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By Sean Sullivan

Seven musicians from the University of Calgary Jazz Orchestra and Chamber Jazz Ensemble won 10 outstanding individual achievement awards at the Elmhurst College Jazz Festival in Chicago last month. “The band’s gotten really good over the last couple years,” says bassist Hannah MacGillivray who won one of the awards. “In a lot of ways it… Continue reading U of C Jazz Orchestra brings home awards

By Sean Sullivan

An oven caught fire on Sunday afternoon, March 2, in Brewster Hall when a resident left the self-cleaning function on. Smoke poured out into the building’s hallway. The Calgary Fire Department responded to the fire alarm just after 2:00 p.m. The fire was contained inside the oven and firefighters quickly extinguished it. The building was… Continue reading Small fire breaks out in Brewster Hall

By Sean Sullivan

Last month, University of Calgary music student John Chan added one more win to his long list of awards, winning the RBC Concerto Competition. Six finalists were chosen during the preliminary auditions last fall and had the chance to perform with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra on Feb. 11. Having won the competition, Chan will have… Continue reading Music student wins RBC Concerto Competition

By Sean Sullivan

Urban Curvz Theatre’s Girls Gone Wilde late-night cabaret is back for a third year and this time they’ve added a second weekend of shows. Girls Gone Wilde is a showcase of women playwrights, actors and directors. The cabaret features six 10-minute productions by 24 women that present a wide range of theatre and comedy. The… Continue reading Female playwrights bare their wits

By Sean Sullivan

Producer Ritika Anand and her husband, director Shailender Vyas, are only interested in producing films about social issues. Their last film, Lost, which was released in 2009 and won an Award of Excellence from the Canada International Film Festival in 2010, was a 60-minute documentary drama about how southeast Asian immigrants to Canada run into… Continue reading Calgary film explores drug culture

By Sean Sullivan

University of Calgary drama student Jonathan Brower, founding co-artistic director of Third Street Theatre, has drawn from his own experiences to write a vulnerable, personal play. ND Theatre’s sci-fi play, Oblivion: A Workshop Production, follows Tim, a gay man raised in the evangelical church struggling with the inner conflict between his faith and his relationship… Continue reading Reconciling faith and sexual orientation

By Sean Sullivan

The Ottawa DJ collective A Tribe Called Red have made headlines lately and not just because they were nominated for two Juno Awards and were short-listed for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize. The collective took to Twitter last summer to stop non-aboriginal fans from wearing headdresses and warpaint to their shows. A month later, Ian… Continue reading Pow wow step is all about making people dance

By Sean Sullivan

Members of the School of Creative and Performing Arts are calling Jennifer Arsenault’s designs amazing. “We were lucky to get her,” says Dawn McCaugherty, director of the upcoming production of William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. “She could have gone to any number of schools to do her degree.” Arsenault is a grad student at the… Continue reading U of C grad’s amazing designs

By Sean Sullivan

Professor Allan Bell, director of the School of Creative and Performing Arts and music professor, has been nominated for a Juno award. Bell’s composition “Field Notes” from the the Centrediscs album Gravity and Grace is up for Classical Composition of the Year. It’s Bell’s first Juno nomination. Bell is a Fellow of the Royal Society… Continue reading U of C professor nominated for Juno award