Arts
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Paint the town
Thanks to Synonym Art Consultation’s mural and culture festival Wall-to-Wall, colours will be bursting on bricks and buildings all over Winnipeg.
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Beauty: Eye of the Beholder
Rhiannon Neale and Gregg Burner’s respective bodies of work aren’t particularly similar. Burner, in his fifth decade as a photographer, has largely worked in fashion and news photography.
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Never were the way she was
Independent of each other, Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld are some of the most talented and exciting musicians in contemporary music.
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Waters
Healing Waters is the new lo-fi bedroom project from Victoria, BC’s David Nielsen.
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Improv that inspires
Helicopter! Rural farms! Racoon eyes! Goblets! Get your random suggestions ready. Actors will be improvising scenes in exchange for laughs again at this year’s Winnipeg Improv Festival.
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From on air to onstage
Finding an outlet for new music and art can be daunting. With so many options available, from YouTube to Soundcloud, and all things illegally pirated in between, it’s hard to know where you’re gonna find the sweet stuff.
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Arts and Culture Briefs
Peg City Porchfest // RasTamils new album // rip/torn // Records! // WSO operating surplus
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Experiments in film
It’s not unlike Winnipeggers to see something missing in the arts scene and decide to create it themselves.
Before 2005, Jaimz Asmundson says there was no where in Winnipeg to see or show experimental film. There were many film festivals but none to show the type of work he did.
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Pull up a seat
Have an idea that will change Winnipeg’s urban design? Write it on a chair, sit in that chair and let’s talk.
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Gucci Mane
Gucci Mane was charged for possession of a firearm in the Spring of 2014, and isn’t getting released until early 2017.
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Sean Nicholas Savage
It is far easier to describe Sean Nicholas Savage’s 4th album, Bermuda Waterfall, by the images it conjures in the imagination, as opposed to what it sounds like.
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Celebrating words
Words surround us everywhere, everyday.
This year, the Winnipeg International Writers Festival, Thin Air, celebrates words and the stories they tell.
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New moon rising
Movement has never looked so fiercely intricate as it does in Gaile Petursson-Hiley’s new dance project Eclipse.
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Anxiety at Graffiti Gallery
Dany Reede’s paintings are anxiety and depression on canvas.
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Wacky nostalgia
While childless adults are not likely to be part of entertainer Al Simmon’s audience, many Winnipeggers grew up with his tunes and caught a few of his performances.
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Arts and Culture Briefs
Architectural tour // Bordamos Without Borders // Slim Twig returns // Winter fashion show // Winnipeg Design Festival
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Les Jupes
It would be easy to appraise this album in light of the recent disbanding of the band. It’s not terribly hard to, even on a cursory consideration of the lyrics, wonder if this wasn’t a long-simmering conflict that influenced the record.
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Red Moon Road
Red Moon Road’s new album Sorrows and Glories is a folk/roots album that is equally delightful and mighty. Their first track 'Beauty In These Broken Bones’ starts the album off strong, blasting forth full of soul. Sheena’s explosively powerful vocals are undeniably robust and beautiful.
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The Wolfpack
The documentary, The Wolfpack, gives an emotional look into the lives of six boys living in an apartment in New York with their sister and parents. With their father’s strict rules, one of the Angulo boys admits that the apartment can feel like a jail — there have been years when they didn’t leave.
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Films to learn from
For students interested in film, Cinematheque is the place to go. Not only is it within walking distance of the University of Winnipeg (U of W), it shows a variety of what is going on in the industry