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The Pantages Playhouse Theatre Is the Last Window to Winnipeg's Vaudeville Past FREE.WEEKLY. VOLUME VOLUME 73 // ISSUE 22 // MAR. 21 ThE PanTagEs PLaYhousE ThEatre is ThE LasT WindoW To Winnipeg’s vaudEville PasT security theatre at communities rally after waiting for a millennium library p4 police violence p11 little sugar p13 The official newspaper of The UniversiTy of winnipeg on the cover grant simpson, a longtime vaudevillian, discusses the form and its historical home on page 7. MAKE/ BREAK THE RULES Many of the pieces you would usually find in The Uniter are, by most definitions, on the short side. Our average story aims to land around the 500-word mark. it’s a tough assignment, and oftentimes, a word count of 500 feels like it’s not possibly enough. Most of the time, though, we stay in that range. The Uniter is a learning paper, and creating a 500-word piece is a distinct skill set. it requires practice, as well as cultivating precision and discernment. not everything can make it in – and that’s part of the joy of writing. The outtakes are like loose threads to be followed up another day. They can spring into new stories. Few pieces, once finished, give a writer the sense that they are, just as they are, enough. and often it’s this not-enoughness that spurs us forward, to tell more stories, to build a body of work that can incorpo- rate more angles, different perspectives, or simply the same story, revisited at a different time. This week, we have some notable excep- tions. One of the key elements of having a rule is knowing when to break it. On some weeks, a writer pitches a story that, from the outset, we can see will need more room to unfold well. 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So I just Threepenny Opera, put on by Sick + Twisted trust that the harmony is coming from my Theatre and AA Battery Theatre. own attraction to every object.” 1 Outside of her dance career, Bohrn has two part-time jobs to subsidize her art practice: barista-ing at Little Sister Coffee 1) PLanTs Maker and working as a resident assistant ”i love them. i’m a new plant momma, like in the at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. last two years. Before that, i only killed them. i’ve “In a dream world, I would just be learned a thing or two.” doing art full time. It’s a tough act to really maintain with any sort of security. 2) max ThE caT I have these part-time jobs to help me feel “Did a book come out, Max? Did a book arrive? really happy, because I feel more secure yeah, this is classic Max behaviour. i’ve had Max having a regular paycheque.” for seven years. i got him when he was a medium Bohrn says there are upsides to having kitten. My friend lulu got him on Kijiji for $30, and several side-hustles. It allows her the free- then she moved to Victoria. He’s my best friend.” 4 dom to pursue longer-term projects like 2 Threepenny Opera without saddling her coworkers with extra shifts. 3) big goLd dicK “It feels quite unique, the level of team- “This is another gift from lulu. She found it in like work that happens (at Little Sister),” Bohrn a Bed Bath & Beyond-type of store, so that’s why says. “I call it coffeemanship. Workmanship, she thought of me. it’s not that i had an obsession but with coffee. It’s like a little family that you with cock.” can depend and count on and that you are there for also. I feel super lucky and grateful 4) goLd is good that I got to be invited into that family. It’s “Gold is so warm, warmer than silver. it has like a a small paycheque, but it has a big payoff in feeling of opulence ... even the fake opulence is kind 5 interpersonal connections.” of a fun aesthetic. This was painted with screen Bohrn has been in her West Broad- printing fabric paint. This is an apple that you might way house with her partner Matt since recognize. it’s a Fisher Price Happy apple.” November 2017, and they have chosen a few different names for the space. 5) dancE booKs “Matt calls this place the ‘sluthole’ often, “i really like to nerd out on dance. if like the house and ‘lost in the barrens.’ He probably just was on fire, i’d probably grab all of these books, likes the sound of that. ‘Lost in the barrens.’ because i’ve been acquiring them over time. I think he uses ‘lost in the barrens’ most, but Bonnie Bainbridge is a fave, Peggy Hackney’s I’ve seen ‘sluthole’ a number of times. There’s Making connections. This is just people who’ve the sluthole, and the slutclub.” looked at movement from a really unique In terms of decorating her home, Bohrn 3 5 perspective.” artS bRIEfS thomas pashko // arts and culture EDITOR @thomaspashko FACE | TiMe with labour Protest Winnipeg comedy Shakespeare + Phantom international Day for anita lebeau Songs at the library Showcase’s 5th of the Paradise = true the elimination of Racial Winnipeg filmmaker anita lebeau Winnipeg Folk Festival founder and Home anniversary Winnipeg weirdness Discrimination has worked in multiple movie media, Routes co-founder Mitch Podolak is an The regular Winnipeg comedy Showcases Shakespeare in the Ruins (SiR) has performed March 21 is the annual Day for the elimination but FACE | TiMe, presented by MaWa expert on the history of folk music and hosted by Jared Story at the Park Theatre the immortal Bard’s classic works for more than of Racial Discrimination, commemorating the and cinematheque, will focus on her its connections to labour movements. have become an important keystone in the 25 years. Phantom of the Paradise is Brian De 1960 Sharpeville massacre in which white South animated films. This free event will On March 27 at noon at the Millennium local comedy scene’s resurgence in recent Palma’s 1974 pre-Rocky Horror rock opera horror african police shot and killed 69 people protesting include screenings of lebeau’s films library, he will host a drop-in discussion years. March 22 will celebrate five years comedy that was a commercial flop everywhere discrimination. Manitobans for Human Rights nc.i louise and Big Drive, an artist talk and on the history of labour protest songs of great Winnipeg standup with a lineup except Winnipeg, where it was a massive hit.
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