I feel anyway, and evidently, the creators of Draining the Swamp do too. This 2017 Fringe Festival entry takes a comical in-depth look into the metaphor that Donald Trump used throughout his 2016…
The 2017 Fringe Festival (Sept 7 -17) is underway and LINK has been busy checking out select shows. In the festival creators’ own words, “The Fringe strives to break down traditional boundaries and encourage open dialogue between audiences and artists by presenting live un-juried, uncensored theatre in an accessible and informal environment.” Follow along with us and be sure to…
BCIT Engineering student, Jason Wait, joined thousands of other eclipse chasers to the totality zone to watch the total eclipse of the sun on August 21 2017. He shares with us his experience driving there, his set up and how he was able to capture the amazing images with his telescope. On August 21, 2017, an…
Band: Arcade Fire Album: Everything Now Release Date: July 28, 2017 Genre: Dance Rock Rating: 8.5/10 Arcade Fire is becoming timelessly good, like U2 or Radiohead or Beck (I know music is totally subjective, but these are actual stats from a Spotify music study you can check out here). When Arcade Fire released their latest album…
Best of the Best We had so many amazing BCIT students contribute their ideas, designs, words and photos to our magazine this year, it was really hard to choose our favourites. But we were able to put together a shortlist of some of the strongest pieces from the year, based on feedback from our readers…
With 4 simple letters, Kendrick Lamar announced his return to the rap game and this time he wasn’t around to play.
Covenant is a colony ship bound for a distant planet. A sudden energy flare disrupts their course and the crew members have to be woken from cryosleep. As they’re performing repairs on the ship, they receive a transmission from a nearby planet — a planet that seems to be so perfect in regards to habitability,…
For our April issue, Ray Yu caught up with BCIT alum Var Bhalla, to talk about life after BCIT, starting his own production company (Red Line Media) and his upcoming documentary This Is Home which follows the destruction and rebuild of Fort McMurray after the 2016 forest fires. “It’s a story with a different perspective, from…
Write On My Heart Defending LGBTQ Rights in the Age of Trump Written by Jordan Kwong Just days after the 2016 American presidential election, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow spoke about Mike Pence (then Vice President-elect) and his history of anti-LGBTQ policies. She described how as the governor of Indiana, Mike Pence passed a law making…
Written by Jordan Kwong Artwork by Carolina Galdamez When I am looking for a laugh, classical art memes never disappoint. They are irreverent, occasionally raunchy, and always hilarious. They are also everywhere online, as are the countless other memes that have become viral hits. With so many of us spending countless hours on social media…
If you haven’t seen Hollywood’s latest ‘it movie’ Get Out, not only are you missing out on the greatest box office ROI since The Blair Witch Project, you’ve likely got a bunch of memes in your feed that you don’t yet understand. But don’t let that be the reason you go see this truly…
Big Fit Girl: Embrace the Body You Have Louise Green (greystone books 2017) Louise Green used to think that she couldn’t be an athlete because she was bigger than the other people she saw playing sports. Until she signed up for a “learn to run” clinic and met a plus-sized athlete who shattered her…