Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

Local exhibit explores healing power of creativity

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Zachary Sigurdson
Art and music have been creative outlets for Lou Valcourt her entire life. Starting to draw as a young girl, Valcourt’s love of art propelled her to pursue a degree in Fine Arts. The U...
Arts & Culture

Prairie singer-songwriter sets sights on horizon

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Kaelen Bell
Though he shares a name with his hometown, Siegs Corner, Cohen Sieg’s sights are set far beyond the fields of rural Manitoba. Sieg described himself as “a young singer-songwriter who writes music that really anyone...
Ally Gonzalo
Arts & Culture

Plenty of laughs for a good cause

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Zachary Sigurdson
Last September, three comedians toured Western Canada, raising money for various charities and offering feel-good vibes. Now, on its second run, The Human Condition Comedy Tour — featuring comedians Scott Belford, Adam Mac and...
Arts & Culture

The best is yet to come for the Blue Stones

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Kaelen Bell
As drummer Justin Tessier tells it, his band is only just beginning to find its sound. Since independently releasing a series of EPs and a debut album — 2015’s Black Holes — the Blue Stones...
Arts & Culture

‘Reef Rescue’ doc details oceanic crisis, possible recovery

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Grace Anne Paizen
The seriousness of the documentary’s subject matter is emphasized by the opening’s intense orchestral music. Reef Rescue, the latest documentary from The Nature of Things, debuting March 6 on CBC, feels like marine biologists’ final...
Arts & Culture

Synonym Art Consultation starts something new

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Grace Anne Paizen
Seven years ago, Chloe Chafe and Andrew Eastman co-founded Synonym Art Consultation to make art more accessible and to break down the barriers of what art institutions could be. Originally curating exhibits in restaurants and...
Arts & Culture

Between racial stereotypes and a hard place

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Shaylyn Maharaj-Poliah
For a play that hopes to perpetuate the cultural mosaic myth, the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre’s production of Mark Crawford’s The New Canadian Curling Club curls in the wrong direction. The play follows a group...

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