Month: February 2014
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BRANDON, MB – A chorale ensemble from Brandon University (BU) School of Music is en route to the Baltic countries of Latvia and Estonia, for a cross-cultural musical sharing with some of those countries’ most respected choir performers and conductors. The BU Chorale will also perform in historically significant venues, including the Niguliste Museum Concert Hall and Riga’s famed Cathedral, which both date back to the 13th century, and Estonia’s oldest and largest university, established in Tartu in 1632.
BRANDON, MB – Danbi Lee is carefully stitching together pieces of leather to make her own pair of moccasins, in a workshop on cultural awareness at Brandon University (BU). She aspires to be a banker and has travelled to Canada from her home in Jeonju, South Korea, to improve her language skills in BU’s English for Academic Purposes program (EAP)
Danbi Lee and Raj Vuth, EAP students
“Brandon is terribly cold,” she laughs, “but a good place to learn English because there aren’t many other Koreans here, so I am really using my new language skills.