Good news for the Winnipeg Folk Festival as it wrapped up its 39th annual event this past weekend. Two substantial contributions to its Staging the Future Capital Campaign have been announced. The first comes from the Province of Manitoba as a $650,000 donation which will provide improvements to the festival campground, including shade structures, lighting and…
It is with great sadness that our city learned that former Winnipeg mayor Bill Norrie passed away on Friday, July 6, 2012, at the age of 83. The Norrie family will hold a memorial service on Wednesday, July 11 at 1:00 pm at Crescent Fort Rouge United Church. The memorial will be open to the…
The 39th annual 2012 Winnipeg Folk Festival is clearly a huge success that has so far featured four solid nights and three full days of some of the best music in the world. One element of the Folk Festival that is sometimes overshadowed by all this greatness is the successful Galaxie Young Performers Program. Since…
Local Music and Campus Radio. Click on the above link to see a video story about the relationship between campus radio and local music by Sean Campbell and Dave Hollier, featuring The Crooked Brothers, The Magnificent 7’s and the University of Winnipeg’s radio station, CKUW.
Imagine moving to a new country, where you know no one. You can’t speak the language, so it’s difficult to find a job, and you don’t know where you can live. This is a scenario being lived by many people in Winnipeg, including many women. In response to this need, Holy Names House of Peace…
We’re half way through the first six-week series of Community News Commons training sessions for citizen journalists and I’m happy to report that the response to these free workshops has been extremely positive. A large and diverse group of people from all walks of life have been attending the sessions. Their questions, comments and suggestions…
Community News Commons is offering six FREE training workshops from May 15 to June 26. The workshops highlight multi-media online journalism and are designed as introductory sessions for those wanting to become citizen journalists in Winnipeg and elsewhere in Manitoba. Each workshop will be offered twice in the same week – Tuesday evenings and Thursday…