Surrender to the story of Rise, Red River
When Calgary-based playwright Tara Beagan was first approached by artistic director of Prairie Theatre Exchange (PTE), Thomas Morgan Jones, to write a play about climate…
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Opening The Artalogue
Sometimes failure closes doors, and other times it starts podcasts. A year after leaving a tech startup job to dedicate her career to art, Madison…
Bombay Bicycle Club, ‘Fantasies’ — 4/5 stars
Bombay Bicycle Club and I have a complicated relationship. I never talk about them being a favourite of mine when in heated discussions about music….
Upcoming writing group seeks to build community
The University of Manitoba campuses are wide, sprawling and sometimes inhospitable. For students looking for connections, either in scholarly or creative environments, options for socializing…
’Toban Listens: Poetry Unbound
Poetry Unbound wasn’t the first podcast I listened to, but it certainly was the podcast that inspired a new kind of love in me for…
‘La Vie Boheme’ of the musical theatre ensemble
The musical theatre ensemble is one of many ensembles tucked away in the practice rooms of the Taché Arts Project. The course is open to…
Reflecting on dating apps
Dating apps feel like cash grabs. These apps are created as obvious ploys for profit while being sold as ways to help users find their…
’Toban Listens: The Orbiting Human Circus (of the Air)
Loneliness is a complex emotion. It can strike any one of us at any time, even amid our loved ones and even during what might…
The return of the campus coffee crawl
Welcome back to the number one series for coffee-based infotainment on campus: the campus coffee crawl. Last time I reviewed the coffee on campus, I…
Program integrates arts and humanities into health care
Traditional science entails the isolation and thorough understanding of specific phenomena, often emphasizing the removal of external influences to focus solely on the subject of…