The Manitoba Institute for Patient Safety has a new learning initiative that gives healthcare educators the tools to simulate patient safety situations that occur in health care settings. Learn to be Safe – A Simulation Learning Experience is in a kit format. With the tool kit, students and practitioners can rehearse for safety. Continue reading ‘A SIMULATION LEARNING EXPERIENCE’
The 2011 JNF Negev Gala Concert, held on May 31st, was a great celebration
of Manitoba’s special relationship with Israel, and will further those ties
by funding research in Oak Hammock Marsh in Manitoba and its sister marsh in
the Hula Valley in Israel. Continue reading ‘IT’S ABOUT CHANGE FOR THE POSITIVE’
Prairie Theatre Exchange recently launched its Capital Campaign — Revitalizing, Reconnecting and Renewing Our Work and Our Community with the largest contribution by the Federal Government in the theatre’s history. The Honourable Vic Toews, Minister of Public Safety, announced the Federal contribution of $734,510 to the project on behalf of The Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, this morning.
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The fiction imprint of Great Plains Publications, Enfield & Wizenty, presents the first issue of an online literary magazine: www.thewinnipegreview.com. The Winnipeg Review publishes on-line every quarter, with weekly updates, from its eponymous home. Like the inhabitants of this midcontinental city, TWR is always opinionated, occasionally cranky, and ethnically confused. It exists to review literary books, mostly Canadian fiction, and to showcase interviews, excerpts of fiction and non fiction, poems, articles, and columns by writers with something to say.
Originally built at the Forks of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers in 1810, Fort Gibraltar was a North West Company fur trade post that also helped control the pemmican trade. The Festival du Voyageur inc rebuilt today’s Fort on the east side of the Red River in 1978.
Maple Leaf Rag is a dynamic, jazz-infused riff on Canadian culture. With rhythm and edge, Kaie Kellough’s verbal soundscape explores belonging, dislocation and relocation, and national identity from a black Canadian perspective. This collection of poems is both written word and musical score — a dictated dub replete with references to African Canadian and African American culture (current and dated), Canadian history and politics, and characters ranging from dancers to piano players to boxers.
This year’s Negev Gala will go towards a unique project. The Alexander River is a polluted cross-border river which flows down from the Samarian hills on the Palestinian side to its estuary at the Mediterranean Sea in Emek Hefer on the Israeli side. The Alexander River Restoration Administration, in which the JNF plays a leading role, is the only current example of its kind involving cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians on environmental issues, with results which are visible on the ground.
In classic Manitoba style, come to a fun-filled party with great music, prizes and traditional favourites such as kielbasa, cubes of cheese, pickles, Kub Bread and Old Dutch potato chips.
Winnipeg’s World’s Largest Social will take place on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at the Winnipeg Convention Centre.
Tickets are only $15 each, so everyone can join in on the fun, drink out of plastic cups, dance to classic rock and party with 3,000 people to help raise money for charity. You won’t want to miss it!
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The Manitoba Writers’ Guild (MWG) and the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers (AMBP) announced the 2010 Manitoba Book Awards shortlists today. Winners will be announced at the Manitoba Book Awards gala, on Sunday, April 25, 2010, at the Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain (CCFM), 340 boulevard Provencher. This year’s ceremony will be hosted by Neil Besner, Vice President and former Dean of Arts of the University of Winnipeg.
Shortlisted are, Best Illustrated Book of the Year Award, A Memory of Sky by Jim Shilliday, design by Relish Design Studio, published by Great Plains Publications and Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year Award, Rats of Las Vegas by Lisa Pasold, design by Relish Design Studio, published by Great Plains Publications.
Since the event’s inception in 1989, during which a single award (the McNally Robinson Book Award) was presented, The Manitoba Book Awards (formerly the Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards) has grown to feature 13 categories. Nominees and winners are selected by jurors drawn from across Manitoba and Canada.
The Manitoba Writers’ Guild formed in 1981 to promote writing throughout Manitoba, and remains committed to providing personal and professional support to writers at any level in their careers, and enhancing the province’s literary community. The Association of Manitoba Book Publishers represents 14 Manitoban publishing houses, which publish over 100 books each year in English, French, and Cree. Many of these books are written by Manitoban authors or feature Manitoban stories.
The award administrators gratefully acknowledge the support of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Aqua Books, Friesens the Province of Manitoba; the Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism; the Winnipeg Arts Council; and the Manitoba Arts Council.
We are! For a bunch of misfit, out-of-shape paper pushers – 11th place is a awesome place to be amongst 38 teams – many seasoned rowers. The proceeds of this years festival got to HSC Foundation – and we are super happy about that too.
