Arts & Culture

From live-action remakes, to streaming services like Crunchyroll and old-fashioned bootlegs, anime’s continually growing influence on pop culture makes the case that Japanese animation is not quite the niche interest it once was. The potential...

Creating music, touring and exposing oneself to the world — these things are rarely easy. But for the members of New Wales, forming a new band with a combined century of music-industry experience between...

Whether or not we really are blindly hurtling toward the apocalypse, these can feel like dark and scary times. The naively imagined bounty of politically-driven protest art that was supposed be born from fascism’s...

Marking the 100th anniversary of the Winnipeg General Strike, Winnipeg playwright and composer Danny Schur’s adaptation of his popular musical Strike! will hit screens nationwide Nov. 29 as Stand! the motion picture. Shot entirely in...

Canada's oldest and longest running contemporary dance company, Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers (WCD), will debut their all-Winnipeg talent show Actualize on Nov. 29. As part of its 55th season, WCD artistic director Jolene Bailie hopes to...

The album art for Poesy’s debut EP, Glass Box Confessional, immediately recalls the cover of Tori Amos’s Little Earthquakes — a young artist contained, trapped and on display. But the music found within this brief...

While some may believe animation is an art form left to either children or anime fans, the reality is making film using drawn or created imagery has great potential for artistic expression. U of M...