Arts & Culture

Atheists at work

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Lukas Thiessen
There are many people in the Keystone Province who do not believe in God. For some, lack of belief is a non-issue, for others, it raises various concerns. Do employers care if you don’t believe...
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Beauty without a challenge

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Lukas Thiessen
“Art has to relate to the world, and people are fucking exhausted.” Christian Worthington, a Winnipeg painter of works at once abstract and classical, does not demand that viewers reform their sensibilities. “Some artists would like...
Arts & Culture

Together, science and art address our planetary psychopathology

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Lukas Thiessen
This December, Winnipeg will host the premiere of an arts and sciences exhibition that will travel to many other countries. The exhibition, Toxicity, spawned from the academic work of Dr. Melentie Pandilovski and Dr....
Arts & Culture

Seeing beyond what you see

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Lukas Thiessen
Artist Philippe Hamelin moves audiences beyond their field of vision. He understands the concept of hors champ (French for “outside the field”) to be more than what happens beyond the camera lens. “Often, I’ll leave...
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‘How does the artist decolonize’

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Lukas Thiessen
Anticipation, Fear, and pleasure all connect with the adjective “quivering.” In naming her experimental long poem Quivering Land, local author, academic, and curator Roewan Crowe applies all of these meanings. “It is important to me...
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‘Give it time’

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Lukas Thiessen
What do you expect from an artist who has lived almost one century? If that artist is 90-year-old Eli Bornstein, expect something magnificent. Curator Oliver Botar organized An Art at the Mercy of Light, a...
Arts & Culture

Today, the Cake n’ Shakes. Tomorrow, the world

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Lukas Thiessen
Winnipeg’s answer to Andy Warhol’s Factory in the 1960s is the Frame Arts Warehouse. Program director Ali Tataryn runs Frame, whose spaces are occupied my myriad artists. Musician Paul Little and comedian J.D. Renaud operate...
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