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How sweet it is
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New Jenna Rae cookbook focuses on bakers’ favourite home recipes

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New Jenna Rae cookbook focuses on bakers’ favourite home recipes

Eva Wasney 6 minute read Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024

There’s a sweet new edition on the way.

Sisters Jenna Hutchinson and Ashley Kosowan are expanding their successful local bakery business with a new cookbook venture. Jenna Rae Cakes at Home: Our Favourite Recipes to Enjoy with Family and Friends hits bookstores Oct. 8 and features more than 100 colourful, family-friendly recipes.

The cookbook is a followup to their first release, Jenna Rae Cakes and Sweet Treats, and is a labour of love that brings together the twins’ individual interests.

“Ash was meant to make cookbooks,” says Hutchinson, whose passion for cake design prompted the entrepreneurial siblings to open their first Jenna Rae Cakes shop in 2014.

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Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Rhea Rodych-Rasidescu (centre) and others run through a scene on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. An all-woman cast and crew are behind the upcoming Winnipeg Studio Theatre-Rainbow Stage presentation of Miss Shakespeare. For arts story. Winnipeg Free Press 2024
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Miss Shakespeare turns gender bias on its ear

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Miss Shakespeare turns gender bias on its ear

Holly Harris 5 minute read Sunday, Sep. 29, 2024

Winnipeg Studio Theatre kicked off its season with the guts and glory of female empowerment in its all-women-led local premiere of Miss Shakespeare.

The two-hour musical — directed by company artistic director Erin McGrath and presented by Rainbow Stage — runs through Oct. 5 at the University of Winnipeg’s Asper Centre for Theatre and Film. Saturday night’s crowd eagerly lapped up its feminist ethos.

Its quasi-historical protagonist, Judith Shakespeare (played by a spunky Rhea Rodych-Rasidescu), is the Bard’s real-life daughter “born with a poetic soul.” Judith lives in the shadows of her famous father during the repressive 1600s, when women were relegated to becoming wives and mothers, rather than pursuing their own passions.

Judith yearns for her own identity as a self-actualized creative powerhouse, and cobbles together the “Gossips,” a merry band of like-minded women who surreptitiously meet each week in the bowels of The Cage tavern to create a play. They spar, share stories, and dream, risking public humiliation if they’re discovered treading the boards like their male counterparts.

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Sunday, Sep. 29, 2024
Supplied Larry (Toby Hughes, left, with Melanie Whyte and Lisa Bell) delves into our health care.
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Satirical musical tackles health-care woes in bite-sized chunks

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Satirical musical tackles health-care woes in bite-sized chunks

Thandi Vera 5 minute read Thursday, Apr. 18, 2024

They say laughter is the best medicine. Throw a little song-and-dance into the mix and you get Larry Saves the Canadian Healthcare System — an 11-part web microseries that humorously addresses Canada’s ailing medical system through music and satire.

Sara Kreindler, a professor of community health sciences at the University of Manitoba, spearheads the show, drawing from her extensive research.

“It’s about starting a conversation,” says writer-composer Kreindler, who has a PhD in social psychology. “Whether you’re a health-care provider or just someone curious about the system, I want viewers to come away feeling empowered to hold our elected leaders accountable for addressing the underlying issues.”

Through the character of Larry, played by Winnipeg actor Toby Hughes, viewers embark on a journey navigating the complexities of health-care policy.

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Thursday, Apr. 18, 2024
The Crave app is seen on a phone in Toronto on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019. Crave is introducing two ad-supported tiers that each shave $5 or $10 off the monthly subscription fee. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graeme Roy
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Crave introduces ad tiers, including $9.99 plan

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Crave introduces ad tiers, including $9.99 plan

The Canadian Press 2 minute read Saturday, Sep. 20, 2025

TORONTO - Crave is introducing two ad-supported tiers that each shave $5 or $10 off the monthly subscription fee.

Bell Media says its new Crave Basic with Ads costs $9.99/month, while Crave Standard with Ads costs $14.99/month. An unchanged ad-free option remains at $19.99/month, and is renamed Crave Premium Ad-Free.

Viewers can watch most shows and movies, including HBO and Max originals, on the ad-supported plans. About one per cent of titles won't be available due to licensing restrictions.

