Urban Shaman features female Aboriginal artists
“Representation” has been a media buzzword recently, with people becoming more aware of how little Aboriginal women are depicted in movies, television, and art. Urban…
Arts & Culture
Accessing art
The arts aren’t always accessible for people with disabilities. Sometimes audience members can’t see a play because of flights of stairs. Other times, artwork is…
The Dude Abides
Put on your favourite Creedence tape, tie up your bowling shoes, and starting mixing up some White Russians: Lebowskipalooza, an event based around the 90s…
Wall-to-Wall West Broadway art
Synonym Art Consultation is hosting a five-day mural and culture festival called Wall-to-Wall, beginning Sept. 23. With murals, music, and food, the local arts initiative…
Send + receive = inventive + singular
If you’d rather listen to diverse, eclectic music than hear the same mainstream music playing on today’s top radio stations, take a chance on send…
Hearing Trees’ debut EP
The four-piece rock group Hearing Trees recently debuted their self-titled EP. The band is made up of Graham Hnatiuk singing vocals, Ava Glendinning on guitar,…
Going Home Star – Truth and Reconciliation explores legacy of residential schools
It’s hard to imagine how the carefully choreographed pirouettes and pliés of a ballet might be used to explore the generational traumas experienced by Canada’s…
Cover to cover with Carlyn
Joe is a 30-something New Yorker searching for meaning in his life beyond the falsity of his copywriting career. So much so that when he…
Review: Black Rock, by John McFetridge
Whiney teenage girls. Strippers. Hippy college students who are political around men and flirty when alone. Dead women. Black Rock by John McFetridge is packed…
Miriam Toews and her Puny Sorrows
Award-winning author Miriam Toews is making her way back to Winnipeg to take part in Thin Air, the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. Toews will be…