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The Arts

Concerts PRINT | 20/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0

Aria-ha-ha

Stage director David Gately has spent so much time with The Barber of Seville, he jokes that the opera could drive him to self-injury with a straight razor. PRINT | 19/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
The revolution will be adorable

The Pinky Show, an anonymous artists' collective that deploys adorable cartoon cats to advance radical left ideas, is staging a campus occupation this month. The group's multimedia exhibition at the University of Winnipeg's Gallery 1C03 uses its academic setting to question the institutionalized values of higher education. And while the relationship between artists and patrons has always been tricky, The Pinky Show isn't biting the hand that feeds it. It's just nipping a bit with those darling little kitty teeth. PRINT | 19/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
What's her line?

In the aftermath of her breakthrough season in 2007-08, Toronto playwright Hannah Moscovitch was deluged with play commissions from artistic directors anxious to get in on what might be the next big thing in Canadian theatre. PRINT | 19/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
WECC artistic director joins Cultural Capital team

THE artistic director of the West End Cultural Centre is leaving to become the point man for the Winnipeg Arts Council's Cultural Capital 2010 program. PRINT | 17/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
Cirque to perform Alegría in Winnipeg

CIRQUE du Soleil is bringing its critically acclaimed production, Alegría, to Winnipeg next July. PRINT | 17/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0