Ads will be 15 or 30 seconds long, totalling about five minutes per hour, and appear before and during some episodes and films.

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Saturday, Sep. 20, 2025
JESSICA LEE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Faiza Malik, 16, shows off one of her untitled paintings at her Winnipeg home. Malik, who moved to Canada nine years ago from Afghanistan, credits art and creativity with helping her transition to her new life here.
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Teenage artist finds creative process helps her tap into emotions, find sense of self

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Teenage artist finds creative process helps her tap into emotions, find sense of self

Sabrina Carnevale 7 minute read Monday, Oct. 18, 2021

Faiza Malik found more than peace and safety when she and her family arrived in Canada from Afghanistan nine years ago — she also found art.

The 16-year-old credits art and creativity with helping her transition to a new life. Now she wants to work with local kids to give them access to resources she never had growing up.

“I started painting when I first arrived in Canada when I was in Grade 2 or Grade 3. We had those little art projects in school and I was always excited to do those things because I was using my hands and creating something new,” Malik says. “Art wasn’t really a thing that was available in Afghanistan.”

She admits the culture shock was all-consuming when she and her family, including her mom, dad and three siblings, first arrived here.

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Monday, Oct. 18, 2021
Photos by Shel Zolkewich / Winnipeg Free Press When Paint Lake is still, reflections are highly effective for capturing fall colours. Simply stroll through the picnic and beach areas for great views.
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Falling for a splash of colour

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Falling for a splash of colour

Shel Zolkewich 3 minute read Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021

How silently they tumble downAnd come to rest upon the groundTo lay a carpet, rich and rare,Beneath the trees without a care,Content to sleep, their work well done,Colors gleaming in the sun.

Leaves, by Elsie N. Brady

The autumn equinox has come and gone, leaving a fully-fledged landscape to show off its finery every day. The luminescent yellow aspen leaves tip back and forth, back and forth. Maples slip into deep burgundy coats. And in the north, the delicate tamaracks blaze with gold. Fall foliage is in full swing. Time to grab a camera and hit the road.

Hecla Island Provincial Park promises a variety of landscape, offering plenty of diversity in not only its resident trees — including tamarack and birch — but also its stands of phragmites (common reeds) and cattails. You also have a great chance of spotting migrating bald eagles and plenty of waterfowl too.

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Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021
JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Winnipeg Art Gallery’s new Inuit Art Centre in Winnipeg Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Reporter: ?
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At 50, the WAG is embracing a spirit of reconciliation and reinvention

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At 50, the WAG is embracing a spirit of reconciliation and reinvention

Alan Small 6 minute read Friday, Sep. 24, 2021

Paintings by Vincent Van Gogh and Group of Seven artists such as L.L. FitzGerald were among the famous paintings on display when the Winnipeg Art Gallery opened its doors 50 years ago today.

Grand works all, but it was a few sculptures by Inuit artists that were also on display that caught the eye of Princess Margaret, who gave the gallery its grand unveiling on Sept. 25, 1971, during her royal visit to the city, the Free Press reported then.

Perhaps the princess was onto something. Half a century later, works by Indigenous artists are no longer mere curiosities that add variety to exhibitions showcasing the old masters.

Indigenous art at the WAG has become the showcase.

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Friday, Sep. 24, 2021
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WAG's angular architecture combines form, function in a building both timeless and of its time

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WAG's angular architecture combines form, function in a building both timeless and of its time

Alison Gillmor 8 minute read Friday, Sep. 24, 2021

Asked to talk about the Winnipeg Art Gallery building, Stephen Borys pauses for a moment.

“If I had to describe it in one word, it would be ‘timeless,’” says Borys, current director and CEO of the WAG.

Over the course of the Qaumajuq project, Borys found himself looking at photographs of the original WAG structure, designed by Hong Kong-born Canadian architect Gustavo da Roza, from its 1971 opening right up to the present.

“It’s one of Canada’s significant late modernist buildings,” Borys states. “But you look at these photos, and other than the make of cars and the way people dress, it’s hard to put a date on. And that is something that speaks not just of great architecture. It has a resonance beyond a style or a period.”

