On Wednesday, see the U of T Campus Police play head-to-head against U of T Engineering students in a charity hockey game! I don’t even like sports and I’m excited about this event!

Some juicy extras:

1. The Campus Police team is rumoured to be captained by an ex-Team Canada player.
2. If this event goes well, then there will be a follow up match up involving former NHL players

Photo courtesy of DVS_Photographer

When: Wednesday, March 11 @ 9pm
Where: Varsity Arena
Cost: FREE with a non-perishable food item donation

See the Facebook event for more details.

Hart House is closing its 2008/2009 season with Arcadia, acted by HH’s first fully student cast. This is a brilliant and funny play, and one of Tom Stoppard’s finest – which is saying a lot. The show premiers tonight, and continues until March 14th.

MARCH 6TH – 14TH, 2009
Week 1: Fri & Sat 8pm
Week 2: Wed to Sat 8pm + Sat 2pm Matinee

Tickets:
$20 – Adults
$12 – Students & Seniors

Every now and then, some form of art makes its way into my life and moves me beyond expression. Sometimes it’s literature, sometimes film. Maybe dance, or maybe song. But this weekend, this little piece of heaven came in the form of Ubuntu, a play (unfortunately) wrapping up its run at the Tarragon Theatre.

It is a play that demonstrates so poignantly the very meaning of its title. Translated as “I am because you are”, Ubuntu is the traditional African philosophy that recognizes the unity of all people, as we are all inextricably bound to and by our common humanity. Spanning two generations and taking place in both Canada and South Africa, the play tells a beautiful story of the love between two people and the deep secrets that plague their family.

The first half of the play is filled with such wonderful dance and song that will just absolutely fill your heart with joy, but as the play progresses, it plunges into deeper and darker territory. One of the most memorable scenes takes place in a library here at the U of T (a setting not totally foreign to us…as much as we’d like it to be) that turns the banal and perhaps even dreary act of finding books into a playful dance. Meanwhile, there is a beautiful, but darker sequence where the two lovers, tired and undoubtedly pained, fight over what may seem to be an unimportant chair, but one that keeps them so far apart. The cast exquisitely uses movement to fill the gaps when words are simply not enough. (more…)

Okay, so how many of you have had a conversation with someone on msn/facebook and when you (finally) see them, the conversation is awkward? Why is it that it’s so easy to have a conversation with someone over the internet and phone (via text), but having a face to face conversation, is just borderline weird?

Technology allows us to connect with people around the world with a few clicks, but ironically, it takes us one step forward and two steps back. With the use of such internet sites as Facebook, Twitter, and services such as MSN, we are able to talk to our friends whenever we want. However, this takes away from socializing in person, which leaves us to fill that ‘technological void’ with awkwardness.

Now I know what you’re thinking, “what are you really trying to say?” Well, I’m not saying that we should just drop all those internet services and websites, because let’s face it, we need these sites to connect us to friends all around the world, or even those just around the corner. But I’m saying that we should all try to be more social face to face, as opposed to computer to computer, because like they say, “people all over the world, join hands…start a love train, a love train.” (A train of  face to face conversations of course!)

What do you think? What effect have social media had on your life?

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