
Jen Zoratti
Columnist and Arts Writer at Winnipeg Free Press
Music Editor at Uptown Magazine
Music Editor at Uptown Magazine
Free Press columnist/arts writer @WinnipegNews. Author of NEXT, a weekly newsletter looking at a post-pandemic future. Find me @jenzoratti.bsky.social
Articles
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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.
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3 days 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.
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1 week 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.
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1 week 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.
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1 month ago |
winnipegfreepress.com | Jen Zoratti
When Gwen Hoebig takes the stage at the Centennial Concert Hall this weekend, it will be for the last time as the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s concertmaster. After 37 years, the renowned first-chair violinist will be taking a well-earned rest, but not before a pair of shows celebrating her glittering career.
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