Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

Forum’s got fleas!

By
Lukas Thiessen
The folks who run Forum Art Centre (FAC) have the organization busy most days of the year. Due to their status as a registered charity, they are using one of their few free weekends...
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O(h) NO! It’s music festival time!

By
Evan Hoskins
With the 2014 JUNO Awards on the doorstep it is time to brace for the gauntlet of outstanding musicians playing shows throughout Winnipeg. While the JUNOs themselves are a great Canadian event, JUNO weekend...
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A modern Stein salon

By
Katy MacKinnon
What do you get when you combine soothing music, charming hosts, stimulating conversation, and paintbrushes? Asked this question in the 1920s, one might have answered Gertrude Stein’s salon, which, consequently, was an inspiration for...
Arts & Culture

Performing unpublished pages

By
Lukas Thiessen
There is always time for more hard work. In the midst of her third year as a PhD student in the department of English, film, and theatre at the University of Manitoba, Kendra Magnus-Johnston...
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...
Arts & Culture

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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