By Allie Quigley For my Stretch Experience, I worked with the Edmonton City as Museum Project (ECAMP), a branch of the Edmonton Heritage Council. As a history honours student who primarily studies the history of fashion and material culture in colonial America, I was intrigued by the opportunity to study history in a local context. […]
By Geoff McMaster for Folio When Lan Truong entered a local beauty pageant during high school, nothing about it felt right. While the event was organized for charity-one Truong would rather not mention-the purpose of the contest for the girls themselves was never made clear. Points were awarded for spurious attributes such as social media […]
By Salma Ibrahim Since her much-anticipated online, feature-length publication is not yet released to the public, she shares her latest report here, depicted in a cartoon format that aligns with the project’s creativity. We hope to share the final project when it’s published! Salma’s Stretch Experience was a creative writing endeavour dedicated to engaging difference. […]
Christy Kan I remember… my first day in Canada: fresh air, blue skies, neverending prairies, and the scent of freshly cut grass. It was a beautiful summer day in Edmonton and in the eyes of five year-old me who had newly immigrated from Hong Kong to Canada, I was absolutely elated to be in a […]
Hello! My name is Xiaoyu Jin. My stretch experience starts at TusStar, which is one of the largest business incubators in China. What is TusStar? What does business incubator do? TusStar is the leading university science park incubator in China. Its holding company is owned by Tsinghua University. TusStar helps startups and scaleups to develop […]
By: John Chmilar We have all heard about the student who went abroad for a semester and came back and tells stories about how it “totally changed their life”. It happens because of all the problems you face! The first thing I realized upon arriving in France is that my French is nowhere near as […]
When I was 19 I took a semester off and traveled Southeast Asia completely and utterly alone. I was stretched, questioned everything, and saw the most breathtaking sunsets you could ever imagine. When you initially compare staying in a Buddhist Monastery to sitting at a desk all day for the summer, you’d probably think “How […]
A Blog Post by Tanisha Kotowich In conjunction with the documentary “Tanisha Takes Ukraine“ In front of you stands a stout man, totaling five feet ten inches; he is as wide as he is tall. The sweat on his face accumulates as rapidly as the Ukrainian words spilling from his mouth. You, with no […]
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