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Friday, Sep. 24, 2021
Photos by Daniel Crump / Winnipeg Free Press Pajack Obeing is a mentee in the Raising New Voices mentorship program, which aims to provide opportunities for emerging artists from communities typically underrepresented in the arts world.
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Magnificent mentorship program

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Magnificent mentorship program

Julia-Simone Rutgers 7 minute read Tuesday, Sep. 7, 2021

Sitting on a piano bench at the back of the St. Norbert Arts Centre gallery space Thursday, up-and-coming musician Tomiwa Omolayo is wearing rose-coloured glasses — literally.

It’s the same pair of tinted shades (accented by a rolled-up mustard-yellow toque) the self-proclaimed optimist wore for his first live show since the COVID-19 pandemic: a performance on the GerryFest 2021 stage.

“I was nervous because I wasn’t sure if the music would connect,” Omolayo said, thinking back to the August 13 show on a breezy outdoor stage at the arts centre. “I’m trying to make something that’s different, something that’s fresh.”

The Lagos-born 23-year-old is an Afrofusion artist who launched his career blending a variety of musical genres with the classic sounds of afrobeats in 2018, after moving from Nigeria to Winnipeg for school just a few years before.

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Tuesday, Sep. 7, 2021
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Set of The Porter a testament to the special connection production has with Winnipeg's Black history

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Set of The Porter a testament to the special connection production has with Winnipeg's Black history

Julia-Simone Rutgers 12 minute read Thursday, Sep. 2, 2021

On a rainy Friday evening in Winnipeg’s landmark Nutty Club building, camera crews, grips, food services, hair and makeup teams, stand-ins and actors are spinning about in dance-like organized chaos.

The five-storey candy warehouse — first erected in 1905 and still standing in the shadow of active CP and CN rail lines — has been transformed, pulled back to its turn-of-the-20th-century roots as a set for CBC’s upcoming TV drama The Porter. At each stop along the building’s steep wooden staircase, the team behind Canada’s largest Black-led production is hard at work bringing the roaring ‘20s — and an oft-forgotten story of Black liberation and empowerment — to life.

On one floor, cast and crew block their scene movements, listening raptly to directors, speaking in huddles, donning crisp white shirts and suspenders or gowns, preparing for the crack of the clapperboard.

A floor above, the members of the “video village” tuck on their headphones, lean over screens and warn each other not to move, lest the ceilings shake below.

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Thursday, Sep. 2, 2021
MIKE SUDOMA / Winnipeg Free Press Manitoba opera singer Rhonda Head performs at Assiniboine Park; she will be at the Fall Fair on Friday.
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Cree singer Rhonda Head stumbled into classical music, then made it her own

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Cree singer Rhonda Head stumbled into classical music, then made it her own

Alan Small 6 minute read Wednesday, Sep. 1, 2021

Singer Rhonda Head has travelled a long and winding road to get her voice heard.

Her classically trained vocals have received worldwide recognition after she received two bronze medals from the Global Music Awards, an online competition that specializes in classical and jazz artists and composers.

Head, who hails from Opaskwayak Cree Nation, near The Pas, earned the acclaim for two Cree language songs, Kisahkihitin I Love You, which was in the contemporary classical category, and 500 Years, which received honours among protest songs.

She began taking singing lessons in 1987, after she graduated from high school at the University of Winnipeg Collegiate and moved to Toronto to study fashion. She found, almost by chance, that singing suited her better.

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Wednesday, Sep. 1, 2021
SUPPLIED The City of Selkirk announced it has purchased the Garry Theatre for $350,000, plus closing costs.
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The show must go on as Selkirk buys theatre

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The show must go on as Selkirk buys theatre

Cody Sellar 3 minute read Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021

Many in Selkirk thought the credits had rolled for the Garry Theatre, but it appears there’s a sequel.

Landmark Cinemas decided to close it in May and on Wednesday, the City of Selkirk announced it had purchased the theatre for $350,000, plus closing costs.

“What we’ve heard so far is people are very excited and very happy that the city has been able to secure the property,” said Selkirk CAO Duane Nicol.

Nicol said the city will reach out to the community to determine how best to use the building. The city hopes it will become a centre for arts and culture, he said.

