#Winnipeg Canada

[thelockin]

Upcoming live hip hop events in Winnipeg and Ithaca NY State.

The "Cautionary Tales" album launch parties by rapper Anthony Kannon and hip hop producer Frost Gamble.

First up is on Thursday October 26th at The Osborne Taphouse, 112 Osborne Street Winnipeg where Anthony & Frost will be joined by special guests Kairo & Hoopaloop, Dag & Tek Pro, Serge Paul & DJ Benz. Tickets on the door $15

Then on Saturday November 18th at Deep Dive, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca NY, Anthony will be performing the entire album with a live band with guests on the night being Frost playing a DJ set, Mr McBean and Brooklyn rapper Justo the MC performing tracks from his upcoming album "Urban Testimony" releasing November 3rd

Tickets on the door $20.00, or available for $12 plus fees from Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/anthony-kannon-cautionary-tales-album-release-tickets-715034285797

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♫ Cracklin' Rosie ♫

♫ Cracklin’ Rosie ♫

Well, since I played Neil Diamond the first three nights of this week, I guess we might as well make it officially Neil Diamond Week here at Filosofa’s Word!  Today, by the way, in case you hadn’t looked at the calendar, is the first of December, meaning our friend Clive will be starting his Advent Calendar of daily Christmas-themed tunes, but I refuse to start playing Christmas songs this soon! …

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A First Nation in Manitoba said it has discovered "indication of human remains" on the site of a former residential school. Opaskwayak Cree Nation announced Friday that after three days of searching, they had found unmarked burials at the former grounds of MacKay Residential School, located 11 kilometres northwest of The Pas. The community said human remains detection dogs were involved in the search and indicated "six areas of interest" that may have more than one unmarked burial.

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[marlovestrees]

There’s a new two-spirit pride flag design, released at an event in Winnipeg last week. It’s a flag design from the ground up, rather than feathers on top of an existing flag. There's also a new documentary on two-spirit history.

From the article:

On Tuesday, ahead of the term’s 35th anniversary, the International Day of Pink non-profit hosted an event to honour Two-Spirit history and resilience. The celebration, hosted at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg, kicked off with the unveiling of a Two-Spirit pride flag. Designed by Anishinaabe artist Patrick Hunter, the flag features two eagle feathers, representing the balance of masculine and feminine spirits. They’re framed by a sun and a rainbow of dots. “The sun, he kind of provides us with everything else that we need in this life,” Hunter said of the flag design. “The earliest artwork that we see out on pictographs, out in the world are dots and circles, and I just thought what a throwback to seven generations ago.” The event also premiered the short documentary, Re-Emergence, featuring Two-Spirit activists, community members and Elders.

The website says that their designs are free to download and print with local suppliers, but they don’t seem to have the two spirit graphics up on the website yet.

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[thixcy]

Good Moaning 🌞

✨I’m glad to be back home and I can post my magical, wonderful, and tiring weekend✨

P.s. how do the baddies who put on makeup regularly do this. Cuz I was ready to snatch those lashes off my face 😭 it was very satisfying taking it off after my lil shenanigans tho (that’s another story) 🤪

[newsfromstolenland]

Cathy Merrick, the first woman to become grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, is being remembered as a "remarkable leader" and a "true matriarch," as tributes poured in from leaders across Canada after her sudden death on Friday.

Merrick was speaking to media about a court case outside the law courts building in Winnipeg early Friday afternoon when she collapsed. She was given CPR before being rushed away in an ambulance.

Merrick, 62, is survived by her husband, Todd, three children and eight grandchildren, a friend confirmed to CBC.

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Tagging: @allthecanadianpolitics

[winnipegwinterpeg]

Protesters blocking the Brady Road landfill in south Winnipeg say their resolve is even stronger after a man shovelled a truckload of soil and debris onto an MMIWG mural near the blockade Sunday.

The blockade went up last week after the province refused to fund a search of Prairie Green landfill north of Winnipeg for the remains of two Indigenous women. The city ordered those blocking the roadway to vacate by noon Monday.

"Screw it. Who cares what they have to say? Who cares what they want? I'm not going to take no for an answer anymore," said Cambria Harris, whose mother's remains are believed to be at another landfill outside the city.

She said Camp Morgan — which has been at the Brady Road landfill since December— originally erected the blockade to "send a message," not to entirely block the landfill, which has two entrances.

But after the man's act on Sunday, she and others issued a call on social media for more "warriors" to join those on site, who said they're ready to keep rallying for change.

Harris said she wasn't at the blockade Sunday when the man in a black pickup truck dumped soil on the mural, but she saw the video of it happen, which she posted on social media.

In the video, the man is seen shovelling soil and debris from the back of his truck onto the mural, while telling protesters to "Take care of your own people." After someone responds [“we are, you fucking dumbass”], he asks, "Then why are they dead?"

Harris questions how he got past the security on site.

"Why are you so angry to feel like you have to take that extreme of a measure of a hate crime?" she asked.

"You don't realize that you're talking to an entire group of people who have been pulverized their entire life through systemic oppression."

"I'm outraged. I'm enraged. I'm infuriated," said supporter Melissa Morrisseau, who said she was at the landfill Sunday to help give a voice to missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and their families.

"I'm here till the very end," she said.

Florance Smith was also there to take a stand with the families.

