In the wake of their 25th anniversary, the Vancouver Writers Festival crushed their previous attendance records by hosting more events, selling more tickets, and filling more venues than ever before. Financially, these figures are a festival organizers’ dream. The ultimate goal, however, is a little more poignant. Hal Wake, artistic director of the festival, says…
The sixth We Day took the stage at Rogers Arena on October 18 and featured an all-star line up of speakers and live performances. Hosted by MTV’s Aliya-Jasmine Sovani and Scott Willats, big names in Canadian music included Avril Lavigne, Hedley, and Down With Webster. Roughly 20,000 students from as far away as the Yukon…
British Columbia Ombudsperson Kim Carter made a stop at the BCIT Burnaby campus on her recent tour of the province. One reason for Carter’s visit to various parts of the province was to make the office’s services better known to British Columbians. “A lot of people don’t know we exist,” Carter told The Link in…
Eight years after the first Harry Potter book was published, Simon Fraser University formed a Quidditch team. Club founder Christine Konrad says until now, no one took the initiative to apply to SFU Recreation to start the team. She told The Link, “I watched a UBC-UVic game about two years ago, and I thought, ‘This…
“We are water.” If there was a concise way to summarize Watermark, this quote from Oscar Dennis comes pretty close. Words do a poor job of describing a film of such overwhelming visual beauty, but the Tahltan linguist captured the simple and yet loudest message of the film. Watermark is the second cinematic collaboration between…
ARIES (March 21 – April 20) This time of year it’s useful to assess life using a costume-benefit analysis. Are you exuding enough sparkle? Are you more often yourself, or someone else? Is your life peaceful or is it full-on war(drobe)? TAURUS (April 21 – May 21) Taurus, quit moonlighting as the person you want…
Pumpkins, witches, black cats, and most importantly – candy. Yep, you got it: it’s that time of year again. Halloween is just around the corner, and the big question on everyone’s minds is what to do for this year’s holiday. Luckily, The Link has compiled a list of the coolest, most happening Halloween events in…
When I first told my friends I was going to kill zombies, they deemed me nuts. I told them I was practicing for the zombie pandemic. I first heard of zombie survival games in BC while researching a story. I was drawn to it: I grew up watching horror movies, so I tend to gravitate…
Do you love warm seasonal spices but hate the cloying sweetness of artificial syrup? If you crave pumpkin flavour, but lattes and pie just don’t do it for you, there’s another way to get your spiced pumpkin fix: Pumpkin beer! Most breweries now produce seasonal beers. At my last count, a well-stocked liquor store took…
The horror film Antisocial is a twist on the classic zombie apocalypse movie. It was featured at the Vancouver International Film Festival in early October. The film follows five college students who are forced to barricade themselves in their apartment on due to an apocalyptic outbreak. The movie’s protagonist, Sam, ventures out to celebrate New…
