Arts
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Arts briefs
Workshop with Leesa Streifle // Kenny Omega returns to Winnipeg // Cineméntal Film Festival // Sense and Sensibility at MTC // Steven Erikson book launch // Bourbon Street Parade
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CRITIPEG: Studio 54
Studio 54 is the confession of a man trying to find closure, trying to explain himself to his family, to the world at large – though on his own terms. Ian Schrager is setting the record as straight as he feels is responsible in a (mostly) flattering light.
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Creating a space for People of Colour in Winnipeg
The ability to go into any space and feel completely comfortable is a privilege many people don’t have.
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Expanding gender’s vocal range
Contralto, American composer Sarah Hennies’ 2017 docu-symphony about trans women’s voices, takes its name from the musical term for “the lowest female singing voice.”
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Nipsey Hussle
On Feb. 16 2018, Nipsey Hussle released his first studio album Victory Lap.
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Arts briefs
Scattered Seeds Craft Market // Creepy Winnipeg // Aisslinn Nosky with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra // Soles on Fire // Jakob Bro at The Good Will // Attention | Intention | Emergence
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First Friday Double Feature: Outward Art
There is an incredible concentration of artists in Winnipeg. Last week's Nuit Blanche celebrations revealed the city’s voracious appetite for art.
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A night of wonder
Nuit Blanche is a night of discovery, wonder and wandering.
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The queer space of Evolution
In the absence of dedicated queer spaces, visits from distinguished national or international guests can be a catalyst to create – even for just one night – a place for queer communities to gather and celebrate
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C. Samms - Synthetic Properties
At first glance, it’s tempting to classify C. Samms’ Synthetic Properties as a piece of particularly tight, energetic vaporwave – a more tastefully orchestrated strain of the genre birthed from the internet’s neon guts.
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Parallel Prairies: Stories of Manitoba Speculative Fiction
Winnipeg-based writers Darren Ridgley and Adam Petrash put out a call to authors of short speculative fiction “with deep ties to the province.”
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Nuit Noire AfroPeg celebrates Black artists
“Obviously, Nuit Blanche wasn’t named ... after white people,” local poet Chimwemwe Undi says.
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Arts briefs
Manitoba Podcast Festival // Flash Photographic Festival // Free admission at the WAG (and Nuit Blanche)! // Ingmar Bergman retrospective // Prairie Nurse at Prairie Theatre Exchange // Lights of the North
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Thin Air Writers Festival set to fly at high altitudes
As the Thin Air Winnipeg International Writers Festival enters its 23rd year, director Charlene Diehl is searching for new ideas, new voices and new experiences.
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Ex Ømerta - Sink In
Since emerging on the local scene in 2017, Winnipeg’s self-proclaimed bastard rock trio has been making waves, despite not ever having released a major project.
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ArtsJunktion provides accessible arts supplies and education
Walking into ArtsJunktion for the first time tends to change people.
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CRITIPEG: Manitoba Chamber Orchestra featuring cellist Colin Carr
The first concert from Winnipeg’s classical music institutions this season was served by the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra (MCO) at Westminster United Church on Wednesday, Sept. 12.
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Arts briefs
Aretha Franklin tribute // Fringe fundraiser // Madeleine Roger album release // The Lytics CD release party // Winnipeg Design Festival // Winnipeg Crankie Festival
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Theatre company Sick + Twisted explores intimacy as activism
What is disability? Put differently, and with a wink to theatrical tradition, "lame is ... ?"
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The art of Instagram
Noor Bhangu, an independent curator based in Toronto, is behind Not the Camera, But the Filing Cabinet: Performative Body Archives in Contemporary Art, a new exhibition of female and non-binary identifying artists at Gallery 1C03.