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Storytelling festival features Holocaust survivor, school programs

May 6th, 2013 · No Comments · Aboriginal, Education, Fine Art, History, Indigenous, Media, Music, News Release, Outreach, Peace and Justice

The 8th annual Winnipeg International Storytelling Festival is this week, from Monday, May 6 through Saturday, May 11, 2013. It’s the only festival of its kind in the world: an annual free cultural event dedicated to storytelling for the advocacy and support of peace.
“Enthusiasm for the Festival continues to grow,” says Jessica Senehi, festival director […]

Visionary Conversations: The Arts

March 19th, 2013 · No Comments · Architecture, Film, Fine Art, Media, Music, News Release, Outreach, Research, School of Art, arts, philosophy

The next session of the award-winning Visionary Conversations series presented by the University of Manitoba will be held on Wednesday, March 20, 2013. Visionary Conversations is an engaging, interactive speaker series that brings together world-class minds to present and discuss issues with the audience that are critical to the future of our community, our country […]

Rare photos show Louis Riel in 1869, and a 1874 traffic jam at Portage & Main

March 8th, 2013 · No Comments · Archives, History, Images, Media, News Release, Peace and Justice, Research, political studies

At a recent auction of civil war memorabilia halfway around the world from us in South Yarra, Australia, thirteen items known as cartes de visite were for sale. They were part of a collection that included a folding moustache comb and a Spenser repeating carbine machine gun.
But some of these cartes de visite at auction […]

Oh, Manitobia! Our history online

February 7th, 2013 · No Comments · Agriculture, Archives, Education, Environment and Geography, History, Images, Indigenous, Media, News Release, Outreach, Research, human ecology, libraries

Manitobia, a resource-rich website that highlights the role of our province in the early history of the country, has completed phase one of a project aimed at providing internet access to local histories produced by communities across the province.
The publication of the histories of towns and municipalities goes back to the 1880s, with an estimated […]

TV feature gives all the buzz about Dengue research

January 15th, 2013 · No Comments · Agriculture, Biology, Environment and Geography, Health, Media, Medicine, Natural Resources Institute, News Release, Nursing, Outreach, Research, human ecology

The work of a team of University of Manitoba researchers will be featured this week on a new episode of The Nature of Things with David Suzuki.
ZAPPED: The Buzz About Mosquitoes is the story of our ongoing struggle to conquer a little insect that is both delicate and deadly. As the program reveals, this beautiful […]

Multitalented Irish storyteller now in residence at U of M

January 15th, 2013 · No Comments · Education, English, Media, Music, News Release, Outreach, Peace and Justice, arts

The University of Manitoba’s Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture is pleased to announce the arrival of Clare Muireann Murphy, its new Storyteller-in-Residence. Murphy will hold the position into early April 2013.
Of her new post, Murphy says, “I am utterly honored and delighted to be Storyteller-in-Residence at the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral […]

Sneak peek of new film about “The Trib”

December 3rd, 2012 · No Comments · Archives, Film, History, Media, News, News Release, Research, libraries

You are cordially invited to a screening of the film: The Trib: Story of an Underdog Newspaper.
A documentary tribute to the life and times of the Winnipeg Tribune and its historic place in the city’s newspaper culture has been produced for MTS TV, and will premiere on MTS this Thursday, December 6, 2012.
However, a “sneak […]