Petra Chase
Art Moves and sparks community on your commute
February 2, 2023By: Petra Chase, Arts & Culture Editor As a Vancouver resident without a driver’s license, hopping on and off buses and trains is a normal, everyday occurrence. Even though on transit I’m surrounded by people with similar routines — students on their way to lecture, service workers who barely made it out of bed in time for their morning shift — there is a looming sense of disconnect. Despite being in close proximity to fellow commuters (sometimes literally rubbing against them during the 5:00 p.m. rush), feeling a sense of alienation in public spaces has always felt like a part…
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New Music: Only A Visitor’s ruminative singles build anticipation for upcoming art album, Decay
January 31, 2023By: Petra Chase, Arts & Culture Editor Only A Visitor is a Vancouver-based quintet with an idiosyncratic style that dips its toes in art pop, jazz, acapella, and avant-garde. They’re gearing up for the February 24 release of their first…
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Creative Corner: My 2023 vision board
January 10, 2023By: Petra Chase, Arts & Culture Editor The winter break holds the liminal space before a new year that always inspires introspection, but this year I decided against writing resolutions. I often feel pressured by productivity culture to set rigid…
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The Peak’s favourite albums of 2022
December 2, 2022By: C Icart, Staff Writer, Petra Chase, Arts & Culture Editor, Kelly Chia, Humour Editor, Daniel Salcedo Rubio, Features Editor, Olivia Visser, Opinions Editor, Michelle Young, Editor-in-chief Dance Fever: Florence + The Machine takes you through a journey of self…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: Plays to see in December
December 2, 2022By: Petra Chase, Art & Culture Editor Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story recollects Jewish refugee history in Canada (Tickets $45) When: December 1–11 Where: SFU Goldcorp Centre for The Arts This love story follows two Jewish Romanian refugees in…
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The Peak’s special curriculum
November 24, 2022By: Petra Chase, Arts and Culture Editor, Kelly Chia, Humour Editor, Hannah Kazemi, Staff Writer, Olivia Visser, Opinions Editor Professors, You’ve kindly taken your time to study and deconstruct theory after theory, assigning us only the best — or most…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: Events happening in December
November 24, 2022By: Petra Chase, Art & Culture Editor Flourish Together: A QTBIPoC Arts Market When: December 17, 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Where: Massy Arts Gallery, at 23 East Pender Street (in person and online vendors) Massy Arts Society, Massy Books, and JotikaArt…
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Responsible ways to donate used clothing
November 18, 2022By: Petra Chase, Arts & Culture Editor Thrifting has long been co-opted by large commercial entities like Value Village and become increasingly unaffordable for low-income people. Instead of donating to large corporations, here are a few ways to donate or…
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Milk & Bone unveil striking electro-pop album, Chrysalism
November 8, 2022By: Petra Chase, Art & Culture Editor Montreal-based electro-pop duo Milk & Bone just released their third album, Chrysalism, a word defined by the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows as the “tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.” Thematically, I listened…
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Club Profile: VeggieSFU
November 8, 2022By: Petra Chase, Arts & Culture Editor The writer of this piece is affiliated with VeggieSFU. VeggieSFU has been steadily racking up members and sparking discussions among SFU’s vast plant-based community. It’s a club which exists to “create community, facilitate…
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Simon Fraser University’s independent student newspaper since 1965.
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