Volume 49 Issue 2

Volume 49 | Issue 2 | September 16, 2014

INside:

Feature and Editorials on Ron Thom’s Architecture

Opirg’s Free Vegan BBQ

Ptbo Pride Coverage

Trent Falls to ArchRival Fleming

Public Energy’s New Season

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Correction: In last week’s article titled “New year brings restructuring of Trent’s college system� we mentioned that Gzowski College Head Lindy Garneau was a Trent Master’s student. She is actually pursuing a M. Ed. at Memorial University.

Clarification: Last week, the following urls should have appeared alongside Al Slavin’s article “Peterborough and climate change; rally September 21�: http://tinyurl.com/my6famu http://forourgrandchildren.ca/event/peterborough-climate-change-rally-2/ This Issue in History: Volume 4 (1969), Issue 2 This issue of Arthur talks a lot about Trent’s rich architectural past. However, it’s worth remembering that not all of this university’s early buildings were masterpieces of inspired design.

Blackburn Hall, for example, was memorably skewered

by Trent’s master planning architect Ron Thom for being too industrial and for not fitting in with his vision of campus.

It’s worth noting that even today, despite its extensive renovations, Blackburn Hall is still reminiscent of a remarkably fluorescent labyrinth; a labyrinth that takes you around and around but never where you need to go.

Yet Blackburn was not the only architectural misadventure upon which Trent embarked: not to be forgotten is the time that Trent decided that it would be a good idea to erect a giant infaltable bubble right in the middle of campus.

This bubble, which was a precursor (in spirit if not in looks) to our current AC, was dubbed the “Nassau Bubble�

by Arthur in Volume 4, Issue 2, and was described, quite

factually, as being a large “polyester balloon-type dome.�

At only $95,000 this Swedish-made dome was a bargain for Trent as it housed the tennis courts and indoor sports that the university had previously lacked.

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CampusNews ‘Boycott Aramark’ barbeque lives on after company’s departure

By Caleigh Boyle

From far and wide, over bridges and down Water (Street), students and community members have gathered for years to meet, eat, and experience the food phenomenon that is OPIRG’s Free Vegan Barbeque.

The Free Vegan Barbeque is an annual event hosted by the Ontario Public Interest Research Group’s Peterborough chapter that is open to anyone and everyone from the Trent and Peterborough communities.

This year, the event will take place on Tuesday, September 16, from 5-8 pm on the Sadleir House lawn.

“It’s a wonderful opportunity for a community meal, for people to get together and experience vegan food,” explains Heather Ray, an OPIRG board member.

As one of the most anticipated events in September, with more than 150 people coming out, the free vegan barbeque has become a place where people gather not just for the food—though the food is a great bonus—but for the people.

“I think that’s why the vegan barbeque has been so entrenched in OPIRG’s culture … the want and desire for community meals is definitely still in the air,” says Ray. The barbeque is catered by Food Not Bombs, another not-for-profit organization that hosts free, vegan, community meals every Monday evening at 6:30 pm in Victoria Park, across from City Hall.

The barbeque is purposely vegan, says Ray, because “vegan is a more inclusive way of eating.”

One of the main reasons for the creation of the Free Vegan Barbeque event was to mend the divides between Trent University’s main campus and the downtown.

Ray explans that events such as these help create inclusiveness between both worlds.

“It’s an opportunity to continue to bridge campus and community.” Having the event at Sadleir House gives everyone

an opportunity to see what goes on at Trent University outside of Symons campus.

Unfortunately, it’s all too easy for students and citizens who live outside of Peterborough’s downtown to venture there only when groceries are needed or when laundry can no longer wait, and there is a loneliness to that sort of life.

The intent of a community meal is to combat this loneliness by forging a community feeling. Conversations that perhaps can’t be formed in any other spaces can be formed.

In the past, many of these conversations have been focused on Aramark, Trent’s former food-service provider, and the lack of affordable, nutritious food available on Trent’s campus.

In fact, these conversations became so prevalent that for a time the event itself became known as the ‘Boycott Aramark Barbeque’.

However, with Aramark no longer at

Trent University, these conversations can now move beyond that one company. Yet Ray cautions that the affordability, quality, and sustainability of Trent’s foodservice are still prominent concerns for her organization.

“I think the conversations are probably not going to change all that much, there still a lot of work that can be done when you look at anything. We celebrate the success that the anti-Aramark campaign has had, but the movement on that campaign isn’t over.”

For those who are unable to attend the vegan barbeque, there are still many opportunities to check out OPRIG. “OPIRG is an organization fighting for social justice and environmentalism,” describes Ray. There are opportunities to get involved with OPIRG through volunteering, by joining the board of directors, and through hired opportunities.

“Other opportunities include our fabu-

lous working groups and we have a number of working groups that we help to support … anyone is welcome to get involved,” explains Ray. There is also the Light Your Spark activist training workshop series; upcoming is the consensus based decision-making workshop and City Hall 101.

The Free Vegan Barbeque is an opportunity for people to venture outside of their comfort zones, to ask the questions they dare not ask elsewhere, and to say the things that they are yearning to say. “Community is a great space to get inspiration, to regain passion and find new passion,” says Ray. Peterborough is a relatively big place, and meeting people in the west while living in the east is not always an easy thing to do.

The vegan barbeque changes that because, no matter what, you will always find someone new with something new to say.

A first-year international student’s perspective on Vendor Day

By Olga Kuznietsova

ISW is over now, but you can still hear a dance beat on the Bata Podium.

Last Thursday, September 11, it hosted Vendor Day—another unique event that represented local businesses.

And as a first-year international student, I was excited to find out what the city of

Peterborough has to offer.

People get overwhelmed at these events, and so did I. Besides, there were free gifts everywhere: discounts, bags, chocolates, even Kraft Dinner (a reason for me to try it, eventually).

And so I followed the crowd. The line to sign lottery ballots at the Pharmasave booth (congratulations to Robin Hiley, by

the way) was striking.

Not only did they give out free bags with daily essentials (who wouldn’t need a lip balm?), but you could get medical advice from a company representative concerning the medicine you may need.

The drug store provides on-campus delivery, which is convenient in case of emergency, and has been widely used by students in recent past.

Another popular spot was the TD Bank table. There you had an opportunity (a mere one, though) to win 50 dollars.

At least they gave out booby prizes— pens with highlighters on the other end, which they seemed to be really proud of.

Students make up a major segment of their customers and over the past two weeks they welcomed a great number of first-years, guiding them through financial issues.

Fairs like this one are a perfect opportunity to promote products and services oncampus. But what I did not expect to see there was an election campaign.

However, being not a Canadian citizen, I wasn’t greeted at Cammie Jaquays’ booth.

Obviously, they had way too many voters to get engaged, so my advice is to think

carefully about your choice.

Regarding entertainment, Peterborough vendors offer quite a lot as well. Themed parties, live music, good food and drinks are almost essential for every student. Feel free to attend any of the downtown venues and have a good time with discounts for students all over the place.

Otherwise, you get plenty of healthy options to choose from. With its pure nature, and green campaigns to protect it, in Peterborough you don’t need to worry about organic lifestyle.

For those who seek space to relax and relieve from the begining-of-the-year stress, Moksha Yoga Studio is offering a totally free practice week September 12-18. And now, additionally, I have to worry about fitting yoga classes in my schedule.

It is not difficult, clearly, to find anything you need downtown, but meeting in person is way better because communication is what forms our society. And I’ve come to like Peterborough’s community, where everything is connected, where local initiatives are supported by students, and vice versa.

That is what I saw on Vendor Day and what I hope everyone enjoyed.

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Campus

Student groups offer language classes outside the classroom

By Renzo Costa

Many regional groups at Trent are launching programs where they will teach languages in a setting outside of the classroom.

Throughout the semester, these groups have been planning to encourage students to participate in these lessons, which are free of charge.

The advantage of these lessons is that there are no course requirements or grades, just peer-to-peer lessons in which students of all levels help each other to learn a language.

One of the regional groups organizing Spanish language classes is the Organization for Latin Awareness (HOLA). Its president, Mauricio Orellana, spoke with this reporter.

He expressed that “at this moment it is uncertain because it depends on the num-

ber of volunteers able to teach Spanish and the flexibility of their schedule”. Moreover, he added that the goal is to provide a minimum of one-hour class four times per week.

Orellana explained that HOLA would be contacting the Spanish department at Trent to learn from their style and structure of teaching. Nevertheless, they would like to focus more on verbal and grammatical skills rather than on writing skills.

“Hopefully these classes will have the enough resources to teach an appropriate level of both verbal and writing skills,” he added.

When asked about the purpose for these lessons, HOLA’s president expressed that “by learning another language, one can learn different cultures and traditions (in this case Latin Americans).

“In addition, teaching Spanish helps Latin American students share their

knowledge and experience with other students. This in some level helps to create and spread awareness to more and more people in our university.”

Another regional organization planning on providing language classes is the Trent University Russian Speaking Association (TURSA). Kristina Dergacheva, TURSA’s president expressed that they will most likely provide classes next semester. She said that Russian is perhaps a difficult language to learn and therefore would like to start with the very basic skills.

“They will be small classes, maybe a five people to one ratio, once a week or so. After the class participants could get a Russian speaking partner so they can practice”, she said.

These regional groups will announce the time and location of the lessons as the year unfolds.

The Trent Muslim Student Association (TMSA) is another group providing language training. Their classis will run every Tuesday from 5-6pm with the location to be announced.