"They need to dig for our women," Smith said. "They just think that we belong in the garbage."

Harris said she believes the province's decision to not support a landfill search shows that the government doesn't care, and she now feels she's been disrespected by all three levels of government. She said it shouldn't have come to measures like the letter sent by the city, telling protesters to shut down the blockade.

"I've never ever understood it, why this kind of trauma is our fault," Harris said.

The mural, a red dress with the words "for our sisters" written on the skirt, was painted on the entrance road to the landfill, Ethan Boyer Way.

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But after they realized the soil the man dumped contained cedar wood chippings, supporters decided to put them to use by sweeping the woodchips in a circle around the mural, she said.

"Cedar's our protection medicine, and we decided that we were going to include it into our art piece and circle her in protection," Bousquet said.

"We turned an ugly into a beautiful here. That's what our people are known for doing."

For Bousquet, it shows how resilient her community is.

"No matter what you throw on us … we're always going to create something beautiful," she said.

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CATS at Rainbow Stage, Winnipeg Manitoba, 2011

I wanted to post these bc I saw this production as a kid & loved it & figured the cats fans on here might like to see some pics from the brochure

(sorry for the quality of the pictures but some of them just arent great quality even in the pamphlet also earlier versions of this post dont have all the photos)

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Fort Whyte Interpretive Center (1983) in Winnipeg, Canada, by Carl R. Nelson Jr. & Moody More and Partners

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Antoine Samuel Predock, FAIA (June 24, 1936 – March 2, 2024)

Mr Predock was an American architect based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was the principal of Antoine Predock Architect PC, the studio he founded in 1967.

Mr Predock first gained national attention with the La Luz community in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The first national design competition he won was held by the Nelson Fine Arts Center at Arizona State University.

Mr Predock's work includes the Turtle Creek House, built in 1993 for bird enthusiasts along a prehistoric trail in Texas, the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, and a new ballpark for the San Diego Padres, the Petco Park. He also worked on international sites such as the National Palace Museum Southern Branch in Southern Taiwan and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

[piizunn]

We Will Always Remember (Where We Met), 2024

House paint on un-stretched canvas

On display at AceArtInc in Winnipeg, Manitoba from September 6th to October 18th, 2034 as part of a group exhibition titled ‘Room To Grow Tall’ curated by Sanaa Humayun and Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet of Making Space, a BIPOC focused peer mentorship for visual artists.

We Will Always Remember (Where We Met) 2024 is an installation in the form of a map leading from AceArt Inc. to the Forks National Historic Site. The piece utilizes modern materials like latex house paint with traditional canvas, exploring themes of contemporary Métis homes, our trappers tents, and the ways in which Métis access knowledge, and housing, community, and our traditional spaces.

The map invites the viewer to walk from the gallery to The Forks as they consider the past and present uses of this land, and the relationship between the Métis and this sacred confluence. The work is a continuation of a piece created in 2024 for The New Gallery in Mohkinstsis titled let’s meet at the confluence which took the form of a public billboard in the downtown area.

At the core of my practice are concepts defined in the works of Gerald Vizenor, Sara Ahmed, and Chantal Fiola whose writings discuss notions of survivance, queer phenomenology, traditional Métis teachings, and appreciation for the lands that hold us.

The following is an accompanying text I wrote the morning of the workshop programming I planned for this exhibition.

Saturday, September 7th, 2024

12:01 PM

I’m staying with my friends B. and C. in their beautiful apartment in Winnipeg. They’re such sweethearts and I’m so grateful I can crash with them. I took the morning to myself after karaoke last night. I was sleepy and a little dehydrated so I stayed back to make my plan for the day.

I felt the sound of drums, I opened a window but the sound was coming from inside the building somewhere. I found the place where the drums were the loudest and standing in the dining room with my hand over my heart and a rowdy kitten named Mabel at my feet, I listened to the drummer as their voice joined the beat and felt the vibrations through my feet like the roots of a tree.

I texted my dad happy birthday, I had leftover root beer and french fries for breakfast, I let Mabel walk on my notebook as I write, and I’ll let myself move slowly today.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The families of two men who were fatally shot by Winnipeg police within weeks of each other want a joint inquest to examine their deaths together, their lawyers say.

Lawyers for the families of Afolabi Opaso, 19, and Bradley Singer, 59, held a press conference in Winnipeg on Friday to call for a joint inquest and for the province to introduce support services for families who've lost loved ones to police violence.

Martin Glazer, the lawyer representing Singer's brother, Gerry, says Manitoba's Fatality Inquiries Act requires an inquest if it's believed a person died as a result of use of force by police.

But he says the act also allows the chief medical examiner to request a single inquest into two or more deaths if their circumstances are similar enough that separate inquiries are not needed.

"The two shooting deaths by the Winnipeg police, in this case, bear similarities," said Glazer. "Not only do they involve the same police force, but in both cases, the men killed were mentally ill." [...]

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[oldshowbiz]

February - March 1920.

The Marx Brothers toured Western Canada with Jack Benny (then known as Ben K. Benny).

They played the Orpheum vaudeville circuit together: Winnipeg, Calgary, Victoria, and Vancouver.

[legendarymoonsong]

James Marsden, director Ben David Grabinski and the entire "Mike&Nick$Nick&Alice" film crew at the filming wrap party on November 2, 2024. Photo posted by B.D. Grabinski