Indians Wear Red
Indians Wear Red: Colonialism, Resistance and Aboriginal Street Gangs—a Fernwood Publishing book released last August—challenges the reader to look at the problem of Aboriginal street…
arts
One artist, many hands
When the site at the Forks was excavated for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), 400,000 mostly Aboriginal artifacts were unearthed. Now, when visitors…
Celebration Week brings Mark Chipman to campus
Mark Chipman paid a visit to the University of Manitoba’s Fort Garry campus on Jan. 30 as part of Celebration Week. The executive chairman of…
Celebration Week held at Fort Garry campus
The University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) helped to ease the late-January monotony last week with guest speakers, events at the Hub, and free breakfasts….
Local [Demo]Graphic
Founded in Winnipeg, Synonym Art Consultation aims to make art more accessible to the general public. Their latest attempt is an exhibition entitled [Demo]Graphic, installed…
Ninjas, goddesses, industrial landscapes, and pop art
A powerful, crazed, manga ninja. A self-portrait eyeing handwritten pages of personal thought. A short video shot in the wilderness followed by one filmed in an…
The opposite of Canada’s newest national museum?
Eight months before the grand opening of the controversial Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), a small and heroic venture in Winnipeg’s Chinatown presents an…
Simulating the automated experience
Automation allows humans to delegate tedious tasks to machinery. Tedium can, however, distract the human operator, causing disaster.
Savannahs on the plains
U of M Natural Resource Institute master’s candidate Bridgette Antze has birds on the brain – savannah sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis) in particular.
“Nerd” is not an insult
Connor Duff Nerd. In high school, who didn’t dread being called that? Well, on the contrary, “nerd” isn’t some degrading insult that everyone will find…