The curtain closes, for now
To ensure the health and safety of performers and audience members, the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre (Royal MTC) has announced the cancellation of its reimagined…
Arts & Culture
Celebrating Winnipeg’s diverse food scene with National Food Day around the corner
To celebrate National Food Day and National Greasy Foods Day, respectively on Oct. 24 and 25, the Manitoban staff has put together a list of…
A little bit of Nashville in the Prairies
Were it not for the crystalline float of their harmonies, you’d be hard-pressed to believe opera was what first brought Allison Phipps and Geneva Halverson…
Sarah Klassen — ‘The Tree of Life’
After months of watching the world slip away from us — from our capacity to leave our homes without fear for health and safety, to…
Mise en Scene — ‘Winnipeg, California,’ 4.5/5
The space between Manitoba and California is less a literal distance and more an imagined one. They couldn’t occupy more disparate places in the public…
Winnipeg-based artist to speak on art, advocacy
This Saturday, Martha Street Studio is hosting a virtual artist talk with Winnipeg-based artist Yisa Akinbolaji. Akinbolaji, whose career spans more than three decades, is…
Local author longlisted for prestigious literary prize
Winnipeg author David Bergen’s short story collection, Here the Dark, has been nominated for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The prize recognizes excellence in both…
David Bergen — ‘Here the Dark’
David Bergen’s short story collection, Here the Dark, tackles moral ambiguity and what it means to find oneself through grace, asking readers to sit with…
November Underground — ‘November Underground,’ 4/5
There are generally two modes when it comes to decade-specific revivalism: those artists who embody a particular aesthetic ideal without committing fully to the sound…
Local painters on display in joint art exhibition
The cre8ery gallery and studio has a treat in store for art lovers this month: an exhibition titled Two Painters: A Visual Dialogue — David…