Features
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Blue Hills Fibre Festival
June 10 // Exploring the fibre arts through workshops and demonstrations
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Agassiz Chamber Music Festival
June 9 to 16 // Something different for music lovers
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9TH ANNUAL SUMMER FESTIVAL GUIDE LISTINGS
Here's your guide to over 70 festivals in Winnipeg and around Manitoba.
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Discover summer
When it comes to summer festivals, we have an abundance of choice here in Manitoba.
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Mix it up
This, our last regular-ish paper of the year, is somewhat unconventional.
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Intimate knots
In the modern era, kinbaku is no longer used to bind one’s enemies. Rather, it has been popularized as a form of sexual bondage or BDSM (an umbrella term that refers to bondage/discipline, domination/submission, and sadism/masochism) often referred to as shibari, which means “to decoratively tie.”
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The true drama of animal rescue
Many dive into the animal rescue community in Manitoba expecting it to be filled with big-hearted people, then find the humans involved are not treated well at all.
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Pedalling toward empowerment
Women, queer and non-binary people can find empowerment and self-sufficiency through learning and practising bicycle mechanics.
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To the Classroom and Beyond
Traditionally, we’ve been taught about the environment in a way that’s broken down and broken apart. Educating within the confines of four brick walls separates us from the world we’re trying to learn about and other humans we’re learning with.
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Curating history
Heritage museums exist to tell a story and to preserve local history. It is the job of museum curators to make that history accessible to everyone that visits.
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Off the Mats
Homelessness and addiction, and the resources that help
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Is this the age of anxiety?
There are many reasons to be anxious right now. Midterms are approaching. There is still more winter ahead. Tweets are declaring the end of the world. The news is depressing with accusations of fascism in America and comparisons between the Trump administration and Germany’s Nazi regime.
How can we stave off the panic when even the media is panicking?
At what point does our situational anxiety become a medical condition?
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The cost of going green
It’s not always easy being green, but several Winnipeg organizations are working to make environmental initiatives more accessible across the board.
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Fighting Fascism
The far-right: what it is and how to stop it
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What’s up with last year’s Fiver bands?
The Middle Coast // Deep Dark Cave // Adam Hanney & Co. // Fox Lake // Ashley Bieniarz
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Tusk
If there’s a more quintessential origin story than TUSK’s, it would be tough to find it.
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Rosebud
The duo behind Rosebud took a rather casual approach to forming the two-person band, and that’s how they continue to operate.
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June Killing Stones
June Killing Stones is a locally grown band united in their value of community and positivity. Brothers Joshua and Jake Letkeman were working on their craft for years before putting together a group.
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Awaiting the Answer
Awaiting the Answer has come together with the common goal of bringing a new sound to Winnipeg’s metal scene.
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Kakagi
Kakagi (pronounced ke-KA-gi) is a new band whose name is derived from a small lake in northwestern Ontario.