THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.
By The Sheaf September 3, 2009
We all start out as curious, interested little creatures. Everything is fascinating to a child.
Every little stimulus is met with unbridled awe and usually some degree of horror. Babies gurgle and coo and puke at the slightest hint of a new phenomenon.
Wouldn’t it be nice to experience the world like that again?
By The Sheaf September 3, 2009
With school starting, parties are going to be happening in all shapes and forms.
Everyone looks forward to the weekend even more when they know so-and-so is having a house party, which is often cleverly cloaked as “having people over.”
The house party is a living, breathing creature capable of growing, learning or dying out altogether. Each house party is a little different.
By The Sheaf September 3, 2009
As the summer of 2009 draws to a close, it leaves behind a memorable movie season filled with financial successes and critical failures.
Though interspersed with gems like Up and District 9, the summer was dominated by big action blockbusters: X Men Origins: Wolverine, Star Trek, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Terminator Salvation and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. (I could include Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in this, but that ended up being a romantic comedy.)
By The Sheaf September 3, 2009
The deciding factor at any live event is spontaneity. In a play it’s the interaction of audience and actors. Rocky Horror Picture Show is better in a theatre than in a living room: the dancing, costumes, and screaming are all part of a local cultural evolution.
The same is true of live music.
By The Sheaf September 3, 2009
Following countless hours of summer training and three tough exhibition matches against top-rated Ontario soccer programs York University and Toronto FC Academy, the Huskies men’s soccer squad is ready for another year of Canada West competition.
With the new season right around the corner, the men’s soccer team is looking to bounce back with a vengeance after last season’s devastating mere two point exclusion from the Canadian Interuniversity Sport playoffs…
By The Sheaf September 2, 2009
With the help of a U of S campus group, Saskatoon’s apartment dwellers may soon get more than a good view from their rooftops. The group, called Rooted, was created to promote food security and community building efforts in Saskatoon. One goal of Rooted is to find city space not currently being used and turn it into productive land.
By The Sheaf September 1, 2009
Live Five opens their sixth season of independent theatre with an imaginative, dark whirlwind ”” Ground Cover Theatre’s debut of Dysmorphia. The production, which was developed in Saskatoon, was inspired by Oscar Wilde’s The Portrait of Dorian Gray. Director Natasha Martina, a professor of movement and acting at the U of S, gathered together a group of creative and adventurous students to develop a piece based upon the disintegration of moral standards in exchange for physical beauty.
By The Sheaf September 1, 2009
Live music around town between Sept. 3 – 9