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My good friend and Victoria's Youth Poet Laureate, Aziza Moqia Sealey-Qaylow, hosted an evening of poetry and short stories from youth newcomers, immigrants and people of colour last Friday, December 6th. The event was titled "Stories of Celebration" and served to showcase not only her own works, but the works of local poet Agartu Ali and storyteller Asiyah Robinson. For more information on the event and its featured performers, click here .

My final paper for CMNS 112 served to analyse the social space created by spoken word poetry venues through a Lefebvrian-Marxist lens. In researching for this assignment, I came across this article on tone-policing. Though I was unable to use it in my paper due to the fact that it is not an academic article, I still believe it to be valuable and worthy of a read - so here, check it out !

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Imagine, then, the informative power of a photo essay (as in, text and images combined ). In CMNS 150 we were asked to create a photo essay that possessed both narrative flow and visual appeal - without any redundant information. I chose to explore the Sidney Pier through the lens of crabbing, and the finished product available for view here .

In Camosun's CMNS 150 class, we were asked to plan and produce a video on how students in 2019 experience post secondary education. This assignment acts as a response to Michael Wesch's A Vision of Students Today , and as such, is similarly formatted. My group chose to focus on how students experience Camosun through the lens of DIPR & DIGCOM. Our chosen commentary, though specific to the Lansdowne campus, reflects how we believe students experience education in 2019. To view our project for yourself, click here .