Arts & Culture

De-stigmatizing through creation

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Lukas Thiessen
Detach the stigma associated with mental illness: for organizers and participating artists in an upcoming fundraiser, this is a core imperative. Starting Feb. 6 at 5 p.m., seven alumni from Artbeat Studio’s residency program...
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Ninjas, goddesses, industrial landscapes, and pop art

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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

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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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Under the moon of winter are living stories

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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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Winnipeg teens’ amazing achievements in 2013

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Lukas Thiessen
Search online about teens in Winnipeg and most of the results suggest that young people are constantly on their worst behaviour. Such a cursory view ignores exquisite talents and successes of teens in this...
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The opposite of Canada’s newest national museum?

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Lukas Thiessen
Eight months before the grand opening of the controversial Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), a small and heroic venture in Winnipeg’s Chinatown presents an exhibition addressing the difficulties in such an endeavour. The place...
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Jason Baerg goes back home and into the future

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Lukas Thiessen
Visual artist Jason Baerg has recently gone back to his hometown of Sarnia, Ontario—a place in which he has not lived since 1995—as part of an artist residency program at the Judith and Norman...
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