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Last Days of the Assiniboine Park Conservatory free VOLUME VOLUME 72 // ISSUE 22 // MAR 22 .W eek L y . Last days of the assiniboine Park Conservatory black Panther’s Gladue courts trudeau’s “bolly- cultural MoMent p4 in Manitoba? p11 dressed deMocracy” p14 The official s TudenT newspaper of The universiTy of winnipeg 2 thE UnItER // MARch 22, 2018 SPRING INTO SUMMER it may seem a little hasty to start talking about summer just a few days past the spring equinox with snow still falling and collecting on the ground. But in the language of our production schedule, summer’s not so far away. The Uniter publishes weekly through the academic year, and we also put out a special summer festival guide. That means we have this issue, one at the end of March, and one in early april – our hop, skip and jump toward summer. Then we’ll take a short break until the relatively early release of our May 31 festival issue. if you measure time in issues of The Uniter, summer’s really not so far away! Because we work on each issue with a two- week lead time, after this issue comes out, we’ll also be working on our last regular issue. We’ll have passed the last opening for new contributors to get involved, but this window will open up again for the summer guide, so watch this space and social media for more news about that in april. For those who are hustling through March academic deadlines, and those who are simply waiting for the snow to be gone and to feel the bright sun again, i hope this alternative timeline gives you some hope. Whether it looks like it or not, it’s officially spring and at least one step closer to summer. – anastasia chipelski follow us on social media on the cover @thEUnIter @thEUnIter fAcEbOOk.cOM/ theunIter the assiniboine Park conservatory is a popular spot for photographers and visitors of all kinds. read more on page 7. alex Moreau joins a conversation about Trans Day of Visibility on page 13. Photo by callie luGosi UNITER STAFF cOntRIbUtors cOntAct us SUbmissionS STaFF PHOTOGRaPHeR ManaGinG eDitor anD Online cOnTenT cO-ORDinator WRiTeRS GeneRal inqUiRieS Submissions of articles, letters, graphics anastasia chipelski » [email protected] callie lugosi » [email protected] noor banghu 204.988.7579 and photos are encouraged, however ryan haughey [email protected] all new contributors (with the exception BUSiness ManaGeR STaFF PHOTOGRaPHeR charmagne de Veer » [email protected] keeley braunstein-black » [email protected] Frances koncan www.uniter.ca of letters to the editor) must attend Valerie nyamori a 45-minute volunteer orientation cReaTiVe DiRector STaFF illustrator AdvertiSinG workshop to ensure that the volunteer bryce creasy » [email protected] Gabrielle Funk » [email protected] illustrators 204.786.9790 logan stefanson understands all of the publication’s basic aRTS & cUlTURe eDiTOR FeatureS RePORTeR Room ORM14 guidelines. Volunteer workshops take place Jaz Papadopoulos » [email protected] thomas Pashko » [email protected] University of Winnipeg Wednesdays from 12:30-1:20 in room ORM14. 515 Portage avenue Please email [email protected] for more ciTy eDiTOR Arts ReporteR details. Deadline for advertisements is danelle Granger» [email protected] charls Morin » [email protected] Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2e9 noon Friday, six days prior to publication. cOMMenTS eDiTOR ciTy ReporteR Treaty One Territory The Uniter reserves the right to refuse to dunja kovacevicˇ ´ » [email protected] braiden Pergis » [email protected] Homeland of the Metis nation print material submitted by volunteers. The Uniter will not print submissions that cOPy & STyle eDiTOR CAmpus RePORTeR danielle doiron » [email protected] skylar smallacombe » [email protected] are homophobic, misogynistic, racist or MOUSelanD PRess BOaRD OF DiRectors: kristin annable (chair), anna louise evans-boudreau, libellous. We also reserve the right to edit PHOTO eDiTOR VOlUnTeeR cO-ORDinaTOR dylan chyz-lund, anifat olawoyin, larissa Peck, Joëlle Preston, Jack Walker and nikki riffel for length/style. daniel crump » [email protected] danielle doiron » [email protected] » For inquiries email: [email protected] The UniTer // march 22, 2018 3 whose house? ALAN’S HOUSE Photos by callie luGosi Thomas Pashko One negative aspect Freeman says he has seen in Winnipeg was a lack of diver- Features reporter @thomaspashko sity in leadership positions, something he posits could be remedied through inclu- Cultural economist Alan Freeman’s sive hiring practices. career has spanned the fields of politics “I found an unexpectedly high level and art, multiple countries and several of racism,” Freeman says, “particularly decades. He’d worked primarily in com- among people who do not consider them- puter programming when, in 2000, he selves racists.” was called to work for Ken Livingstone, 1 the first-ever mayor of London, England, focusing on creative industries and the 1) art from around the WorLd living wage. The centre piece “we actually bought, of all places, “I was kind of a frontroom-backroom in