Arts & Culture

Cultural healing after a corporate career

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Zachary Sigurdson
From Nov. 1 to 12, the Cre8ery Gallery and Studio will be hosting Juncture: Modern Métis Culture by local Métis artist Nicole LeClair. As a single mother, LeClair focused on her corporate career in marketing...
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Documenting the fight for a connection

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Zachary Sigurdson
Freedom Road is a five-part docuseries that chronicles the story of Shoal Lake 40 Anishinaabe First Nation’s battle for a road connecting the community to the Trans-Canada Highway. The series was filmed during the construction...
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A dive into Manitoba’s urban legends, horror lore

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Zachary Sigurdson
Haunted Manitoba: Ghost Stories from the Prairies is a fascinating but sometimes frustrating read. Written by Matthew Komus as an informal sequel to his previous work Haunted Winnipeg: Ghost Stories from the Heart of the...
Ally Gonzalo
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‘The Third Colour’ wraps up first run at Prairie Theatre Exchange

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Zachary Sigurdson
The Third Colour from Manitoban playwright Ian Ross just finished its first run at the Prairie Theatre Exchange (PTE). In an “absurdist dramedy” using clown-style comedy to discuss heavier topics of colonialism, trauma and reconciliation,...
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Winnipegger Katrina Rosen gives frank look at marital struggles and cross-continental...

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Zachary Sigurdson
"Mike, do you want to bike around the world?” That is one of the first lines in Winnipeg-born author Katrina Rosen’s new book, and was the catalyst for the adventure it was based upon. With You...
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Local artist’s latest exhibit at Pulse Gallery takes on climate change

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Zachary Sigurdson
Climate change is on everyone’s minds and we all have our own way of confronting it. Anja Studer is taking climate action through her art. On the evening of Sept. 27, in conjunction with the international...
Anja Studer
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Queer all-female band Strange Breed tours new album, Permanence

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Zachary Sigurdson
Rock ’n’ roll never died — it only transformed and carried on. Strange Breed, an all-queer, all-female garage-rock group from Vancouver, is touring across Canada to promote their debut album Permanence, which dropped Sept. 13....
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