The Uniter

The daytime event

Naaman Sturrup – January 9, 2020

The Rady Jewish Community Centre kicks off 2020 on a high note as it presents Music ‘N’ Mavens for its 22nd consecutive year. Founding producer Karla Berbrayer says she started this event because of a need for diverse programming in Winnipeg.

CRITIPEG: Winnipeg is the master of its fate and the captain of its soul

Naaman Sturrup – January 9, 2020

The 1919 General Strike is among Winnipeg’s most important historical events.

Mary and Marriageability

Hannah Foulger (Volunteer) – January 9, 2020

Classic 19th century novelist Jane Austen was back onstage at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, but this time, she didn’t craft the story. Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon is one of several adaptations or extensions of Austen, which sees her unmarried characters reach a romantic ending.

Winnipeg on display

Hannah Foulger (Volunteer) – January 9, 2020

The Manitoba Museum unveiled the Winnipeg Gallery, its newest addition, this past fall. Roland Sawatzky, head curator of the Winnipeg Gallery, says “there is no other place (in the province that) tells the actual history of the city ... We also wanted it as an introduction to the Urban Gallery cityscape, which shows Winnipeg around 1920, but there is no real context in there, so we felt we needed to tell the larger story."

Arts briefs

Beth Schellenberg (Volunteer) – January 9, 2020

Freya Perron’s Heirlooms // Mirror with a Memory // Full Moon Show at Handsome Daughter // States of Beauty // Closet Space: Celebrating Bigger Bodies // Skywalk Lecture

Eccentric-modern curiosity shop

Keesha Harewood – January 9, 2020

Inspired by anime, manga, Harry Potter and so much more, Samantha Beiko is a fantasy writer who pours her energy into a variety of different creative projects.

Investigating the state of pleasure

Alex Neufeldt – January 9, 2020

Montreal has 26. Toronto has 45. Vancouver has 42. Winnipeg has three.

Uniter 30 outtakes

Thomas Pashko (Managing editor) – November 28, 2019

Sorting through the many hundreds of votes for the Uniter 30 is a long and occasionally mind-numbing process.

City roots

Kathryn Boschmann – November 28, 2019

In order to get a sense of how Winnipeggers were thinking about trees during the first couple decades of the 20th century, I returned to local newspaper archives.