Nelson Chen

Jan 24, 2025 | queensjournal.ca | Madison Taylor |Nelson Chen

Art binds people together. Growing Pains connects four artist’s perspectives on family, cultural identity, and community through various mediums of visual storytelling. Sumera Khan, Shamara Peart, MA ’23, Shanique Peart, and Alicia Udvari, BFA ’23, showcase and curate their works at the Union Gallery from Jan. 14 to Feb. 15 as well as the Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre from Jan. 18 to March 22.

Jan 21, 2025 | queensjournal.ca | Madison Taylor |Nelson Chen

A single plus room isn’t the be all, end all of first year at Queen’s. There’s much more to it than that. After I received my acceptance letter from Queen’s, I immediately began to wonder what my first-year living situation would look like. Some quick research and a few virtual room tours led me to believe I needed to end up in a single-plus. My first (of many) freshman year clichés were the tears following my random room selection time slot.

Jan 17, 2025 | queensjournal.ca | Madison Taylor |Nelson Chen

I was never supposed to be at Queen’s. I didn’t even apply. I was enrolled at Laurentian University in my hometown until they declared bankruptcy. I’ll never forget the spring day in Grade 12 when a family friend informed me, before I even opened Laurentian’s email, that the University had cut several programs, including mine, revoking my acceptance for the class of 2025. The news hit me hard.

Jan 17, 2025 | queensjournal.ca | Madison Taylor |Nelson Chen

Dedicated to bringing Chinese theatre to life in Kingston, Yu Theatre Society’s Snow in Midsummer: The Silence demonstrates the ability of corruption and injustice to silence the vulnerable. The Yu Theatre Society, a Queen’s University’s student-run theatre group, proudly presents their moving silent play, Snow in Midsummer: The Silence—an adaptation of the classical Chinese play written by Guan Hanqing. The show is running at the Baby Grand Theatre, Kingston Grand Theatre, from Jan. 13 to 18.

Nov 29, 2024 | queensjournal.ca | Madison Taylor |Nelson Chen

This Canadian film is bound to make you laugh, think, and possibly hurl Eva Sheahan November 29, 2024 Arts & Culture, Film Ushering in an imaginative era of Torontonian film and bound to be a Canadian cult classic, The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man reaches Kingston. Braden Sitter Sr.’s genre-defying film, The Pee Pee Poo Man, came to the Screening Room for one night only on Nov. 25, featuring an exclusive post-screening Q&A with director Sitter Sr. and lead actor, Spencer Rice.