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 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.
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.