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Fashion for Change hits 15-year milestone with Arcana at Hagey Hall
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Fashion for Change, a local student-run nonprofit fashion, dance and theatre showcase celebrated its 15th year of operation on March 22 by putting on Arcana at the University of Waterloo’s Hagey Hall of the Humanities. The organization puts on annual stage presentations to raise money for charity and has raised over $125, 000 in this…
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Senseless sensibilities: Making noise in KW
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On Feb. 1, The Union in Kitchener played host to a noise festival called Senseless Fest, the first of its kind put on in Kitchener-Waterloo. The one-day festival was organized by local noise musician and impresario Connor Kurtz, who performs under the name Important Hair and organizes local shows under the name Senseless Sensibilities. …
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On community in music
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If you’ll allow me a moment to gloat, I spent the fall 2024 semester studying abroad at the University of Limerick (UL) in Ireland. As a part of my semester abroad and as a result of looking for something to do that I absolutely couldn’t do in Canada, I ended up as the head of…
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Exploring Queerness in Adaline’s HYMNAL
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In a modern musical environment towered over by the prayers, confessionals, and love songs of figures like Sufjan Stevens and Julien Baker, the trouble of reconciling queerness with the religious impulse is hardly unexplored. In light of hundreds of years of Christian rhetoric which grappled with the expressions of queerness, Hymnal, the most recent release…
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The Last Dinner Party is a vocal maximalist’s dream
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The almost ten-month span between The Last Dinner Party’s signing with a major label (before the release of any recorded material) and the release of Prelude to Ecstasy saw the band suffering industry plant allegations and catalyzing a counter-discussion about sexism in music journalism. A barrage of critical narratives about this album, both scathing and…
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