Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 19, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A Turfay purse jury is Beaver new editor changes Are afoot at the the gift Nipe published Canad an history editor Christopher Dafoe has taken Early says publisher Laird in assumes the role of publisher from Rolph who stepped Down last were seeking a new says we need to main Tain the High standards Chris and his predecessors have brought to the the Magazine will Likely pub Lish two More issues before a new editor who has yet to be named is at the Rankin it wont be but it can be he change is a Challenge for in yet another for Mer Winnipeg Ger Joseph Martin assumes the role of chairman and president of Canadas National history which publishes of the Sqq one of the Best in a new crop of mens pro files trumpeter Wynton Marsalis in its Edi the 35yearold musician became the first jazz Man to win a pulitzer but some critics argue that says More about the awards committee than there Are so Many major musicians who abhor his play says one music and they dare say it because he has the Power to get them the Magazine also spent a week in Belfast on the Campaign Trail with sinn fein pres ident Gerry Adams during the recent Sqq Mel Long considered one of Hollywood Best practical joking reveals his dark Side in vanity fails August cover theres a lot of theres a lot of Energy in Gibson respond ing to a comment his pal Jodie Foster made about him being somewhere an incredibly dark but you cant go around venting that Doest do any does it elsewhere in the same there Are More satisfying reads about the travails of the late Robert Kennedy fashion designer Fiuccia and the final Days of Aires Mobutu sese who fled his troubled country after 32 years of Sqq speaking of vanity that publication had an excellent feature in March on Edgar Bronfman quest for compensation for holocaust victims from Swiss saturday several months later in its offers a similar this is an excerpt from an upcoming called hitlers silent partners Swiss nazi and the Pursuit of Justice by Isabel like the vanity fair this one explores the split in the International jewish conv Unity Over Bronfman Sqq augusts in styx talks Fash Ion with Lisa Kudrow of tvs visits the Homes of Leeza Oscar de la rents and Ray and advises How to get hair like Nicole Cindy Craw Ford and Gwyneth Sqq folks with wanderlust and no responsibilities May feel inspired by stories in augusts a feature sailed Sqq global considers the adventures of several Young americans by Hal left their Homeland to seek Fortune or just peace of mind in Costa Moscow and the feature also includes snapshots of some of the hot new towns where people Are heading for As Well As a guide to spending time working native Art cries out against degradation passionate Mezini beget is sit word meaning one who its also the self referential title of a highly personal collection of mixed Fledia works of Urban shaman gallery by aboriginal artist Heather an Anish Anabe from the Wabash Moong Reserve in North Western Henry now lives Fri this is the first Solo show for the recent Fine arts graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and who has also studied Art at Vancouver Emily Carr College and newfound lands memorial one of the most interesting and Sion ate political statements this exhibition makes is How the cultural intelligentsia in Western society has appropriated aboriginal culture and reduced it to a primitive curiosity suited Only to natural history museums rather than acknowledging its artistic and cultural henrys showcase 1 and 2 depict an aboriginal mans face and an inuit mans the eyes of each Are hollow and like those of a and the face is As expressionless As a in showcase there is a Noble looking Beaver headdress on the mans behind this image is an aged and textured surface with words but repeatedly stencilled across Reading american museum of Nat ural Here is a graphic illustration of How the dominant White Anglo Saxon Cul Ture has minimized the of an entire civilization by displaying it As if it was something almost like a taxidermist trophy or an archaeologists henrys style Hast quite coalesced in her works but theres a fresh Candour and intimacy in her her untitled painting on Canvas of a gentle Woodlands scene with branches and rocks has a Watercolour Quality to it and is reminiscent of a japanese painting on Rice one subject that recurs frequently in henrys Art has a spiritual there Are about six paintings depicting a natural substance that is burned As incense during aboriginal religious in sweetgrass we see a closeup of the tightly braided strings of lying Row after Row works by Heather showcase and showcase on display at Urban shaman galleries museums Garth Bucholz in a snug Here is a mys tical pattern of beige and Black symbolizing the Power of aboriginal spiritual beliefs and the closeness of the in another sweetgrass a Soli tary braided Loop of sweetgrass symbolizes a More personal and inward spiritual there is a sense that a nearby human being has looped this sweetgrass in preparation for a Branch is a miniature work about 30 by 46 centimetres set within a deep it looks like an excavated layer from an archaeology upon closer the broken Branch and Art review Mezini blight paintings and works on paper by Heather Henry Urban shaman 491 Albert to August 8 out of five the Vine wound around suggest that it May have once been part of a human made the tiny object implies that this was once a site where there was Indus try and the Bronze like metallic appearance of the substance around and beneath the Branch has an ennobling Quality to like the plating on a there a blooded stain flowing around the right Side of the Branch that hints at the violent destruction of a culture and a Henry makes a Strong environmental statement with her two part Beaver Tail Pouch 1 and in which a cultural object becomes the Symbol of the symbiosis of the aboriginal people and the natural Environ in Pouch a painting of an ornamented Beaver Tail Pouch is glued to the surface of a Bare the depth perspective of this Pouch is such that the Grain of the leather looks like the pebbles in a Lake or Pond and the decorative braids near the top look like the grasses flowing under thus a natural object in the hands of aboriginal a spiritual window revealing nature in Pouch we see a portent of the future there is no Beaver Tail but Only a shadowy outline of what was once you name the Price with the now Winnipeg free press classified reduced the classifications listed below Are eligible for our new for 3 lines for 3 consecutive Days to Seu any item under for 3 lines for 3 consecutive Days to Seu any item under for 3 lines for 7 consecutive Days to Seu any item under minimum 3 maximum All ads must be 10 6 Point copy no refunds for newly terns must Hove the Price stated in additional run for party noncommercial errors advertisers eligible eligible include 0580 Ante 0576 appliances 0563biov needs 0567 Buty products services 0546 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