Arts
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Big Fun 2018
Big Fun 2018, which took place from Jan. 24 through 28, unveiled a new crop of exciting and unique locals bands to the city – with some heavy-hitter headliners thrown in for fun.
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CRITPEG: My Friend Dahmer
As a teenager in 1970s Ohio, future cartoonist John Backderf struck up a friendship with future serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
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Discussing drones
The University of Winnipeg’s Gallery 1C03 is displaying an exhibition from local artists Reva Stone and Erika Lincoln until Feb. 17, 2018
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Arts briefs
Equalizer // Lovecrafted // Studio 393 podcast workshops // Forthwith Festival // Writers group // On Screen Manitoba
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4th Curtis - I Won the Pageant
4th Curtis has created a wonderfully clever and theatrical indie pop album with their 2017 debut full-length, I Won The Pageant.
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CRITIPEG: The Square
Attempting to discuss writer-director Ruben Östlund’s The Square in the arts and culture pages borders dangerously close on self-parody.
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notme - Mask
If your New Year’s resolution was to listen to more local shoegaze music, then your year is already off to a good start.
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CRITIPEG: Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention
Undocumented explores forms and spaces that separate cause and effect, object and subject, self and other.
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Sampling FOONYAP’s many musical layers
On Jan. 24, Calgary’s FOONYAP (the stage moniker of musician Foon Yap) will grace the stage of the Ballroom to open Big Fun Festival with their vulnerable and mesmerizing experimental folk electronic music.
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Frosty festival pulls bands out of hibernation
Big Fun Festival, a showcase of mostly local artists, is an incentive to get out of the house during the cold winter months.
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Arts briefs
ConfiDance // QTBIPOC Writing Workshop // CV2 Launch // Me We Everybody // Metal fundraiser
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Limelight to twilight
Winnipeg exists in an odd cultural space; we’re self-deprecating but have fierce hometown pride.
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CRITIPEG: Birth of a Family
Birth of a Family, the documentary from director Tasha Hubbard, chronicles the first meeting of the four Adam siblings more than 50 years later.
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Beverly Tender
Just in time to begin hibernating for the winter, Beverly Tender deliver another album full of brilliant and well-informed angular indie rock.
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Arts and Culture briefs
A Life on the Line // Close Talker // Cre8ery writing group // Four Lands // Poetry Group
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Friendship, Shock out of Season
This is yet another beautiful release from Chicago-based Orindal Records.
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Accessibility is more than a buzzword
The current buzzword vibrating across the music scene is the term accessible. It’s mentioned in Facebook events for shows, on venue pages and used haphazardly across the industry.
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Embodying truth in photography
Winnipeg boudoir photographer Teri Hofford and local business owner JT believe that a greater variance of images in media would lead to a positive shift in perceptions of what women actually look like. They promote this concept through their work.
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The Famous Sandhogs
The album cover for this CD was, and still is, a drawing of a red guy done in marker with the name of the band and album taped onto it. This is because The Famous Sandhogs are a Wacky Band.
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CRITIPEG: The Road Forward
Marie Clements’ The Road Forward bills itself as a “musical documentary” exploring the history of Indigenous activism in Canada.