The Real Story Behind Labour Day: More Than Just a Day Off in Canada and the U.S. Labour Day in Canada and the U.S. has become synonymous with barbecues, sales, and the unofficial end of summer. But let's not forget, this holiday wasn’t always about chilling by the pool. It was born out of the gritty struggle of workers who fought tooth and nail for the basic rights we take … [Read more...] about A Union’s Work Is Never Done!
Arts & Leisure
It’s Almost Party Time!
It's not too late to get your party tickets for Saturday, May 4th, 2024, when the Camosun College Faculty Association is set to celebrate an impressive milestone - 50 years of working together as one! Join us, as we commemorate half a century of solidarity, camaraderie, and cooperation! We are inviting faculty members, retirees, and their loved ones to join us in this … [Read more...] about It’s Almost Party Time!
Faculty Feature: Visual Arts Fund Raising for Mabaani Women and Children.
Hey CCFA, Let's help! The Visual Arts Department Students are hosting a print sale as fundraiser for the Mabaani women and children to access books and art supplies. Let’s support the Mabaani women and children by buying some prints from the Visual Art Students! Thank you very much for your donation! When: April 4, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Where: Fisher Foyer, Lansdowne … [Read more...] about Faculty Feature: Visual Arts Fund Raising for Mabaani Women and Children.
Faculty Feature: Communications Department Events
Don't Miss the 10th Anniversary Comic & Graphic Novel Convention! Every year when the students end their Comics & Graphic Novels Certificate Program, they must have finished at least one comic book. The students get the opportunity to showcase their comic books and all of the other work they have done during their program at the Camosun Comic Arts Festival … [Read more...] about Faculty Feature: Communications Department Events
Spotlight on Literature – Poet’s Corner, a Haiku
To the gods regarding the search for wisdom By Sandra Bannikoff Pleonexia prevails preventing our progress … [Read more...] about Spotlight on Literature – Poet’s Corner, a Haiku
Holiday Spotlight on Literature: “A Visit from the Union”
Updated 2022 Edition by Lynelle Yutani. (A highly stylized adaptation of the poem, “Twas The Night Before Christmas” attributed to both Clement Clarke Moore and Henry Livingston Jr.) 'Twas just days before Christmas, when all through each campus,Not a creature was stirring, the Term's all complete, for which you can thanks us; Next term’s course syllabi are posted to … [Read more...] about Holiday Spotlight on Literature: “A Visit from the Union”
Spotlight on Literature – Poet’s Corner, a Haiku
Found Feather By Sandra Bannikoff a remembrance of someone who is still free … [Read more...] about Spotlight on Literature – Poet’s Corner, a Haiku
New Confluence Feature: Spotlight on Literature – Member Book Review
“The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility.” (bell hooks, 1994) By Martha McAlister For the faculty book club this fall, we just finished reading “Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom” by bells hooks. She passed away last year, sparking us to revisit her seminal work. Though this book was written in 1994, it’s … [Read more...] about New Confluence Feature: Spotlight on Literature – Member Book Review
Ginger Goodwin Was Murdered & Why You Should Care
Contributed by J. Hunt: If you have driven up island to the Comox Valley area, you will likely have noticed the “Ginger Goodwin Way” signs on a stretch of the Island Highway. Although you may have heard of Ginger Goodwin as a B.C. labour activist, you may not know many details about his life. Albert Goodwin, commonly known as “Ginger” for his red hair, was born in a … [Read more...] about Ginger Goodwin Was Murdered & Why You Should Care
The Union Reel: Films about Work
Norma Rae 1979 Directed by Martin Ritt It will surprise no one who knows me that the protagonist of Norma Rae was one of my heroes when I was seventeen. It was 1979, and popular culture had developed an earthy, working-class aesthetic. Punk rock had reached its peak. TV shows like Taxi and Alice were cheerfully gritty. Films about poor people, like Mean Streets, Dog Day … [Read more...] about The Union Reel: Films about Work
The Union Reel: Films about Work
Kelly Pitman Nomadland 2020 Directed by Chloé Zhao Even at their most earnest, Hollywood films often tend toward artifice rather than authenticity. Then comes a film like Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, a fictional drama, inspired by a nonfiction book, about a woman who takes to the road after her husband dies and the 2008 recession takes her house, the … [Read more...] about The Union Reel: Films about Work