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Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021
Supplied Charlie Johnston portrays an elaborate game of cat’s cradle that becomes a cosmic session of electrochemical psychotherapy at 357 Eveline St. in Selkirk.
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Selkirk art crawl centres on city's thriving mural scene

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Selkirk art crawl centres on city's thriving mural scene

Ben Waldman  6 minute read Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021

Sometimes a wall is more than just a wall.

It’s a blank canvas. And in recent years, artists in Selkirk have turned several into works of art, highlighting local figures and traditions, using paint to transform bricks and plaster in the downtown into a growing visual history of the city.

Since 2018, nearly 20 murals have emerged, depicting everything from the traditional community round dance to Indigenous and settler women thriving on the Prairie landscape to a grandmother passing on her teachings. Others bring needed attention to the ongoing crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, and to everyone affected, in the past and present, by the Indian Residential School System, those who came home and those who never did, artist Jordan Stranger says.

All these murals will serve as the backdrop for a free public art crawl Sept. 4 and 5, with local vendors and artisans posting up next to them and getting a long-awaited opportunity to share their work with the community, including handmade goods, paintings, crafts, sewing and woodworking pieces, and much more.

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Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021
ANDREW RYAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Chris Hadley works on the prosthetic Beast head at his home studio in Winnipeg.
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Former mechanic gives a face to Rainbow Stage's Beast

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Former mechanic gives a face to Rainbow Stage's Beast

Randall King 5 minute read Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025

It’s not exactly a tale as old as time.

About 20 years ago, Christian Hadley was an auto mechanic dissatisfied with the grind of machining auto parts and deflated at the prospect of repairing another tire.

He needed a change, and not the kind involving 5W30 motor oil.

His career pivot was, quite literally, dramatic. At the age of 25, he went to the University of Winnipeg to study theatre arts. He emerged with skills in both set-building and makeup design. And he brings those skills to fruition in the Rainbow Stage production of Beauty and the Beast.

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Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025
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L’avenir de l’Arctique au cœur de Breaking Ice

Morgane Lemée de La Liberté pour le Winnipeg Free Press 4 minute read Saturday, Apr. 7, 2018

Breaking Ice, c’est un aperçu de la vie sur un brise-glace de recherche, au beau milieu de l’Arctique. À travers son premier long-métrage documentaire, Christopher Paetkau transmet un message sur des enjeux environnementaux cruciaux pour le Canada et le monde entier. Entre frissons et passion.

Christopher Paetkau, Trevor Gill et Carlyle Paetkau ont fondé la maison de production manitobaine Build Films en 2013. Après plusieurs documentaires et publicités, Breaking Ice est leur plus grand projet. Il vise d’ailleurs à répondre au point central de leur mission: les enjeux de l’Arctique.

“Nous travaillons beaucoup dans l’Arctique, surtout sur des aires marines protégées. Au début, c’était une question de curiosité. Puis, ça nous a vraiment pris aux tripes. Une fois là, on réalise à quel point ces paysages sont complexes et fascinants. Pour nous, l’émotion n’est pas d’avoir une caméra entre les mains. Elle vient d’être capable de transmettre un message.

“Quand vous sentez le sol littéralement fondre sous vos pieds et que vous savez que des gens vivent ici, il y a vraiment de quoi se poser des questions. À mon avis, l’Arctique est d’une actualité brûlante. Il y a tant de choses à entreprendre.”

Daniel Bahuaud photo ‘Toute la francophonie nord-américaine est liée’: Le bédéiste québécois Jocelyn Jalette a rendu hommage à Louis Riel en visitant, le 8 novembre dernier, la tombe du Père du Manitoba. Riel a été pendu le 16 novembre 1885.
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Riel, le lien entre les francos d’Amérique

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Riel, le lien entre les francos d’Amérique

Daniel Bahuaud de La Liberté pour le Winnipeg Free Press  5 minute read Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017

Pour Jocelyn Jalette, bédéiste de Joliette, au Québec, pas besoin d’être métis, ou manitobain, ou encore francophone en milieu minoritaire pour apprécier le combat, le triomphe et la tragédie de Louis Riel. Et voici pourquoi.

