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HeHo! Festival is back!

Arts & Entertainment, Culture, Downtown, HistoryBy Doug KretchmerFebruary 16, 2014

The best thing about enduring a frigid prairie winter is knowing that every February the Festival du Voyageur brings thousands of people together for one of the best cultural events this province has to offer.

Festival kicks off special year

Arts & Entertainment, Downtown, Education, EnvironmentBy Doug KretchmerFebruary 16, 2014

As the 45th annual Festival du Voyageur opened this weekend with fun and festivities galore, it was clear this year’s edition would be a special one.

Festival du Voyageur offers huge variety of fun and excitement

Arts & Entertainment, Downtown, Environment, HistoryBy Marie LeBlancFebruary 15, 2014

On a frosty cold Friday night, with a beautiful full moon overhead, true voyageurs and explorers of Winnipeg braved the weather to come together and kick off the 45th edition of Manitoba’s most famous winter festival.

“Don’t BE Afraid” promotes deeper level of acceptance

Arts & Entertainment, Culture, Education, Health & Safety, Stories of GivingBy Heather Emberley / Gracie SweetstoryFebruary 14, 2014

A tragic attack that left a music student paralyzed has generated community support for the young man and created a campaign to dissolve fear surrounding homophobia.

Bookstore cafe transformed into folk coffeehouse

Arts & Entertainment, Downtown, Our Neighbourhoods, ReviewsBy Doug KretchmerFebruary 13, 2014

It was folk night at the Neighbourhood Bookstore and Cafe as local musicians Raine Hamilton, Dan Frechette and TWIN shared their acoustic music with an appreciative audience.

Remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman

Arts & Entertainment, Education, Health & SafetyBy Roger CurrieFebruary 10, 2014

Hoffman’s death from what appears to have been a heroin overdose has shocked the world and those in the local film community who worked on “Capote” with him in Winnipeg ten years ago.

Block of ice serves as ‘snowscreen’ for films

Arts & Entertainment, Downtown, Reviews, SportsBy Doug KretchmerFebruary 9, 2014

The 6th annual Canadian Sports Film Festival hit Winnipeg again this weekend where it kicked off at the Park Theatre on Friday night and included film screenings on a snowscreen at The Forks.

A sonic night with a Sonic Youth

Arts & Entertainment, Downtown, ReviewsBy Doug KretchmerFebruary 6, 2014

It was an incredible performance at Winnipeg’s Union Sound Hall recently as former Sonic Youth guitarist, Lee Ranaldo, joined other avant garde musicians for a concoction of atonal sounds and experimental music.

Sneak preview circus performance

Arts & Entertainment, Charitable Organizations, Downtown, EducationBy Sara ShyiakFebruary 6, 2014

People at The Forks yesterday were treated to a sneak preview for an upcoming fundraiser that will feature a cabaret of circus performances, all in support of an artistic intervention project that teaches circus skills to at-risk-youth.

The ‘productionalist’ method

Arts & Entertainment, Charitable Organizations, Health & Safety, PhilanthropyBy Rebecca HendersonFebruary 4, 2014

Victoria Stone is one of several Artbeat alumni artists who will be participating in this week’s 24-Hour Art-a-thon. For Stone, making sculptures is an emotional and passionate experience.

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