The Winnipeg Fringe Festival is back, with 113 shows taking place across 24 venues between July 13 and 24. All of the Free Press' reviews will be published by July 18. Find a show below and click to read its review.
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The Winnipeg Fringe Festival is back, with 113 shows taking place across 24 venues between July 13 and 24. All of the Free Press' reviews will be published by July 18. Find a show below and click to read its review.
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The Winnipeg Fringe Festival is back, with 113 shows taking place across 24 venues between July 13 and 24. All of the Free Press’ reviews will be published by July 18. Find a show below and click to read its review.
Five-star fringe
As the festival enters its final weekend here are 10 reviews that earned five-star accolades from the Free Press fringe team.
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Theatre goers head towards Venue #4 of the Winnipeg Fringe Festival for a Friday afternoon showing of Write, Rewrite, Repeat. The festival has turned two empty stores at Portage Place into theatre venues.
Bushtits, Shih Tzus And Private Dicks: All’s Fur In Love And Noir
Contractions
How I Met My Mother
Is This Yours
Kateryna And Havrylo
Monster Makers
The Morning After With Pam & Paula
Romeo & Juliet
Se’ed
Something In The Water
The Stakeout
Songs From A Wine-stained Notebook
A Toast To Prohibition
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You never know what to expect at the fringe: Joanna and Orlando Braun with their daughter Willow are surprised by the Causin’ a Commotion Chinese lion.
Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl In Hitler’s Germany
Epidermis Circus
I Am The Most Unfeeling Doctor In The World (and Other Tales From The Emergency Room)
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover
The Magic That Is Me
Meagre Joys
Mr. Coffeehead
Pretty Beast
Robert Will Show You The Door Ttales Of Being Fired)
Scattered Seeds
Six-legs
Slowly And Sideways
Tango: To The Pointe
Whatever Happens After
Write, Rewrite, Repeat
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Six-year-old Layla Allen, her mom Cher Allan and dad Tod Allen spend the day hanging out in Old Market Square watching performances and playing games.
A weed-covered plot of land in Bridgwater has been left to grow wild all summer, raising the ire of neighbours who say they were told the property is owned by Manitoba Housing and bylaw officers cannot intervene.
Maggie Macintosh5 minute readUpdated: Yesterday at 6:48 AM CDT
A Roblin teacher has been stripped of his professional licence after an undercover police investigation found he sent explicit messages to a social media user he believed to be a 15-year-old girl.
Manitoba cancelled Josh Braaksma’s credentials — listed in the province’s online registry under his full name, Joshua William Braaksma — on July 6. His certificate was suspended on an interim basis in the fall.
The misconduct case involving Braaksma, who has taught and coached in the Mountain View School Division over the last decade, is the first to be resolved via a “written hearing.”
“Having regard to the nature, content and context of (his) communications, the panel finds that the teacher’s conduct renders him unsuitable to be a teacher,” the disciplinary decision states.
Directly above the West Broadway vendor and noisy bar now known as the Kyoto Kat Club, amid a primly kept wardrobe and dirty coffee mugs, Josh Peterson’s bachelor suite is bursting with coveted Manitoba art.
Nearly 250 people have moved out of Winnipeg encampments under the Manitoba government’s Your Way Home strategy, which is more than 70 per cent of the NDP’s goal for its first term in office.
Scott Billeck3 minute readYesterday at 8:54 AM CDT
An outreach organization at the centre of growing concerns over safety in Osborne Village says it is taking steps to improve conditions around its drop-in centre and reaffirming its commitment to the neighbourhood.
“We recognize the concerns raised about the activity around our… drop-in site and understand the importance of maintaining a safe and welcoming neighbourhood for everyone including residents, families, local businesses and the people who access our services,” 1JustCity, which operates the drop-in Oak Table, said in a statement issued late Wednesday.
The organization said it is increasing staff presence, conducting regular patrols, expanding outreach efforts and extending Oak Table’s hours to provide more supervised indoor space, meals and access to supports, while continuing to monitor the surrounding neighbourhood and encourage respectful use of public spaces.
The province is also providing the organization with $500,000 to expand Oak Table’s hours and launch a new outreach team.
