Friday, May 8^th

8:00 – 9:00 am Listen to Dialogues: Gravel Roads to City Lights live at CKUW

95.5 FM or at ckuw.ca

This is a new community radio show on CKUW hosted by Marianne Cerilli and Kalynn Spain. Marianne is an educator, politician, community development aficionado who has transformed into Marianne Cerilli – Change Agent spreading community development and social innovation wherever she goes.

Kalynn is trained in conflict resolution; she works as a farm mediator and farm coach who lives in Arborg, Manitoba. Her passion for food scurity and rural living combine with her passion for non-violent communication and peace building. 

Dialogues airs alternate Fridays at 8:00 am and covers hot topics with cooler heads, as Marianne and Kalynn facilitate radio conversations bridging urban, suburban, rural and northern Manitoba.

This show will examine what it is like to be a working mom in rural and urban Manitoba.  The guests are Susan Prentice, a UM Sociology Professor and former Chair of Women and Gender Studies who specializes in childcare.

Along with Katie McKinnes who with her husband Colin and son, owns Dog Runs Farm, a small farm near Clearwater, Manitoba, with pigs, sheep, chickens, laying hens, geese, and a garden.  They have been providing food for customers since 2013.

CKUW Program page for Dialogues: From Gravel Roads to City Lights

Saturday, May 9^th

7:30 pm at the Ukrainian Labour Temple

591 Pritchard Ave.

Tickets on sale at Eventbrite.ca

We all know the mandolin – you can hear it at almost any folk festival in the world.  It was born in Italy at the end of the 17^th century and became a symbol of romantic serenades.  In the 20^th century, it crossed the ocean to become part of American musical culture where it found new energy, and it continues to explore new sounds and styles.  But have you ever heard a mandolin orchestra?  It is truly something special.  Mandolins, mandolas, and mandocellos combine with woodwinds and accordions to create a bright and unusual sound mosaic.

The Winnipeg Mandolin Orchestra invites you “Across Time and Cultures”, a concert journey.  From Mediterranean harbours to Scandinavian fjords.  From Asian folk melodies to contemporary Canadian folk and jazz rhythms.  Right here, in the heart of Canada, music from different eras and continents will meet in one shared orchestral sound.

Visit ult-wpg.ca for more information.

Friday, May 22^nd

8:00 – 9:00 am Listen to Dialogues: Gravel Roads to City Lights live at CKUW

95.5 FM or at ckuw.ca

Dialogues: Gravel Roads to City Lights is a new community radio show on CKUW hosted by Marianne Cerilli and Kalynn Spain. Marianne is an educator, politician and community development aficionado who has transformed into Marianne Cerilli – Change Agent, spreading community development and social innovation wherever she goes.

Kalynn is trained in conflict resolution; she works as a farm mediator and farm coach who lives in Arborg Manitoba. Her passion for food security and rural living combine with her passion for non-violent communication and peace building.

The show airs alternate Fridays at 8:00 am and covers hot topics with cooler heads, as Marianne and Kaylynn facilitate radio conversations bridging urban, suburban, rural and northern Manitoba.

On this week’s show, Marianne and Kalynn will welcome guests Bea Bruske and Fred Tait to have a conversation about our food supply chains, what is driving up the cost of food and where that money is going.

Bea Bruske is President of the Canadian Labour Congress and former member of UFCW Local 832.  Bea has an amazing story of coming to Canada from Germany at 14, then working her way from being a cashier to the head of organized labour in Canada.

Fred Tait, a member of the Agriculture Hall of Fame, has been farming his entire life and at 83 is still advocating with the National Farmer’s Union for farmers and sustainable agriculture. 

CKUW Program page for Dialoagues: Gravel Roads to City Lights

Friday, May 22^nd

7:00 pm at Dave Barber Cinematheque (additional screenings May 23rd 5:00 pm and May 24th, 2:30 pm)

100 Arthur St.

Tickets at davebarbercinematheque.com

A documentary exposé of the world’s biggest -and most unaccountable -polluter: the US military.  Learn the environmental cost of having a military Empire.  Includes a live post-screening conversation with filmmaker Abby Martin. 

Exempt from international climate agreements and rarely scrutinized in mainstream reporting, the Pentagon is revealed here as the world’s single largest institutional polluter -spewing carbon, contaminating water, and scarring landscapes across the globe.  Combining investigative journalism, striking visuals, and stories from impacted communities, Earth’s Greatest Enemy challenges audiences to rethink the hidden costs of a global military empire and its planetary consequences.  Provocative, urgent, and eye-opening, this is a documentary that will change how you see both the military and environmentalism.

Co-presented by Peace Alliance Winnipeg, the Dave Barber Cinematheque, Manitoba Energy Justice Coalition, and the Manitoba Eco Network.

Watch Earth’s Greatest Enemy trailer:

Cinematheque event link

Saturday, May 23^rd

7:00 pm at the Ukrainian Labour Temple

591 Pritchard Ave.

Guest Speaker Isaac Saney is Professor of Black Studies at Dalhousie University, Halifax, coordinator of the Black African Diaspora Studies Program and a Cuba specialist.