Arts & Culture

2SLGBTQIA+ students send their art ‘Outward’

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Jacob Davis
From March 27 to 31, Rainbow Pride Centre (RPC) collaborated with the School of Fine Arts Students Association (SOFASA) to create and curate Outward, a 2SLGBTQIA+ art exhibition showcasing queer art.  Alex Rana and Adhara...
Ebunoluwa Akinbo
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Celebrating our ancestors who are ‘Close to Home’

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Jacob Davis
Canadian Mennonite University’s MHC gallery hosted the opening of two new exhibits on March 10 that deep dive into the idea of home.  Writer and artist Margaret Shaw-MacKinnon is the creator of the exhibit Ukraine:...
Arts & Culture

Equity seeking students and the world of journalism

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Jacob Davis
Eternity Martis, an assistant professor at the Toronto Metropolitan University school of journalism and best-selling author, held a public lecture at the U of M on March 9. The talk discussed her 2020 memoir,...
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Reclaiming what it means to be ‘French Enough’

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Jacob Davis
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) kicked off Francophonie Month on March 1 by streaming Fransaskois singer-songwriter and filmmaker Alexis Normand’s 18-minute film French Enough. The film is set at Normand’s family cabin near...
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Festival du Voyageur as a first-timer

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Jacob Davis
Despite living in Winnipeg for nearly a decade, I had never attended Festival du Voyageur before this year, even with the high acclaim it has received from all my friends who were born and...
Ebunoluwa Akinbo
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Grief as love in ‘Heart Like a Pow Wow’

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Jacob Davis
A collection of animated shorts made by Indigenous creators was released on the free streaming service CBC Gem Jan. 27. How To Lose Everything is a five-episode series that explores loss. One of the shorts,...
Arts & Culture

’Toban tracks — Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?

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Jacob Davis
Romantic comedies are often considered the quintessential Valentine’s Day films.  Stories about couples meeting, falling in love, engaging in some shenanigans and finding their way to a happy ending. It’s a straightforward formula.  While this isn’t...
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