TMSA’s President, Bakhtawar Riaz, stated that the classes typically cover writing, reading and speaking. “We hope that people who have zero experience with Arabic will get a basic understanding of the language and those who have some sort of experience will improve their reading, writing and speaking abilities. We also hope the students will get a better appreciation for the language.”

If you’re interested in Arabic classes, you can email them for more information: trentmsa@gmail.com In terms of speaking partners, there is a group on campus called the Trent Speaking Partner Program (TSPP). They focus

on having ESL students matched with native English speakers that would like to learn a different language.

Camila Lopez, one of the members of the group, explained that the “main objective of the program is ESL student integration in the community so that they can apply what they learn in class. As a result a cultural exchange takes place since both parties benefit.

All of these lessons are not just about learning a useful skill; they are about learning about the cultures that are intrinsic to that language. They are also about making valuable connections with students from around the world.

Diverse cultural characteristics are embedded in language. For example, there are instances where some statements cannot be translated into a different language because those languages did not develop in the same socio-cultural context.

That is to say, language develops a unique worldview that is informed by the context in which that language was born and developed.

When we learn a new language, not only do we become more flexible in the way we see the world, but our minds become more agile as well. Learning languages is definitely a great way of understanding different socio-cultural dynamics.

Trent thrives in their quality of international students. The campus is filled with opportunities to take on activities organized by the Trent International Student Association (TISA), the Trent Speaking Partner Program (TSPP) and other groups and clubs.

Language lessons are a great way to learn a valuable skill, make friends, and expand your worldview.

Downtown not the answer to Trent’s student space woes

By Vanessa Stark

Trent University has a long history of being involved with the downtown and surrounding Peterborough area. However some feel that Trent is becoming a little too involved, so-to-speak.

With the growing population of Trent University, Trent’s student clubs are forced to use many alternative buildings that are located off-campus.

This is to make room for more student spaces designated for studying or sometimes even just to make room for another club, as new clubs are always welcome to start up and participate in the Trent community.

“We do not have adequate space for the amount of groups that keep joining,” former president of the Organization for Latin Awareness (HOLA) and current Club Coordinator, Adriana Sierra, comments, “I don’t feel that moving downtown is the answer, there just is not enough space. It will be a long term solution as Trent continues to grow.”

Trent is very limited on spaces due to the unique structure of each building on campus leaving little space for students to study or meet for projects. This leaves a lot of clubs to hold their meetings at their homes or in the downtown area.

Although these options are available they are hard to accommodate as spaces everywhere, whether it be on campus or downtown, fill up quickly as there are over 90 clubs and groups currently operating at Trent.

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“I think we all feel that pressure [to move] because of our buildings and their structures, we are limited on how much we can expand,” Mayra Asmar, Vice President of University and College Affairs, states. “If we could have more buildings on campus, that would be ideal.”

Although all students have equal opportunities and are open to all the same resources such as transportation and accesses to buildings, on-campus groups have the advantage of accessibility and conformability of being close.

Whereas, off-campus students might feel intimidated by where or how to get to certain places that are downtown, such as Sadlier House.

“There are definitely negative and positive sides to both scenarios” the Youth Coordinator and Kawartha World Issue Center Seeds for Justice Youth Facilitator, Rachelia Giardino voices.

“Being on Trent main campus gives us a unique opportunity to connect with and support students on a daily basis through our shared resource centre in the Environmental Sciences Building. We also reach out to local community groups and high schools, and organizing on main campus in the evenings and weekends can be tricky due to accessibility and ease of our local transportation system.”

As the Trent University population continues to grow in a positive way, it now needs a more thought-out plan on how to sustain this population and to accommodate all participants in the Trent community.

Many groups are located off campus in Sadleir House.

Photo courtesy Sadleir House.

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And with a flourish... the TCSA had its first meeting of the year

By Jade Wilton-Watson

On September 4, the Trent Central Student Association (TCSA) held its first meeting of the 2014/2015 school year in Gzowski College’s First People’s House of Learning.

The first order of business at the square table was discussing the newly-elected speaker, whose job it is to keep meetings organized and on track.

This year’s speaker will be Perle QuesadaMarder. She was chosen because she has a “fresh look” of campus, as she has never before been affiliated with the TCSA. Next, and with a flourish, they were on to one of the main topics of the meeting; one that I’m sure all the upper year students are aware of; one that has captured the hearts and minds of many. That topic is…(drum roll please)… the proposed student centre!

In brief, the student centre is a proposal brought forward by the TCSA and the administration that would see the construction of a building to be used for studying or just hanging out and talking with friends.

In the spring of 2013, a $95.01 levy was passed by the TCSA membership for theconstruction of this building.

Apparently there has been a lot happening with regards to this building, and it was brought up many times during this meeting.

According to the TCSA, Trent University is worried that Trent undergrads could vote to discontinue the student centre levy, which would leave the university with a huge mortgage it wouldn’t be able to do anything about.

The long and the short of it is Trent has proposed a very long and complicatedly worded document to say that the TCSA members can’t back out of the levy until the building is paid for.

Continuing with the student centre, another minor problem (that is not so minor) is with the bank.

The bank that the TCSA is supposed to be taking a multi million-dollar loan from is not as organized as President Freer would like.

The bank forgot about a meeting it had scheduled with Freer, which led to a very awkward exchange and an angry letter addressed

by Freer himself. The TCSA stated that if any better offers appear they will take them.

Moving away from the student centre to the other business of the meeting, the board approved the renewal of the union’s annual film screening contract.

The contract, which is with the Criterion film distribution company, will start in October and run until next October and stipulates that with the $1400 price any club at Trent University can screen movies such as Harry Potter and not get sued.

However, the contract does not include Disney, thus meaning that clubs will not be able to screen classic Disney films. This led to some sadness from board members, however president Braden Freer explained that if a club would like to watch one of the world’s beloved Disney movies they would just have to find a Disney provider and justice would be restored.

Wrapping up the meeting, each member of the executive gave their progress report.

First up was president Braden Freer who proposed a committee called the ‘Executive Review Committee’. This was passed and created by the board.

The job of this committee will be to meet with President Freer and tell him how they think the TCSA could be run better.

There was a very long section where the President talked about the miscommunication from previous years as being a reason for wanting to create this Executive Review Committee.

The president then talked about the Glow Show that happened September 5. Over 500 people showed up and Freer was impressed about how many people came just to have a good time and not to drink. Way to go Trent!

Another approval made at the meeting was to create the terminology of ‘elections committee’ in order to encompass many different terms that all mean the same thing.

The board passed it.

Once Mr. Freer finished, next up was the VP of Campaigns and Equity, Boykin Smith.

This summer, Smith was very busy looking into different campaigns to get Trent students involved both worldwide and within the local Trent community.

The first campaign Smith discussed was the Dirty Hands project, which is an initiative to raise awareness about companies drilling for oil in Ecuador and polluting its environment.

For this campaign, the TCSA is going to put up a banner with black handprints that symbolize the oil in Ecuador.

Another initiative that has been going on for a while now at Trent is the Safe, Sexy, and Consensual campaign, which encompasses other smaller campaigns like Consent is Sexy and No Means No. A very long update was given about giving first year students packages with condoms.

The next thing Smith talked about was student debt.

According to the TCSA, Trent’s administration does not want its enrollment to get any bigger. However, this negatively affects the university because the government funds post secondary schools based on enrollment numbers.

Since Trent doesn’t want to get bigger, the TCSA will ask the university to co-write a letter to the government, asking if tuition can be frozen.

Another thing Smith talked about was the Student Activist Assembly, which is happening September 20 from 10 am to 6 pm. The SAA (as it is now referred as) is a conference tailored for Trent’s clubs and groups. The Keynote speaker will be Asaf Zohar and registration for this free event is going on now.

The last thing Smith talked about was the #BleedGreen campaign. According to him this won’t be just one campaign. #BleedGreen is actually the umbrella for all of the environmental campaigns run by the union. This includes both the Raw Deal Campaign and Dirty Hand Project.

The last executive to speak was the VP for University and College Affairs, Mayra Asmar. She asked for her ten sick days to be moved from summer to before winter break, but that wasn’t all she said.

She also gave an update on the union’s annual Clubs and Groups Day. As of September 7, there were 90 groups and clubs signed up for the event, meaning there were only ten spots left.

So that was the first TCSA meeting of the year. It was a 3 hour meeting that encompassed a lot.

If you want to learn more about the meeting, or if you just skipped down to the end here, please feel free to try and find the agenda on the TCSA website.

The next TCSA meeting is on Sept 21.

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LocalNews Election Focus: The Parkway Expansion

By Ayesha Barmania

In the upcoming municipal mayoral and council election, the issue of the Parkway corridor vs Jackson Park will be a subject for hot debate. This article aims to bring you up to speed with the issue and what the stances of several Northcrest council candidates plan to do about it.

The Northcrest ward stretches from Parkhill past the university on the west bank. It is one of several neighbourhoods popular for students. It’s also one of the wards that the parkway extension will be located in.

The Issue: Golden Horseshoe regional development requires Peterborough to prepare for an economic and population boom.

Part of a larger municipal plan to build residential areas in the city, transportation infrastructure is being developed simultaneously. A parkway corridor, which runs from Cumberland Ave to the Parkway, plans to service the residential areas of Chemong, University Heights and Towerhill Rd. Many residents of these areas (and the city at large) object to the Parkway as the favoured proposal. It will run through the beloved Jackson Park. Despite alternatives, this proposal was pushed through by the current city council.

Background Timeline 1948: The Parkway corridor was first proposed in discussions of the Peterborough City Council to mitigate the effects of a predicted post-WWII population boom.

