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 The Sheaf September 5, 2009
As a self-taught artist, it is quite fitting that Patrick Schmidt should take his influence and inspiration from other unconventional, independent artists. The Sheaf sat down with Schmidt for our recurring series of interviews on artistic influence.
Thanks to his commitment to the photo-sharing network flickr.com, Schmidt discovered Xiao Shan, a photographer from Japan with a knack for using traditional methods to capture modern subjects…
By The Sheaf September 5, 2009
Summer Hours is a splendid film. Simply splendid.
It details the life of a French family as they try to distribute their deceased mother’s estate. Writer-director Olivier Assayas, whose primarily French body of work North American audiences probably will not recognize, does a marvellous job crafting the experience of grief.
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 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
By The Sheaf August 26, 2009
Pat Thompson took over 8th Street Books and Comics in 1994. Now, in its 26th year of operation, 8th Street Books has moved next door.
Located in the same building, but facing directly onto 8th Street, it may seem like a small change but Thompson says it’s making a huge difference.
“It’s been a boom to the business like you can’t believe,” said Thompson…
By The Sheaf August 26, 2009
Around this time of year, a person looks back on the summer months in an attempt to recreate an accurate image of what has taken place over this brief interval. For me, most of the memories worth keeping are the times I have spent outside. I remember the summer as a series of tennis matches, drunken barbecues, days spent at the beach, highway drives and reading books on the balcony ”” these are the blissful, defining moments. Naturally, when I heard that Sonia Dickin was, for the second year in a row, putting on a massive, free outdoor show, I got excited. I couldn’t think of a better way to cap off these ephemeral summer months than to sit in the grass and listen to a bunch of my favourite local bands…
By The Sheaf August 26, 2009
“As long as you’re soaked in blood and everything you’re wearing is bloody, I think you’ve done a good enough job,” said organizer Scott Jamison on how to dress like a zombie. He also encourages wearing clothes you’re not afraid to ruin.
The second annual Saskatoon Zombie Walk took place on Aug. 15. The zombies gathered at the Vimy Memorial downtown, then walked to the Broadway Theatre to watch a zombie flick…