Victoria’s Experimental Music Unit — Paul Walde, Tina Pearson and George Tzanetakis — collaborating with Camille Norment, an American-Norwegian artist, are presenting to audiences in Victoria and Vancouver a performance called Songs for Glass Island. Equal parts experimental music and sound art, Songs for Glass Island will see the four performers surrounded by, and interacting with, a sprawling assortment of glass objects and instruments —some of which were devised by the musicians themselves.

When Montreal illustrator Julie Delporte saw the nominee list for this year’s Grand Prix D’Angoulême — one of the most prestigious lifetime achievement awards in the comic book world — she was incredulous. The previous year’s list was short on female nominees, so Delporte had hoped the prize would take an opportunity to be more inclusive. She was wrong: this year’s list was exclusively male.

The Dopamine Collective — a group of scientist with artistic inclinations — pushes against the limits of what you could reasonably consider an art collective.