UBC film alum's The Second Set reveals Naomi Osaka's next chapter
Claire Donnan, the Ubyssey’s Arts and Culture Editor, on the making of UBC alum Kat Jayme's directorial feature, Naomi Osaka: The Second Set, and it's refreshing take on motherhood.
Claire Donnan
Arts & Culture Editor
A journalism graduate from the University of Ottawa - Algonquin College joint program, and masters student at the University of British Columbia. She is deeply passionate about news in all forms, especially national news, political reporting and sports. She has radio experience from working as a radio news presenter for CBC Newfoundland and Labrador and as a national news desk intern at The Globe & Mail. culture@ubyssey.ca
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Naomi Osaka balances sport and motherhood in The Second Set
Osaka holds seven career titles and spent 25 weeks as the No. 1 player in 2019. She’s an absolute beast — but Kat Jayme’s new documentary reveals a different side of the tennis star.
The uncertain future of Music Waste
This week, Sophie Clark speaks to Arts and Culture Editor Claire Donnan about Vancouver's 32nd iteration of Music Waste and the future of the independent music festival.
Music Waste’s ‘rebuilding year’ was a work-in-progress
The WISE Hall, an unassuming brown structure in a quiet area of East Van, was the new home of this year’s iteration of a long-standing independent music festival.
Seeing MOA’s newest exhibit with Haida Eyes
Behind the curtained-off entrance down one of the Museum of Anthropology’s long hallways, dozens of robes, beautifully designed, detail the life and history of a Haida woman and her family.
Cultures come together in SUBA Trio’s concert at the Chan
The audience hardly touched their chairs as they danced and clapped along to the SUBA trio’s Afro-Cuban-Venezulan jazz-fusion at the Chan Centre.
The real best picture is the one you watch with friends
I love movies. I enjoy nothing more than escaping into someone else’s story for a couple hours, leaving it feeling a little bit stronger, smarter, better somehow. With the Academy Awards coming up on March …
Let’s talk about (simulated) sex, baby
Your favourite actors may have good chemistry, but it’s more likely they have a great coordinator — someone who knows how to make things steamy without sacrificing the safety of everyone involved.
In the Room is a cautionary tale well told
In the Room details the stories of five Afghan women, each with their own experiences living under the rule of the Taliban.
UBC Theatre’s Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play is nostalgic, hilarious and timely
Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns, is, on the surface, about the Simpsons and the apocalypse: the show opens on survivors of a near-future environmental collapse (likely due to nuclear disaster) trying to recall the details of …
Exploring Tibet from within with MOA’s new exhibition
Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images is the Museum of Anthropology’s (MOA) newest exhibition, focusing on the historical and cultural identity of the area. This was done in an effort to push back against the inundation …
A Welcome Distraction is a local delight
A Welcome Distraction, part of the Vancouver International Film Festival’s “Northern Lights” lineup, is the story of Ernest Prinze “doing whatever he can to avoid his family.”
