"I Find It Kinda Funny, I Find It Kinda Sad" - Electric City Players Present Twelfth Night at Market Hall

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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”‍

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

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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ReFrame Review: Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Amelia Takacs

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January 21, 2024

Amelia Takacs reviews Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, a film which accentuates the importance of cleansing the soul alongside the body, for the 2024 ReFrame Film Festival.

ReFrame Review: Queendom

Ian Vansegbrook

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January 21, 2024

Ian Vansegbrook reviews Queendom as part of the 2024 ReFrame Film Festival.

Nate Silas' "Wandering Lunacy": More Than Just a Charity Single

Allen Barnier

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January 21, 2024

On Friday, January 19th, 2024, Nate Silas released his new single called “Wandering Lunacy”. Silas is a singer-songwriter and folk music artist from Langford, British Columbia, who uses lyrics as a way of storytelling.

The Future Feminine: Vivek Shraya Visits Trent to Speak and Perform for 29th Annual Margaret Laurence Lecture Series

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

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

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

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

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

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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ReFrame Review: Sew to Say

Chukwugoziem Nwadugbo

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January 25, 2024

The 2022 documentary Sew to Say, directed by Rakel Aguirre, recounts the story of a woman named Thalia who began a non-violent, textile-based campaign in the 1980s to combat the proliferation of nuclear weapons—specifically the deployment of American cruise missiles to the United Kingdom as part of the U.S. Cold War strategy.

ReFrame Review: Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Amelia Takacs

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January 21, 2024

Amelia Takacs reviews Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, a film which accentuates the importance of cleansing the soul alongside the body, for the 2024 ReFrame Film Festival.

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