This years Christmas Reading is a live recording we hosted in our lobby where we invited guest to enjoy a free live event with hot chocolate , good cheer and cookies. We took the opportunity to create a space for people to donate to "Loaves and Fishes" Nanaimo's community food bank and for our students to work with some great talent from our community. A special that you to Dean Chadwick, Alex Bhargava, Sophie, Jim & Fynn Maher.

Our very own Rowan O'Callaghan and Alex Bhargava talk with the new executive director of The Port Theatre - David Warburton along with Mya Wilson - Booking Coordinator. Rowan delves into how artistic programming has changed in the community post covid and asks about what drew them all into the arts and what keeps us coming back..

Our second annual celebration of Pride month !!! We have Alex Bhargava bringing us a diverse discussion about growing up and watching how the media is adapting the conversation about LGBTQ+ representation and what that means to students and various perspective from different generations. Alex is joined by our very own Dean of Arts and Humanities - Dr. Marni Stanley along side Chris Yeast , chair of VIU Positive space alliance and Rowan O’Callaghan currently enrolled in VIU’s Theatre Department.

Leon Potter Welcomes Bryony Dixon, Tamara McCarthy from Pacific Coast Stage (Producers of The Nanaimo Fringe Festival) and they talk with Emily Dunigan , one of our unofficial 3rd year students, to talk about some of the community engagement that are happening in town.

We are collaborating with the creative writing department for the first time ! Leon Potter 's THEA 205 acting class & Craig Taylors Crew 241 - Script writing for the Stage come together for 3 combined classes that filled our lobby with a crazy combination of stories about Creepy first dates, what happens if you are abducted by a UFO ??? and who goes to a funeral to find a date ... Thank you to everyone involved !

We are throwing 2 of our new first years (Kat Kohut & Rowan O'Callaghan) into the conversation about what are some fo the relationships between artists and social advocacy. VIU's very own Sonnet L'Abbe from the english departments helps us unpack this conversation along side Nicolle Nattrass, Kat & Rowan.

For the 2022 Holiday season our 2nd year students wanted to present Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol (Abridged). We hope everyone has had a fantastic term and we look forward to 2023..

This is our first opportunity to say happy pride month 2022 ! We hope to have an annual pride episode where we can explore what pride means to some of our up and coming emerging artists. Leon potter hosts a fabulous conversation with Gabrielle Marcolin, Annika Rambo, Darrian Gaetz and Adrien Kennedy.

Today we are delving into a discussion about neurodiverse theatre. Sean Enns who talks about his creative process when developing scripts, Connor Runnings newest play which features Neurodiverse characters is headed over to Revolverfest at the Cultch theatre. Charlie Lincoln discusses what it's like to work with the scripts and Eliza Gardiner discusses what Inclusive theatre means to her as she gets prepared to head off to Greece for some field research.

Julianna Rostas and Emma McCullough welcomes 2 newcomers to the class Dustin Winkler and Paul Brodmann who are joining us for the term all the way from Germany. We talk about what's different and more importantly what's the same!