Arts & Culture

A space to practise revolution

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Anastasia Chipelski
At the very least, performance art creates a space of risk-taking, and at best, it sets the stage for a possible transformation. On Nov. 8, dozens of people came together at Urban Shaman Gallery...
Arts & Culture

Home lives in a song

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Anastasia Chipelski
Home is . . . no, scrap the proverbs. Home is a loaded term for many, and often needs more than a sentence to fully describe the complicated and conflicting emotions that it invokes....
Arts & Culture

The chaos of collaboration

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Anastasia Chipelski
Take 16 artists and give them five days, black and white paint, and free reign to transform the Graffiti Gallery, floor to ceiling. The final result is Collective Chaos, a partnership between Graffiti Art...
Arts & Culture

Getting to the heart of art

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Anastasia Chipelski
While art-making may be an important part in many people’s lives, making the leap to showing or selling art can be intimidating, especially for lower-income artists. Art From the Heart has been working to...
Arts & Culture

Creative futures for street kids

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Anastasia Chipelski
Rebuilding lives means more than just providing the basic necessities, and sometimes art can play a part in building a future that involves more than basic survival. Those are the hopes, at the very...
Arts & Culture

From legislation to action

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Anastasia Chipelski
While the public debate around Bill 18 has subsided since it was passed in the Manitoba legislature on Sept. 13, 2013, Catherine Taylor believes that this bill is only the first step in changing...
Arts & Culture

Want a festival? Do it yourself.

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Anastasia Chipelski
If we didn’t have leaders, bosses, or managers, how would we ever get anything done? This weekend’s Anarchist BookFair & DIY Fest proves that you can hold a weekend-long festival without falling into typical organizational...
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