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News Briefs
Local Brews + Global Views // Peaceful Protest Against the Plea // Queer yoga // Genderfest Winnipeg // Bridging Two Worlds book launch
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Laughing together with WOKE Comedy Hour
WOKE Comedy Hour is held once a month at the Good Will Social Club. Occuring on Feb. 20 this month, WOKE showcases Indigenous folks and People of Colour, with an emphasis on women and non-binary individuals
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Looking back at Cootie Club
From September 2014 to June 2015, Cootie Club offered an alternative gathering space in Winnipeg’s music scene.
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Where to jam
The options for musicians to rent practice space in Winnipeg are risky. The rental laws are ill-defined, which means that tenants rarely purchase insurance or sign a lease agreement, and rent is usually paid in cash
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A Survey of Jan Xylander Exhibition Posters
Minneapolis-based artist and curator Natasha Pestich’s exhibition at Martha Street Studio presents a retrospective collection of screen-printed posters advertising past exhibits by the artist Jan Xylander.
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Coma Cinema - Loss Memory
The fifth and final album from Coma Cinema, Loss Memory, is a wonderfully emotional and original final statement from multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Matthew Lee Cothran
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Screening Black narratives
The very first Afro Prairie Film Festival, a weekend devoted to the screening of films featuring and created by Black individuals, takes place from Feb. 23 to 25 in Winnipeg.
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Arts briefs
Addictions support art group // Artists in schools // All-Inuit guest curatorial team at WAG // 48-hour Anti-Racism Film Challenge // Yoga and fitness for Black men // Classical romance
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Whose House? Katlin’s House!
Katlin Mathison takes music very seriously. The singer-songwriter, who performs under the moniker Okay Mann, started out with typical high school rock band gigs in his hometown of Brandon.
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A recipe for grooving
Dizzy Mystics is a local rock-inspired band with funk, jazz, folk and ’70s metal influences.
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A Cawnversation with Two Crows For Comfort
Cory Sulyma, one-half of local folk duo Two Crows For Comfort, shies away from categorizing the band’s music
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Giant Skellies rattling bones with upcoming EP
Their name might suggest otherwise, but the Giant Skellies are anything but bare bones
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Overcoming fear with honesty
Singer-songwriter Taylor Janzen is a self-proclaimed Julien Baker Evangelist, crediting the artist with inspiring her to open up emotionally within her own writing.
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Getting all the small things right
Pop-punk trio The 1221 take being close with your bandmates to a whole new level.
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The 2018 Uniter Fiver
For this year’s Uniter Fiver, we switched up the order of things a bit and had readers vote on the grand winner of the top five rather than all of the submissions.
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What’s that sound?
Writing about music can sometimes feel like threading a needle with a live catfish.
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Watch your words
Another day, another Trumpian scandal comes across the airwaves. It’s the sort of thing that has been in the news a lot for the last year - which is concerning enough in itself.
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Life in the City of Dirty Water RECAP
On Jan. 30, 2018, Clayton Thomas-Müller shared stories and visuals as part of his larger project, Life in the City of Dirty Water, on stage at the West End Cultural Centre.
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What does diversity on campus mean?
According to the Canadian immigration website, “diversity in Canada extends beyond race and ethnicity but spans language, gender, religious affiliations, sexual orientation, abilities and economic status.”
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PROFile: Pauline Ripat
Professor Pauline Ripat has a long history at the University of Winnipeg. She did her undergraduate degree at the university, and then came back to teach as a sessional in 2001, which turned into a permanent position teaching in the classics department.
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