Dans La République assassinée des Métis, la bande dessinée de Jocelyn Jalette qui vient tout juste d’être publiée aux Éditions du Phoenix (www.editionsduphoenix.com), des personnages fictifs côtoient Louis Riel et Gabriel Dumont, mais aussi les politiciens Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Louis-Joseph Papineau et Honoré Mercier.

Une palette de personnages pour mieux placer la résistance des Métis dans un contexte francophone plus large, comme le souligne l’auteur de 47 ans :

“Les liens sont étroits entre la résistance des Métis, Louis Riel et les francophones du Québec. Surtout quand on se rappelle que la lutte pour assurer un statut d’égalité entre le français, l’anglais, et les cultures francophone et anglophone, c’est l’affaire de tous les francophones.”

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Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017
Photo gracieuseté Carole Bellavance Le Choeur En Supplément’Air lors d’un concert au Grand Théâtre de Québec.
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Traversant le Canada en 20 chansons

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Traversant le Canada en 20 chansons

Manella Vila Nova 4 minute read Saturday, Jul. 8, 2017

De La Rochelle à la Colombie-Britannique en passant par l’Acadie, le Québec, l’Ontario et les Prairies, voici le voyage que proposera la chorale québécoise En Supplément’Air dans la Cathédrale de Saint-Boniface à l’occasion du 150e anniversaire de la Confédération canadienne, le 11 juillet.

Le Chœur En Supplément’Air a été fondé en 2015 par Carole Bellavance, la directrice artistique de la chorale. “Cette année, le chœur compte 300 choristes de toute la province du Québec. Tous les étés, nous organisons une tournée avec une quarantaine d’entre eux. Nous sommes partis le 3 juillet pour un premier concert à Ottawa, puis nous nous rendrons à North Bay, Sault Sainte-Marie, Thunder Bay. Nous terminerons à Winnipeg le 11 juillet,” Bellavance a dit.

C’est la première fois que le chœur se déplace aussi loin à l’ouest du Canada. “Avec notre spectacle Le périple de la chanson francophone en Haute-Amérique, nous voulons faire valoir l’histoire de la chanson francophone au Canada à travers le temps. Nous avons choisi des chansons de partout pour mettre en valeur les régions. Le propos se prête bien à la grande aventure de la francophonie canadienne. J’ai profité du 150e anniversaire de la Confédération pour faire vivre aux choristes les chansons francophones canadiennes, et pas seulement québécoises.”

Harmonisé et orchestré par François Couture, le spectacle met la culture francophone au premier plan. “La culture francophone a été apportée de l’Europe. Pour illustrer cela, notre première chanson s’intitule Je pars à l’autre bout du monde. Au début du spectacle, on se sent vraiment à La Rochelle. Ensuite, on arrive dans les Maritimes avec des chansons qui reflètent l’histoire de l’Acadie, puis du Québec, et le développement de l’Ontario. Nous suivons le trajet de la chanson francophone, d’est en ouest.”

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Saturday, Jul. 8, 2017
Fight for survival in 1542
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Gripping drama Elle brings outdoor hardship to PTE's indoor stage

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Gripping drama Elle brings outdoor hardship to PTE's indoor stage

Randall King 3 minute read Friday, Feb. 24, 2017

The medium of theatre doesn't necessarily lend itself to a story of survival in the wilderness.

There's a reason The Revenant was a movie and not a Broadway play.

And yet the historical drama Elle, an adaptation of the Governor General’s Award-winning novel by Douglas Glover of the same name by Toronto actress Severn Thompson, manages to be an engaging, gripping piece of work... even in the civilized Prairie Theatre Exchange environs in Portage Place.

Over the course of 90 minutes (without intermission), Thompson connects us to an extraordinary character, based on Marguerite de la Rocque de Roberval, a headstrong young Frenchwoman tantalized to a trip to Canada in 1542 by exotic tales of naked natives and strange customs.

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Friday, Feb. 24, 2017
RUBY IRENE PRATKA PHOTO Pascal Boutroy, le cofondateur du Festival international de films pour enfants de tous âges Freeze Frame, invite enfants et adultes à élargir leurs horizons cinématiques.
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Un festival qui fait confiance aux enfants

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Un festival qui fait confiance aux enfants

Ruby Irene Pratka 4 minute read Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016

Depuis 20 ans, le Festival international de films pour enfants de tous âges Freeze Frame valorise la perspective des plus jeunes et les incite à penser. Le cofondateur du festival, Pascal Boutroy, est un cinéphile de longue date.

