Mindful migrations
Birds — you know them. You might have even seen a few. But have you ever taken a closer look? One campus group has been…
Maggie A. Clark
Reconnecting families through storytelling
To a young child, picture books can instill a lifelong love of reading. But for many families, the incarceration of a parent can interfere with…
Back-to-school tunes for the 2024-25 academic year
The start of a school year is an excellent time to listen to new music. This is, of course, because every day of the year…
The “right side of history” does not yet exist
Shortly before the Nazi invasion of France forced him to flee Paris in May 1940, the German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin wrote a harrowing essay that…
Island Falls is real and we all live there
Hoping to do some light reading at Folk Fest, I brought Island Falls along with me. Though I finished it over the course of an…
“State-of-the-art” music hall to open on campus
Three years after its construction commenced, a new music venue is about to open its doors to the public for the first time. The Desautels…
“My medicine is making art”
Acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Lita Fontaine (Mikinaak Ikwe) premiered a long-awaited solo show at Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG)-Qaumajuq earlier this month. Fontaine is a 1997 graduate…
“Outsider” art in the gallery
Pride month may be over, but a new exhibition of 2SLGBTQIA+ art has begun at aceartinc. Curated by James Turowski, QUEERiosities: A Queerious Art Exhibition…
A “New Hope” for language revitalization
A short time from now in a galaxy very close to home, a new version of Star Wars will debut at the Centennial Concert Hall….
Wilfred Buck: from stargazer to screen star
The “star guy” has become a movie star. Hailing from Opaskwayak Cree Nation (OCN), Wilfred Buck — a U of M graduate — works for…