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Arts briefs
Real Love Thursdays // Mike Maryniuk workshop // Cyanotype and photogram workshop // Handsome Daughter anniversary party // PROJECTIONS at Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain (CCFM) // School of Art Gallery opening
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CRITIPEG: RMTC’s new season opens with a Bang
Bang Bang by Kat Sandler opens up the 2019-20 season at Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre at the Tom Hendry Warehouse, which is in its 50th season.
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Whose House? Maria Anne Grant’s House!
For dancer and actor Maria Anne Grant, performing has always taken a central role in her life.
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Haunted when the minutes drag
Every October, as Halloween approaches, Winnipeggers are reminded of the city’s many supposedly haunted buildings.
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Perceptions of diversity in Winnipeg
Winnipeg is a melting pot of cultures and traditions. It is home to people from different origins, religions and ethnicities, who speak different languages and follow different traditions.
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The faces of Justin Trudeau
Anyone who’s turned on a phone or the radio within the past week has probably heard about the photos of Prime Minister and Liberal leader Justin Trudeau wearing blackface and brownface.
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Halfway to somewhere
It’s difficult to ask others for help. It’s difficult to admit you don’t even know how to begin fixing a big problem.
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University of Winnipeg professor shortlisted for major literary prize
Dr. Jenny Heijun Wills, associate professor of English at the University of Winnipeg, has been shortlisted for the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Her memoir Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related is among five finalists for this prestigious $60,000 prize.
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Climate First Tour Comes to the University of Winnipeg
On Friday, Oct. 4 at 7 p.m., prominent Canadian activists Stephen Lewis and David Suzuki will speak at the University of Winnipeg (U of W) as part of their Climate First tour. This national tour’s Winnipeg event is presented in conjunction with the Axworthy Distinguished Lecture Series.
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Climate Strike 2019
Photos from the 2019 Climate Strike.
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Providing space to Create
With the launching of the Create chapbook, incarcerated women in the Women’s Correctional Centre (WCC) are being given a voice and the ability to add “published poet/writer/artist” to their lists of accomplishments.
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A few steps forward, a few steps back
As of Sept. 1, Mifegymiso (also known as “Mife”), a pill that allows people to end a pregnancy within the first 10 weeks, is covered by Manitoba Health and free.
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PROFile: Jeff Billeck
Jeff Billeck joined the University of Winnipeg (U of W) in 2008 as an athletic therapist.
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City briefs
Physicist to receive honorary degree // Global Dialogue Program makes its way to campus // Shared streets in the Exchange // Key findings for the federal election // Jail, death and mental illness // Zoo Lights Festival
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Nuit Blanche 2019
Photos from Nuit Blanche 2019.
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‘Because if the women don’t find you handsome’
Red Green returns to Winnipeg for his “This Could Be It” tour
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Shades of Gray
The Winnipeg Public Library’s new writer-in-residence is taking appointments as of Oct. 1.
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Happy Independence, Nigeria!
The Nigerian Association of Manitoba Incorporated (NAMI) will celebrate Nigeria’s independence with the entire Winnipeg community in mind.
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Arts briefs
Launch at Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA) // WNDX Festival of Moving Image // Winnipeg launch of Cam Scott’s ROMANS/SNOWMARE // Queer Skate Day costume party // Aurora Gorealis: Happy Birthday to Me // Dance Party at the Good Will
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CRITIPEG: Between Temporal and Permanent Histories of Pain
Though often abstract and full of hidden meanings, art is also beautiful and meaningful in its simplest forms, which is something that Lucille Kim captures in Between Temporal and Permanent Histories of Pain.
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