Arts
  • 1 year 2 months ago

Commentary: Theatre and film are increasingly merging mediums

As COVID-19 forces theatre companies around the world to innovate and adapt to a new virtual forum, the lines between theatre and film continue to blur. For some critics, this means losing the aspects of theatre which make it such a moving art form.Continue...
  • 1 year 2 months ago

Queen’s Music Club to host socially-distanced jam session after Thanksgiving

In past years, Queen’s Music Club (QMC) hosted weekly jam sessions at MacGillivray-Brown Hall, but COVID-19 has put those plans on hold.Continue...
  • 1 year 2 months ago

Queen’s Players enter ‘The Twilight Zoom’

After successfully transitioning their winter show from stage to screen, The Queen’s Players (QP) are back with a new show written and directed specifically for the Zoom platform.Continue...
  • 1 year 2 months ago

Halloween is a performance of history

Today, dressing up in costumes for Halloween is just for fun, but 2,000 years ago in Europe, it was considered a matter of life and death.Continue...
  • 1 year 2 months ago

Submit your short story or poem to be featured on The Scramble, The Queen’s Journal podcast

Deadline: Oct. 1 at midnight.

Eligibility: Queen’s students from any year and faculty

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  • 1 year 2 months ago

Charlie Kaufman outdoes himself with perplexing take on Queen’s alumnus’ novel

The films of Charlie Kaufman are meta and hard to parse, but in his latest, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, adapted for Netflix from Queen’s alumnus Iain Reid’s novel of the same name, he found a way to out-Kaufman himself.Continue...
  • 1 year 2 months ago

The Wilderness finds its home with first full-length studio album

Working with the acclaimed Bathouse studio was a dream come true for The Wilderness, but releasing their first album during a pandemic never factored into their plans.Continue...
  • 1 year 2 months ago

Memes have replaced the political cartoon

The political cartoon has been a means of speaking truth to power since the 18th century, but now print media is in its death throes, and internet memes are spreading misinformation in place of satire.Continue...
  • 1 year 2 months ago

Dan School of Drama and Music cancels fall and winter majors

The Dan School of Drama and Music announced the cancelation of its major productions on July 31 in an email to students in the respective programs.Continue...
  • 1 year 2 months ago

Stephen Medd memorializes the Sisters of St. Joseph

Amidst COVID-19, local singer-songwriter Stephen Medd wrote “Sisters of St. Joseph,” a historical ballad, in commemoration of the nuns on the frontline of the 1847 typhus epidemic.Continue...
  • 1 year 2 months ago

Re:Current Theatre brings interactive game to Kingston’s Kick & Push Festival

At a time when the world is gripped by a pandemic, Re:Current Theatre’s interactive game “New Societies” asks players to imagine an ideal global community.Continue...
  • 1 year 2 months ago

CFRC launches new podcast Frosh FM

Campus radio station CFRC launched a new podcast called Frosh FM on Aug. 10.Continue...
  • 1 year 2 months ago

Funeral Lakes talk new EP, Golden Season

Local Kingston band Funeral Lakes is set to release their new EP, Golden Season , on Sept. 9.Continue...
  • 1 year 4 months ago

Commentary: lack of diversity manifests on stage and behind the scenes in Queen’s theatre

Dhanish Chinniah, director of 2019’s Fun Home , was the second visible minority to direct a Queen’s Musical Theatre production since 2012.Continue...
  • 1 year 4 months ago

Agnes reopens with safety measures

Agnes staff weren’t thrilled when they had to close their doors in March due to the pandemic, but on July 7, the art museum reopened with precautions.Continue...
  • 1 year 4 months ago

Local tattoo shop tackles COVID-19 precautions amidst influx of customers

COVID-19 has improved business for Wayne Murrill, owner of Kingston’s True North Tattoo, and now he must meet the demand while keeping his staff and customers safe.Continue...
  • 1 year 4 months ago

In move online, Queen’s Players raises nearly $7,000

After cancelling their winter show due to COVID-19, Queen’s Players moved online to a bigger audience, raising a record amount for charity.Continue...
  • 1 year 4 months ago

Agnes revitalization will include dedicated areas for Indigenous communities

­ Twenty years after its last expansion, the Agnes will be renovated into one of the largest University Art Museums in Canada.Continue...
  • 1 year 4 months ago

CBC documentary on popular Toronto evangelical youth church features Queen’s alum

C3 Toronto’s rock-and-roll atmosphere is attracting a lot of young people, but its lead pastor’s anti-gay attitude may be driving some away.Continue...
  • 1 year 4 months ago

Queen’s Collage Collectives to host online workshops with anti-racism theme

As discussions on racism and police brutality continue on campus, Queen’s Collage Collectives (QCC) is launching a virtual workshop series in August over Zoom to raise awareness for the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.Continue...

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