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What’s happening today
Winnipeg visual artist Jan Rogers has synesthesia, a neurological condition in which one sense is also experienced simultaneously by another. For Rogers, this manifests as seeing colours when hearing music.
Working in watercolour and acrylic, Rogers translates those colours to canvas in the works that compose Crossed-wires: Painting Through a Synesthetic Lens, opening today at Cre8ery Gallery & Studio, 125 Adelaide St., from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and running until March 25, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Jan Rogers’ take on Herbie Hancock’s
Cantaloupe Island (Supplied)
Today’s must-read
Earnest Prescotte is still picking up the pieces of his life nine months after his Transcona home exploded.
His Camrose Bay house blew up on June 26, damaging 22 other homes, including a neighbour’s that had to be demolished. Prescotte wasn’t home when the explosion happened and no one was injured.
The 75-year-old says he can’t believe, nine months later, he continues to struggle to make ends meet as he waits for the police to finish the investigation and for his insurance claim to move forward. Malak Abas has the story.
Earnest Prescotte stands next to the fenced in lot where his home once stood. (Ruth Bonneville / Free Press)
On this date
On March 7, 1974: The Winnipeg Free Press reported Britain’s 280,000 coal miners were due back at work on Monday following a wage settlement to end their strike; prime minister Harold Wilson ordered a speedy end to the three-day work week his Conservative predecessor had put most of the country’s industry on to conserve coal-powered electricity. In Washington, D.C., U.S. president Richard Nixon agreed to give sworn testimony as part of the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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