40 YEARS OF ONE NIGHT STANDS – The Story of Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet

I suspect that most fans of dance know of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. The company is Canada’s first professional Ballet company, and surprisingly the oldest continuously running company in North America. They were the first Canadian company to tour Russia, the United States, South America, Australia, Czechoslovakia, Israel, the Caribbean, …

BACKTRACKS – The Story of Winnipeg’s Streetcars

Winnipeg owes much to its commuter beginnings. The street cars played a significant role in the creation of Winnipeg city.  From as far back as 1887 Winnipeg has been served by some form of commercial transit commuter service.  By 1900, the Winnipeg Electric Co. was a supplier of electric power, …

CONTOURS – L.B.Foote & L.L.FitzGerald – Two Visions of Early Winnipeg

They lived in and covered the birth of Winnipeg, they depicted the same scenes, they were active during the same era…however, they represent two completely different ways of seeing.  Two different artists interpretations of the city they called their home. Canadian Group of Seven Painter Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald and photographer …

HAUNTS OF THE BLACK MASSEUR – The Swimmer As Hero

This hour long documentary takes its inspiration from Charles Sprawson’s landmark book, ‘Haunts of the Black Masseur – the Swimmer as Hero’. The viewer is invited to accompany Sprawson as we swim the Hellespont, the Tiber, the English Channel and Antarctica. We meet and swim with some of the top marathon swimmers in the world; Lynne Cox, David Yudovin and Alison Streeter and photographer Linda Troeller who share their passion for and obsession with the water.

CRAPSHOOT – The Gamble With Our Wastes

WHEN you flush your toilet and dump liquids down your drain… where does it all go?

just add water … and crap

Down into the sewer everyday: thousands of synthetic chemicals, organic chemicals, every type of pharmaceutical drug, oils, paints, heavy metals, condoms, food wastes, radioactive materials, asbestos, hospital and dental wastes, just to name a few….

INSIDE THE FRAME – Portrait of Photographer LINDA TROELLER

In this digital age when nothing is new – only new interpretations, Troeller’s images are rare, vitally present, surviving as a window to an era of photography fleeting by. Like an impressionistic painter from another time, her photographs evoke the moment as seen through the memory of it.