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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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Punchie
Punchie is a one panel comic series that explores different worlds and characters. Hearts that rumble with faces from the fringes. Issue 1: In droid city, the resistance tags in red.
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How’s Winnipeg?
“So how’s Winnipeg?” is the question my friends back in Calgary keep asking me. I moved from there to here five months ago, in November, which is widely regarded as a curious move from both Calgarians and Winnipeggers alike. I always skirt around the question, mainly because it’s a pretty complex answer I’m still figuring out.
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This dump is alright
When searching the words “Winnipeg is” on Google, the first three phrases to appear were “a dump,” “a death sentence” and “frozen.” The fourth phrase, however, was “a great city.”
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Through Callie’s Eyes
Callie Morris began taking photos at age 12, during a trip to Japan with her dad.
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Through Daniel’s Eyes
Daniel Crump is a storyteller with a passion for documenting the world using the medium of photography.
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Trees and bees
When it comes to Winnipeg’s urban environment, there are untapped resources peppered all throughout our city.
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50 years of community
The University of Winnipeg (U of W) celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2017. Throughout those years, the institution has developed an identity that experts say is still evolving.
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Dry Wit
“What can I drink there?” can be as big a question for sober folks as it is for anyone else, but our take on the answer is a little bit different.
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Painting the town
Winnipeg is home to many murals that tell the city’s tale. Artistic renderings of historical events can be found throughout the city, but as artists become inspired by other styles, they, and their murals, may be moving in a new direction.
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If you like The Head and the Heart, you’ll love …
Popular folk and pop group The Head and the Heart will play the Burton Cummings Theatre on May 31 – a show that will attract many fans – but in the meantime, there are plenty of local acts for music lovers to enjoy.
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Reviewing Winnipeg
For the Urban Issue, The Uniter is reviewing facets of Winnipeg itself.
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Publishers per capita
Perhaps it’s time for Manitoba to start celebrating its status as a publishing hotspot.
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Local drag
Will Garrioch would love to see more growth on the Winnipeg drag scene so artists could start making some money.
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Mix it up
This, our last regular-ish paper of the year, is somewhat unconventional.
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TOBA
Assassins, intrigue, an overweight cat with psychic abilities — just a standard weekday for an infamous space drifter like TOBA. He has exes all over this end of the galaxy, and the police are after his trans-dimensional kush, but if he can keep his head down and his medicine ablaze, he may decide the fate of the universe.
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Can’t miss a target that doesn’t exist
Both the Winnipeg city council and the Manitoba provincial government announced budget cuts that will see 2017 public services scaled back, as well as hiring and wage freezes for those employed by both levels of government.
University of Winnipeg and downtown community newspaper