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Champions and MotivatorsWhat is in motion?In motion is a provincial strategy to help all Manitobans make physical activity part of their daily lives for health and enjoyment. Our vision is to make adult Manitobans healthier by increasing physical activity in the province to 55% by the year 2015.Most of us already know the importance of active living. Physical activity increases energy, reduces stress and strengthens the heart and lungs. The result is a better quality of life for every age group. Yet less than half of all Manitobans of all ages do enough physical activity to improve their health. What's needed is the motivation to get ourselves and each other 'in motion'. The provincial government has joined with community partners in physical activity, health, healthy living, recreation, sport and education to raise activity levels and reduce barriers to physical activity.In motion has four key components.building partnerships developing strategies for target areasmeasuring successIn motion strategies will focus on five specific groups

Winnipeg, Manitob,a CanadaMission Statement:In the spirit of its sacred site, the Manito Ahbee Festival is a gathering that celebrates Indigenous culture and heritage to unify, educate, and inspire.Vision Statement:Manito Ahbee is recognized as a leader in transforming relationships to share Indigenous culture and heritage with the world.The Manito Ahbee Festival is an initiative of the Manito Ahbee Festival Board of Governors.Hosted in Winnipeg, Manitob,a Canad,a the festival draws people from across Canada the United States and abroad. The impact of the festival reaches well beyond entertainment; it has communicated a very significant message the importance of celebrating Aboriginal culture.It arouses a far deeper understanding and powerful affirmation of Aboriginal cultural rebirth and renewal. It showcases the talents, gifts and abilities of Aboriginal artists from all nations. It is truly a celebration of Aboriginal music, arts, culture and heritage not seen before by the broader public through the many festival events

The Centre's Director/Curator programs all exhibitions and related or adjunct events (performances, readings, lectures, projects) with the input of an Advisory Panel. One slot each year is reserved for exhibition proposals brought to the attention of the Director/Curator through the Centre's open submission policy.

Please join the Manitoba Writers' Guild in welcoming our Disability Project Writer-in-Residence, Kate Grisim, on Thursday, May 15 from 11 am -3 pm at the MWG Office. Light refreshments will be served. Everyone is welcome!As the MWG Disability Project's first Writer-in-residence, Kate Grisim will be in the Manitoba Writers' Guild offices 30 hours a week, working with interested writers who would like some general editing, commenting, or critiquing of their original work. Kate's area of specialty is writing about experiences of marginalization, but all writers are welcome to visit her and discuss their work.For more information, please email kendra@mbwriter.mb.ca or writerinresidence@mbwriter.mb.ca204-944-8013 or visit www.mbwriter.mb.caMWG welcomes Kate Grisim – Writer-in ResidenceThe MWG is proud to announce its Disability Project Writer-in-Residence, Kate Grisim.As the MWG Disability Project's first Writer-in-residence, Kate Grisim will be in the Manitoba Writers' Guild offices 30 hours a week, working with interested writers who would like some general editing, commenting, or critiquing of their original work.

Manitoba is the central node of the Manitoba media production industry, the go-to for people who work in this sector or who want to learn about it.Our missionTo increase opportunity and recognition of the Manitoba media production industry by sharing information and facilitating connections for industry professionals and stakeholders.Our valuesInformation and Communication: to strengthen the media production industry in Manitoba by being a point of contact and an information resource.Recognition and Celebration: to recognize and promote the Manitoba media production industry through active representation of the industry and its work locally, nationally and internationally.Development and Innovation: to encourage growth and innovation in the Manitoba media production industry, through the pursuit of both external opportunities and a positive production and business landscape.Growth and Sustainability: to support a creative and commercial economy that will sustain the Manitoba media production industry for the future and provide gainful employment for industry member

ArtspaceCreate. Connect. Collaborate.Artspace is located in the eponymous Artspace Building (also called the Gault Building) in Winnipeg's historic Exchange District.The 55,000 square foot former wholesale warehouse is a place to create, connect and collaborate. It is home to many of Winnipeg's most interesting, important, and innovative artists and arts organizations, including Jazz Winnipeg, Prairie Fire Magazine and the highly-regarded indie film venue Cinematheque. Artistic cooperationArtspace excels at building community. By providing its members, tenants, and the Manitoba arts and cultural community at large with shared administrative support, affordable creation, production, exhibition and administration space, as well as arts management services , Artspace alleviates the isolation of creative practice, encourages collaboration and improves organizational efficiency. The cultural face of the Exchange DistrictArtspace makes deep and enduring positive contribution to the development of arts and culture in Manitob,a and is the major contributor to the Exchange District's standing as a historic and cultural destination.Artspace Inc. and the Artspace Building are the result of the Core Area Initiative a collaboration between Winnipeg's arts community and the three levels of government, targeted at revitalizing the Exchange District

