Art

Alines Obomsawin   Canada   163 minutes   World Premiere   2016   PG   COLOUR   English The new film from celebrated documentarian Alanis Obomsawin (Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance) chronicles the events following the filing of a human-rights complaint by a group of activists, which […]

Winding its way through three levels of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Qua’yuk tchi’gae’win: Making Good explores the residential school legacy and colonial trauma, but also reveals an enduring strength, resiliency, and courage through art. Qua’yuk tchi’gae’win opened this past weekend to coincide with the Pathways to […]

The long road to reconciliation is explored in Tara Beagan and Andy Moro’s Reckoning Amanda Parris · CBC ArtsApril 15, 2016 PJ Prudat and Glen Gould in a promo still from Reckoning ( Andy Moro/ARTICLE 11) Although the new play Reckoning would […]

Director Barbara Cranmer will be in attendance for both screenings: Saturday, April 23rd and Sunday, April 24th at 4 PM. Share this event to share the experience and discussion! —- ABOUT THE FILM Imagine for a moment, your six year […]

Tomson Highway is a Cree storyteller, so it’s fitting that the playwright, novelist, classical pianist and Order of Canada recipient’s bio begins like the opening line of a tale: “Tomson Highway was born in a snowbank on the Manitoba/Nunavut border […]

  CAM FULLER, SASKATOON STARPHOENIX More from Cam Fuller, Saskatoon StarPhoenix Published on: March 9, 2016 | Last Updated: March 9, 2016 1:53 PM CST   Royal Winnipeg Ballet is offering free tickets to residential school survivors who wish to […]

  Author Daniella Zalcman Daniella Zalcman’s project, Signs of Your Identity, explores the legacy of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools, which began operation in the late 1800s. Attendance at the schools was mandatory, and agents would regularly visit reserves to take children […]

By: Michael Crabb Dance, Published on Tue Feb 09 2016 Going Home Star: Truth and Reconciliation Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Choreography by Mark Godden. At the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, Feb. 5 and 6. Early in the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Going Home Star there’s […]

June McCallum-Gareau says when she sits down to make traditional art it’s therapeutic. The residential school survivor and cancer survivor is showcasing her first exhibit of birch bark biting and caribou tufting at the Grace Campbell Gallery in Prince Albert, […]

For 120 years, the Canadian government operated a network of Indian Residential Schools that were meant to assimilate young indigenous students into western Canadian culture. Indian agents would take children from their homes as young as two or three and […]