Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

Screening the truth

By
Anastasia Chipelski
Local filmmakers, film connoisseurs, and any others who feel the gravitational pull towards the stories not often told or the roads less travelled should set their sights on Cinematheque this weekend, host to the...
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Ghost Launch

By
Lukas Thiessen
Near the intersection of River Avenue and Osborne Street, on the west side of Osborne, once was a feminist bookstore. It has been 20 years since that shop, Bold Print, closed. Today, a group of Winnipeg-based...
Arts & Culture

Calling for justice by walking with art

By
Lukas Thiessen
The Native Women’s Association of Canada created a database of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls, and as of March 31, 2010, it had gathered information on nearly 600 cases. University of Ottawa PhD...
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Out of the gallery, into homes and streets

By
Anastasia Chipelski
On March 22, a launch party like no other will be held at Union Sound Hall. Hosted by Wab Kinew and featuring New Orleans’ own Big Freedia, the party is in celebration of kimiwan...
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‘Winnipeg is the unofficial hub of the Aboriginal music community in...

By
Lukas Thiessen
In May 2013 Statistics Canada released the first data from the 2011 National Household Survey, which replaced the former long-form census. Significant facts about the population of young Aboriginal people in Winnipeg and the...
Arts & Culture

Masculindians

By
Jennifer Keith
On Mar. 6, University of Manitoba Press launched the book Masculindians: Conversations about Indigenous Manhood at McNally Robinson. Editor Sam McKegney, who is also an associate professor of English and cultural studies at Queen’s...
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Curtain call for the Cyrk

By
Anastasia Chipelski
After Mar. 14, Winnipeg will see one more live music venue shutting its doors. The Cyrk, also known as “Winnipeg’s most notorious art house,” is a small, intimate venue in West Broadway. Unlike other recent...

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