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Exploring space and place with SCA MFA’s work-in-progress exhibit
September 22, 2020By: Devana Petrovic, Staff Writer For their fall exhibition this year, the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts’ (SCA) second-year Master of Fine Arts (MFA) cohort is presenting their works-in-progress show online. The exhibition, within & outside, is based on how creating art during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a renegotiation of how art is communicated, particularly through individual screens. As the description states, “In within & outside, we share the ongoing adaptation of what could become our graduation projects understanding that they might be experienced by a ‘new audience’ moving forward.” The exhibit highlights the multimedia projects of…
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Monday Music: Tunes to romanticize your grocery store runs
September 14, 2020By: Devana Petrovic, Staff Writer If you’re anything like me and you find grocery shopping an incredibly mundane chore, I assure you, the way to fix that is with some tunes. Whether or not you already have your own playlist…
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Sounds Like Growth tackles food sovereignty and encourages engagement with land
September 8, 2020By: Meera Eragoda, Arts & Culture Editor This year’s Vines Arts Festival took place from August 5 to 15 in various parks across Vancouver. According to the event’s website the festival’s goal is to feature artists who are “working toward…
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New Westminster plant talk digs into historical roots of local humans and plants
September 6, 2020By: Emma Jean, Staff Writer In my current home on W̱SÁNEĆ (Saanich) land on Vancouver Island, I’m surrounded by trees, flowers, and trails as far as the eye can see, but I’ve hardly paid any attention to the deeper history…
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Fionn’s new EP, Everyone’s A Critic, solidifies their sound and examines societal expectations
August 30, 2020By: Michelle Young, Staff Writer Vancouver-based Fionn released their second record, Everyone's A Critic, on July 17. The folk-pop duo consists of twin singer-songwriters Alanna and Brianne Finn-Morris who hail from White Rock. Their name is derived from their Irish…
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Too Spirited for the 2020 Queer Arts Festival
July 23, 2020By: Kelly Chia, Features Editor Too Spirited, an Indigenous burlesque show performed for the Queer Arts Festival, was an amazing reminder of why burlesque is so invigorating to watch: it’s all about getting on stage to take ownership of your…
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Outsider Tattoo Collective is as clean and comfortable as ever before
July 21, 2020By: Molly Lorette, Peak Associate Before social distancing was in full swing, I was in the process of planning my latest tattoo. I had been working with Outsider Tattoo Collective’s amazingly talented Armony (@hello_wasp on Instagram), who specializes in woodcut-esque…
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Music Monday: Socially Distanced Neighbourhood Strolls
July 20, 2020All Monday Music for the Summer 2020 semester is now available on The Peak’s Spotify Playlist, Monday Music Summer 2020. Don’t forget to follow thepeaksfu on Spotify to listen more easily! By: Alex Masse, SFU Student I don’t know about you, but…
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Dimension 20’s A Crown of Candy shows the sweet and sour sides of nobility
July 19, 2020By: Juztin Bello, Copy Editor OK, imagine this: Game of Thrones as a Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) campaign, except it’s coated with Candy Land-inspired main characters and a food-based setting. Well, you don’t have to imagine it, because this is…
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House of Rice: In Rice-olation illuminates the intersectional and political scope of digital drag
July 17, 2020By: Kitty Cheung, Peak Associate Intrigued by the idea of digital drag, I saw House of Rice: In Rice-olation on June 27 as part of rEvolver’s online performance festival, e-Volver. The rEvolver Festival is a theatre and performing arts festival…
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