Arts & Culture
U of M fine arts students present Voluntary Withdrawal
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Graffiti Gallery unveiled Voluntary Withdrawal on June 19, displaying pieces by seven U of M BFA honours graduates. This year’s edition of the annual exhibition features interactive sculptures, photography and found objects to explore...
Liv Valmestad exhibits Ma(r)king Space in Dafoe Library
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U of M art librarian and artist Liv Valmestad concluded her exhibition Ma(r)king Space last week at the Dr. Paul H. T. Thorlakson Gallery on the third floor of the Elizabeth Dafoe Library. Using...
The many homes of The Sheepdogs
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Canadian roots rock band The Sheepdogs released their eighth studio album, Keep Out of the Storm, in late February. The band began a Canadian tour in March and will perform in Winnipeg on April...
Songs of surviving cancer
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Local musician Tired Cossack released his latest album on March 26. The title, Zima, is the Ukrainian word for “winter,” matching the album’s cold Eastern European style of post-punk as well as the larger...
RMTC’s The Last Wife a moving take on royal history
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One can remember King Henry VIII’s wives with the rhyme, “Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived,” based on their ultimate fates. However, many would not be able to state anything else about the “survivor,”...
Met School students build community through theatre
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Winnipeg may not have the biggest theatre scene, but that did not stop these high school students from building a community around it. Nearly at the center of it all is Marley Passante, a...
A day in the life of Agatha Bock
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For many Winnipeggers, life without cell phones, internet access or even running water is practically unfathomable, but this is how Agatha Bock lives on her 54-acre farm in rural southern Manitoba.Â
Agatha’s Almanac, a documentary...







