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Our city’s still breathing

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Sabrina Carnevale
The title of the event couldn’t have been more “Winnipeg” in theme: “My City’s Still Breathing” — taken from the Weakerthans’ song “Left and Leaving”: “My city’s still breathing (but barely it’s true) through...
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Representing the folk out of Canada

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Benjamin Miller
The upcoming Canadian Folk Music Awards, taking place this weekend, will bring musicians from across Canada as nominees in 19 different categories such as “Traditional Singer of the Year,” “Aboriginal Artist of the Year”...
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See it, receive it

By
Ryan Simmons
Sound art: what’s that? Whether you know or not, send + receive’s director crys cole believes, “Some people have an idea that since they may not know much about sound art, or s +...
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Chronicles of Mezzezeh

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Vaughan Eigbire-Molen
1,000 B.C. Mezzezeh woke up to the buzzing alarm of the mosquitoes dancing by his ears. Lethargically, he rolled off his bed. Today he didn’t feel like a kata: a ruler of the highest worship...
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Wintersleep never sleeps

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Leif Larsen
Wintersleep broke out in 2007 with the release of Welcome to the Night Sky, their third studio album. Currently on tour promoting their fourth album, 2010’s New Inheritors, Jon Samuel — a member of...
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Revisiting Carolee Schneemann

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Guillerme Booth
Last February I attended a lecture on the rise of feminist art at Video Pool as part of Oliver Botar’s contemporary art history class. Among the films shown was Carolee Schneemann’s 1964 performance Meat...
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Experiencing the Terrain

By
David Jackson
Sweetgrass Directed by: Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor Opening on Nov. 12 ★★★ out of 5 After viewing the documentary Sweetgrass, the end credits explain what was just depicted: a 300 kilometre sheep-herding expedition through rural Montana....

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