Arts & Culture
A review of Hal Harley’s The Unbelievable Truth
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Last week, Dave Barber Cinematheque screened the 1989 dark romantic comedy The Unbelievable Truth, directed by American filmmaker Hal Hartley. The first film in Hartley’s Long Island Trilogy, The Unbelievable Truth is a bizarre...
Arts and culture sector earns $1.75 billion for Manitoba
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The Manitoba Arts Council held their annual public meeting on Oct. 20 and released a report on the arts and culture sector’s financial impact in Manitoba, primarily using data from 2023.
The figure came from...
The Trews release eighth album The Bloody Light
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Formed in Antigonish, Nova Scotia and based in Ontario, Canadian rock band The Trews has been together for over two decades.
John-Angus MacDonald, the group’s lead guitarist, quipped, “Now we’re going into ancient history, we’ve...
The Long Walk as gut-wrenching on screen as on paper
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After languishing in development hell since 1988, Stephen King’s 1979 dystopian novel The Long Walk has finally made it to the big screen – and it was well worth the wait.
Directed and produced by...
School of Art Gallery wraps up Visiting Curator Program
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The U of M’s School of Art Gallery invited two emerging curators in 2021, Lillian O’Brien Davis and Shalaka Jadhav, to create exhibitions and receive mentorship from Grace Deveney, an associate curator of photography...
Kiran Sran presents solo art exhibition at U of M
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Kiran Sran, a third-year fine arts student, unveiled her solo exhibition Belonging and Heritage at the School of Art Student Gallery last week.
For many, the ideas of belonging and heritage might conjure ideas of...
Untangling the value of theory and literature
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The U of M welcomed Garry Sherbert on campus to present a lecture on Oct. 8 as part of a conference sponsored by Mosaic, an interdisciplinary journal on literature and theory founded at U...
