Arts & Culture
How to not break the bank
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I, like most other students I know, am inexplicably poor. I’m not complaining, because I still have a roof over my head and food in my hand at this very moment, but it’s nice...
Five Questions
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Five Questions is a continuing column in which we pose a
different artist the same five crucial questions.
One:
The Manitoban: What substance or activity do you find
to be creativity-producing?
Nathan Ham: Absolute friendship is the...
Wind ensemble time
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A wind ensemble is a curious thing. According to Fraser Linklater, director of the University of Manitoba Wind Ensemble, the wind band creates an opportunity for listeners to hear familiar compositions in a different...
A message from a painting in Walmart’s art section
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Hey! Hey you there! Look this way for a second, no down here, right next to the big yellow smiling face and guaranteed lowest prices. You like art, don’t you? Of course you do....
WAFF it up
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Since its creation nine years ago, the Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival (WAFF) has come to incorporate films with many themes besides the aboriginal issues it was created to address.
The festival was created by...
Go Greenaway
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Darren Aronofsky’s latest film, Black Swan, will be released next week on Dec. 3. The trailer promises plenty of symbolism and Gothic compositions, elements most filmmakers employ as means to an end, a moral...
Where’s Buddha?
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The tall, white high-rise apartments disappeared in the heavy fog as my gondola slowly ascended into the mountains of Lantau Island, one of the more beautiful islands of Hong Kong. I was on my...
