Arts & Culture
Send + Receive ready for 13th season
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Winnipeg’s festival of sound art Send + Receive, one of the most exciting festivals to grace the city’s arts scene, is about to celebrate its 13th season. Outside of a few local concerts throughout...
Bruce McManus brings Chekhov home
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Thursday night marks the premier showing of Bruce McManus’ adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters. While the play runs, from Oct. 6-16, it will be near impossible to find a higher concentration of home-grown...
Ten Great Things
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Nuit Blanche is a free all-night visual arts party held as part of Culture Days Manitoba. On Oct. 1 the Winnipeg Art Gallery, as well as several more venues across downtown, will open its...
Previewing WNDX
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Since 2005, WNDX — Winnipeg’s Festival of Film and Video Art — has been bringing exciting short and experimental films from Canadian talents to the general public. From Sept. 29 to Oct. 2 at...
Variety aplenty at FemFest
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On Sept. 17, I had the pleasure of attending the opening cabaret for FemFest. FemFest is an annual, weeklong Winnipeg festival that showcases women in art, organized by the theatre company Saravati Productions and...
Travel-logging: Mount Koya, Japan
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The most holy Buddhist site in Japan — that was the initial attraction for me in going to Mount Koya, despite a friend of mine having suggested it as a nice place to get...
Movie Review: 50/50
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50/50 is a story about much more than cancer. Adam is a normal guy with a normal life: he has a girlfriend, a job, a best friend and regular parents. Everything changes when he...
