For the past 10 years now the VIU Students' Union has been working to ensure that our members get to send another academic year off with a bang. This year we are building on previous concerts that have included performances from Shayne Philip, Current Swell, Wide Mouth Mason and Bif Naked to name a few.
This year we are proud to announce our end of year concert will feature Berkley California based Bukue One with special guest Del the Funky Homosapien. Our event will also feature an opening performance from the Victoria based Mindil Beach Markets.
In addition to our exciting musical acts, in an effort to get the crowd moving, we have free salsa demonstrations and lessons for VIUSU member.
As always there will be plenty of burgers and hotdogs for our members (yes we will have veggie burgers and dogs). So come on down and celebrate an end to another year and more importantly the beginning of another summer.
Join the VIUSU Womens' Collective in this pre-event to the regular and weekly open mic night. From 7pm to 9pm women performers will be given priority.
Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis.
Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.
Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question "CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?"
Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.
In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.
The film’s central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride.
A participatory media experiment, from day one, Brett shares his raw footage at opensourcecinema.org, for anyone to remix. This movie-as-mash-up method allows these remixes to become an integral part of the film. With RiP: A remix manifesto, Gaylor and Girl Talk sound an urgent alarm and draw the lines of battle.