“J’ai découvert le cinéma pour enfants dans les années 1990, quand j’ai travaillé comme critique de cinéma à Montréal. Surtout, j’ai découvert quelque chose d’extraordinaire: des films intelligents et sensibles. Et j’ai vu l’effet que cela pouvait avoir sur les enfants. Quand ils sortent de la salle, ils ont appris des choses à propos d’eux-mêmes.”

En 1996, nouvellement arrivés à Winnipeg, Boutroy et sa conjointe, Nicole Matiation, cofondent le festival Freeze Frame. En 20 ans le festival, qui met à l’affiche des films en plusieurs langues, y compris le français, est devenu le festival de cinéma le plus fréquenté au Manitoba, avec entre 6,000 et 8,000 participants chaque année.

Boutroy attribue le succès du festival à la diversité de la programmation.

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Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016
MANITO MÉDIA PHOTO Jules Desjarlais: ‘Au pays des Michifs, ce sera bien plus qu’un aperçu sur nos chasseurs, pêcheurs et trappeurs. C’est la présentation d’un mode de vie.’
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Saint-Laurent la télé en 2017

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Saint-Laurent la télé en 2017

Par Daniel Bahuaud 5 minute read Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016

Les pêcheurs, chasseurs et trappeurs métis de Saint-Laurent seront bient¥t connus au Québec gr¢ce une série documentaire produite pour le Canal D. De plus, la caméra se posera sur la culture métisse. Bienvenue Au pays des Michifs.

Ce qui étonne Jules Desjarlais n'est pas que Manito Média, l'entreprise de production bonifacienne fondée par Charles et Patrick Clément, ait réussi convaincre le Canal D commander une série documentaire portant sur les Métis de Saint-Laurent. C'est que les Métis se soient laissés photographier par les caméras télé!

Jules Desjarlais en est persuadé: "Nous, les Métis, on est pas mal gêné. Notre vie privée, on y tient. Mais tranquillement, dans les dernières décennies, le public respecte pas mal plus notre culture. Chez nous, c'est l'exposition sur les Métis présentée entre 2004 et juillet 2015 (au National Museum of the American Indian, un des musées du Smithsonian Institution de Washington), qui a fait une différence énorme. On est plus portés dire "oui" quand on nous propose des projets comme la série Au pays des Michifs. On s'intéresse faire connaître notre culture, la faire respecter, pour que les gens nous connaissent plus."

Résultat: Gerry Bruce et Roland Bruce, Norbert Langellier et son fils, Charles et Langellier, ainsi que Laurent Dumont, figureront parmi les chasseurs, pêcheurs et trappeurs présentés dans l'émission, en tournage depuis l'automne 2015. Le natif de Saint-Laurent, vétéran de plusieurs productions hollywoodiennes, notamment la série Docteur Quinn, femme médecin et le film Terrain miné (On Deadly Ground) sera le narrateur et présentateur de la série.

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Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016
Archives La Liberté Camerata Nova en 2003, dans une photo prise dans les ruines du monastère des pères trappistes, à Saint-Norbert.
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Comment le rêve d’une poignée d’amoureux est devenu réalité

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Comment le rêve d’une poignée d’amoureux est devenu réalité

Daniel Bahuaud 5 minute read Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015

Au début des années 1990, un petit groupe de passionnés se rencontrait pour chanter, prendre un verre et partager leur amour du chant choral de la Renaissance. Un premier concert fort réussi en 1996 a mis l’ensemble, désormais connu sous le nom de Camerata Nova, sur le chemin de la réussite artistique.

Andrew Balfour, le directeur artistique de Camerata Nova, garde de vifs souvenirs des toutes premières années de l’ensemble.

“Nous étions cinq, tous dans la fin de notre vingtaine. Ce que nous avions en commun, c’était l’expérience d’avoir chanté des ouvrages de la Renaissance dans des chorales d’églises locales. Enfant, j’étais membre de la chorale pour garçons de l’église anglicane All Saints, à Winnipeg. Le futur directeur musical de Camerata Nova, Ross Brownlee, a fait partie de la même chorale. On se côtoie depuis bien longtemps!

