Tag: Arts
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Magazine founders create a synergy between local artists and fans
Story by Chanelle Fagon-Turner Most students can’t say they’ve started a magazine, but two young Oakville artists are doing just that for local and underground artists and students. Travis Stedmond, a 21-year-old third-year Sheridan Visual and Creative Arts student, and Kelly Crozier, 19, and Stedmond’s roommate, have created an Oakville-based monthly art magazine called Synergy. The print magazine…
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She had us at ‘hello!’
REVIEW BY CHAD MASON If as the song goes “It only takes a moment to be loved a whole life long,” then Theatre Sheridan’s production of Hello Dolly! will make you fall in love the moment the orchestra strikes the first note. Starring the enchanting Laura Larson in the title role, Hello Dolly! follows matchmaker…
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Intertwining artists
STORY BY SAMANTHA MAICH A red and black themed gallery room was filled with creative realistic and abstract artwork that sprang from the walls and the floor. Portraits and colourful abstract canvas designs made from thread decorated the corridors of the Oakville community centre, which were filled with many guests and artists at the World…
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Nuit Blanche 2014
VIDEO BY PALWASHA TEMOR PHOTOS BY BRITTANY MCAULEY & JEANYLYN LOPEZ & CHRIS COUTTS On Oct. 4, thousands of artists, art admirers, suburbanites and partygoers flooded in to Toronto’s downtown core to take part in the all-night public art exhibit known as Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. Artists from all over Canada and the world over displayed their work in…
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Glass Gathering 2014
VIDEO BY RYAN MARSHALL Sheridans’ 2014 Glass Gathering – Glass Olympic’s. 4 Teams – Pink, Orange, Blue, and Hot – of 6 to 8 members competed in a variety of different glass games at the second annual Glass Gathering.
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Sheep Dogs to headline the Sound of Music Festival
STORY BY MOLLY MUSSELWHITE June 12 weekend will mark the 35th anniversary for Burlington’s Sound of Music Festival. Every year Spencer Smith Park, located on the waterfront in Burlington’s downtown core, attracts roughly 200,000 people. The largest free music festival in Canada is the annual event that officially kicks off the beginning of summer for…
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Media Arts student prepares to take the stage for the Miss World Canada 2014
STORY BY MEHREEN SHAHID PHOTOS BY SAM TASKIE Kristin Kamila Bingham still remembers the day her grade-school friends rated all the girls in their class on their appearance: everyone else got an 8, 9 or 10, she got a 3. But when the director of the Miss Canada World 2014 pageant gave the 22-year-old Jamaican-born…
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Embrace your inner foodie with Sheridan Eats
BY JESSICA WEINGARTEN AND DANA MIELE We know how you feel – you’ve been to every pub night, maxed out your entire $50 Tim card that you got in your Christmas stocking and have had one too many Coors Light and wings combo at Monaghan’s and are searching for something a little more sophisticated. You…
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Media Arts does the mosh for documentary
STORY AND PHOTOS BY TYLER REYNOLDS When most people think of moshing, they think of a group of angry people beating each other up. Two Media Arts students from Sheridan College have started a controlled mosh pit for a documentary they are filming to end some of these misconceptions. The controlled mosh pit is a…
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Arts and Innovation Day: taking care of business
STORY BY JAIME POLMATEER PHOTOS PROVIDED BY KELLY KARIUS Students interested in the business of the arts will have a chance to pick the brains of Sheridan grads and business partners Friday. Arts and Innovation Day, part of Halton Entrepreneurship Week, kicks off at 8:15 a.m. in J102 in SCAET wing. “What we are trying…
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Team Canuck modernizes Canadian superhero
STORY BY TYLER REYNOLDS Look up in the sky. It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a Canadian superhero? Captain Canuck has returned from a long absence from the comic book world. A team known as “Team Canuck” has revitalized the older comic book character into today’s world. “We are reviving Captain Canuck because we…
