Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

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

By
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”

By
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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Staying cool, Winnipeg style

By
Anastasia Chipelski
While we may gripe and grumble about the weather, most Winnipeggers pride themselves for surviving the bite of winter with a sly smirk. How else could a city that spends 113 days of the...
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You are cordially invited…

By
Anastasia Chipelski
Mid-January is not well-known as a holiday season, unless your friend circle has a robust crop of January birthdays. But there is one very significant birthday coming up, a birthday that deserves celebration by...
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Under the moon of winter are living stories

By
Lukas Thiessen
January is the time to tell stories. Taking a page from the national traditions of Cree and Anishinaabe culture, the local Indigenous Writers Collective (IWC), in participation with the Winnipeg Public Library and the...

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