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Sue Sorensen

Sunday 22nd of June 2025
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Cluster Festival. Photo credit: Leif Norman.
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Breath in a Box: Cluster Festival 1

For the first of five concerts in the Cluster New Music and Integrated Arts Festival, the audience at Winnipeg’s West End Cultural Centre on March… Read More
Arts & Life, Music

Report from the Winnipeg New Music Festival – Evening 7: Give yourself to it

Stamina is involved when you take in every concert at the WNMF, and perhaps naps, and also careful planning, especially if you have a kid… Read More
Arts & Life, Music

Report from the Winnipeg New Music Festival – Evening 6: Sound never dies

Sound never dies. That’s what the audience at the Pan Am Pool for WNMF concert six was told, and this helped tremendously with an approach… Read More
Arts & Life, Music

Report from the Winnipeg New Music Festival – Evening 5: It’s about time for the theremin to show up

By the fifth day of the WNMF, new music fatigue is in evidence. Is this what it feels like to be an entrant in a… Read More
Arts & Life, Music

Report from the Winnipeg New Music Festival – Evening 4: Just people and music

“What is twenty-first century music?” This was the question briefly debated by composer Derek Charke and conductor/composer Gary Kulesha during the Tuesday, January 26 program… Read More
Arts & Life, Music

Report from the Winnipeg New Music Festival – Evening 3: Poignant humming, excellent beards

On Monday, January 25, the New Music Festival headed over to Westminster United Church for an evening of works featuring vocal ensembles. In terms of… Read More
Arts & Life, Music

Report from the Winnipeg New Music Festival – Evening 2: Chord sticks and crockery

My favourite Winnipeg New Music Festival moment, by far, occurred in 2004. Somehow the organizers convinced the esteemed Estonian composer, Arvo Pärt, to attend. In… Read More
Arts & Life, Music

Report from the Winnipeg New Music Festival – Evening 1: Happy twigs

One of many reasons to turn up for the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s New Music Festival is that no one really knows how it’s all going… Read More
Amelia Burritt at bottom right, and then (clockwise) Dr. Mary Crawford, Winona Flett Dixon, and Lillian Beynon Thomas. Source: Manitoba Archive.
City & Politics, History

Nice women do want the vote

Dispelling myths about women's suffrage Read More
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