THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.
THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.
By Ashleigh Mattern September 11, 2009
When the Indigenous Peoples Program hosted the first Aboriginal Music Festival six years ago, they had no idea how big an event it would become.
The festival started as a fundraiser for the various programs the IPP hosts. They held their first festival at Amigos Cantina with about 100 attendees. However, over the past six years the festival has become its own event; this year’s sixth annual festival on Sept. 10 and 11 will take place at TCU Place and about 2,000 people are expected.
By The Sheaf September 11, 2009
I very much enjoy the first week of school, and it’s not because pick pocketing is so much easier.
No, I like the first week of school because I get to bitch about it to all my friends. C’mon let’s face it: nothing is more satisfying than agreeing to dislike something, right? Don’t you just hate it when someone likes what you dislike, right? Bleh, I hate that, right? Cool, me too, I just know we’re gonna be best friends…
By The Sheaf September 11, 2009
Teenage Fanclub is actually still a band, which makes it a little weird (perhaps unkind?) writing about them in a section called “From the Vault.” They’re even still writing the straightforward power-pop numbers for which they were momentarily famous. Although they have released some electrifying hits since, they have never made an album as powerful, perhaps even esoteric, as 1991’s Bandwagonesque.
By The Sheaf September 10, 2009
If you read only one novel in the upcoming year, make sure it’s The Gargoyle.
By The Sheaf September 10, 2009
The English language, in all of its incomprehensible vastness and sublime beauty, is in grave danger.
A sinister mix of technological advancement and collective laziness threatens to reduce our primary means of communication to a smattering of common phrases and meaningless expressions.
By The Sheaf September 10, 2009
For me, most bands didn’t exist until MuchMusic, MTV or the local commercial radio station told me they did.
This, of course, was nonsense. All of these bands, like most artists, work their asses off for years in what is commonly referred to as “the underground,” playing shows for small audiences in pubs, community halls, church basements and on university campuses.
By The Sheaf September 10, 2009
Luke Siemens is a working artist and a recent graduate with a BFA from the U of S. Herein he discusses the work and influence of Julie Mehretu, an established artist whose depictions of mind-melding explosions have considerably affected him in terms of inspiration and the subjects in his own work…
By The Sheaf September 10, 2009
The goal for my summer reading was to read as few academic texts from June until August as possible.
I accomplished that by reading David Eddings’s first cycle. I had just started Pawn of Prophecy when news reached me that David Eddings had passed away.