Suggestions featured a four-lane thoroughfare that did not cross Jackson Park.

1967: Engineering firm Damas & Smith Ltd prepare the first conceptual designs for a bridge over Jackson Park. In 1970, municipal council shelved these parkway plans.

2002: The City of Peterborough updated its Transportation Master Plan, included within it were plans for bypass corridors around the city.

2003: Peterborough city council held a referendum for the parkway corridor, which, by a margin of 10%, was voted down.

2006: The Ontario Provincial Govern-

ment released a plan to build infrastructure in “the Greater Golden Horseshoe” which requires that cities update their Official Plans to accommodate an expected economic and population boom of the region up until the year 2031. These municipal plans included actions for accommodating new residential areas and transportation flow around them. The province required municipal plans be updated by 2009 and work to begin in 2015.

2012: The Parkway was flagged a project for 2022 and beyond in the Transportation Plan and Budget. Later in 2012, the city hired AECOM to conduct an environmental assessment (EA) for the project.

2013: AECOM revealed its recommended route for a $66.4M corridor that featured a $25M bridge over Jackson Park.

The unveiling sparked city-wide debate and was a critical moment in the formation of groups like Parks Not Parkways, Friends of Jackson Park, and The Peterborough Greenspace Coalition.

The Opposition Citizen complaints to the building of the parkway have become funneled down into one big issue: the bridge over Jackson Park. The bridge is seen as unnecessary, expensive, and disruptive to the wetland ecosystem. Parks Not Parkways states on their website, “[The parkway] will cost too much—$66 million of our tax dollars (and likely more), and it won’t solve our transportation problems.”

The parkway has several other alternatives that do not incorporate such a bridge and involve circumnavigating the entire

park. On the Parks Not Parkways website, they propose a ‘Plan B’ that has “94% of the good with maybe 10% of the bad.” This involves a ring road that circumnavigates the city limits. It services that same areas but completely bypasses Jackson Park.

Another obstacle for the parkway is a potential legal battle over prescribed uses of the land. Jackson Park was left as a gift in the will of Charlotte Nicholls to the city of Peterborough. The will stipulates that the land will be used “as a public park and recreation ground and for no other purpose.”

If the Nicholls Park Trust chooses, they could launch a legal battle against the city if they consider the parkway a violation of the agreement.

A final objection to the bridge is the conflict of interest regarding AECOM, the company hired for the EA. The company is qualified to do EAs, but the bulk of its business comes from large-scale construction tenders. It is likely that they will bid on the city tender to build the parkway and it is probable that they will win it. Naturally, it would be in the company’s best interest to recommend the most expensive solution.

Candidate Opinions Arthur was able to speak to three candidates running for the Northcrest ward seats on city council this week.

Bill Templeton is a newcomer to municipal politics but has long been engaged in a citizen capacity with local affairs. Templeton’s proposal for Northcrest transportation issues involves comprehensive revitalization to traffic monitoring systems, the construction of traffic islands, widening

arterial roads (Chemong Rd, Lily Lake Rd, and Fairbairn Rd), and building the ring road as featured on the Parks Not Parkways websites. Templeton is strongly in favour of keeping Jackson Park intact while servicing the traffic needs of the community.

David Haacke has run for municipal office three times prior to this and once before at the provincial level. Haacke’s ideal solution for the parkway corridor would be to keep with the current plans for the parkway corridor but build a smaller bridge than proposed by AECOM over the Northwestern corner of Jackson Park. This would leave the TransCanada trail intact and minimize potential negative effects on the wetland. Haacke is a strong proponent of active healthy lifestyles. His idea of future transportation development would include comprehensive consideration of cyclists and pedestrians.

Stephen Wright, says he’s “opposed to the project in scope,” adding, “I’m not naive about the fact that Peterborough is a growing city and that we need to deal with the traffic problem, but this is the wrong way to deal with it.” Wright indicates there are many other solutions he would like the city to explore.

“I’m also mindful of future costs associated with the project. ... I’ve never seen a municipal project come in under cost” he said.

Kathryn Eyre and current council member Andrew Beamer were unavailable for comment.

Eyre is also a newcomer to Peterborough politics and this will be her first run for city council. No information could be found about her thoughts on the Parkway.

Beamer is seeking a second term on city council and is strongly in favour of keeping the bridge over the park. In the November 13, 2013 vote on a motion by Town Ward Councillor Dean Pappas to remove the bridge from the plan for the Parkway, Beamer voted in favour of keeping the bridge.

This is the first in a five-part series of articles detailing various local issues that student voters are going to be most interested in come voting day, October 27.

Next week’s article will be on Industry and Employment in Peterborough.

Pride Week kicks off in Peterborough

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By Sarah McDonald

Peterborough Pride week got off to a great start with co-operative weather for the raising of the Pride Flag at City Hall on Friday, September 12.

An intimate crowd of roughly 30 supporters, ranging in age, gathered on a pleasant, sunny afternoon to watch the short event.

Mayor Daryl Bennett and spokesperson Trish Slavik raised the rainbow flag to signify the beginning of Pride Week, accompanied by enthusiastic applause.

This is Bennett’s fourth year supporting the week-long public event. He stated, with a playful pun, how proud he was to be a part of such a diverse community while reading the Pride Day Proclamation.

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The raising of the flag marked the beginning of the 12th year of Pride celebrations in Peterborough.

Slavik spoke to the crowd about the many educational and entertaining events that will be happening around the city in the upcoming week, including film screenings, socials, live music, and game nights.

The week will culminate with the Peterborough Pride Parade on September 20, starting at 2pm, which will march down George Street and into Del Crary Park.

Pride week will last from September 1320; check out all of the great Pride events listed on the website peterboroughpride.ca or on their Facebook community page.

Check back next week for more Pride coverage in Arthur, and check page 13 of this issue for a TQC perspective.

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ArtsPages Public Energy kicks off 2014/2015 season

By Caleigh Boyle

And so begins the 21st season of Public Energy!

On Monday September 8, Public Energy kick-started this year with their season launch at Market Hall.

A crowd of people including locals, performers, and artists gathered to hear Bill Kimball, Public Energy’s Artistic Producer, discuss the new season and the amazing performances that will be taking place throughout the year—and, of course, to hear Kimball read a preview poem from the production Totally Multi.

“Public Energy is a multidisciplinary of

performing arts,” explained Kimball. “We bring touring dance, theatre and multidisciplinary companies and artists to Peterborough and we produce local artists at Market Hall and elsewhere.”

In unveiling their upcoming season, Kimball stated that an eclectic blend of local, national, and international talent will be featured.

“There’s a mix of artists coming here from Toronto and around the world, South Africa, and Israel, and also from around Canada, and to see them mixed on one program with the best artists from Peterborough is exciting for me.”

The first event of the season, Paris, La

Nuit, took place at Peterborough’s Artspace on Friday September 12 and was a roaring success.

“Paris, La Nuit is a recreation of a painted play called Paris, La Nuit by Dennis Tourbin,” Kimball stated. “Dennis Tourbin was a poet a painter and a performer who co-founded Artspace, which is the most important contemporary art gallery in Peterborough.”

Kimball told of how Tourbin opened up galleries—like Artspace—to theatre, which gave a lot of artists their first step up.

On Saturday September 13, Public Energy’s second production, Totally Multi, took the stage at Market Hall as a production that featured many different artists, writers and musicians who worked either directly or indirectly with Dennis Tourbin.

The production included both original work and selections of work by Dennis Tourbin.

Together, Paris, La Nuit and Totally Multi were put on conjunction with The Language of Visual Poetry, an exhibition of Tourbin’s work.

Along with the shows Public Energy produces throughout the year, the organization is also actively involved with professional development of up and coming artists within the community.

‘Fuelled By’ is the name given by Public Energy for the support that they give to local artists. “When a local artists puts on event that they are doing almost on their own, we step in and help produce it,” says

Kimball.

Ten years ago Public Energy changed their name from Peterborough New Dance, and that’s when the organization began to call things Fuelled By. “Fuelled By is really special projects that are happening here in Peterborough,” explains Kimball.

The other element of Fuelled By is the artist in residence.

“Heidi Strauss is going to be here for a week working in the theatre, working on her lighting sound and video,” says Kimball.

When asked why these artists would come to Peterborough of all places Kimball responded, “I think Peterborough because we’ve got this legacy of artists and organizations that do contemporary work.”

Heidi Strauss has an upcoming performance as part of Public Energy titled Elsewhere happening later on in the season.

The next Public Energy event happens October 10 at Market Hall, and if you want the details, well, you’ll just have to check out Public Energy’s website, or find one of the thousands of brochures that have been printed and dispersed throughout the many different local cafes and restaurants here in Peterborough.

There are so many wonderful opportunities for learning and expanding our artistic selves and here in Peterborough, where we are fortunate to have such an incredibly talented and committed group of artists. All we have to do to see is open our eyes.

Rogers, Hammerstein, Batley, and Stewart: Experts in musicals

By Jeffery Stewart

Let’s go back from 1943 up to 1965, when Rodgers and Hammerstein did their first stage play Oklahoma!. It was their first musical they ever did together and they loved it so much.

These revolutionaries were no fiery avantgardists. They were seasoned Broadwayhands, each with some 20 or more years of musical creation and collaboration behind them, and each at the top of his profession when they teamed up for Oklahoma!.

