"I Find It Kinda Funny, I Find It Kinda Sad" - Electric City Players Present Twelfth Night at Market Hall
"I Find It Kinda Funny, I Find It Kinda Sad" - Electric City Players Present Twelfth Night at Market Hall
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Liam Andrews
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February 10, 2025
Liam Andrews wades deep into a local production of "Twelfth Night," despite his unfamiliarity with one of the bard's most famous comedies, and chats with the people responsible for Electric City Players' staging.
Anne Shirley Theatre Company Presents “The Lightning Thief: A Percy Jackson Musical”‍
Anne Shirley Theatre Company Presents “The Lightning Thief: A Percy Jackson Musical”‍
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Allen Barnier
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February 7, 2025
Trent’s ASTC ventures to Camp Half-Blood and beyond in their winter production of “The Lightning Thief: A Percy Jackson Musical”.
Reframe Review: Red Fever
Reframe Review: Red Fever
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Kiki Paterson
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January 31, 2025
Kiki Paterson reviews Red Fever, the follow-up to Niel Diamond and Catherine Bainbridge’s award-winning film Reel Injun. The film asks the question “why do they love us so much?” and informs viewers of willful lies about Indigenous People still present today and throughout history.
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Now and Then I Get the Rolling Stone Blues
Now and Then I Get the Rolling Stone Blues
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Ted Lindsay
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December 5, 2023
In this guest post community contributor Ted Lindsay takes readers down a winding trail of musical history, connecting the dots along the way that led to The Beatles' last song "Now and Then."
In Love With the Paradox: A Review of ENANTIODROMIA by garbageface
In Love With the Paradox: A Review of ENANTIODROMIA by garbageface
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Evan Robins
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December 3, 2023
Local doom rapper and industrial soul artist garbageface releases his upcoming album "ENANTIODROMIA" on December 21st, 2023. Three weeks before its release, co-editor and industrial music enjoyer Evan Robins digs into this LP brimming with harsh beats and heavy bars to bring you an off-kilter appraisal of the newest project from her favourite local lycanthrope.
A Review of Ridley Scott's Napoleon (2023)
A Review of Ridley Scott's Napoleon (2023)
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J.A. Forrester
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November 30, 2023
Community Contributor, James Forrester, reviews Ridley Scott's 2023 film Napoleon.
The Future Feminine: Vivek Shraya Visits Trent to Speak and Perform for 29th Annual Margaret Laurence Lecture Series
The Future Feminine: Vivek Shraya Visits Trent to Speak and Perform for 29th Annual Margaret Laurence Lecture Series
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David King
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January 28, 2025
Multidisplinary artist and author Vivek Shraya delivered the 29th Annual Margaret Laurence Lecture at Trent's Student Centre on January 22nd. With feminism at the core of her work, Shraya invited attendees to reimagine and reclaim femininity through a lens other than their own.
ReFrame Review: No Other Land‍
ReFrame Review: No Other Land‍
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Evan Robins
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January 24, 2025
It feels impossible to talk about No Other Land in any way which doesn’t short-change the thing that it actually is—a technically exquisite film that documents the sobering reality of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the systemic displacement and violent repression of the Palestinians who live there.
ReFrame Review: Regina - Queen of the Ring
ReFrame Review: Regina - Queen of the Ring
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David King
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January 21, 2025
David King reviews Regina - Queen of the Ring in the upcoming 2025 ReFrame Film Festival. This documentary, follows female wrestler Regina Rosendahl as she pushes to earn the 2023 FCF Finnish Heavyweight Championship title in a fascinating outsider’s perspective on wrestling promotions outside of North America and Japan.
ReFrame Review: Zooey Zephyr
ReFrame Review: Zooey Zephyr
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Louanne Morin
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January 21, 2025
Under the cadre of Reframe Film Festival, Louanne Morin reviews Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr, a short documentary detailing the struggles of Montana House Representative Zooey Zephyr, in the face of massive transphobic repression.
ReFrame Review: The Canadian Dream
ReFrame Review: The Canadian Dream
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Ian Vansegbrook
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January 20, 2025
The Canadian Dream is an intimate look at a flawed system. Ian Vansegbrook reviews the 2024 documentary about Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program and reflects on his own personal experience growing up on a farm less than an hour from where the events of the documentary take place.
ReFrame Review: Summer Qamp
ReFrame Review: Summer Qamp
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Allen Barnier
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January 20, 2025
Summer Qamp is a heartwarming film that gives viewers a glimpse into the queer joy, community, and love fostered at Southern Alberta's Camp Fyrefly.
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Poetry Show and Tell Series Presents Beautiful Outlaw Press at Take Cover Books
Poetry Show and Tell Series Presents Beautiful Outlaw Press at Take Cover Books
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Abbigale Kernya
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May 28, 2024
On the evening of May 24th, Justin Million from Bird, Buried Press presented three authors from Beautiful Outlaw Publishing House at a Show and Tell Poetry Series hosted at Take Cover Books. With regrets from author Phil Hall, authors Chris Turnbull, Mark Goldstein, and Jaclyn Piudik read from their new books—all published through Beautiful Outlaw—in an evening that saw the small room in Take Cover come together in laughter and community. 
“Blood Must Have Blood”: Electric City Players’ Presents “Macbeth” 
“Blood Must Have Blood”: Electric City Players’ Presents “Macbeth” 
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Abbigale Kernya
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Evan Robins
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May 24, 2024
May 23rd marked the opening night for the long-awaited Electric City Players’ (ECP) adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Hosted at Market Hall Performing Arts Centre in Downtown Peterborough. Co-directed by Trent Professor Andrew Loeb and local theatre legend Jacqueline Barrow, the show is set in a post-climate meltdown Scotland where the ravaged lands set the perfect scene for great kings, fallen foes, and the ultimate betrayal.