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When the Old Economy Fades — Creative Work as a Way Through In Northwestern Ontario and beyond, the collapse of local arts collides with toxic influencer culture. This article reveals how grassroots creativity can restore community and resist the pressures of digital disintegration.

In Northwestern Ontario and beyond, the collapse of local arts collides with toxic influencer culture. This article reveals how grassroots creativity can restore community and resist the pressures of digital disintegration.

When the Old Economy Fades — Creative Work as a Way Through

Jamie Bell April 4, 2025

As arts groups decline and influencer culture grows, communities across Canada face disconnection. This piece explores how...

Manitoba Maple Glazed Squash & Carrot Soup For this week's AI Food Prompt series image and recipe, we showcase a creamy squash and carrot soup, enhanced by the sweetness of maple syrup and finished with a sprinkle of toasted pumpkin seeds. It's the perfect Manitoba comfort food!

For this week's AI Food Prompt series image and recipe, we showcase a creamy squash and carrot soup, enhanced by the sweetness of maple syrup and finished with a sprinkle of toasted pumpkin seeds. It's the perfect Manitoba comfort food!

Manitoba Maple Glazed Squash & Carrot Soup

Jamie Bell April 4, 2025

This week’s AI Food Prompt Fridays features a comforting maple glazed squash and carrot soup, perfect for...

Above the Silence The sky above the Arctic doesn’t shout. It murmurs. These clouds are not weather — they are memory in motion, frost turned to breath, breath returned to sky. Look too long and you forget where you end and the sky begins. Up here, nothing is separate. Everything floats.

The sky above the Arctic doesn’t shout. It murmurs. These clouds are not weather — they are memory in motion, frost turned to breath, breath returned to sky. Look too long and you forget where you end and the sky begins. Up here, nothing is separate. Everything floats.

Above the Silence

Tony Eetak April 2, 2025

The sky above the Arctic is never empty — it is layered, textured, alive. In this photograph,...

Discovering Zine Culture: A Youthful Expression Avenue The DIY ethos of the '80s and '90s finds fresh life as a new generation discovers the joy of zine-making. These personal and poignant publications are transforming cultural narratives, reaching audiences craving authenticity in their storytelling.

The DIY ethos of the '80s and '90s finds fresh life as a new generation discovers the joy of zine-making. These personal and poignant publications are transforming cultural narratives, reaching audiences craving authenticity in their storytelling.

Discovering Zine Culture: A Youthful Expression Avenue

Digital Salvage April 1, 2025

Zine culture is booming among young creatives looking for ways to express themselves and share ideas without...

Barbecued Manitoba Bison Ribs with Blackberry Glaze For this week's AI Food Prompt series recipe and image, we’re bringing bold flavors with tender bison ribs glazed in a sweet blackberry sauce, served alongside creamy mashed root vegetables and charred wild onions.

For this week's AI Food Prompt series recipe and image, we’re bringing bold flavors with tender bison ribs glazed in a sweet blackberry sauce, served alongside creamy mashed root vegetables and charred wild onions.

Barbecued Manitoba Bison Ribs with Blackberry Glaze

Jamie Bell April 1, 2025

This week’s AI Food Prompt Friday Recipe features barbecued Manitoba bison ribs with blackberry sauce—rich, smoky, and...

Conversations in a House of Ketchup

Belonging tastes like a memory you never made, folded into bread and handed to you warm. It sits beside you, unspoken, like steam rising from a chipped mug. Between bites, there’s a silence that doesn’t ache—only nods. Food doesn’t ask. It remembers. It cradles your absence until you return. The salt on your lip might be from a tear or a fry; it doesn’t matter. The plate listens. The spoon forgets your name but knows your hunger. In the clatter and hush of diners, in the half-light of closing time, there is a choir of ghosts singing lullabies in sauce. You do not need to be known. You only need to chew.

Conversations in a House of Ketchup

Tony Eetak March 31, 2025

The real galleries aren’t lit by halogen or sponsored by institutions; they emerge in the in-between: cafés...

Create a Simple WordPress Contact Form Plugin With AI and Vibe Coding. For Free! Say goodbye to expensive WordPress contact form plugins. Embrace AI tools and vibe coding to create dynamic, simple contact forms effortlessly and for free!

Say goodbye to expensive WordPress contact form plugins. Embrace AI tools and vibe coding to create dynamic, simple contact forms effortlessly and for free!

Create a Simple WordPress Contact Form Plugin With AI and Vibe Coding. For Free!

Jamie Bell March 30, 2025

Create Free WordPress Plug-Ins with AI Tools and Vibe Coding These days having a contact form is...

Qaumajuq: The Power of Stories

Winnipeg shimmered in June heat—sunlight pooling on concrete, stories blooming louder than the traffic hum. We gathered there not just to share, but to listen, to witness what happens when distance collapses into presence. Every hallway, every bench, every patch of shade outside Qaumajuq became a studio, a stage, a scene unfolding in real time. Canada Council for the Arts lit the spark—Digital Greenhouse breathing life into ideas too big for one voice, too complex for a single frame. Qaumajuq made it lit. Digital became tactile. We touched screens and stone, code and carving, discovering new ways of holding memory and dreaming forward. In this heat, even the data felt alive, growing wild through collaboration, rooted in love, land, and long-held knowing. Laughter echoed off glass and stone, caught in air vents and elevator doors. We stitched together movement, memory, and light—pixels humming with intention, hands working with purpose. Nothing stood still. Even the quiet moments were loud with meaning. We didn’t just make art—we made atmosphere, made kin, made future.

Qaumajuq: The Power of Stories

Jamie Bell March 30, 2025

Workshops at the Winnipeg Art Gallery 410,790 views—and each one carries a whisper of that moment. A...

Rewind, Fast-Forward, Reframe

Jamie Bell March 29, 2025

Uncover how strategic flashbacks and flash-forwards deepen intrigue, reveal character, and reshape time in powerful stories.

Sustaining the Vision: Funding, Collaboration, and the Future of Arts-Based Recreation The Future is Creative: A vibrant future for our communities requires a sustained commitment to the arts. Explore innovative funding models and collaborative approaches that will secure the vision of arts-based community rejuvenation for generations to come.