Christina Kingsbury and Garth Laidlaw to receive funding The Guelph Arts Council has awarded two local artists, Christina Kingsbury and Garth Laidlaw, the Jane Graham Memorial Award this year. Since 2006, the Jane Graham Memorial Award has fostered creativity and artistic development for local artists. Artists throughout Guelph applied to […]
Author: Sierra Paquette-Struger
It’s on Netflix: The Crown gives due justice to the longest-reigning Queen
Period drama receives royal treatment It isn’t every day that a television program comes around that both you and your elderly, upright grandmother can enjoy together like Netflix’s newest original series, The Crown. Created and written by Peter Morgan, the first season explores the early reign of Queen Elizabeth II, […]
Between the Sheets: Max Ritvo’s first and final anthology celebrates the ephemeral
4 stars out of 5 “I am missing everything living/that won’t come with me/into this sunny afternoon,” wrote New York-based poet, Max Ritvo. Born in 1990, Ritvo was just 25 when he passed away of cancer-related causes this August. At the age of 16, Ritvo was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma, […]
Holocaust survivor Bill Glied visits the University of Guelph
Bearing witness to survivor’s testimony Every year, as part of an annual dedication to remembrance and memorialization in November, Hillel Guelph organizes several events for Holocaust Education Week. On Nov. 10, Hillel Guelph invited Holocaust survivor Bill Glied to the University of Guelph campus to speak about his personal survivor […]
“You’re no Picasso”
Or, how I learned to stop hiding and become an artist My name is Sierra and I am a poet. It’s taken me 10 years to say that short declarative statement. I’ve been in a bit of an artistic slump recently, so I figured why not write about the idea […]
Beach Bodies take a high school writing project to the next level
Guelph roommates talk music and creativity What started as an EP for a high school creative writing class transformed, under careful and almost obsessive attention, into Beach Bodies’ first full-length album Onward & Downward. Beach Bodies is a five-member act made up of Brock Bourgeois, Jamie Gibson, Corben Grant, Isaac […]
Pop Philosophy: The ethics surrounding Westworld
What rights we may or may not owe artificial intelligence Avoiding spoilers, the TV series Westworld examines the ways in which human users interact with and experience a real live video game. For an estimated $40,000 a day, one can ride the train into the Old West-themed park; donn bespoke […]
Local artist’s work is a scream
Adam Lambert blends gorgeous lines with gross images Adam Lambert, a local artist, musician, and illustrator for Fiction Designs, has been drawing the dark and macabre for 25 years. The Ontarion recently reached out to Lambert for an email interview, and he answered with plenty of style. “[I was] accepted […]
Between the Sheets: Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe
4 stars out of 5 If you’re like most elementary students in Ontario, chances are you read (or pretended to read) Deborah and James Howe’s brilliant “Rabbit-Tale of Mystery,” Bunnicula. Narrated by Harold the dog, it tells the story of the Monroe family’s acquisition of the young rabbit Bunnicula under […]
PUP proves that the dream is alive and well
Toronto punk band plays Peter Clark Hall PUP, like all truly good punk bands, endorses a message that communicates both flagrant disregard for the power structures that be and an open-minded approach to inclusivity within their scene. Formed in 2013, the band is made up of Stefan Babcock, Nestor Chumak, Zack […]
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The Ontarion is the University of Guelph’s independent student newspaper. It began in 1951 as part of the Ontario Agricultural College and then began to represent the entire University of Guelph once it amalgamated in 1964. The Ontarion incorporated in May 1970 as The Ontarion, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation registered with the province of Ontario.