Top 10 Sports Stories of the Summer
Our resident sports expert Ben Chessor counts down the craziest sports stories of the summer.
The Fringe Mini Reviews
For two weeks in the middle of August, the arts scene in Nanaimo breathed and pulsed with the fourth annual Fringe, the independent theatre festival which brought together international and local artists, musicians, and theatre enthusiasts. With eight plays, 48 shows, and 30 non-theatre performances in three venues, the festival attracted over 1000 visitors, marking a 32-percent increase in attendance since 2013. The plays presented a wide spectrum of theatre genres, ranging from stand-up comedy and storytelling pieces to intense sci-fi and psychological dramas. The Navigator's Arts ...
The Fringe Experience
Contributing Editor Jennifer Garceau gives us insight into the 2014 Nanaimo Fringe festival. For more On The Fringe, check out our mini-reviews, and our interview with Festival Producer Chelsee Damen.
An evening of work can be unpredictable at a café in downtown Nanaimo with a liquor license. There’s a mix of artists, working class, upper crust WASPs, white-collar types, and general left-of-centre folks creating an idyllic laissez-faire community.
This year, The Vault was selected to be the Nanaimo Fringe Hub venue, though I didn’t think it would’ve made much of a difference ...
On the Fringe: At the Hub with Chelsee Damen
We speak with Nanaimo Fringe Festival Producer Chelsee Damen
The Sins of Our Fathers
Contributor Drew McLachlan takes a deep, historical look at the troubling relationship between our Canadian government and Chinese-Canadians.
Tech Company Crowdfunding Web Alternative
A VIU professor and two 2014 graduates have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for testing new technology that will help spread internet information to areas of the world where web connections don’t exist.
VIU professor and CEO of Pixelstream Communications, Dr. Frank LoPinto, and recent Computing Science graduates Pauline Hagembe and Alican Kerman are working on new technology that could bring web pages to the world’s smartphones without the need for an internet connection.
LoPinto’s company has developed “PXIT” technology which can display digital information ...
Issue 14 – April 2014
Hub City Project
Denisa Kraus
The Navigator
Nanaimo. The ambiguous town in between the rural idyll of the twin cities in the north and the cultured chic of Victoria on the south tip of the Island.
A town loved by development contractors, frowned upon by overachieving hipsters, frenetically photographed by cruise ship dwellers, and casually ignored by the big city boys across the Strait. (more…)
The ugly (and hilarious) side of Twitter
Ben Chessor
The Navigator
In Issue 10, I wrote a feature about Twitter and how it has increased the fan experience in the past few years. I wrote about how it gave fans a chance to get closer to their favourite athletes than ever before, and how it makes it easier for people to get the latest updates and news about their favourite teams. Things like injury updates and trades are now announced just moments after they happen, thanks in large part to the accessibility of the Twitterverse. (more…)
Seven things that will happen in sports this summer
Ben Chessor
The Navigator
The time has come for this year’s final issue of The Navigator. With the school year coming to a close and summer just around the corner, now is a perfect time to talk about seven things that will happen in sports over the summer. This way you can do whatever you want this summer, all while knowing that you are already up-to-date on what’s going to happen in the world of sports between now and September. Feel free to keep this list and keep track of how many times I was wrong; it will give you some homework to do over the summer. (more…)
Bright times ahead for Canadian basketball
Ben Chessor
The Navigator
When I was growing up, whenever someone talked about basketball and Canada, the conversation always turned to Steve Nash. Nash, who is currently a member of the Los Angeles Lakers, is by far the most successful Canadian in NBA history. In his prime, Nash was an excellent passer, a dead-eye shooter, and an all-around floor general on the court. In 2005, he became the first Canadian to win the NBA’s MVP award. He followed that with a second consecutive MVP award in 2006, but fell short of the rare MVP three-peat in 2007, finishing second in voting. Now, at the ...
