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Open Houses! Housekeeping! Arts and Culture!
Open Houses! Housekeeping! Arts and Culture!
Summers come and go, but Arts and Culture is forever
The new school year is less than 24 hours away, but that means the party is just getting started in Arts and Culture! If this is your first pitch email, my name is Tom and I'm The Gateway's 2020-21 Arts and Culture Editor. The pitch email is where we send out our regular columns and stories that might be worth covering for the site. Although we have all those things in this week's email, there's also some important housekeeping I want to take care of.First of all, if you'd like to get to know The Gateway a little better, now is the time to do it! On Tuesday, September 8th we'll be having a virtual open house where you can meet our staff and get more in-depth information about the magazine and the site. You can RSVP through Facebook here, or through our website here.You can also talk to us anytime this week from 10am - 4pm at the Virtual Clubs Fair, which you can access here. Once you sign-in for a particular day, just search for "Gateway Student Newspaper," select "Meet Online," and you'll be able to chat with one of our staff members about what to expect at The Gateway. If you'd like to talk to me specifically, I'll be online Thursday, September 3rd from 10am - 11am and Friday, September 4th from 10am - 11am. Lastly, if you want to keep up with what's going on at The Gateway, let me know and I can add you to our Volunteer Slack channel. That's where we send our more informal communications, and it's a great way to stay in the loop if you want to be a regular volunteer. Also make sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram (links are in the email header), and we also now have a TikTok (ooooh, aaaah), which is @thegatewaynews. As usual, we have our recurring columns, and if you have a pitch of your own send it my way at [email protected].And now, as always, the recurring columns:
*NEW* The Hobby Hole: Tell us about any unique hobbies you have or give a fresh take on an old favourite. It could be a passion project or an activity you do when you want to lay back, unplug your brain and watch the hours fly by.
*NEW* Paddling up the Livestream: Wax lyrical about your favourite livestreams, put us onto some hidden-away gems, or give your hot-takes on livestream culture!
*NEW* The First Time: Try something totally new and write about your experience. It could be a cuisine you’ve heard great things about, an unfamiliar type of music or an activity that you've never tried before. Tell us about it all from the POV of a complete novice.
*NEW* Dream Team: Write about your ultimate dream collab! It might be a Stephen King children’s books series or a Billie Eilish x Tyler, the Creator supergroup. Tell us what makes your dream team such a gamechanger.
Gateway to Gastronomy: Know any fun and easy to follow recipes? Share it in this recurring segment.
Exploring Edmonton: Do you know any cool places around Edmonton that people should visit? Write about them in this new series!
Lunch Break: An Arts & Culture series where we share fun recipes with humorous commentary. It's wholesome and lowkey, so check it out and send an installment over!
Brew Crew/Vino Bitches: A fun, short review of your favourite (or not-so-favourite) beers, wines, or other alcoholic beverages of choice.
Noodle Nation: Who loves noodles? You (might) love noodles! Write a column on your favourite noodles or noodle haunts.
Pot Thots: Write about your favourite strains, equipment, dispensaries, and more in our column on the world of legal weed.
Eating Edmonton: Write about your favourite (or not-so-favourite) local haunts in this miscellaneous foodie column. A great way to spotlight local restaurants in a time when they really need it!
DatApp: Have an app that’s been a gamechanger? Wax eloquently about it (or a few of your favourites) in this column.
Top 5: Top 5 streaming shows, places to cry in public, work-from-home tips...you name it, you can write a Top 5 on it!
Diss Track: Are there 3-4 songs that grind your gears in the worst way possible? Diss the crap out of them in this column.
Doin’ You: Everyone has something they do exceptionally well. Wanna teach others your wizardry? Walk us step-by-step through the process of a master for this column.
Playlists: Have killer musical taste? Share it on The Gateway with a curated playlist.
Retro on Retro: Is some classic piece of media on your mind? Reflect on it with the distance of time in this column. Discuss the qualities, staying power, and impact of your favourite old movie, video game, album, book, play, or whatever else!
Double Take: Love spitting fire-hot takes on pop culture? You and a friend (or foe) can team up to write opposing takes on some piece of art/entertainment/media.
...AND MORE! I'm always open to any pitches you might have for me!
The Fine Arts Building Gallery is opening its doors for the 2020-2021 season!
The Fine Arts Building Gallery is opening it's 2020-2021 season with exhibitions from Masters of Fine Arts candidates Selene Huff (sculpture) and Daniel Evans
(printmaking). Huff's exhibition is titled
Formed,
and it is a series of sculptures exploring the process of translating formal systems of composition into moving meditations. Evans' exhibition
Littoral
is described as "a speculative world-ing; a re-imagining of data visualization through the lens of folklore."
The exhibitions run from September 1-26 and can be viewed in-person by appointment only; you can plan your visit
. If you'd like to review the exhibitions and interview Huff and Evans, let me know and I can put you in contact with them.
6th Annual India Film Festival of Alberta kicks off on September 1!
The India Film Festival is a celebration of award-winning and independent Indian films, and this year the festival will be moving online and to drive-ins across the province. The festival runs from September 1-30, with three free drive-in screenings in Edmonton —
MS Dhoni
(Sep. 4),
Bahuubali 1
(Sep. 5), and
Amar Akbar Anthony
(Sep. 6). You can get more information about the festival
. If you'd like to interview the organizers and preview the festival or even attend one of the drive-ins and write about your experience, let me know!
University of Alberta family science professor Adam Galovan is a co-author on recently published research that found a link between technology use and dissatisfaction within romantic relationships. You can read about the research
. If you'd like to interview Galovan about the article and get his thoughts on all things relationships and tech, let me know!
Show us your Fall 2020 workspace
With Fall 2020 set to be mostly online, this upcoming semester is going to happen in thousands of classrooms all over the world — so take us into yours! Ideally we'll be able to include several submissions in this piece, so no need to feel like it's all on you. All we ask for is 2-4 high-quality pictures of your workspace, and a short 50-100 word blurb about what makes it so special. Also your workspace doesn't need to be fancy or shiny, all that matters is that it's yours! Let me know if you're interested in submitting for this piece.