Arts & Culture
Island Falls is real and we all live there
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Hoping to do some light reading at Folk Fest, I brought Island Falls along with me.
Though I finished it over the course of an afternoon, I was left stunned. Its 122 pages and frequent...
“State-of-the-art” music hall to open on campus
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Three years after its construction commenced, a new music venue is about to open its doors to the public for the first time.
The Desautels Concert Hall will hold its grand opening on Sept. 5....
“My medicine is making art”
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Acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Lita Fontaine (Mikinaak Ikwe) premiered a long-awaited solo show at Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG)-Qaumajuq earlier this month.
Fontaine is a 1997 graduate of the U of M’s school of art program and...
“Outsider” art in the gallery
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Pride month may be over, but a new exhibition of 2SLGBTQIA+ art has begun at aceartinc.
Curated by James Turowski, QUEERiosities: A Queerious Art Exhibition opened on July 5 and showcases the work of 20...
A “New Hope” for language revitalization
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A short time from now in a galaxy very close to home, a new version of Star Wars will debut at the Centennial Concert Hall.
Nearly half a century since its original release, the first...
Wilfred Buck: from stargazer to screen star
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The “star guy” has become a movie star.
Hailing from Opaskwayak Cree Nation (OCN), Wilfred Buck — a U of M graduate — works for the Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre as a science...
Encouraging “ecological empathy”
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As you walk into a darkened room, you are greeted with the sound of dripping water — at first slow and delicate, then increasingly insistent and dissonant.
It is not raining, nor has the roof...







