Arts
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Favourite local gallery or artist space
1. aceartinc.
2. Winnipeg Art Gallery
3. MAWA
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Favourite movie by a local filmmaker
1. Butch Bathroom Blues (Nic Kaneski)
2. A Traveller's Guide to Montreal and Toronto in 2022 (Dylan Bodner)
3. Diaspora (Deco Dawson)
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Favourite local album/Favourite local performance
Favourite local album
1. Virgo Rising - Vampyre Year
2. Amos the Kid - Enough as it Was
3. Neighbour Andy - Wild Ones
Favourite local performance
1. Virgo Rising EP release show, Oct. 13 @ Good Will
2. i am your spaniel by We Quit Theatre
3. Neighbour Andy, Aug. 24 @ The Beer Can
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Arts briefs
Django Festival All Stars @ the Rady JCC // Music in the Parlour // Winter classes open at Forum Art Centre // Get curious @ cre8ery // To Broadcast is to Scatter // A Day With(out) Art
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Devin Latimer, chemistry instructor
Devin Latimer, a chemistry instructor at the University of Winnipeg, hails from the northern Manitoba towns of Lynn Lake and Leaf Rapids.
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Arts briefs
Rachmaninoff’s 150th birthday celebration // A movie you can dance to // Theatrical connections // Sound of Music @ Royal MTC // On the future of Black art in Canada // Celebrating labour and the arts
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Critipeg: My Animal
Plays at Cinematheque from Dec. 1 to 10
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Weaving Métis stories through song
Six years ago, during a 10,000-kilometre research trip across the M.tis homeland, Dr. Suzanne Steele, a M.tis librettist, poet and scholar, came across a historical love affair that would define her artistic life for the next several years.
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Yo-ho-ho (and a bottle of paint)
The seasick and thalassophobic should steer clear of the Exchange District’s always vibrant cre8ery Gallery and Studio for the next few weeks. For everyone else, batten down the hatches and explore artist Maureen Babb’s newest collection, A Star to Steer by, from Nov. 23 to Dec. 5.
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Serena Ryder reimagines the holidays
Few occasions trigger a barrage of complicated feelings like the holidays. Canadian singer-songwriter Serena Ryder knows this all too well.
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Thoroughly modern milliner
Tucked away in a quiet corner at the Winnipeg Art Gallery and Qaumajuq’s 2023 CRAFTED show, couture milliner Helen Gair of Helen Gair Millinery selects a red beret from her display and carefully places it on the head of a curious attendee.
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Bittersweet farewells
Within 24 hours, Winnipeggers learned that we’ll be bidding farewell to two local institutions of sorts.
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Gallery 1C03 finds its ‘legs’
Humility can be hard to find. In a culture where women’s empowerment filters through individualism, presented in terms of “badass,” “girlboss” and the “she-conomy” – one might struggle to draw the line between “owning it” and self-obsession, between humility and self-effacement.
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They made Believers out of Manitoba
Ten years after the release of their sophomore album, Today We’re Believers, Royal Canoe will reunite at the Park Theatre to bring their lineup of euphoric, groovy fan favourites back to the local stage.
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Critipeg: Funny Pages
Plays at Cinematheque on Nov. 29
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‘We want to hear your stories’
Kathleen Gallagher, a Winnipeg-based actor, producer and screenwriter, understands the challenges women face in her industry. As president of the OurToba Film Network, she is creating a space for women, non-binary and gender-diverse filmmakers in Manitoba to meet, create and gain skills.
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Arts briefs
Sell your goods at Folk Fest // Artist talk: Kim Kitchen // Support your local circus // The Waltz @ PTE // Made in the Middle Craft Market // Dark Ice @ the WAG
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‘Still obscure as hell’
For years, John Paizs has been a cult figure among cult figures. The filmmaker, a key creator in the early days of the Winnipeg Film Group, created work that was subversive, funny and visually inventive. His trio of half-hour shorts, The Three Worlds of Nick (1981 to ’84), and his first feature, Crime Wave (1985), are cutting-edge works of underground ’80s cinema. They’ve also been, until recently, really difficult to actually see.
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Diasporic discussion at Cinematheque
Of all the movies screening at downtown Winnipeg’s only movie theatre, keep an eye out for a few non-English films from across the pond making their Canadian debuts – even if they’re decades old.
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Crafting Catharsis
If one were to conduct a poll regarding the purpose of art, there would likely be little in the way of consensus. Some may argue that art is meant to serve social causes, while others emphasize personal expression, the pursuit of beauty or simply art for art’s sake.