NFL announces television expansion, other leagues take notice
Ben Chessor
The Navigator
The National Football League has announced that they will continue to expand their television schedule during the 2014 NFL season, alongside the league’s traditional full slate of Sunday action as well as the weekly Monday night game. The NFL will also have eight games on Thursday nights throughout the season, with additional talk of the league expanding their schedule to include some games on Saturdays in the upcoming seasons. (more…)
Dance in Nanaimo
Kelly Whiteside
The Navigator
Some people spend their life searching for passion, something that makes them happier than anything else, something they want to excel at endlessly, and when they finally find it, they want to jump into it right away. Despite having a growing passion for something, putting that passion into action may not be as easy as it seems, though there are certainly opportunities out there. (more…)
VIU Pre-Confederation Treaties and Reconciliation Centre
Blake Deal
The Navigator
VIU has recently established a Centre for Pre-Confederation Treaties and Reconciliation.
The purpose of this centre is to advance research, gain understanding, and increase public dialogue in relation to pre-confederation treaties from across the country and the challenge of reconciliation. (more…)
Portal launch 2014
Denisa Kraus
The Navigator
VIU students in the creative writing program will launch the 23rd annual issue of Portal on April 10.
Portal is an art and literary anthology produced, curated, and distributed by students in VIU’s creative writing 430/431 class under the guidance of professor Joy Gugeler. (more…)
In The Studio with Bromunkey
Denisa Kraus
The Navigator
Distorted creatures, vivid colours and the handwriting of a graffiti artist are the trademark of Sean Anderson, a third year graphic design student with the ambition to become a graphic illustrator and production designer. Anderson is working as an intern at Hired Guns Creative studio, which he calls “the fastest moving design agency around here,” and gearing up (more…)
Year end student art showcase at Nanaimo Art Gallery
Denisa Kraus
The Navigator
VIU’s Visual Arts department will hold two annual student showcase exhibitions at the campus branch of Nanaimo Art Gallery.
“Exploration” in the lower gallery will present the works by fourth year minor students for the graduating project class. This exhibition is not juried and will run from April 25 to May 30.
“Progressions” will display works by second, third, and fourth year students in a faculty-juried exhibition in the upper gallery, while first year student works will be shown in (more…)
Avenues for actions
Denisa Kraus
The Navigator
Moments from a day-long conference hosted by VIU-based organization Solutions: a Sustainability Network. (more…)
Movie review: The Wind Rises
Spencer Wilson
Contributor
The Navigator
While watching The Wind Rises, I couldn’t help but feel an extra weight upon myself as the realization that this may be Hayao Miyazaki’s last film set in. Miyazaki had planned to do a sequel to Ponyo (2008) but fellow Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki convinced him to take The Wind Rises manga that he had serialized in Model (more…)
Pretty normal activity
Drew McLachlan
The Navigator
“I could feel . . . something—like I was being watched.”
Willow Friday opened Iron Oxide, an arts supply store in Nanaimo, on January 6, 2014. It wasn’t her first business—she has operated the House of Indigo Boutique since 2002—but she was nonetheless excited to see a second dream come true. So when she first received the keys to the building last May, she invited a group of friends to come see it and help her make plans. (more…)
On the Radar: Maleea Acker
Chantelle Spicer
Contributor
The Navigator
On March 12, VIU played host to another part of the Science and Technology Lectures, which hosted Maleea Acker presenting her ideas and research on the Garry Oak Meadows of Southern Vancouver Island. After receiving her Masters in Literature at UVic, she attended residency programs across Canada, the US, Mexico, and Spain. She returned to Vancouver Island full of ideas of home and what it meant to her. This brought her to a rare and fragile ecosystem which embodied these ideas: the deep meadows of Garry Oak ecosystems. (more…)
VIU International Student Community on the Upswing
Barry Low
Contributor
The Navigator
Domestic student enrollment at VIU is dwindling—the international student community, however, is refusing to follow suit. The international student population on campus is balancing the continuing drop in domestic student enrollment. Could VIU become primarily an academic study centre for international students? Hypothetically, yes, in future decades. The following numbers have been rounded for readability. (more…)
Western seperatism movement growing
Tyson Kelsall
Over the Edge
Prince George (CUP) — There is a separatist movement amongst the forests of the Pacific coast. Its growth reflects the pace of the people outside metropolitan centres. It’s not a typical political movement, not based on the right and left spectrum, and not protecting a certain culture. (more…)
Asteras Greek Taverna
Shaleeta Harper
Contributor
The Navigator
The food at Asteras Greek Taverna is delectable. Everyone who has tried it seems to agree, and prior to my visit I felt like the only person who hadn’t tried it. The restaurant itself is located in a beautiful heritage home (more…)
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