Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

‘An honest, fun, and raw show’

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Carlyn Schellenberg
If you take four Toronto stand-up comedians—Dave Merheje, Aisha Alfa, Garrett Jamieson, and Ben Beauchemin, three of whom are former Winnipeggers—put them at the Park Theatre, and add one Winnipeg comic to host (Chantel...
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Together, science and art address our planetary psychopathology

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Lukas Thiessen
This December, Winnipeg will host the premiere of an arts and sciences exhibition that will travel to many other countries. The exhibition, Toxicity, spawned from the academic work of Dr. Melentie Pandilovski and Dr....
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Seeing beyond what you see

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Lukas Thiessen
Artist Philippe Hamelin moves audiences beyond their field of vision. He understands the concept of hors champ (French for “outside the field”) to be more than what happens beyond the camera lens. “Often, I’ll leave...
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Kicking down stereotypes

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Michelle Saromo
Coming up at the end of November, Winnipeg-based non-profit organization Growing Opportunities International (GO!) will be hosting their fourth annual Listen Local! Grow Global! benefit concert at the West End Cultural Centre. Founded by Amanda...
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A Cockroach for one and all

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Anastasia Chipelski
A cockroach may seem like an odd source of inspiration, given their reputation as pests. Meg Crane saw an ally in the lowly roach, and took its name for her zine, which will be launching...
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A space to practise revolution

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Anastasia Chipelski
At the very least, performance art creates a space of risk-taking, and at best, it sets the stage for a possible transformation. On Nov. 8, dozens of people came together at Urban Shaman Gallery...
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Home lives in a song

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Anastasia Chipelski
Home is . . . no, scrap the proverbs. Home is a loaded term for many, and often needs more than a sentence to fully describe the complicated and conflicting emotions that it invokes....

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