Jen Zoratti

Winnipeg

Columnist and Arts Writer at Winnipeg Free Press

Free Press columnist/arts writer @WinnipegNews. Author of NEXT, a weekly newsletter looking at a post-pandemic future. Find me @jenzoratti.bsky.social

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Opinion: Mass tourism a modern ill

1 week ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Jen Zoratti

When I went to Paris in 2012, I skipped the Louvre. Sacré bleu!Don’t get me wrong: I notably love an art museum and try to go to one in every city I visit. From the Tate Modern in London to the Art Institute of Chicago to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to the Denver Art Museum, I’ve had the absolute privilege — and it is that — to have seen many amazing works by incredible artists at world-class institutions.
Hip hop, musical theatre meet centre stage in PTE production, The Remix

1 week ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Jen Zoratti

Ten choreographers. Ten vocalists. Seventy dancers. Two shows only. These are the elements that make up The Remix, an innovative new hip hop-meets-musical theatre dance showcase taking place at Prairie Theatre Exchange’s Cherry Karpyshin Theatre at the end of the month, presented by Rise Musical Theatre Company.
Opinion: Body positivity losing its lustre on social media

2 weeks ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Jen Zoratti

By: Jen Zoratti Posted: 2:00 AM CDT Saturday, Jun.
A selection of page-turners for the father figures in your life

2 weeks ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Ben Sigurdson |Jill Wilson |AV Kitching |Jen Zoratti |Conrad Sweatman

This Father’s Day, skip the grilling cookbooks, the corny bathroom joke books and cookie-cutter sports bios, and get dad a something new to read that he can really sink his teeth into. The Free Press arts and life team have pulled together a list of books practically any dad will find compelling.
Playful creations conjured by friends on either side of studio wall

2 weeks ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Jen Zoratti

For more than a month, visual artist Takashi Iwasaki and artist/designer Joseph Kalturnyk worked on their joint exhibition Halcyon / Kawasemi together, but apart. In the galleries at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, the longtime friends and Nuit Blanche collaborators created art in their own spaces, knowing the other was just on the other side of the wall.
Bringing McFly’s Gibson back from the past, er, future

2 weeks ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Jen Zoratti

The cherry-red Gibson ES-345 Michael J. Fox plays as Marty McFly in the 1985 film Back to the Future is, to use an overused word, iconic. It’s also been missing for decades. And now, in honour of the movie’s 40th anniversary, Gibson wants to find it. The guitar brand has launched a worldwide missing-guitar campaign complete with a tip submission website and 1-800 line to assist with the search, which will be featured in a forthcoming documentary called Lost to the Future.
New Canada Post issue commemorates founding event of Two-Spirit Gathering

3 weeks ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Jen Zoratti

The summer of 1990 will forever loom large for Elder Albert McLeod. That year, Indigenous leaders from all over North America — including McLeod, who helped organize the event — assembled at the third North American Native Gay & Lesbian Gathering (now known as the Annual International Two-Spirit Gathering) near Beausejour. It was a powerful, transformative and intensely spiritual weekend, where attendees could be held by all the Indigenous history, culture and ceremony that had been stolen.
Barrier-breaking French dancer inspiration for boundary-pushing choreographer

3 weeks ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Jen Zoratti

Sahel Flora Pascual’s dance career has taken her all over the world: Ballet Manila, the School of American Ballet in New York City, Ballet Austin in Texas and, for the upcoming 2025/26 season, London City Ballet. In April, it brought her to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.
Opinion: Lady of Fire and other shapes of landscapes to come

4 weeks ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Jen Zoratti

In the early spring, well before out-of-control wildfires tore through northern Manitoba and Ontario, well before the snow had even melted, I went to see Marcel Dzama’s Ghosts of Canoe Lake in its final days at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art. The works comprising the exhibition were inspired by the iconic Canadian landscape paintings by the Group of Seven, but if the Group of Seven’s beloved jack pines were on fire.
Winnipeg artist uses ancient technique to tell historical stories

1 month ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Jen Zoratti

By: Jen Zoratti Posted: 2:01 AM CDT Thursday, May. 29, 2025 Last September, Winnipeg-based visual artist Tim Schouten travelled to Linklater Island in northern Manitoba.