“Notre petit groupe de cinq chantait parce qu’il aimait cette forme d’expression. À ce point-là, nous avions tous complété nos études universitaires. La joie de faire partie des chorales universitaires nous manquait énormément. Alors on s’est mis a chanter la belle musique de la Renaissance — des motets, des madrigaux, de la musique religieuse des grands compositeurs de cette époque, comme Byrd, Dowland, Monteverdi et Palestrina.

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Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015
Ruby Irene Pratka Le guitariste Guy Michaud s�attend �� une soir��e m��morable.
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Soirée espagnole sera ‘lyrique, melodique’

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Soirée espagnole sera ‘lyrique, melodique’

Par Ruby Irene Pratka 4 minute read Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015

La Winnipeg Classical Guitar Society entamera sa saison 2015-2016 le 24 octobre avec un concert l'église du Précieux-Sang, Saint-Boniface. La guitariste classique Gohar Vardanyan, une virtuose arménienne actuellement basée New York, présentera une série de pièces espagnoles classiques.

Le guitariste Guy Michaud, membre du conseil d'administration de la société et membre actif de la société depuis plus de 25 ans, ne cache pas son enthousiasme par rapport au concert. Il fait partie d'un nouveau conseil exécutif qui a planifié une saison de concerts ouverte et diversifiée.

"Ä Winnipeg, on a la chance d'avoir une société pour la guitare, et il y a des artistes de grande renommée qui viennent jouer ici. Gohar Vardanyan est une guitariste arménienne qui est aussi américaine, qui a donné des concerts au Lincoln Center New York. Elle a aussi joué San Francisco et un peu partout. Je pense qu'on va avoir un excellent concert."

Mme Vardanyan s'est fait un nom dans le monde musical avec ses interprétations riches et émotionnelles de la musique des compositeurs de tradition espagnole, tels qu'Astor Piazzola et Manuel Ponce.

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Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015
PHOTO BY DANIEL BAHUAUD Cyril Parent
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Ceci est mon drapeau

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Ceci est mon drapeau

By Daniel Bahuaud 5 minute read Saturday, Mar. 22, 2014

DEPUIS plus de deux ans, vous lisez chaque semaine le Fil des francophiles dans ce journal.

Vous commencez à connaître davantage la communauté francomanitobaine. Mais connaissez-vous son drapeau?

Examinez bien la photo qui accompagne cet article. Il est fort possible que vous ayez vu ce drapeau flotter au mat d’une école française. Peutêtre l’avez-vous vu au Festival du Voyageur, à l’entrée de l’Université de Saint-Boniface, sur un T-shirt ou encore sur le pare-choc d’une voiture. En 2010, il a même flotté au mat de la Tour de la Paix du Parlement canadien, à Ottawa!

En fait, si les Franco-Manitobains en ont fait leur drapeau, il n’empêche que le drapeau est relativement récent, ayant été créé, et adopté par la communauté francophone, en 1980.

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Saturday, Mar. 22, 2014
Postmedia Getty Images Kate Moss in an advertisement. Jean Kilbourne has dissected the ways in which ads create impossible ideals that women must spend an incredible amount of time, energy and money chasing.
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Ad another thing: sounding the alarm about advertising’s ill effects on society

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Ad another thing: sounding the alarm about advertising’s ill effects on society

By Jen Zoratti 6 minute read Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013

Jean Kilbourne was an adbuster long before there was anything close to resembling Adbusters.

When the acclaimed feminist scholar, author, filmmaker and media literacy pioneer, who speaks Thursday at 7:30 p.m., at the University of Winnipeg's Convocation Hall, began tearing advertisements out of magazines and posting them on her refrigerator back in 1968, she didn't know she would start a movement, let alone a respected field of study.

At the time, she just wanted to open people's eyes. She assembled the ads she collected into a slideshow presentation that she took to college campuses in the 1970s. She had one goal: tell anyone who would listen about the damaging effect ads were having on women.

"I was the first person to start talking about the image of women in advertising," Kilbourne, 70, recalls. "(The ads) were outrageous and no one was paying attention to them."

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Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013