Then came serious plotting—even death and the afterlife, as in Carousel, a love story involving not only a middle-aged man but racial complications in South Pacific, a non-love story, a kissless man-woman relationship, with a mature heroine and the death of a hero in The King and I. There were the non-star productions in which then virtual unknowns like Alfred Duke, Celeste Holme, Yul Brynner, and Isabel Bigley shone forth in major roles.

The fabulous Broadway era of Rodgers and Hammerstein came to a close on June 15, 1963 when The Sound of Music closed after 1442 performances. And what an era it had been!

Julie Andrews As the irrepressible Maria in The Sound of Music, Julie Andrews adds to her growing list of outstanding performances on both stage and screen. She dazzled Broadway, and later in London, as Eliza Doolittle in the unforgettable My Fair Lady, and went on to new triumphs as Stately Guinevere in Camelot, again on Broadway. Her motion picture debut in Mary Poppins charmed audiences. She garnered

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rave reviews for her next film role in The Americanization of Emily.

Christopher Plummer Christopher Plummer (Captain von Trapp) recalls that his first audience was his pet dog. “As an only child living in the country, I went for long walks with my dog,” he says. “I had time on my hands and, when we would stop at a lakeside, the dog would play my straight man. I played kings, emperors, and knights.”

Eventually these lakeside appearances led to young Christopher performing in school plays. The many facets of Plummer’s talents are called into play brilliantly in his portrayal of Captain von Trapp.

Peggy Wood Playing the Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music is Peggy Wood, one of the great ladies of the American theatre.

It’s a role that takes her back to the start of her career, and, despite the fact that she is internationally acclaimed as a dramatic actress, Wood was a star in musicals two generations before she began doing straight drama. She is probably best known for the record she set in television.

For eight years Wood was the “Mama” of I Remember Mama.

The next part of this is about Fred Batley and his old buddy and best close friend Jeffrey Stewart. Both of them are in the St. James Players.

Batley is the producer (and occasional actor) of the St. James Players, while Stewart is an actor as well.

On Sunday May 18, 2014, Stewart gave Batley an “Academy Award”—it was a blanket made for him for his great work

with the St. James Players.

Stewart was in the 1980 production of Oklahoma! behind the scenes, and in 1982 he was in Annie Get Your Gun as the lion.

In 1985 he appeared in The Sound of Music. Stewart was a contestant at Salzburg Music Festival.

In 2012 he was an usher at the 40th Anniversary of the St. James Players. Stewart tries to be a part of the St. James Players and he raised $500 for a new organ as St. James United Church from Rodgers Organ Studio in Toronto.

Fred Batley became the producer of the St. James Players in 2002. His productions are State Fair (2002), Fiddler on the Roof (2006), Bells are Ringing (2007), Wonderful Town (2009), White Christmas (2012), and Lady in the Dark (2013).

Fred Batley and Jeffrey Stewart pro-

moted The Music Man in 2001 and Jungle Book in 2004. They were also a part of The 40th Anniversary of St. James Players.

With Rodger and Hammerstein, Batley and Stewart are musical experts.

On Sunday August 24, the St. James Players did their Sunday Service. Some of the players were there including Fred Batley, Shirley Rolufs, Jeffrey Stewart, Betsy Ann Gyane, Mark Hiscox, and Justin Hiscox.

The Christian education of St. James United Church and the St. James Players’ Director Shirley Lannen had a meeting to choose a member of the St. James Players to be a representative to the great people before they get to church. They chose Jeffrey Stewart to be the representative.

Jeffrey Stewart has been doing this since 1972—42 years ago.

Arts:Reviews movie

No Good Deed: Sometimes the trailer is enough

By Brian Lukaszewicz

Deducing the moral of a movie is a tricky thing.

So often our own expectations and experiences project up onto the screen, clouding the author’s intent.

Many times, ambiguity itself is the goal.

Stating anything for certain is a fool’s errand.

Still, with No Good Deed I’m going to courageously (some would even call me a hero) give it a shot, if only because I don’t want you, the reader, to miss this important lesson.

Never ever help somebody who arrives at your door in distress. You will get murdered by a charming sociopath with the good looks of Idris Elba.

You know what, I’m going to go as far as to say that I nailed that.

Okay, so maybe that’s not the best message, though it does seem to be what the moronic title No Good Deed is trying to suggest.

Still, who cares about the title? Plenty of movies have bad titles. Plus I can assure you that the movie itself provides enough substantive disappointment to sustain us without taking pot shots at the name on the poster.

Yup, No Good Deed takes that classic trapped-with-a-murderer concept and well, does absolutely nothing new with it.

Doesn’t even try.

We start with an over expository newscast telling us what a terrible guy this Colin Evans (Idris Elba) fellow is and then he does exactly what you expect of him, terrorizes Terri (Taraji P. Henson), a lonely housewife and mother of two.

That’s it, that’s the movie. Unfortunately for us he takes his sweet time with it too…

In fact, the word thriller couldn’t be more of a misnomer. I’ve seen glaciers with better pacing than this movie, whose

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idea of tension is just to throw out idle chit-chat and have Idris Elba stare menacingly for 45 minutes.

If your movie is billed as some sort of claustrophobic cat and mouse ordeal, it probably shouldn’t wait over half of its 84 minute running time getting to that cat and mouse ordeal.

And what fills that oh so painfully slow first act? Layer upon layer of nonsense coincidence meant to render our heroine Terri completely helpless.

Modern technology has made it quite difficult on creepy murderers who like to trap people in houses, and No Good Deed devotes ample time trying to make its shaky premise just a little bit plausible.

Still, when you call 911 and an automated voice tells you the volume of call traffic is too high to put you through to the police the same night that your cell phone breaks, we’re playing pretty fast and loose with the whole concept of “little bit plausible.”

On top of that, there’s not a character in this movie that hasn’t been done to death before.

The doting housewife, the uninterested husband, the oversexed best friend, even Colin the violent killer—they’re all so wooden and clichéd it’s as if someone googled stock characters and pieced together the first four descriptions into a movie.

By the end, I worried that Colin might be some sort of Michael Myers type (just Wikipedia the movie Halloween kids), but only because I know that Myers is basically unkillable and I just wanted it to be over.

No Good Deed fails to deliver any real thrills, and worse, takes itself too seriously to even get laughs. Take a pass.

Performance

Public Energy’s Paris, la Nuit reviewed

By George Peregudov

It is 8pm, September 12, at Artspace in downtown Peterborough.

The room is full of people who came to listen to a small performance. This is Paris, La Nuit, the first installment of the Language of Visual Poetry exhibition.

There are some painted handwritings on the walls, which might look unanimated, while the opposite side has two TV screens and a projection picture with short movies. You can take headphones and listen to what is recited in those movies.

Before the actual performance begins, a number of speakers remind the audience about the long, hard work which preceded the show and give thanks to those who helped them.

One of the ideas in that cataract redirects the listeners’ attention to the philosophical topic of artistic freedom. People around nod and smile at the place and the show starts in a few minutes.

Paris, La Nuit is by Dennis Tourbin. It is not long, so listeners cannot fall asleep, but it is not too short, so that they can feel the vibes, movement, and emotions

of the artist.

The performance is in English, but there are some French phrases. When you do not understand something, you can watch the screen behind the speaker’s back. On the wall you can see a small movie, which works as good as eye contact when you want to understand some emotion.

The story, overall, tells about the lifestyle of a person in Paris and there are many references to 20th century events.

There are bits about the Eiffel Tower and, of course, there is a speech about women.

In general, the authors let you take a trip with them so that you can transport yourself into the world of Paris, a world which absorbs the soul and mind of the listener.

The Language of Visual Poetry is an exhibition showcasing the work of local artist Dennis Tourbin. It will continue until November 2, 2014.

The next performance in the series is Cinepoetry Screening and it will take place on September 18 at 8pm, the Artspace. You can also check events on the Artspace Facebook page.

It is free and everyone is welcome.

Trent Gives concert showcases community spirit

On Saturday, September 6 more than 160 students and music fans came out to The Historic Red Dog on Hunter Street to celebrate a night of local live music as part of the TCSA’s ‘Trent Gives’ campaign, raising $927 for a great local cause.

This is the second year Trent Gives has been run and this year the focus was on fundraising for ‘YES’- the Youth Emergency Shelter on Brock Street.

Said Trent Gives co-chair Zachary Kramer, “‘Yes’ was an important cause for us because it helps the most vulnerable in our community, something which is especially important given the economic difficulties that Peterborough has been struggling with.”

This was the first year that Trent Gives had included a concert, the inspiration for which co-chair Meina Istafanous credited to “a growing number of exciting talent coming out of the Trent student body.”

The show opened with an excellent set

by Television Rd (who will be returning to the Red Dog on October 3 to release their first 9-song CD) and was followed by the spacey, psych-laced indie-rockers Severed Feathers.

‘5 Shots to Ragtown’ were probably the fan favourites of the night, their upbeat blues rock drawing the crowd around the stage and inspiring calls for an encore which they happily obliged.

After they finished, Trent alum and Mayoral candidate Maryam Monsef took the stage to address the crowd.

Highlights of her speech included acknowledging the over 300 million dollars that Trent students bring into the local economy and the fact that many small business owners were excited to see the students return to Peterborough.

She also urged students to come out to the polls in October reminding them that “they are counting on you not caring”- an important point that was unfortunately lost on the trio of idiots standing backs to the stage and almost directly beneath her, yammering away completely oblivious to

the rest of the room (kids today right?)

The crowd had slowly thinned out by the time Monsef finished her address, which was a shame because Watershed Hour followed the mayoral candidate.

