Playwright Leah-Simone Bowen knows better than to plan a quick exit from a reading of her play The Hallway. “People want to talk to me about it,” she explains on the phone from her home in Toronto. “I usually get people saying things like ‘that’s not what [I] expected to happen.’” That’s exactly what she […]
Prismatic Arts Festival
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The Mariachi Ghost is Winnipeg’s one-of-a-kind show
After moving from Mexico to Winnipeg in 2004, guitarist and artist Jorge Requena discovered the city’s vibrant and thriving Latin American community. By 2009, he was inspired to begin a Day of the Dead-themed graphic novel for Mexico’s important national holiday that honours life. This became the blueprint for the group The Mariachi Ghost. Travelling […]
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Fantastic Prismatic
Since its first season in 2008, the overriding vision of the Prismatic Arts Festival hasn’t changed. “We present different art forms and artists from different cultural traditions, and we look for opportunities for audiences and artists to engage,” explains Maggie Stewart, co-founder and managing director of Onelight Theatre, the company behind Prismatic. That vision is […]