Posted on Friday, May 25th, 2018
When Catherine Beddall graduated from Algonquin in 1998, she didn’t know she’d be coming back. And when she came back in 2011, she didn’t know she’d be staying.
The College gave Beddall the means to shape one career — as a graphic designer — and then opportunity to follow two more — as a pastry chef and a teacher. Read more >
Posted on Tuesday, May 8th, 2018
Stefan Jenkins was just a kid when he realized his love of hairstyling was a permanent condition that would give him more bangs for his buck. No teasing.
“I always used to play with doll heads or my friends’ (hair), constantly braiding my friends’ hair or pretending to play hair salon,” he says. “I always wanted to be doing things to my own hair.” Read more >
Posted on Monday, April 30th, 2018
Whatever the future brings in their musical careers, Jamie Fine and Elijah Woods will always remember Algonquin College.
Since graduating nearly four years ago, the two alumni, both in their early 20s, have acquired a growing reputation for their music-making talents. In January, after winning an episode of CTV’s The Launch, their musical careers leaped to another level.
It all goes back to a fateful day in 2014, when Woods – then a student in the College’s music industry arts program – heard a classmate’s smartphone recording of Fine’s voice. Her singing so impressed him that he immediately tracked her down. “I was just blown away. I was like, ‘Why don’t I know her?’”