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Celebrate Folklorama your way, any day, in a safe way

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Shaylyn Maharaj-Poliah
Over the last 50 years, Folklorama has become the longest-running and largest annual multicultural festival of its kind in the world. With the cancellation of major summer festivals in Manitoba to abide by COVID-19...
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Silver Clouds — ‘Silver Clouds,’ 4/5

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Kaelen Bell
The artwork for the debut record from Silver Clouds — with its splattered psychedelia and tossed-off lemon slice — recalls immediately the cover of the Stone Roses’s 1989 debut, another self-titled album that made...
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U of M alum honoured at Indigenous awards ceremony

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Shaylyn Maharaj-Poliah
This past June, Indspire — an Indigenous-run charity that focuses on funding the education of Métis, Inuit and First Nations peoples across Canada — broadcasted their 27th annual event, the Indspire Awards. Indspire is an...
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Indie film amplifies voice for mental health awareness

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Dominique Wightman
While mainstream cinema has a history of stigmatizing mental illness, Calgary, Alta. filmmaker Paul J. Chinook, promises a progressive contribution to mental health discourse. February’s Dog, Chinook’s upcoming directorial debut, provides an intimate character study...
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Winnipeg’s annual summer theatre festival will go on

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Shaylyn Maharaj-Poliah
A summer in Winnipeg is rarely complete without a visit to the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival. In years past, patrons could take in a show, check out the free entertainment in Old Market Square, visit...
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Come home to the WAG again

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Zoë LeBrun
To the joy of many local art lovers, the Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) officially reopened May 5 in the wake of COVID-19. Apart from its first two days of opening which were reserved for frontline...
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Stranger things have happened, and we want more

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Zoë LeBrun
Bold, bright and colourful — these are the words that best describe the energy emanating from the work of Winnipeg Oji-Cree artist Jordan Stranger. Originally from Peguis First Nation, Stranger was born into an artistic...

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