While their set seemed a little short (come to think of it, most of the sets seemed to be on the short side), the garagerock duo demonstrated just why they’ve been carving out a well-earned reputation for themselves as one of the most exciting and unique acts in Central Ontario.

Definitely check them out as soon as you get a chance.

The final act was a hardcore band called Contender. While they put on a pretty good show, I found their intro kind of offputting.

Before laying into a blistering set, the band had set up an ipod with the sound engineer, at which point they got into a

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huddle with their backs to the audience and Ludcris’ ‘You don’t know me like that’ came over the PA. The band then began to mouth the words and sort of ‘air jam’ to it. I say ‘air jam’ because I’m really not sure how to describe what I was seeing, it was a confusing and muddled way to begin a set and worse, came off a little ‘bro-y’.

As both a genre of music and live performance, hardcore always works best when it’s simplified down to the most direct approach possible: pure bottled energy concentrated at and with the audience, something that an overly elaborate intro prone to technical glitches can take some of the steam out of.

That being said, I would love to see them again because when you take away the cumbersome and somewhat gimmicky introduction there’s a lot of great, infectious energy to both their music and stage presence.

Overall the night was an excellent showcase for the contributions that Trent students are making to the Peterborough’s burgeoning music scene, and a great example of the community spirit that Trent embodies.

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OpinionPages Editorials: Ron Thom’s buildings at Student centre must have Trent are monuments to the possible Trent’s architectural spirit

By Matthew Rappolt

Two years ago, during one of my third-year Public History classes, professor Tom Symons, Trent University’s founding president, visited and shared a few stories about early days of this school. Among the stories that he told was a remarkable tale about Ron Thom, Faryon Bridge, and an American millionaire.

The story, to the best of my recollection, goes that after the university completed construction of Thom’s iconic—but expensive—bridge in 1968, Professor Symons was sitting in his office when one day he received a telephone call, out of the blue, from a rich American businessman who possessed a taste for fine architecture.

The businessman said that he had heard that Trent had succeeded in building an artful, graceful, elegant bridge on its campus and asked if he could come see the project for himself.

When he finally made it to Peterborough this businessman declared Faryon Bridge to indeed be a thing of beauty and, incredibly, he wrote the university a cheque to cover its cost!

For the longest time I had no idea what to make of this seemingly incredulous tale; given all that this community has heard over the past few decades about budget cuts, funding cuts, course cuts, program cuts, tuition hikes, fiscal difficulties, belt-tightenting, inefficiencies, and, of course, centralization, one would never suspect that something so wonderfully odd could have ever happened here.

However, the more I thought about it, the more I began to see this story, and indeed the foresight of Mr. Thom’s architectural vision, as being symbolic of the triumph of this university’s optimism and idealism over austerity and improbable odds during the early years.

In fact, looking look back at the history of this school, Trent University was created by scaling a mountain of improbabilities.

For starters, the idea for a post-secondary

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school in Peterborough originated from a seemingly innocuous letter written to Robertson Davies, editor of the Peterborough Examiner, in 1957.

At that time, there were many, both inside and outside the city, who scoffed at the idea of creating an institution of higher learning in Peterborough, who said that the city was too small, too poor, and too remote to afford even a technical college, let alone a fully certified university.

The doubters were proven wrong, however, as less than a decade after Reginald Faryon penned that fateful letter, Canada’s Governor General, proudly declared the city’s new university to be open.

In creating Trent, the school’s founders and the wider Peterborough community worked tirelessly together to realize the shared vision of building a top-level educational institution right in heart of their city.

Unbelievably, the city, which was at the time a relatively backwater town of less than 50,000 people, was able to attract one of Canada’s upand-coming architects to design a campus that remains unrivaled in terms of beauty.

Furthermore, this little school was able to steal away one of the country’s most respected academics, a man whose radical perspectives on education served to pique the interest of faculty across the continent.

In this respect, Ron Thom’s contributions to Trent: Faryon Bridge, Bata Library, the Science Complex, and the four original colleges, stand today as defiant symbols of what can be accomplished when an individual, or in this case an institution, has a clear vision of itself and possesses the optimism and determination to will that vision into reality.

While the story of that American businessman might seem ludicrous and impossible today, its lesson, that absurd and wonderful things can happen when you refuse to settle for mediocrity, is one that this school should never forget.

By Pat Reddick

All the talk of Ron Thom’s architecture in this week’s Arthur and around campus has got me thinking of the next architectural project to take place at Trent: the student centre.

When it’s built, it will (hopefully) be a student-operated space that addresses the concerns of overcrowding and the general lack of student space on campus.

It will be the centre of student life on campus that features hang-out space, offices, and independent food services, at least according to its original mandate.

Originally passed as a referendum question in March 2013, the project had a difficult year in 2013-14. The TCSA originally spoke of a $21 million building when the referendum was passed, but last year the university more or less told the TCSA they could contribute nothing to the cause, and that number fell to $10.5 million.

Now, the future’s looking a little brighter for the project: the university has procured some funding after all and things are moving forward again.

The referendum question was composed of three “yes” options and one “no” option ($105 levy, $95 levy, $85 levy, or no student centre at all). The original pitch for the centre implied that the most expensive levy would be required to build a state-of-the-art building. The cheapest levy would result in the DNA Building’s uglier cousin.

The TCSA ended up with a mandate to run a $95 levy for the student centre, right in the middle of the two extremes. Of course, that won’t happen until construction is set to begin.

Regardless of how much money the TCSA and the university are actually able to gather for the project, I think it should be a top priority to avoid building something that at all resembles the nightmare that is the DNA Building.

The student centre shouldn’t try to recreate the style of Ron Thom’s architecture—50 years later that would come off as pandering at best—but it should try to emulate its ethos and do something risky, something inspiring.

The last thing this campus needs is another large metal shoebox painted some bright colour, especially if it’s going to end up right next to the library.

This campus is renowned for its architecture, and every new construction should be built with that in mind.

Of course, students didn’t vote in favour of a building whose lavish architecture is a red herring for its empty interior. The TCSA needs to deliver on its promises as to what will be inside—that aspect of the building was what the referendum pitch most concerned.

But if that can’t be achieved without putting up a second DNA Building, then we need to ask ourselves if it’s really worth it after all.

This is a creative place, and I think our student centre should embody that sense of creativity.

Opinion:Comment

Opinion: Ebola at Trent University!

By Jack Smye

First off, I have to apologize for that deliberately misleading title. I thought I would try my hands at official journalism and piggy-back off the infamy of a terrible epidemic.

You see, it’s my job as a journalist to perpetuate the disinformation that has embraced the globe in a state of misguided fear.

This has been the case for the coverage of Ebola. Through no fault of its own, when Trent University decided it was necessary to put an Ebola P.S.A. on myTrent, it became clear that our media outlets have failed to tell the proper story.

Instead, they’ve embellished the terrible reality of this crisis and created a state of misinformation and fear.

It’s easy enough to understand why this happened. I believe it can be characterized by an old journalistic catch-phrase: If it bleeds, it leads. The more violent and horrific a story is, the more coverage it gets.

Ebola plays right into this old adage as it’s the absolute definition of horrifying.

Patients with Ebola suffer from terrifying and severe symptoms.

More often than not, those who contract the virus will die from it within weeks.

There is no vaccine for Ebola and there is no cure.

At the time this article was written, lives taken by the current Ebola outbreak were near 2,300; though it’s surely more by the time you are reading this.

The World Health Organization listed 4,293 confirmed, probable, and suspected

Ebola infections in West Africa.

There’s definitely a story here, but it’s not the story that’s being told.

The global fear-mongering would have you believe that this virus is knocking on our door - ready to spread across Canada the way it is spreading across Liberia.

But this global fear-mongering ignores the fact that Ebola is very difficult to catch.

In no way am I trying to minimize the absolute severity of Ebola, but it can only be spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person showing symptoms.

Those most at risk are caretakers of the infected and those who are handling the bodies of people who died from the disease.

If you don’t fit into these two categories, you have a very, very small chance of contracting Ebola.

There are many deadly diseases that are far easier to catch. Malaria, for instance, is spread through the bite of a mosquito and is responsible for the deaths of 627,000 people a year.

Why is Malaria not all over the news then? One theory is that Malaria is no real threat to Canadians - but neither is Ebola.

The truth is that if Ebola were to make it to Canada, which is not plausible at all, president of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim and Harvard medical anthropology professor Dr. Paul Farmer are confident that it could be contained. “There is no doubt that the health systems in place could contain and then eliminate the disease,” they state in their self-published article.

There is also a good chance that if some-

body were to be infected in Canada, they wouldn’t die.

You’ve probably heard about the 90% mortality rate, but that number is simply wrong. That number is either lazy journalism or purposeful disinformation. Whatever it is, it’s wrong.

Ebola in past outbreaks has had a mortality rate of 90%. In the current epidemic, the number is somewhere between 50% and 60%.

Still incredibly devastating, but significantly lower than what’s being fed through the media. Again, that number would be even lower in Canada based on our ability to treat patients.

There is really very little to fear in Canada, but the story being told by the global media is that we should be afraid of Ebola because of what’s happening in West Africa. What’s being neglected is why is this having such a drastic effect in countries like Liberia? Unfortunately, that’s a story of inequality and inequality doesn’t sell papers.

The reason that Ebola has been so devastating in a county like Liberia is because of a devoid health system that’s unable to respond to the severity of the virus.

Prior to the outbreak, Liberia only had an estimated 50 doctors for a population of 4.3 million.

According to Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, it’s estimated that a facility treating 70 patients needs at least 250 health care workers - as originally reported by Geoffrey York in the Globe and Mail.

