University of winnipeg’s campUs and commUnity weekly ISSUE 2008/11/06 VOLUME11 63 special: Manitoba musicians rockers, hip hoppers and folk popsters We chat with four local acts arts & culture pages 14 & 15 november 6, 2008 the Uniter contact: [email protected] 02 NNEEwsws are you in your wanna fix the Commendations, “i don’t know how many times third year? if so, recession? criticisms and i’ve heard audience members... it’s not your fault start with comments. tell us that they can’t believe you’re a liberal the media we hear it all a choir could be so cool” campus news page 6 comments page 9 letters page 11 arts page 17 news UNITER STAFF managing editor Future of major music festival uncertain Stacy Cardigan Smith » [email protected] mark re BUsiness manager global economic James D. Patterson » [email protected] I mer PRODUCTION MANAGER crisis may cause Melody Morrissette » [email protected] copy and style editor Winnipeg to lose Ashley Holmes » [email protected] pHoto editor major sponsor, Mark Reimer » [email protected] news assignment editor damage local Toban Dyck » [email protected] community news prodUction editor Ksenia Prints » [email protected] arts and cUltUre editor Joe Kornelsen Aaron Epp » [email protected] Beat reporter comments editor Devin Morrow » [email protected] he financial turmoil plaguing Iceland sports & fitness editor Vacant is being felt right here in Winnipeg. The future of the Núna (Now) music listings co-ordinator Tfestival in Winnipeg is uncertain as its major Caelum Vatnsdal will be looking for local sponsors to next year’s Núna (Now) festival, as the festival may Curran Faris » [email protected] sponsor, Iceland, goes bankrupt. lose its biggest sponsor given Iceland’s financial crunch. Beat reporter “Things will be changing,” said Caelum Dan Huyghebaert » [email protected] Vatnsdal, a member of the curatorial board change,” said Sigurdson. Icelandic culture. Beat reporter for the festival. “We are in waiting right now to see how He hopes that the festival will be able to Joe Kornelsen » [email protected] In May the festival will run for its third this plays out,” she said. continue and in the future Manitoba artists Beat reporter year, with performances from Icelandic- Manitoba has the largest population of could travel to Iceland to a festival there. Sandy Klowak » [email protected] Manitobans like John Sampson of The Icelanders outside Iceland. They immigrated “People who have those connections di- Beat reporter Weakerthans and bands from the old coun- to Canada in 1875 and settled in an area rectly are getting old... we’re trying to start a Andrew McMonagle » [email protected] try itself. often called New Iceland that extends from new connection,” said Vatnsdal. Winnipeg Beach to Hecla Island. But festival planners are unsure whether This year’s festival may be your last chance Tammy Axelsson is the mayor of Gimli, CONTRIBUTORS: craig w. Heinrich, clayton winter, Núna (Now) will continue after the third to catch a glimpse of contemporary Icelandic in the heart of New Iceland. She said Brooke dmytriw, kelly o’connor, alex garcia, wendy year. As a majority of the funding comes music. To see the Núna (Now) schedule when gillis, will dumont, J. williamez, Brenden sommerhalder, there were still strong ties between the two from Iceland, they will now have to look it comes out, check out nunanow.com around andrew tod, James culleton, shona kusyk, Holly rose, communities. Jonathan dyck, matt preprost, ian mcammond, Jennifer elsewhere. March. pawluk, John cunningham, Brock peters, Bucky driedger, “In the first two years Iceland was deeply “[Gimli] benefits from the number of chris friesen, Jo viilaverde, natasha tersigni, Brad involved… this year Canadian funders people coming from Iceland,” she said. pennington, sagan morrow, dave Hollier, marko Bilandzjia, She figured that the economic problems Josh Boulding, kevin chaves, scott christiansen, mike will become much more involved,” said collins, adam peleshaty, trevor Hagan, ryan Janz, cory Vatnsdal. in Iceland would result in fewer people trav- iceland’s financial woes falvo, robert Huynh, cindy titus, sarah semmler Iceland was the first country in the grow- eling to the region but she was optimistic iceland’s financial crisis erupted earlier this the Uniter is the official student newspaper of the University of ing epidemic of nation-wide bankruptcies about the future. year, when the country’s three major banks were winnipeg and is published by mouseland press inc. mouseland around the world. Along with countries like “I don’t think that it will last any signifi- unable to finance large debts accumulated since press inc. is a membership based organization in which students cant length of time,” said Axelsson. 2002. they did not have the liquidity on hand for and community members are invited to participate. for more Pakistan and Ukraine, Iceland has requested information on how to become a member go to www.uniter.ca, or funding from the International Monetary The Núna (Now) festival includes shows sudden global withdrawals, thus the government call the office at 786-9790. the Uniter is a member of the canadian Fund. in both Winnipeg and Gimli and it brings of iceland was forced to nationalize all three University press and campus plus media services. in tourists from Iceland. banks. sUBMISSION OF ARTICLES, LETTERS, GRAPHICS AND pHOTOS ARE One of the major banks in Iceland, WELCOME. articles must be submitted in text (.rtf) or microsoft word Landsbanki, has been a significant supporter Vatnsdal said that people from Iceland glitnir, landsbanki and kaupthing (.doc) format to [email protected], or the relevant section editor. of the Núna (Now) festival. were very excited about the interest in nationalized in the week ending oct. 10. deadline for submissions is 6:00 p.m. thursday, one week before publication. deadline for advertisements is noon friday, six days A Winnipeg office for Landsbanki was set “the spirit of the bank the foreign debt of iceland’s banks was prior to publication. the Uniter reserves the right to refuse to print up in 2007. 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