Arts & Culture

A pinhole to the past

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Alison Holliday
 Vanessa Warne, associate professor in the department of English, theatre, film and media and co-organizer of the Crafting Communities project, taught her ENGL 2140 Literature of the Victorian Period students how to take apart...
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Shakespeare as flashy high fashion fun

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Alison Holliday
When Katrina Dunn, assistant professor in the University of Manitoba theatre program, asks her students to raise their hands if they love, hate or don’t care about Shakespeare, “most people hate it.” Dunn admits that...
Arts & Culture

Surrender to the story of Rise, Red River

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Alison Holliday
When Calgary-based playwright Tara Beagan was first approached by artistic director of Prairie Theatre Exchange (PTE), Thomas Morgan Jones, to write a play about climate change, she found herself struck by the image of...
Arts & Culture

Opening The Artalogue

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Alison Holliday
Sometimes failure closes doors, and other times it starts podcasts. A year after leaving a tech startup job to dedicate her career to art, Madison Beale, a U of M student studying art history, realized...
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Upcoming writing group seeks to build community

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Alison Holliday
 The University of Manitoba campuses are wide, sprawling and sometimes inhospitable. For students looking for connections, either in scholarly or creative environments, options for socializing are limited to what is provided by other students who...
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‘La Vie Boheme’ of the musical theatre ensemble

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Alison Holliday
 The musical theatre ensemble is one of many ensembles tucked away in the practice rooms of the Taché Arts Project.  The course is open to auditions from any student who wants to learn to sing,...
Arts & Culture

Building a love of reading one shelf at a time

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Alison Holliday
To celebrate “I Love to Read Month” with arts students, ASBC has set up a new community library bookshelf in the Arts Lounge, located on the second floor of the Fletcher Argue building. The...
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