Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

Siren songs for a frozen city

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Anastasia Chipelski
It’s long been inferred that the rich musical and cultural scenes in Winnipeg are a direct result of our cold, dark winters – as if we become a city of homebound hermits curling up...
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Local [Demo]Graphic

By
Lauren Siddall
Founded in Winnipeg, Synonym Art Consultation aims to make art more accessible to the general public. Their latest attempt is an exhibition entitled Graphic, installed at Fitzroy, a new Winnipeg restaurant located at 102...
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De-stigmatizing through creation

By
Lukas Thiessen
Detach the stigma associated with mental illness: for organizers and participating artists in an upcoming fundraiser, this is a core imperative. Starting Feb. 6 at 5 p.m., seven alumni from Artbeat Studio’s residency program...
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Ninjas, goddesses, industrial landscapes, and pop art

By
Lukas Thiessen
A powerful, crazed, manga ninja. A self-portrait eyeing handwritten pages of personal thought. A short video shot in the wilderness followed by one filmed in an institutional corridor. An elegantly chic, gender-bending pop art portrait....
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Storytelling in the Park

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Lukas Thiessen
Winnipeg is about to become the birthplace of a new format for live storytelling that will broadcast over the airwaves. Tales are told together, recorded, and repeated on radio. You may have heard wonderful story-based...
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“Find escape in music / That no one can defeat”

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Anastasia Chipelski
I would expect an EP with the word “Basement” in the title, recorded by the band members themselves, to be a sparse sketch of a few songs. But the title, I soon learned, was referring...
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Going Deep with Jodie Layne

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jodie layne
I generally think resolutions are stupid: we all pledge some variation of the same vague things we think we should be doing to be a more acceptable version of a human being. We’re going to “eat...

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