new Zealand. i was there last year talking about boy,” Freeman says of his work at the the living wage. These two on the left and right we mayor’s office. “I was asked to set up an got in Vietnam.” economics unit, but I was not very experi- enced as an economist. So we hired a team, 2) shayne dark sCuLPture and I sat in the back and did data work.” “Radhika bought this in Victoria, British columbia. The data in question was related to (Shayne Dark) wasn’t well known at the time, London’s cultural industries, which were though he is now.” the subject of newfound enthusiastic sup- 2 5 port from the city and Prime Minister 3) dragon sCuLPture Tony Blair’s government. “We bought this in (Mentoring artists for Women’s “What I did, basically, was create a art). it’s made of farm parts, basically. everything data-measurement system for determin- here is a part of some machine or other.” ing how much creative economic activity you have in a city or country,” Freeman 4) venezueLan Poster says. “That became the method adopted “it says, ‘Here, we don’t speak bad of chavez.’” by the Ministry of Culture in Britain. It’s now the world gold standard for the cre- 5) stamP CoLLeCtion ative industries.” “That was my dad’s. i took it over from him, and Freeman came to Canada with his wife, i’ve been working on it on and off. My earliest Winnipegger and University of Manitoba stamp is from 1823. i particularly focus on early 6 political studies professor Radhika Desai. Victorian stuff, so i have a lot of the Penny Blacks 3 The two run the Geopolitical Economy and Penny Reds.” Research Group, a “small research unit into the new world order.” 6) turkish CeramiCs Freeman says he still enjoys research- “We got these in Turkey. The style of production for ing the creative industries in Winnipeg, this particular kind of porcelain is very difficult. it’s which he prefers to working in a big city mainly made of sand. it’s a sort of classic craft in like London. Turkey, there’s actually a university of this stuff.” “Small communities, especially isolated ones like Winnipeg, are very inventive,” 7) beauregard he says. “Think of the things that have “He’s a rescue, a black German Shepherd. We been invented here, from Skip the Dishes collect carpets and he eats carpets, so we don’t to cricket protein powder. The same is true leave him in this room alone.” 4 7 in art.” ARTS BLACK PaNTHER’S ROLE IN SOCIETY Movie showcases an important cultural moment Valerie Nyamori volunteer staFF @valeriechela illustration by Gabrielle Funk The recently released movie Black Panther tools they possess and even the rituals “a primarily dark-skinned Black cast succeeded to remain No. 1 at the box office attempts to demonstrate what it means to that mark various stages in life celebrate with natural hairstyles that challenge for the fifth week in a row - something that be African. African cultural practices. white beauty standards.” no other movie in the Marvel Cinematic Director Ryan Coogler explains in an “Black Panther is an important cultural Black Panther first appeared in the Universe has accomplished. interview with Rolling Stone, “I think moment, because it is the first mainstream world of comics in July 1966 as a charac- “It's important that it has done so well the question that I’m trying to ask and superhero film to be written and directed ter in The Fantastic Four. at the box office, because this tells the answer in Black Panther is, ‘What does by a Black director," and to feature a mostly “A series of writers have revised the studios that Afrocentric films with Black (it) truly mean to be African?’” Black cast, Candida Rifkind, associate character and filled in the world of casts can make money and appeal to all Wakanda, the fictional African coun- professor of alternative comics, graphic Wakanda, bringing it up to date,” Rif- kinds of audiences,” Rifkind says. try in which the story takes place, boasts narratives and Canadian literature at the kind says of the recent film release. She “It shows possibility,” Williams adds. of wealth, independence and technologi- University of Winnipeg, says. points out that some critics have argued “I think a lot of young people need to see cal advancement. Williams says he felt that the women that both the comics and the film portray that.” “It’s uniquely its own thing, because were the most amazing fighters in the film. an American view of Africa. “A lot of the media coverage has focused there has never been a movie ever done “They looked straight up-badass … I Brook Barnes, a New York Times reporter, on the importance of this film to Black regarding sci-fi for Black people tapping had goosebumps and chills as a Black per- writes that Black Panther’s financial success children, who finally have a set of heroes into Africa,” Ben Williams, the produc- son, but even just as a lover of comics and discredits the idea that movies rooted in that includes strong and smart women tions centre director at Winnipeg Film a lover of sci-fi.” Black culture cannot succeed globally.
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