What are the challenges of ageing in French in Kingston? Which services are available to francophone seniors? How do seniors from the francophone community engage in a dialogue with the anglophone community and the various allophone communities? Three seniors from the francophone community will share their personal experience and will invite the audience in French […]
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Topic: Foreign Relations: Contemporary Travel Writing and the Unsettling Poetics of Foreign Space Overview: Robyn studies contemporary travel writing and how it shapes our ideas about what it means for a person, place, or thing to be ‘foreign’ in the world today.
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This week our team reviews some new movies on streaming platforms! Hamilton, from Lin-Manuel Miranda, started streaming on Disney Plus this past weekend, Mike reviews it and talks about how musicals should be filmed. Also, for some more music, Mike and Taylor checked out Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga with Will Ferrell and Canada’s […]
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This is a long episode, friends! Join the party this week to hear Chance and Frankie navigate us through Malibu Ken by Aesop Rock and TOBACCO. We talk satanic panic, Vaporwave, and depression, throwing in a sprinkling(ish) of politics — and by the end we only get through 50% of the album. Listen to the album […]
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We consider corona at home and abroad, with Jesse highlighting the blood-soaked corporate response to the pandemic via the recent escapades of Vince McMahon and the WWE. Our theme song is “Mega Guillotine 2020” by the prophetic and powerful AJJ. Go buy their newest album Good Luck Everybody for instructions on magicks dark and terrible. […]
Continue ReadingThis week we run down the four contenders to the Conservative Party of Canada’s throne, as well as the pretenders. It’s a saga of pee, rhetorical racism, and Estonia. Our theme song is “Mega Guillotine 2020” by the prophetic and powerful AJJ. Go buy their newest album Good Luck Everybody for instructions on magicks dark […]
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Jazz is a distinct genre that is often overlooked when we think of music in video games. For this episode, we uncover and dissect the world of jazz in video game music – from ‘live’ music to creating historical authenticity to establishing the genre of ‘film noire’ through its connection with jazz. Each member looked […]
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In the final film of our all Canandian Movie Club, we take a look at the F Word, or in many parts of the world the film is called What If. This movie stars Daniel Radcliffe, Adam Driver and Zoe Kazan, directed by Michael Dowse.
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Claudia talks to Prerna Subramanian about her research studying public toilets as depicted in recent Indian films and how they imagine transgender persons on-screen through the trope. They also touch on feelings of imposter syndrome when you are not in the country you research as well as how international research provides opportunities to create international […]
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