The Manitoba Association of Playwrights is a non-profit organization that supports playwrights & playwriting in Manitoba.HistoryMAP was formed in 1979. Over the past 35 years it has played a crucial role in the development of plays and playwrights in Manitoba. MAP nurtures excellence in Manitoba playwriting and champions playwrights and plays. Core Valuesplaywriting is an art form that has the power to entertain, to educate, to startle and to transform society.the creation of new plays is crucial to the existence of a living theatre.playwriting thrives in a safe environment that supports and encourages creative freedom and exporation.playwriting potentially has as many voices as there are people: the diversity of unique artistic visions makes us stronger. [Rory Runnells photo credit: Michael Roberts, dualityphoto.com]Rory Runnells has been the coordinator and artistic director of the Manitoba Association of Playwrights for most of its existence as an organization.Rory is the face of MAP.

Prairie Fire Home Prairie Fire is an award-winning Canadian journal of innovative writing that is published quarterly by Prairie Fire Press, Inc. Each issue is a fresh, vibrant mix of fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction by our most celebrated writers and the hottest new voices of our emerging writers. It consistently features solid writing that will engage your mind and delight your spirit.In a typical issue you will find a wide range of writing, including excerpts from a work-in-progress, a thoughtful essay or memoir, literary humour, lots of poetry and fiction, and sometimes something more experimental.Prairie Fire has been publishing imaginative, provocative, exceptional, worthwhile writing for over 34 years, making it one of Canada's oldest literary magazines.

Founded in a Winnipeg pub in 1976 to publish chapbooks by Manitoba poets, Turnstone Press has become one of the most highly regarded book publishers in western Canad,a publishing not only poetry but also fiction, literary criticism and non-fiction. In 1998 Turnstone Press launched Ravenstone Books, an imprint dedicated to mysteries, thrillers, and noir fiction. Turnstone Press is committed to our literary and cultural role in Manitoba and Canada and our mandate reflects this. We publish only Canadian authors or landed immigrants, we strive to publish a significant number of new writers, to publish in a variety of genres, and to publish 50 per cent Manitoba writers and/or books with Manitoba content.

Submitted by Prison.Libraryon May 11, 2014 - 2:00pmWant to learn more what the Prison Libraries Committee (PLC) has been up to this past year? Interested in volunteering? Hungry for pizza?Join us on Tuesday, May 13 at 4:30pm in the Cabinet room for an informal meeting and opportunity to chat and get to know other Prison Libraries Committee members. Read more the committee on our webpage .If you can't make the meeting but still want to support the committee, we are collecting books for the Remand and Women's Correctional Centre! Check out our wishlist and bring a book to the conference - we will have a book bin at our PLC booth!

Emerging Canadian Composers Competition Curious, remarkable, and profound, GroundSwell's 2014-15 season brings you heightened experiences, unique sound worlds and the best new music from Winnipeg and around the world. Featuring captivating performances by Eve Egoyan, Montreal's fiery Ensemble Transmission, Australian virtuoso Peter Sheridan and collaborations with Cluster Festival, send + receive, and aceartinc, this is a season you won't want to miss Since 1991 GroundSwell's Artistic Directorate has been delighting and challenging its audiences with an eclectic combination of all that is good new music. As Manitoba's only series dedicated to presenting contemporary music, GroundSwell has showcased diverse programming featuring everything from inspiring interpretations of 20th-century classics to exciting fusions of visual art, theatre, dance, and the written word.The Artistic Directorate is made up of Winnipeg composers Gordon Fitzell , Jim Hiscott , Michael Matthews , and Diana McIntosh .

ABOUTJAZZ WINNIPEGJazz Winnipeg is a non-profit organization promoting the art of jazz through concert presentations and community outreach. As producers of the annual jazz festival, as well as concerts and workshops throughout the year, Jazz Winnipeg is a vibrant and essential organization, dedicated to the enrichment of Winnipeg's cultural community.MISSIONTo be a leader in furthering an appreciation of jazz music through presentation, promotion and outreach.VISIONThe organization's vision for the future of the organization:The jazz experience in Winnipeg will be the proliferation of jazz as an urban art form, not just an intellectual experience, but one that reaches out to a variety of communities and is built on shared experiences and efforts of artists, performers, schools, funders and audiences; it will be a synergistic cross pollination that furthers the intepretive and personal jazz experience where more than the music is happening. The organization and the Festival event will evolve and Jazz Winnipeg will be seen as a leader in jazz dissemination, in organizational governance, in drawing talent from many sources and in creating best practices in arts marketing and resource development