Arts & Culture

Mitten Claps – a pair that sounds bigger than its parts

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Michelle Saromo
One is such a lonely number. Three’s already a crowd. Two is enough to start a band, and that’s what Jonathan and Randall Hildebrand figured when they formed alt-pop/alt-folk duo Mitten Claps. The two-piece band...
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Bizarre-o-tainment

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Michelle Saromo
As part of their fundraising efforts for the United Way of Winnipeg, the multi-talented people of Graffiti Art Programming (GAP) and Art City are teaming up for the fifth year in a row to...
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Souvenir involontaire

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Michelle Saromo
The concept of “memory” teeters between the concrete realities of our external world and the abstractions of our internal selves: “Did that really happen, or did I just make that up?” There are some moments...
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Traditional functions redefined

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Michelle Saromo
I visited Dong-Kyoon Nam at aceartinc., just days before the opening reception of his first solo exhibition. He was in the gallery by himself, up on a ladder in the process of installing his exhibit....
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Gimme Some Truth

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Michelle Saromo
The fifth annual Gimme Some Truth Documentary Festival, hosted by the Winnipeg Film Group, will run from Mar. 14 until 17 at the Cinematheque; the festival will be showcasing a series of screenings from...
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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

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Michelle Saromo
Beginning this month and running till February, the Cinematheque will be showing several films as part of their new series called We Rise Above: New Films on Human Rights. The series showcases six different...
Arts & Culture

Who Cares?

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Michelle Saromo
When you’re driving around the city at night and you see women standing on street corners, are you struck with guilt at the sight? Do you wonder how they ended up there or worry...
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