Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

“My medicine is making art”

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Maggie A. Clark
Acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Lita Fontaine (Mikinaak Ikwe) premiered a long-awaited solo show at Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG)-Qaumajuq earlier this month. Fontaine is a 1997 graduate of the U of M’s school of art program and...
Nischal Karki
Arts & Culture

“Outsider” art in the gallery

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Maggie A. Clark
Pride month may be over, but a new exhibition of 2SLGBTQIA+ art has begun at aceartinc. Curated by James Turowski, QUEERiosities: A Queerious Art Exhibition opened on July 5 and showcases the work of 20...
Nischal Karki
Arts & Culture

A “New Hope” for language revitalization

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Maggie A. Clark
A short time from now in a galaxy very close to home, a new version of Star Wars will debut at the Centennial Concert Hall. Nearly half a century since its original release, the first...
Teegan Gillich
Arts & Culture

Wilfred Buck: from stargazer to screen star

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Maggie A. Clark
The “star guy” has become a movie star. Hailing from Opaskwayak Cree Nation (OCN), Wilfred Buck — a U of M graduate — works for the Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre as a science...
Teegan Gillich
Arts & Culture

Encouraging “ecological empathy”

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Maggie A. Clark
As you walk into a darkened room, you are greeted with the sound of dripping water — at first slow and delicate, then increasingly insistent and dissonant. It is not raining, nor has the roof...
Nischal Karki
Arts & Culture

June tunes

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Maggie A. Clark
The phrase “song of the summer” gets thrown around a lot this time of year. But something that has always annoyed me is that only the newest pop hits seem to be eligible for consideration!...
Teegan Gillich
Arts & Culture

A pinhole to the past

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Alison Holliday
 Vanessa Warne, associate professor in the department of English, theatre, film and media and co-organizer of the Crafting Communities project, taught her ENGL 2140 Literature of the Victorian Period students how to take apart...
Ebunoluwa Akinbo

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