Museums, Mennonites, and Human Rights
Gary Dyck, Blog Coordinator
Executive Director, MHV
The Mennonite Heritage Village (MHV) is excited to be collaborating with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in April, which is Genocide Remembrance, Condemnation and Prevention month in Canada. Mennonites have talked a lot about peace, non-violence, valuing the “other,” reconciliation, and forgiveness, but we have not talked a lot about human rights. Museums for that matter have not either. Museums and Mennonites have been mostly ambivalent about human rights issues in their world, but that is changing. As novelist and social activist Alice Walker said, “activism is my rent for living on the planet.” When we see great wrong being done to fellow humans, we must carefully consider what our role is.
Winnipeg Free Press
The pandemic has emptied streets and offices, but experts say with help, city s centre can rebound By: Ben Waldman | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Friday, Apr. 9, 2021
The convenience store cashier sees everything on his corner of Graham Avenue. His view is good: behind the register, he sits on a fading vinyl stool that pivots, and if he turns his head over his left shoulder, his eyes look right out toward the bus stop. If he’s lucky, the benches are full of university students or harried office workers, and the No. 18 is running a bit late.
The convenience store cashier sees everything on his corner of Graham Avenue. His view is good: behind the register, he sits on a fading vinyl stool that pivots, and if he turns his head over his left shoulder, his eyes look right out toward the bus stop. If he’s lucky, the benches are full of university students or harried office workers, and the No. 18 is running a bit l
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Xavier Mutshipayi beside his work Sympho.
City artist Lori Ferguson found out how attached Winnipeggers are to the Bay’s downtown store.
City artist Lori Ferguson found out how attached Winnipeggers are to the Bay’s downtown store.
Her two impressionist-style oil paintings of the 95-year-old landmark, which closed late in 2020 and has since been boarded up, were snapped up by buyers almost as quickly as she hung them on the wall for Cre8ery gallery’s latest exhibition,
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An untitled work by Xavier Mutshipayi conveys the uncertainty of our current situation. Maybe I should have just painted this scene (for the entire show), she jokes. People are very emotional about it. A lady was almost in tears talking with us about it.
Brandon Sun By: Colin Slark
With mechanical assistance, workers at Behlen Industries start to load a package weighing more than 12 tonnes into a shipping container eventually bound for Haiti. (Colin Slark/The Brandon Sun)
A shipping container full of furniture, doors, beds, mattresses and 27,000 pounds of metal departed Brandon on Thursday morning for a journey that will take it to Canada’s east coast and beyond.
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A shipping container full of furniture, doors, beds, mattresses and 27,000 pounds of metal departed Brandon on Thursday morning for a journey that will take it to Canada’s east coast and beyond.
All of the items are destined for Haiti, contributing to a transitional housing complex being built by Brandon-based charity Live Different.
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Thirty years later, the man behind Manitoba s tourism mecca is taking a bow Save to Read Later
It’s a cliché, he admits, but Paul Jordan remembers his first day working at The Forks like it was yesterday.
It’s a cliché, he admits, but Paul Jordan remembers his first day working at The Forks like it was yesterday.
Back then, in the early ‘90s, there wasn’t much to the beloved meeting space and market at the confluence of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers save for a heritage status as a historic site, after bearing witness to six thousand years of human activity.