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Winnipeggers encouraged to share civic thoughts through interactive poetry project
4 minute read Yesterday at 4:54 PM CDTJennifer Still wants you to help write the story of our city — what is, what was and what could be.
Winnipeg’s poet laureate for 2025/26 has just launched The Story of Winnipeg, a citywide poetry project in collaboration with the Winnipeg Arts Council and the Winnipeg Public Library.
Each library branch will provide participants with folded, fill-in-the-blank books that Still crafted out of City of Winnipeg maps and archival materials. People can keep their books as keepsakes, or they can send their poems back to Still via the paper mailbox stationed at each library branch in the city.
The collected poems will be shared as part of a public installation in 2026.
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The Talbots, through their distribution company, New Yorker Films, and such prominent Manhattan theaters as The New Yorker and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, were a prolific force behind the transformation of movies in the 1960s and '70s from popular entertainment to an art form regarded with the seriousness of literature or painting. Martin Scorsese, Pauline Kael, Wim Wenders and Susan Sontag were among their many friends and customers, turning up for the latest Godard release, a documentary about Sen. Joseph McCarthy or a double feature of Cary Grant movies.
“The New Yorker was a very special place. It was a place of communion, where the customers, the owners, the programmers, and the filmmakers seemed to be part of the same family,” Scorsese wrote in the foreword to Toby Talbot's memoir, “The New Yorker Theater,” which came out in 2009. “Dan and Toby were right there on the front lines, showing films ... distributing films, sticking their neck out on pictures by Godard and Bertolucci and Fassbinder and Straub and Huillet and Oshima and Sembene.”
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