July 26, 2021

Skeleton Park Arts Fest hosts second 'Next Door' exhibition

Skeleton Park Arts Festival (SPAF) is an annual Kingston summer solstice tradition. However, the circumstances of COVID-19 forced the team to alter their festival plans last year. READ MORE: Skeleton Park Arts Fest adapts to COVID-19 with ‘Next Door’ exhibit Now hosting their second iteratio…

July 26, 2021

Skeleton Park Arts Fest hosts second 'Next Door' exhibition

Skeleton Park Arts Festival (SPAF) is an annual Kingston summer solstice tradition. However, the circumstances of COVID-19 forced the team to alter their festival plans last year. READ MORE: Sk…

July 26, 2021

Kingston art thriving in Martello

Queen’s alumni David, ArtSci ’83, and Wendy Dossett, Con-Ed ’87, launched Kingston’s Martello Alley back in 2015. Martello is an immersive installation featuring the works of local Kingston artists…

July 26, 2021

Kingston art thriving in Martello

KFPL’s Reading Buddies program now includes seniors

July 26, 2021

The Kingston Frontenac Public Library (KFPL) recently expanded their Reading Buddies initiative to include seniors, beginning this July. The program, popularized by its work with children, connects…

Ryan Randall wins cinematography award for ‘Workhorse’

July 26, 2021

Ryan Randall is an accomplished film and media technician. He works in Queen’s department of film and media teaching production fundamentals as an adjunct lecturer, and serves as the technical dire…

'The Intangible Queer' explores identity through abstraction and experimentation

June 28, 2021

Combining theatre, film, and abstract art, YIKES! A Theatre Company’s The Intangible Queer embraces unconventional storytelling. The show premiered through Reelout’s Summer Queer Showcase on Jun….

How a semester-long practicum turned into Queer Muslim Resistance

June 28, 2021

“As a queer Muslim, we’re often faced with this idea of impossibility—like it’s impossible to be queer and Muslim. And that’s coming from all sides.” Maha,* MA, started a practicum project unde…

‘The Undergraduate Review’ publishes 33rd annual issue

June 28, 2021

Editor’s Note: Two members of The Journal’s Editorial Board contributed to The Undergraduate Review. The Undergraduate Review (UR), a Queen’s arts and literature-focused magazine, released their …

JukeBox County releases debut album

May 31, 2021

This article discusses addiction and mental illness and may be triggering for some readers. The Canadian Mental Health Association Crisis Line can be reached at 1-800-875-6213. JukeBox County, the …

Kingston's True North Tattoo grapples with lockdown uncertainty

May 31, 2021

Over the last year, shutdowns implemented in response to COVID-19 have rocked Ontario businesses. For Wayne Murrill, owner of Kingston’s True North Tattoo, these lockdowns have highlighted the impo…

Steven Heighton releases debut album 'The Devil's Share'

May 31, 2021

Steven Heighton, Queen’s MA ’86 and accomplished author, had no interest in performing his own songs until the owner of Wolfe Island Records heard him play. Heighton’s latest work, The Devil’s Shar…

Sadiqa de Meijer turns hardship into creativity

May 31, 2021

Sadiqa de Meijer is a talented writer of poetry, short stories, and essays. Her work has been published in The Walrus and Poetry Magazine. Like many, de Meijer found herself challenged by the pande…

'Quilt' launches inaugural issue

May 31, 2021

Editor’s Note: One member of The Journal’s Editorial Board contributed to Quilt. The first issue of Quilt launched on May 7. Founded by the 2020-21 English department student council, Quilt is the …

Queen’s Journal alum Omar El Akkad talks upcoming novel 'What Strange Paradise'

April 8, 2021

On July 20, Omar El Akkad’s second novel What Strange Paradise will debut. But El Akkad’s creative writing career began on a different day: September 11, 2001, in Professor Carolyn Smart’s creative…