Treatment facilities fill up and overflow

as soon as they are open. In an interview with Democracy Now, Dr. Paul Farmer says in order to end this epidemic, there needs to be a “…smart, compassionate quarantine.” Dr. Farmer emphasizes in the interview that in this type of quarantine, there’s a much higher chance the infected will survive. “…if you’re bleeding, you get blood products. If you’re hypotensive, or your blood pressure is low, you get IV solutions, right? That’s not what’s happening in these Ebola centres,” says Dr Farmer in the interview. “…Why would there be such a massive variation in case fatality rate?” he expands.

This type of smart, compassionate quarantine is well beyond the capabilities of the Liberian government however.

This reality, when paired with inefficient government strategies, has resulted in many calling for the Liberian president to resign.

While the actions taken by the Liberian government are surely up for discussion, the fact is that in order to stop the spread of Ebola, there needs to be international action.

According to World Bank president Jim Yong Kim and Dr. Paul Farmer in their article, this epidemic can definitely be stopped. It just requires, “…international organizations and wealthy countries that possess the required resources and knowledge to step forward and partner with West African governments to mount a serious, coordinated response.”

Not because we’re afraid, but because it’s what needs to be done.

Clubs & Groups

TQC: Do Pride Parades still have relevance to young gay people?

By Quinn Ferentzy

I was in the middle of a rousing game of Jenga and a rousing beer.

I was at the TQC games night and I thought the night had gone super well. Was going super well, damn it!

And then my friend ruined my mood.

He showed me what the Examiner had managed to come up with for the Peterborough Pride flag raising.

And might I say my hopes were high!

High I tell you! I expected great things from a website that also ran an article on “What do cheaters smell like?” and “Magic mushrooms may help smokers quit.”

Clearly there was nothing but the very highest level of journalism Sun Media has going on there.

And then my friend broke the golden rule. He read the comments section.

What I witnessed, and have confirmed this morning as I type this, is a whole lot of sound and fury.

It’s all there, and what is worse is that the comments are now closed, so all I could do was scroll helplessly, just to be sure.

But I refuse to dwell on things like that.

There will probably always be pathetic, sad people who hide behind their computer screen (she typed, from behind her computer) who’ll attack any target and treat their individual views as the universal truth on what makes a good human.

What I will discus before moving on will be my problems with the actual article.

The Examiner should not have framed this with the first line “Why do they still need parade?” (emphasis mine) Can we all cringe a little bit with the use

of “they”?

Sure, alright, the author clearly is not queer. Or if the author is queer and can’t say so in an article safely … well their question just got answered.

An article that was phrased “Do Pride Parades still have relevance to young gay people today?” would have been much more thoughtful, and more interesting.

All this one did was open the door for people to dismiss queers and the stillreal struggles faced today (homelessness?

Trans*misogyny? Violence? Peterborough’s hate crime rate? Racism within the community? Intersectionality?).

This article neatly “othered” queer people, thus reducing Peterborough Pride and any participants to a disgusting display of decadence and excess … No, really.

Nevermind the pride worship services.

Nevermind the brunch. Nevermind that if people want to be decadent and exces-

sive… why judge? Why not just enjoy positive queer spaces? Why rain on our parade?

I managed to speak to Rick Lambert about pride and some of the challenges it takes to host a pride event in this town.

Mostly, he said that different people and organizations want different things. Some people want party, some people want politics, some want both or neither.

I know, I know. Really at Trent we tend to think of it as “students” and “not students” and maybe “faculty”. But there are more people in Peterborough than it seems, and Pride (Lambert says) functions as a way to connect the students with a larger, more permanent community.

Rick acknowledges that you can’t please everyone, and Pride encourages other groups to use the space created by Pride week to—dare I say—further their own queer agenda?

Obviously, the people who think that

“equality” just means “everybody gets married” will be displeased for the yearly reminder that they still need to make space for us rude lil’ queers.

You should probably come by City Hall on Saturday at 1:30 for pre-parade festivities, and then to Del Crary Park to see what Pride looks like in Peterborough.

This QR code will take you to even more pride events.

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Columns:Clubs&Groups

TUMS: Come jam with us! Trent Radio: Broadcast Begins

By Lindsay Thackeray

If you’ve spent any amount of time in downtown Peterborough, then you’ll know that the music scene is pretty fantastic.

Being only a mid-sized city, it’s always seemed like the proportion of musicians here is unusually high. There’s such a wide array of unique artists with their own definitive sounds, making it near impossible to not find something you like.

And because many of these musicians are Trent students, it’s all the more reason to make an effort in getting to know what’s out there, and possibly getting involved yourself. There’s usually something going on every day of the week, as long as you know where to find it.

One of the best ways to stumble across new musicians is to attend an open mic session, and lucky for you, us folks at the Trent University Music Society (TUMS) have got you covered.

If you stop by the Trend pub at Traill college on a Thursday evening, prepare your eardrums. We host weekly open mics there every Thursday starting at 8pm, and anyone is welcome to perform.

Regular performers from last year include Mason Milner and Television Rd, and we’re hoping to see lots of new faces show up throughout the school year (*cough* first-years *cough*). We’re a pretty nice bunch, so don’t be scared to come out and show everyone your chops!

If not knowing where the Trend is located keeps you from coming out, don’t worry, because it’s not super difficult to find.

It’s on the Traill college campus, which is between Dublin and London streets, and there is a stop on the West Bank bus route that will take you right to it (just after Sadleir House).

The Trend is an awesome Gastro Pub that you should check out even if you can’t

By Steven Snow

The Double is an intriguing film that unfortunately fell under the radar of mainstream cinemas.

At times it reminds me of the dank underworld of David Lynch’s Eraserhead, the sense of claustrophobia and entrapment setting in early on. At others I’m reminded of the concept of the bureaucratic, totalitarian government conspiring against the individual, namely that of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil.

Put both of these films together and you wind up with the comically dark film The Double, the second feature of British actor/ comedian/writer/director Richard Ayoade.

The Double stars Academy Award Nominee Jesse Eisenberg as timid employee Simon James who works as a clerk for an unnamed company in a confined office building.

What he does isn’t important; what matters is that he is lonely, doesn’t fit in, and constantly has trouble in virtually every facet of his life. Along comes the aptly named James Simon (also played by Eisenberg), a man who looks, sounds, and

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make it to the open mics. It serves fresh, local, food during the day and cold, reasonably-priced beer at night.

Head through the parking lot by Dublin Street and then take a right down some stairs, and you should find yourself at the Trend. If not, just pretend to look at your phone while you reorient yourself and try again (that’s what I always do, anyway).

On the other hand, if feeling a little hesitant to perform in front of a live audience is holding you back, TUMS has you covered there too.

We also hold a ‘jammer’s club’ on Wednesday nights from 7-9pm in the LEC Pit. The idea is to have a place for musicians to informally jam and practice with one another without the pressure of performing in front of anyone.

We’re hoping to appeal to a wide range of skill levels, with beginner musicians learning from more experienced ones. If you want to meet other Trent musicians, or improve your skills and learn something new, you should definitely stop by.

Since the sessions are on-campus in LEC, we’re hoping to see a lot of first-year students show up. We have tried to make the club as accessible as we can. That being said, all students are welcome to join.

If you’d like to get on the jammer’s mailing list, let us know at trentumusic@gmail. com.

So there you go. If you were wondering how best to get involved with Peterborough’s musical community, TUMS is a great place to start. Hopefully this encouraged you to check out some local tunes if you haven’t already, and maybe take up an instrument or two.

Who knows, maybe you’ll go from never having touched a guitar to performing at one of our open mics in a just few weeks!

Just don’t play Wonderwall (kidding… mostly). Hope to see you out!

dresses exactly like Simon.

James immediately wins the praise of his coworkers and is the talk of the town at the office. James is the epitome of what Simon is not: James is confident, snarky, witty, and knows how to get on peoples’ good side. The two befriend one another, but things spiral downward rather quickly.

Through various avenues, James becomes a burden to Simon and the two quickly turn into enemies.

Before I discuss The Double further, allow me to briefly contextualize director Richard Ayoade’s background. He has primarily worked in comedy, starting his acting career in the short-lived satire television show Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace (2004) with friends from college.

Darkplace is zany, off-beat, and down right silly at times, evoking both 1980s soap operas, as well as 90s-00s hospital dramas (all while poking fun at them).

The show is filled with tons of technical errors, including overdubs, poor lighting techniques, and intentionally haphazard editing, not unlike American comedy show Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!. There is a horror element to each of

By James Kerr

Lo, and feel the shaking of the airwaves. As of Monday September 15, 2014, a brand new season has begun at Trent Radio.

If you tune in to 92.7 FM CFFF (or online at trentradio.ca) then you will hear just short of a million brand-new programmers - each like stars in the sky, and most of them fellow students, grooving under their own instruction like it’s the audio postapocalypse.

Each time you tune in, expect excitement, thrills, and no less than chills from your fellow students! Expect that maybe it’s too strange or boring to listen to sometimes - but at other times - pure, unadulterated, awesome.

Turn it on. Turn it on right now. 92.7 FM. That’s right.

Things to do while listening to Trent Radio: * Bask in audio glory. * Do some dishes, or at least some of the dishes before abandoning the chore for something else you’d rather do. * Avoiding doing homework. * Physical activity, I guess. If you really feel you have to. * Going back to those dishes and trying again because you feel like a bad roommate about it, even though you despise the tedium of washing cutlery.

Lo, for the radio cometh! There it is coming down that hallway of the audioscape.

