Arts & Culture
S.P.E.A.K up
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As the semester kicks into full gear, the workload that comes with being a student becomes overbearing and we begin to crave that extra motivation and inspiration to keep going. Student group UMNEXT hopes...
Taking it to heart
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Occupational therapist and University of Manitoba alumnus Ryan Montemurro always wanted to be involved in music. Inspired by The National’s charity compilations that raised funds for the Red Hot Organization, Montemurro set out to...
Spare Some Change
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Siloam Mission is organizing a creative initiative to tackle poverty and homelessness in the city. The organization has teamed up with the Winnipeg Film Group and Cinematheque to create a two-day film festival called...
Tokyo Police Club lights up Winnipeg
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On Sept. 27, Tokyo Police Club, Born Ruffians, and the Elwins tore up the Garrick Centre. The Elwins kicked off the show with a ton of energy as they performed and engaged the crowd...
Modern classic Thom Pain to be performed at Conklin Theatre
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From Sept. 29 to Oct. 2, the stage curtains at the University of Manitoba’s Conklin Theatre will open to an adaptation of Will Eno’s play Thom Pain (based on nothing).
The one-man play, which was...
The sound of writing
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This fall, the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture welcomes Canadian poet, writer, and sound and performance artist Steven Ross Smith as the centre’s writer-in-residence for the semester. In this...
Indie film shows small budget movies can deliver big scares
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In the already-long list of home invasion thrillers, Uruguayan writer/director Fede Alvarez, who helmed the 2013 remake of The Evil Dead, makes a new addition with the low-budget indie flick Don’t Breathe.
The format is...






