I’d like to thank the readers, our contributors, my associate editors Sofia Moniz and Chris Zdravko, and The Varsity’s editors at large who gave their time and energy to the Arts & Culture section this year. Thank you for gifting this section and The Varsity with your luxurious, curious, and deliciously furious minds.
In an age of mechanical reproduction, as the spectre of a future dominated by artificial intelligence draws close, writers, artists, academics, and lovers of beauty must take on the task of defending the rigour and ritual magic of our craft: our ‘aura.’
Over this past year, I have been most blessed by contributors who fearlessly wrestled with their work in the production process, defended their voices, and took the initiative to find stories where they happened, as they happened. Thank you for writing pieces that struck us — even bruised us — and carried enough power to make us want to get up and do something.
In the grand picture, our cultural and academic community at U of T is not as big as it looks. Being allowed to represent what we do and think in the arts and humanities, and how we do and think it is no small assignment either. Thank you for making this great heap of work the greatest joy!
— Jonathan Divine Angubua, Arts & Culture Editor, Volume CXLV
