2SLGBTQIA+ students send their art ‘Outward’
From March 27 to 31, Rainbow Pride Centre (RPC) collaborated with the School of Fine Arts Students Association (SOFASA) to create and curate Outward, a…
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Nicholas Krgovich, ‘Ducks’ — 4/5 Stars
”For years and years, I guess I was lonely” is the first line on Ducks, and it’s the first of many profound shifts in perspective…
Celebrating our ancestors who are ‘Close to Home’
Canadian Mennonite University’s MHC gallery hosted the opening of two new exhibits on March 10 that deep dive into the idea of home. Writer and…
K-pop fandom in Winnipeg flourishing
K-pop, or Korean popular music, is a multi-genre music scene mostly made up of idol groups — idols being the industry term for K-pop stars…
U.S. Girls, ‘Bless This Mess’ — 3/5 Stars
Multi-disciplinary artist and U.S. Girls mastermind Meg Remy never stays in the same place creatively for too long. The Illinois-born, Toronto-based songwriter started the project…
LARP and the creative Misthaven of Underworld
In the words of Ursula K. Le Guin, people who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons from within. Without the ability…
Reclaiming what it means to be ‘French Enough’
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) kicked off Francophonie Month on March 1 by streaming Fransaskois singer-songwriter and filmmaker Alexis Normand’s 18-minute film French…
Letting out a ‘Big Deep Sigh’
In the post-Phoebe Bridgers indie landscape, confessional songwriting has become the standard, and the more gut-wrenching the better. But what gets lost in this chase…
A play within a play on Royal MTC stage
Alice Childress was almost the first Black woman playwright to have her work appear on Broadway in 1955 with her wry and potent meta-comedy Trouble…
Festival du Voyageur as a first-timer
Despite living in Winnipeg for nearly a decade, I had never attended Festival du Voyageur before this year, even with the high acclaim it has…