2024-2025

Moon & Sun

Moon & Sun

I am the moon and you are the sun. I always follow, yet I never stay. I leave, yet I always wait. I linger in your shadow, desiring a pause of your gaze, but you see others before me. Every day is a sorrow, scars reflecting my pain, the lights fading away. My size increasingly decreasing in your heart’s expanding, how could I stop? Is it bad to want love, dear? With time, will you forget me? I wish not to exist, cease this unbearable pain. I am lost in delusions, visions of you and me. You never let others…
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Art for Change, Hope for All: CollaborArt Raises Over $1,000 for Breast Cancer Awareness

Art for Change, Hope for All: CollaborArt Raises Over $1,000 for Breast Cancer Awareness

On the 22nd and 24th of October, Daylight, a female-led nonprofit, organized CollaborArt, an art sale fundraiser to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Held at CEGEP Champlain St. Lawrence, the event drew large crowds and made a significant impact on the community by combining creativity with education on breast cancer. Daylight, founded by a passionate student, strives to empower women through various initiatives. CollaborArt brought together key campus partners, including the Health & Wellness Club, LGBTQ+ Club, and Arts & Crafts Club. Volunteers donned pink—the symbolic colour of breast cancer awareness—and the event was also funded by the St. Lawrence…
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Africa: The Cradle of Humanity

Africa: The Cradle of Humanity

In Africa’s cradle, beneath endless skies,Lucy rose where the first light lies.Her ancient bones, a timeless key,Unlock the roots of you and me. . From Africa’s heart, our journey began,Dreams carried by woman and man.Through mountains crossed and oceans wide,We lit the spark, side by side. . Though borders rose and hate divides,Our shared beginnings never hide.The same first breath, the same first star,No walls too high, no place too far. . Alone, we go faster; together, we thrive.In unity’s warmth, humanity’s alive.Let love and peace guide what we do,For we are many—and yet, we are one, too. Links: Lucy’s…
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Held together by a Thread

Held together by a Thread

Trigger warning: Dark topic Continuation of Midnight Walk His patience was held by a thread because this morning, he woke up to a cold, empty bed. It had been cold for some time. He usually woke up before her, to go work outside, while this morning she might as well not have slept at all. All of this is because of a little fight the night before. It had been the sun that awoke him—meaning she had not awakened him in time and he would have to do many chores way faster than usual. She hadn’t been there for hours.…
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Away

Away

Time is not the same, Why am I pretending, To forget the pain, Would you even? . I see you everywhere, I cannot look at myself, For I hear your voice, Why did you leave me behind? . There is a bittersweet taste, In how things used to be, You left a space in my life,  It will forever be empty. . I knew your pain, Yet I could not imagine, How this cruel world,  Could take you from me, . Where did you go, Please tell me so, I cannot breathe, Without your presence here, . Burying my feelings,…
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Our Panem et Circenses

Our Panem et Circenses

The original trilogy of The Hunger Games presented a deadly annual show in which twenty-four kids of the districts are forced to fight to the death by the game makers of the Capitol. This event is known as the Hunger Games. The last kid standing is allowed to go back to their district with love and money from the Capitol, although the games never really end, as seen later in the books. During the day where the kids are picked from the crowd, the Reaping day, of the 74th games, Katniss, the protagonist, sacrifices herself for her sister, which is…
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The Day of the Dead, a Tradition to be Remembered

The Day of the Dead, a Tradition to be Remembered

   This holiday is an old one that originates from a mix of old Mesoamerican and European traditions, a blend of many different old celebrations. Some of those come from the old beliefs of how souls travelled to the afterlife, though its origins lead to how it is observed to this day.              Traditionally the Day of the Dead, Dìa de los Muertos in Spanish, is celebrated on the 1­st and 2nd of November, the main celebration being on the 2nd. While this still reigns true in most places today, some choose to celebrate on the 31st of October, or for only…
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Symbols of Remembrance

Symbols of Remembrance

Many of us, having lived in Canada all their lives, find the poppy to be inextricably linked to remembrance, notably of WWI military losses. We may be unfamiliar with its history, and even more unfamiliar with other flowers that serve the same purpose abroad. Poppies have started being worn and offered on October 25, and this will continue until Remembrance Day. Remembrance Day is on November 11; it commemorates the WWI armistice. The Commonwealth and the USA             The history of the poppy starts with poppy fields. Before the Great War, poppies did not grow much in the Flanders region.…
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CollaborArt: A Celebration of Strength – Art for Change, Hope for All!

CollaborArt: A Celebration of Strength – Art for Change, Hope for All!

CEGEP Champlain St. Lawrence is set to host a vibrant and unique fundraising event this October: CollaborArt: A Celebration of Strength. Organized by Daylight Canada, a female-led non-profit advocating for women’s empowerment, the event is a powerful blend of creativity, community, and activism. Collaborating with the college’s Health & Wellness, LGBTQ+, and Arts & Crafts clubs, this two-day art sale brings together talented female and non-binary artists to support a meaningful cause—the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation (Fondation Cancer du Sein du Québec). Art for Empowerment At its core, CollaborArt is about empowerment through art. The event aims to raise breast…
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Midnight Walk

Midnight Walk

Trigger warnings Dark subjectsMention of fear, blood, getting lost, death.Potential implications of other dark subjects based on interpretationRead at your own discretion Midnight Walk When the girl was no older than a child, she used to know this place like the palm of her hand; but that all changed some time ago. She did not know how much. She could not come here as often, and only during night time. The path she once knew was replaced by trees blocking her way; the flowers which she used to water everyday were nowhere to be seen; thorns were now griping to…
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