City council launches new Local Arts Residency at The Grand Theatre

April 8, 2021

The Grand Theatre, a performing arts hub of downtown Kingston, has been empty since the first lockdown of March 2020. Now, four artists will be given the chance to grace the stage. Perhaps more t…

Artists during lockdown: Visual artist Clanny Mugabe talks pandemic’s impact on practice

April 8, 2021

Clanny Mugabe, Art Sci ’23, is a second-year student who explores themes of decolonization, mythology, and speculative fiction in her artwork. Like many artists, Mugabe has struggled to continue cr…

Queen’s Creative Writing alum Liselle Sambury talks debut novel 'Blood Like Magic'

April 8, 2021

Carolyn Smart’s Advanced Creative Writing class was the first time Liselle Sambury, ArtSci ’13, had her work published, but it won’t be the last. Sambury will publish her first novel, Blood Like …

William Carroll talks Side-Ways Artist Residency at Union Gallery

April 2, 2021

William Carroll is a visual artist whose recent works include home-grown crystals and a giant spray foam cherry pie. Carroll is on the autism spectrum and identifies as non-binary. They’re currentl…

Retrofuturism: Danika Watson discusses sci-fi artwork

April 2, 2021

Danika Watson, ArtSci ’21, integrates her passion for science and chemistry into her artistic practices. Recently featured as one of the finalists for the Undergraduate Review’s cover art contest, …

‘Just let it arrive’: Poet, mentor Bruce Kauffman talks career

April 2, 2021

Bruce Kauffman has been opening doors for artists for 12 years. In 2009, Kauffman started an open mic night at The Artel, an arts venue formerly located on Sydenham Road. A year later, he started a…

Natasha Beaudoin talks Greek mythology as inspiration for her subversive paintings

March 26, 2021

Editors’ Note: One member of The Journal’s Editorial Board is an Editor in Chief of the Undergraduate Review. For many artists, historical representations are meaningful sources of inspiration fo…

Short Story Contest Winner Natara Ng discusses loneliness in ‘Her Last Day’

March 26, 2021

Natara Ng, Kin ’23, won The Journal’s Winter 2021 short story contest for “Her Last Day,” the subtle tale of a lonely man tending a garden with a twist: both the man and his plants are more than me…

Short Story: Her Last Day

March 26, 2021

I enter the backyard to begin my last day of work before the season is over. The early September air is laden with desperate rays of white sunlight and warm winds that brush against me as I walk pa…

Student artists during COVID-19: Mikki Barnett talks pandemic art

March 26, 2021

Death smells like roses. At least, that’s the case for Mikki Barnett, Con-Ed ’21, whose tenfoot sculpture Perspective—a cave built from mirrors, chicken wire, rose-dyed polyester and twinkling li…

Poem: Allies

March 26, 2021

The taste of raspberries, On their lips, From the red hand painted over their mouths, The same hue as the coats of the men who have taken the land, Who have brought bombs to knife fights, And for w…

Poetry contest winner Emily Clare talks 'Allies'

March 26, 2021

“There is no faith within words of abhorrence,” writes Emily Clare, ArtSci ’21, winner of The Journal’s Winter 2021 poetry contest in her piece titled “Allies.” “I’ve been writing poetry and song s…

The Kid Detective Director Evan Morgan knows how to make a great mystery movie

March 19, 2021

Far before I started preparing for my interview with Evan Morgan, director of The Kid Detective, I knew exactly what I wanted my first question to be: How did you pull it off? The writing of myster…

Review: In ‘The Glass Hotel,’ women deserve more agency

March 19, 2021

While it’s true random events often have the power to drastically change the course of our lives, The Glass Hotel, a Canadian novel by Emily St. John Mandel, undermines the agency women have in the…

Agnes’ ‘Drift: Art and Dark Matter’ explores the unseen matter of our universe

March 19, 2021

Although the exploration of dark matter is commonly regarded as a scientific pursuit, a new exhibition at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre explores the relationship between astroparticle physics an…