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Monthly Archives: February 2008

Book Review: City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City, Michael McKinnie, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007
Reviewed by: Allison Hui, Lancaster University, UK
Shakespeare suggested that “all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players”, but what is the relationship between world and stage? What is the use of [...]

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Inuit living spaces

Monday, February 4, 2008

Béatrice Collignon – “From Igloos to Three Bedroom Houses: At the crossing of Architecture and Cultural Geography”
Tuesday February 5th, 2008, 12 noon
The “Pit”, School of Architecture, Carleton University, Ottawa
In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s the Canadian Inuit experienced an important shift in living patterns, moving from one multi-functional room igloos to houses brought [...]

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Subconscious City

Friday, February 1, 2008

SUBCONSCIOUS CITY
February 8 to May 11, 2008
Public opening 7:30pm, Thursday, February 14, 2008 with performances by John K. Samson, Christine Fellows, and Freya Olafson.
Curated by Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Adjunct Curators
Subconscious City examines the often hidden underpinnings of Winnipeg – its myths, its vacant lots, its forgotten communities, its hidden gems – and reveals [...]

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