Isn’t it handsome? But it’s not loud enough.

Turn it up. Turn it up right now. Really loud, that’s right. Oops, that’s too loud.

You’re bothering people.

filled by radio (which can only be filled by student-oriented not-for-profit community-based radio, obviously.) * Associate all your imaginary actions to sound effects because you’re lacking creative audio stimulation. I recommend saying: “pew-pew”, when you pretend to shoot classmates with the laser gun that is actually your pointed finger.

As of now we’re broadcasting live from about 9 in the morning until about midnight, all 8 days of the week.

There may be a few no-shows that get hastily covered up by some pre-recorded content, but other than that - you know, when you listen to 92.7 FM, that there’s a person on the other end. A real actual person. No robots. Probably even a Trent person. Probably you know them. Or, you should.

Not fun ways to get involved with Trent Radio: * Fall in love with an on-air host and obsess over them, fall asleep each night of their broadcast with the sweet melody of their voice ringing in your ear. This is a little bit creepy.

Things to do when you cannot listen to Trent Radio: * Pine. * Feel the void in your soul not being

A better idea: * Come in and meet this person. Get your heart broken, that’s okay! Be involved, a part of a community.

You can always be a part of the Trent Radio community, even if it’s just by listening to 92.7 FM and getting it aurally.

But if you’d like to be involved in Trent Radio as a voice rather than an ear, just email Programme Director James Kerr at jkerr@trentradio.ca to see if there are any spots left.

If there are, then watch out - lo, and feel the shaking of the airwaves under the awesome power of your own broadcast voice as pure, unadulterated, awesome.

the six episodes of Darkplace that comes off as cheesy and typically mocks the thrilleresque mystery of contemporary programs like Criminal Minds, 24, and the majority of “reality” shows.

Ayoade then went on to form the successful comedy show called The IT Crowd (2006). Still somewhat satirical, the show is much more of a conventional sitcom and has garnered a larger audience than Darkplace did. A successful endeavour for Ayoade, The IT Crowd spawned multiple seasons and several one-off specials.

Fast forward a few years to 2010, when Ayoade released his directorial debut, Submarine. Submarine is a coming-ofage dramedy that follows a teenage boy who discovers his interest in the opposite sex. The premise sounds all too familiar, however the execution is where Submarine excels.

There is an obvious Wes Anderson influence, but the film never tries to emulate Anderson’s flair. Instead, the film blends both dramatic elements and comedy (Ayoade’s second nature) and does so with originality and confidence.

There aren’t any films I can compare Submarine to other than Ayoade’s latest, The Double; it is that distinct in its look and style. Both of Ayoade’s films have elements of magical realism to them in which the settings appear (mostly) realistic, and the things that happen to their characters are what are magical.

There are moments of happiness and utter sadness in Submarine, both involving a strange sense of nostalgia, like we’ve all experienced what characters Oliver and Jordana (played by Craig Roberts and Yasmin Paige, both of whom have small

roles in The Double) go through.

Ayoade’s latest, The Double, is a rather frenzied film. Things move quickly, and Ayoade does not mess around here; he knows precisely how to pace the story he has adapted from Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1846 novella of the same name.

There is an underlying tension throughout the film that is conflicting: are we to laugh at the scenarios we find protagonist Simon and his doppelganger James in, or do we feel as anxious as he does in this chaotic world? In most cases, it’s a bit of both.

The aforementioned pacing of The Double is expertly edited so as to demonstrate this lingering air of weariness.

The doppelganger narrative is nothing new to the cinema, with films such as David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers (1988), Spike Jonze’s Adaptation (2002), and the upcoming TFS screening of Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy (2013; on September 24 @ Market Hall) all portraying a similar story of the two doubles finding themselves in awkward scenarios once their lookalike is in their presence.

The Double, while not necessarily reinventing the wheel, is both fun and uncomfortable and provides us with a different flavour of this story archetype.

Also in the film is rising star Mia Wasikowska (Stoker, Alice in Wonderland) and the inconceivably great Wallace Shawn (My Dinner With Andre, The Princess Bride).

Please join us for a FREE public screening of Richard Ayoade’s The Double on Wednesday, September 17 @ Artspace (378 Aylmer Street North). The show begins at 8pm. All are welcome!

SportsPage

Excalibur men cut down by Knights in rugby action

By Brad Keizerwaard

The Trent Men’s Rugby Team lost 15 – 14 to Fleming College in their home-opener at Justin Chiu Stadium on Friday night.

The Excalibur Men fought hard throughout the entire match but ended up falling just short as they were unable to capitalize on a late penalty kick in the final seconds of the 2nd half.

This marked the first game of the season for Trent, setting their overall record at 0 – 1 heading into their next match against Seneca on September 17.

It was a close match right from the opening kick-off on Friday Night as the Trent Excalibur faced off against their Peterborough rivals, the Fleming College Knights, in OCAA Men’s Rugby action.

Both teams pressed hard to open up the scoring in the 1st half with the Excalibur’s #6 Kevin Lee picking up a late try putting Trent ahead 7 – 0 after #11 Gabriel Epprecht added a quick convert.

Fleming was able to close some of the gap leading into the intermission with a penalty kick by #12 Graham Abbott, making the score 7 – 3 at the break.

The 2nd half was more of the same as both teams refused to give up much ground to the other.

Fleming was the first team to strike in the 2nd half with a try from #4 Justin Dorey and #12 Graham Abbott adding a convert to give the Knights a 10 – 7 advantage.

Fleming attempted to put the game out of reach with their second try from Graham Abbott but Trent was able to answer back late in the 2nd with a try from #12 Elijah Adair and another convert from #11 Gabriel Epprecht, making

the score 15 – 14 with only minutes left.

The Excalibur pressed hard forcing a penalty kick in the dying seconds of the game but were unable to hit their mark leaving the final score at 15 – 14 for the visitors.

Trent hopes to even up their record as they head to Seneca College for their second game of the season on Wednesday September 17.

The match starts at 4 pm at Seneca’s Markham Campus Field.

Sports Briefs

Women’s soccer

by Patrick Assink

The Trent Excalibur’s women’s soccer fought hard against the Queen’s Gaels on Saturday, September 13. After 90 minutes of play, the Excaliburs tied 0-0 against the Gaels.

It was a rainy day at Justin Chiu Stadium, but it didn’t get keep the fans away. Goalkeeper, Annalise Buchouski, excelled today and saved 15 shots on net winning her the title of the game’s Most Valuable Player.

The best game of their season yet and the Excalibur’s season count is now 0-1-3. The Excalibur will face the RMC Paladins tomorrow at Justin Chiu Stadium.

Men’s soccer

by Patrick Assink

The Trent Excalibur’s men’s soccer team also competed against the Queen’s Gaels on Saturday at Trent’s Justin Chiu Stadium.

The Excaliburs played a fast-paced against the Gaels but the Gaels came out on top winning the game 1-0 against Trent.

Queen’s Chris Michael scored the first goal 11 minutes into the game. However, first year goalkeeper Zachary Silva stopped the Gaels from getting any more goals with an impressive 14 saves. Third year, Will Horton, won the title of Most Valuable Player for the game with the most shots on net against the Gaels.

The Excalibur’s soccer teams will take on the RMC Paladins in another double header tomorrow, Sunday, September 14 at 1:00 pm for Women’s and 3:15 pm for Men’s.

Varsity Standings Wins

Losses

Draws

Points

Algonquin

1

0

0

Fleming Seneca

1

0

0

5 5

1

0

0

5

Loyalist St. Lawrence Trent

0 0 0

1 1 1

0 0 0

0

Wins

Losses

Draws

Points

Queen’s

4

0

1

13

Ryerson

4

0

0

12

Carleton

3

1

2

11

1 1 3

7

RMC

2 1 1 1

1 2 2

3

0

5

Trent Laurentian

0 0

3 4

1 1

1 1

Wins

Losses

Draws

Points

Ottawa

4

1

0

12

Queen’s

3

0

1

10

UOIT

3

0

1

10

Carleton

1 1 2

1

10

Toronto Laurentian

3 2 2

1 1

7 7

Nippissing

1

3

1

4

RMC Trent

0 0

3 3

1 1

1 1

Men’s Rugby Teams

Men’s Soccer Teams

Toronto UOIT Nippissing

Women’s Soccer Teams

0 0

5 5

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listings. where and when things happen.

Clubs & Groups Learn to Fence! Explore and learn the sport of Olympic Fencing! All you need is workout gear! The first sessions are Thursday September 11 at 6:30 and Tuesday September 16 at 6pm in the Gym! For more information email courtneypeeters@outlook.com or check out our website trentu.ca/fencing.

Weekly Open Mics EVERY Thursday evening at 8pm at the Trend pub in Traill college!

Hosted by the Trent University Music Society. Bring your instruments or just come to listen for a night of good music and good company. Free admission, all welcome! More info: trentumusic@gmail.com.

Seasoned Spoon Intro to Vegetarian Cooking Wed Sept 17.

The Seasoned Spoon’s first workshop of the school year will be an intro to vegetarian cooking with our one and only fabulous head chef, Gar. Learn the basics of delicious and nutritious vegetarian cooking.

Find out about nutrient and protein balancing, how to use whole food ingredients, save time, and money all while maintaining a high standard of deliciousness! Wednesday September 17th 4:30 pm @ The Seasoned Spoon. $5 or pwyc. Email spoonvolunteers@ gmail.com for questions or more info No Knead Bread Making Workshop Wed Sept 24.

