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Celebrate The Joys Of Summer with CJNU with the City of Winnipeg Community Services and Travel Manitoba. Join the program daily, Monday to Friday, at 9:07 a.m. as it welcome's guests from these two organizations to update events, people and places to help you and your family enjoy this season in the sun.
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Manitoba adventures Manitoba’s museums are filled with secrets from the past.
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magine it’s the Creta- ceous period – 80 mil- lion years ago – and
most of what is now known as central North America is covered in an ancient sea teaming with fierce marine life, including plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, sharks, squid, fish, birds and turtles. What better way to go back to this time than with a visit to a museum with a huge collec- tion of marine reptile fossils,
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Blind photographers shine light on the meaning of sight
ne of the most visually inspiring exhibi- tions at the Canadian Museum for Hu- man Rights has been created by some of the world’s most accomplished blind photog- raphers.
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Bruce, the 43-foot-long resident of the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre in Morden. Photo by Mike Beauregard.
including the world’s largest mosasaur fossil on display. The Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre in Morden is home to Bruce, the 43-feet-long mosasaur that once ruled the ancient sea. The museum is packed with other marine fossils, including the mas- sive and mean-looking Xiphanctinus fish. Tour the museum before heading out to an active dig site where you can help excavate real fossils that will be catalogued and studied. Bus tours and overnight packages that include accommodations and meals, along with other area attractions in the Pembina Valley, are available. For more fossil action, head to Dauphin to visit the Fort Dauphin Museum. The museum is home to the 90-million-year-old Chris the Croc, which is one of 10,000 archeological artifacts on display at this museum, housed inside a wooden palisade representative of a fort from the fur trade era.
Also marking Manitoba’s central role in the fur trade that linked Canada to Europe is Fort La Reine Museum in Portage la Prai- rie. French explorer Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye was the first European explorer in southern Manitoba, and his original post is located at the site of the Fort la Reine Museum. The 25 buildings of the museum feature a range of artifacts, from indigenous artifacts that pre-date European contact to more modern pieces like military artifacts from the 20th century, including a rocket-powered ejection seat from a Voodoo jet.
Complete your time-travelling journey through Manitoba with a stop at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum in Austin. Tour the large collection of antique farming equipment. Wander through the 30 buildings of Homesteader’s Village. From log cabins to grist mills and mansions, see what life was like for Prairie pioneers. A camp- ground on site, complete with modern washrooms, makes this an easy place for a weekend, time-travelling adventure. For more information on Manitoba’s museums and other attractions, visit
travelmanitoba.com.
Sight Unseen: International Photography by Blind Artists promises to challenge every visi- tor’s understanding of light, sight and blind- ness, opening your eyes to how blind artists can see and capture images in ways that sighted people cannot.
The exhibition features more than 100 photos by 12 photographers and a collective – coming from as far away as Paris, New York, the Neth- erlands and Mexico.
Each photographer has varying degrees of vi-
sion loss – some were born blind, others gradu- ally lost their sight, and a few lost their sight suddenly. Some were already photographers; others came to photography as a way to ex- plore their own darkness and light. They each use different technologies and creative methods – some shooting only in the dark – to produce dramatic, powerful and moving images. A fitting venue for the Canadian premiere of Sight Unseen, the Canadian Museum for Hu- man Rights is itself a work of art – a stunning feat of architecture enticing all who enter it to take a journey of inspiration from darkness to light, with a visual and sensory experience at ev- ery corner.
Connected by glowing alabaster ramps, the museum’s themed galleries use the latest in modern technology to illuminate stories of violation, survival, resistance and inspiration, encouraging learning from past and present to engage in a conversation about the future. An experience for the senses
As the first museum exhibition in the world to use 3D Photoworks imagery, Sight Unseen creates a rich, three-dimensional experience for people with vision loss, allowing them to see these powerful images in a new way – through their fingertips. Former LIFE magazine photographer John Olson started 3D Photoworks in 2008 with the
The Sight Unseen gallery invites tactile interac- tion with the exhibit.
goal of changing the way the blind “see” pho- tography and art – allowing them to experience and assess artwork independently – enhancing freedom and equality. “For the first time, they'll have tactile, quality information that will be on a level playing field with the sighted,” Olsen told People magazine last October, comparing his 3D imagery to the “difference between reading about a rose and smelling one.”
The addition of touch-activated sensors to provide audio insight on each photograph of- fers an enhanced experience designed to spark thought and conversation about the rights of people with disabilities. It is appropriate to present Sight Unseen in a way that allows all visitors to experience it, par- ticularly with 2016 marking the 10th anniver- sary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, says John Young, the museum’s president and CEO. “Accessibility is a core value of the museum.
We’ve worked with partners from around the world to create the most accessible museum and the most accessible visitor experience possible,” Young says.
Canada’s new national museum has set new standards for universal accessibility, and a rich experience awaits every visitor regardless of ability, in a fully bilingual environment. The can’t-miss Sight Unseen exhibition is on until Sept. 18. Find out more at
humanrights.ca.
Join CJNU at a Pasta And A Pint (A social evening of fun)
Caesar Salad Garlic Bread Pasta
Alfredo or Meat Sauce 1 Drink Ticket
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Bar Opens 5:30 pm | Dinner at 6:00 pm Viscount Gort Hotel, 1670 Portage Ave.
After dinner entertainment by Neil Keep with the music we love Tickets: $16 Available by calling CJNU at 204-942-2568 Tickets must be purchased by Friday, August 12/16
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Join CJNU personalities at Peak of the Market’s annual Family Fun Day on Wednesday, Aug. 17 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Everything is absolutely FREE with any donation to Variety, the Children’s Charity of Manitoba! FREE – giant slide, two bouncers, pony rides, petting zoo and much more! Lunch will be served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Photo credit: Tom Dercola.
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