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Photos and Short Stories

The Arts Incubator Winnipeg is a hub and space for experimentation, collaboration, and creative production grounded in real community experience. Through story and photo, we document the moments that shape our work—late-night editing sessions, first-time gallery installations, youth-led workshops, quiet breakthroughs, and collective challenges. These snapshots offer more than a behind-the-scenes look; they reflect the rhythms, relationships, and realities of building something meaningful together. Whether it’s an emerging artist discovering their voice or a group reimagining their surroundings through art, each moment tells a part of the story we’re living and shaping as a creative community. Sometimes, we just post photos we like for fun.

The Exchange District perfectly masquerades as Bastion, Illinois, with this convincing theater set advertising Karloff and Price, built specifically for the chilling atmosphere of David Slade’s Dark Harvest.
Photos and Short Stories

Cellulose Illusion

The line between reality and cinematic illusion blurs beautifully on the historic pavements of downtown Winnipeg.
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Tipped carelessly against a brick wall by a downtown dumpster, a discarded Winnipeg Press Club sign serves as a sobering monument to a forgotten era of local journalism.
Winnipeg

Final Edition

The Winnipeg Press Club served as a legendary sanctuary where the city's greatest storytellers challenged power.
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The ultimate primitive boardroom: an intimate, fire-lit space that coaxes creative thinkers outside to connect, brainstorm, and stay warm beneath the dark night sky.
Winnipeg

Primordial Kilns

Working with raw fire and earth reminds us that the best artistic connections are entirely unscripted.
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A battered and broken payphone keypad in downtown Winnipeg stands as a raw, gritty piece of accidental street art, capturing the textured history of old public communication.
Winnipeg

Dial Tone Ghosts

A shattered payphone in Winnipeg transforms ordinary street damage into a beautifully haunting monument to human voices.
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Spring Short Stories for: May 29, 2026
Photos and Short Stories

Spring Short Stories for: May 29, 2026

Four speculative stories exploring spring themes within urban landscapes and various shifting future realities are archived here.
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Rainwater pools on the worn pavement of a downtown Winnipeg alley, creating a striking mirror that reflects historic architecture and invites late-night walkers to contemplate a century of urban change.
Winnipeg

Liquid History

Rain-slicked alleys turn ordinary midnight walks into a beautiful, haunting journey through a century of Winnipeg history.
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By pressing buttons to mix red, green, and blue LED lights, park visitors become active performers, shaping the visual landscape and connecting with the local neighborhood community through beautiful colour.
Winnipeg

Electric Playgrounds

DIY Field turns park visitors into casual street artists, using simple light buttons to paint the dark.
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Windsor’s downtown streets transform after midnight, trading the daytime rush for an atmospheric, amber-lit canvas where late-night thinkers and night owls find space to connect.
Photos and Short Stories

Night Shift

Late-night urban walks foster creative reflection, human connection, and a deeper love for public spaces.
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Against a stark brick backdrop, this unassuming Windsor bench serves as an open-air boardroom where artists gather to dissect concepts, share stories, and connect under the open Canadian sky.
Photos and Short Stories

Concrete Boardrooms

Benches are the ultimate minimalist boardrooms where raw human connection completely outshines the fanciest corporate office spaces.
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The tilt shift lens brings focus to the heart of the sidewalk, blurring the heavy traffic and overhead skywalks to emphasize the people who make Winnipeg feel truly, deeply alive.
Winnipeg

Concrete and Sunlight

Ditching the indoor skywalks for real sidewalks reminds us exactly why we love this raw, beautiful city.
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In Music

Jukebox In Exile is the new country music album from Flin Flon singer-songwriter C.C. Trubiak, blending classic country, honky-tonk, Americana and traditional storytelling into a collection of songs inspired by resilience, community and life in Northern Manitoba. Written during and after the 2025 Flin Flon wildfire evacuation, the album draws influence from country music legends including Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings and George Jones. Featuring the singles "Old Country Songs," "Being Rich" and the charting track "Outlaws Meditation," Jukebox In Exile showcases Trubiak's signature songwriting while celebrating small-town life, northern Canadian culture, queer country music and the enduring spirit of Flin Flon. The album is available now on major music streaming platforms.
Manitoba's own C.C. Trubiak's new album "Jukebox in Exile" dropped on June 5! Check it out!

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Upcoming Events

The Under $200 Art Show is coming to Calgary October 15-18. Art of all kinds- paintings, photography, textiles, mixed media, ceramics, handmade accessories, and so much more! Don’t miss your chance to discover amazing local art and one-of-a-kind finds!
The Under $200 Art Show is coming to Calgary October 15-18. Art of all kinds- paintings, photography, textiles, mixed media, ceramics, handmade accessories, and so much more! Don’t miss your chance to discover amazing local art and one-of-a-kind finds!

MANITOBA ARTS PROGRAMS

This platform, our Winnipeg, Manitoba hub and programs have been made possible with support from the Manitoba Arts Council Indigenous 360 Program. We gratefully acknowledge their funding and support in making the work we do possible.

Manitoba Arts Council Indigenous 360 Program

NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO ARTS

This platform, our Northwestern Ontario hub and programs have been made possible with support from the Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program. We gratefully acknowledge their funding and support in making the work we do possible.

Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Arts Incubator was seeded and piloted with strategic arts innovation funding from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse. We thank them for their investment, supporting northern arts capacity building and bringing the arts to life.

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