Arts & Culture

Ally Gonzalo captures Winnipeg’s Filipino queer community in latest portrait series

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Zachary Sigurdson
Ally Gonzalo brings boldness and beauty in Bakla!, his latest portrait series. Gonzalo is now a Winnipeg-based professional photographer, but he got his start back in the Philippines. While on a field trip during his fourth...
Ally Gonzalo
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Local YA fantasy author S. M. Beiko launches ‘The Brilliant Dark’...

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Zachary Sigurdson
A locally-made epic trilogy will come to an end this month. The Brilliant Dark, S. M. Beiko’s final instalment of The Realms of Ancient trilogy, launches Sept. 25. Beiko is a Winnipeg fantasy author, comic creator,...
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Begonia’s in bloom

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Zachary Sigurdson
Local music icon Alexa Dirks, known onstage as Begonia, is between filming music videos and a busy tour schedule. She is also releasing her first full-length album, Fear, Sept. 13.
Buio Assis
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Festival blankets the city with creativity

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Zachary Sigurdson
Winnipeg’s sixth annual Wall-to-Wall Mural & Culture Festival — run by Synonym Art Consultation in collaboration with Graffiti Art Programming Inc. — runs throughout September.
Quincy Houdayer
Arts & Culture

A journey into the taboo

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Zachary Sigurdson
Is this what the 1960s felt like? That was my first thought when entering The Park Theatre on Aug. 25 for the Sacred Sexual Music Festival. A kirtan, a type of ancient Indian chant, was...
Mandee George
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A new cinematic world in small town Manitoba

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Zachary Sigurdson
Although I grew up and live in Winnipeg, Gimli is my second home. Summertime, to me, means regular trips to Gimli for evenings on the boardwalk, nights at Brennivins, Ship & Plough Tavern or the...
Arts & Culture

A decade of fantasy and superheroes

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Zachary Sigurdson
Every decade is defined by certain cultural elements.
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