The University of Manitoba’s Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture is pleased to announce the arrival of Ignatius Mabasa, its new Writer/Storyteller-in-Residence. Mabasa will hold the position through December 2010.
A poet, novelist and storyteller from Zimbabwe, Mabasa will visit classes, mentor writers and storytellers, and give several performances throughout the fall term. In addition […]

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This summer the University of Manitoba’s Summer Institute is offering a new and unique series of courses called Cree Language and Narrative.The three-week interdisciplinary session, under the umbrella of University of Manitoba Extended Education, focuses on language structure, the teaching and speaking of Cree and the Cree oral storytelling tradition.
Between July 26 and August 13, […]

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Two students in the department of English, Film & Theatre have been given scholarships to create some literary eeriness. One is developing a Canadian Gothic novel and the other is dead-set on zombies and robots.
The C. D. Howe Memorial Foundation Fellowships in Creative Writing and Oral Culture fund graduate students working in the areas of […]

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The 5th Winnipeg International Storytelling Festival: Storytelling on the Path to Peace runs today, Wednesday, May 12, 2010, through Saturday, May 15, 2010.
“Because storytelling is at the heart of peacemaking, the festival nurtures the art of spoken-word storytelling in Winnipeg and the role of storytelling for peace and renewing community,” says Jessica Senehi, Mauro Centre […]

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Twenty-five years ago the Black Hole Theatre Company performed the world première of then-faculty member Carol Shields’s play Departures and Arrivals, and this year it will open its season with it on November 17.

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Vanessa Warne, English, film and theatre, will deliver the first Elizabeth Dafoe memorial Lecture on Oct. 1, 2009. Her talk is titled: From City Street to Library: Blind Readers in Victorian Britain.
In the opening decades of the nineteenth century, the facts of blindness changed: people who could not see acquired both the ability and opportunity […]

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Six projects have been selected for the first Collaborative Creation Grants Program of the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture at the University of Manitoba. The grants, worth up to $1,000 each, include film, theatre, multimedia and transcription projects across several genres and fields of interest.In this inaugural year, sixteen applications were received. The […]

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