No time to bake? You can learn how to make artisan-style bread (and pizza!) in your own kitchen with five minutes of work and four ingredients in our Artisan Bread Making Workshop with veteran workshop leaders Myra Hirschberg and Tom Calwell. Wednesday Sept 24 4:30pm @ The Seasoned Spoon. $5 or pwyc. Email spoonvolunteers@gmail. com for questions or more info Volunteer Call-out Exiting Opportunity!

THE SEASONED SPOON IS LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS! It’s that time of year again when Spoon kitchen is firing back up and fresh organic produce is pouring in from the gardens. We need lots of extra help to keep things in check and maintain optimum kitchen flow. We are seeking out new volunteers with keen interest in food issues, a desire to learn kitchen ninja skills and an inspiration to contribute to community building. Please email spoonvolunteers@ gmail.com if you are interested or for more info.

Trent Academic Skills Centre Appointments – for help developing your academic skills (writing, critical reading, time management, math skills), book an appointment through our NEW online booking system.

Sign in to the Student Experience Portal with your Trent username and password, then click on “Book Appointments” in the left menu. You can still call 705-748-1720 during office hours, as well. You can book

a forty-five minute in-person consultation with an academic skills or math skills instructor, or book an “online appointment” – submit questions or upload a draft of your writing, and an instructor will respond electronically with comments.

group where the brass and woodwinds play along with strings, piano, and percussion.

Come on out and join us Thursdays 5:30-7:30 at Edmison Heights Baptist Church, Marina Blvd.,Peterborough. For further information please contact lorick@cogeco.ca or call 705 874 5311 or - Visit us on Facebook

Local

Dance Your Bones: Move freely to DJ beats from around the world. no steps, no alcohol, just the freedom to move the way you want in the company of like-minded others. $10. Every Thursday 6pm-8pm at 235 Rubidge St. in Peterborough until December 18. www.danceyourbones.com

Purple Onion Festival - Volunteers Needed!

Greetings from your Transition Town Peterborough Volunteer Support volunteer!

The Purple Onion Festival is a big event that requires many volunteers. If you can help us on Sunday, September 21st for early set-up and post-event tear-down, or as a greeter or other helper during the Festival, please send a note to me, Cheryl, at volunteer4ttppeterborough@gmail.com.

Please include your phone number so that I can call you to discuss times and roles.

Youth are very welcome. Opportunities for mature, responsible youth Grade 8-12 are available. If you want to do ‘family volunteering’, please contact me right away.

Opportunities for families volunteering together are limited.

Mysterious Entity presents The Blind Eye, a workshop production of an exciting new script. Thursday/Friday, Sept 26 & 27, 8pm. The show, directed by Em Glasspool, uses as its starting point a true tale of immigration, abuse and survival. Adapted

by Kate Story, The Blind Eye features Sedina Fiati, Meghan Swaby, and Christopher Wilton. The show will be performed at The Theatre on King(159 King St. #120 around back) with both shows at 8PM. Tickets $15 or PWYC. Come out to this brave, new work!

Mysterious Entity Presents Script Readings! Thursday, October 2 @ 7pm. The first Thursday of every month Mysterious Entity shall be running a script reading series, at The Theatre On King (159 King St, #120 around back). And this evening isn’t just about listening, it’s also about participating! Members of the Entity will be lending their talents, but we also welcome anyone who is interested in coming out and signing up to do a cold read. Are you a writer with a new script? Or is there a play you have always enjoyed, that you’d love to hear again? Submit your script at least a week in advance to organize the cast: m.entity@gmail.com, and bring enough copies for the cast to read. We encourage all who wish to participate to gather at 7PM to get organized and then the reading shall commence at 7:30.

Climate Change Rally, Sept 21, 1:30-2:30 pm, Millennium Park at Water and Kings St, as part of the Purple Onion Festival celebrating local food. Show our politicians that climate change is an election issue.

Volunteer Tutors Needed at the New Canadians Centre. Do you have one or two hours a week available to help a newcomer to Canada improve their English language skills and become more confident and connected in their new community? No previous experience is required. For more information or an application form, please contact: Anne Elliott, Community Coordinator, 705-7430882 or anne@nccpeterborough.ca

Arts

Submit a Play to Theatre on King’s Playwright’s Festival - Tues Sept 30. Hey Folks! It is that time again. TTOK is seeking submissions for it’s upcoming Playwright’s Festival. This year there are two categories: Under 10 minutes or Under 40 minutes. All submissions must be written for 2-3 characters using minimal set/ props. Please no monologues. Competition is open to all residents of Peterborough and surrounding areas. Winning entries will be performed at TTOK. Deadline for submissions is Tuesday, Sept. 30th, 2014.

Please send submissions to: contact@ttok. ca or The Theatre on King, 159 King Street, #120, Ptbo. ON, K9H 2R8

Scottish Country Dancing, The Gathering Place, Peter Gzowski College. No partner necessary and please wear soft shoes. For information please contact jfreeves@sympatico.ca The Kawartha Strings and Kawartha Community Orchestra welcome new members as they begin a new season. If you play a string or wind instrument, please contact conductor Auriel Creighton at acrate1@hotmail.com.

All ages, all skill levels welcome, with no auditions.

PUPPETEERS NEEDED! - WE TRAIN! CMHA Peterborough is recruiting volunteers to join the Kids on the Block educational puppet

Friends in Music Invite You to Come and Play. We are a community orchestra/concert band who play great music to have fun and to learn. We welcome all levels of ability, all ages, all instrumentation! Under the baton of music director , Marilyn Croteau Chalk, you are sure to enjoy lots of dynamic music. Her diverse experience conducting bands from young to retired folk with energy and enthusiasm brings a smile to all who play with her.

We share and we care for the love of music and want you to be a part of this exciting

Peterborough Storytellers, Wednesday, September 17, 7 to 9 p.m. at Peterborough Public Library. Theme: “Why We tell Stories”.

Come and enjoy listening to stories.

Come and tell a story!

The Muted Note: Extensive Autumn Tour for Multifaceted Poetry + Music + Dance Project Based on Poems by P.K. Page. Montreal composer and trombonist, Scott Thomson, and dance artist and vocalist, Susanna Hood, will perform The Muted Note, a suite of songs and dances based on poems by P.K. Page, 40 times and in 9 Canadian provinces in the autumn of 2014. On September 23 the performance will be in Peterborough ON, Scott House, Traill College, Trent University, 7:30pm.

Art for Awareness is proud to present Hedwig and the Angry Inch at the Gordon Best Theatre September 24-27, 2014. Tickets: $20 for general admission; $30 for premium seats. Available at www.ticketleap. com (search “Hedwig”) and www.artforawareness.net. The show is being presented in connection with Peterborough Pride, Canadian Mental Health Association and Courage Peterborough. A percentage of the proceeds are being donated to CMHA’s Gender Journeys program. Hedwig and the Angry Inch is the celebrated Off-Broadway hit by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask. It was later turned into a critically adored New Line/Fine Line Cinema film. It is an exciting, witty, trashy, tuneful and emotional play with a small cast and a huge impression.

The Language of Visual Poetry. The Art Gallery of Peterborough and ARTSPACE invite you to visit “Dennis Tourbin The Language of Visual Poetry.” This exhibition explores the contributions of Dennis Tourbin, who made great and lasting impacts on Peterborough’s art community. A pioneer of interdisciplinary practice in Canada, Dennis Tourbin produced a distinctive body of work integrating the written word with painting, drawing, video, and performance in an exploration of language and meaning.

Conscious of how the immediacy of film and television changed the way we see, Tourbin viewed the printed word as an endangered species and sought to give it a new visual form, working in what he described as “the area between painting and literature. Exhibition: September 12 to November 2, 2014 at ARTSPACE 3-378 Aylmer Street North, Peterboroug Free admission

Send your listings FREE to listings@trentarthur.ca.

This Week in Live Music: presented by ElectricCityLive.ca Tuesday Wednesday Thursday t Wylie Harold @ The Blackhorse Pub (7pm)

t Chesley Bennett @ Carpe Diem Cafe (6pm)

t Ennis (7pm)

t Shirley Borg, Wes Borg, and Wes Ryan @ The Garnet (10pm)

t Brad Haddelssey @ The Blackhorse Pub (7pm)

t The Provincial Archive @ The Red Dog (9pm)

t Tim Sheffield @ The Spill (9pm)

t Sufferah Sound w/ Guests @ The Spill (9pm)

t Open Mic @ McThirsty’s Pint (9pm)

troupe. Puppetry is used to educate children (in schools, mostly) about mental health issues. We perform, free of charge, to children in Peterborough and surrounding areas. Call Ryan at 748-6687 x1016 or email kob@cmhahkpr.ca

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Showplace

Friday

Saturday

t Wylie Harold @ The t Brennon Wasson @ The Publican House Brewery Porch & Pint (7pm) (5pm) t A John & a Bob @ t Tammy J. Wilde @ Carpe Diem Cafe (7pm) Sticks Sports Pub (6pm) t David Tough & Kelly t Wood & Wire @ Carpe McMicheal @ The Spill Diem Cafe (7pm) (8pm)

t Ptbo Pride Open Mic @ t 56.4 Open Mic @ the The Spill (9pm) Trend (8pm) t Bridget Foley & the Pocket Kings @ Blackhorse Pub (9:30pm)

t Cold Creek County @ The Red Dog (9pm) t The Muddy Hack @ The Pig’s Ear Tavern (9pm)

t Off the Wall @ t Broken Harmony @ The The Blackhorse Pub Garnet (10pm) (9:30pm)