It was the second year in a row a local team won the state Four-Ball Jordan Batchelor and Michael Mattiace won the title last year at the Conservatory at Hammock Beach Eight teams with at least one First Coast resident have won the event shot 61 in the first round and led by as many as five shots Carl Santos-Ocampo of Naples and Marc France of Plantation rallied with a second round 63 but Havixbeck and Scolapio played the final three holes at 1-under and won by one shot at 16-under-par 128 Havixbeck and Scolapio both played at LaGrange College Anthony Scolapio-Eric Havixbeck 61-67--128 Devin Hernandez-Spencer Baldwin 68-66--134 This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Notices are posted by 10 am Monday through Saturday Adjust Text Size: A+ A- As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Dec 14 Share your memories and/or express your condolences below Unfortunately with the need to moderate tributes for inappropriate content your comments may take up to 48 hours to appear News Acting Deputy Mayor and City Councillor for Charleswood -Tuxedo-Whyte Ridge; Hugh Swan Executive Director of Campus Infrastructure The University of Winnipeg; Winnipeg artist Jordan Van Sewell at the Doors Open Winnipeg Awards Ceremony at the Winnipeg Free Press News Café MB – The University of Winnipeg’s Wesley Hall has won Best Restoration in the first-ever Doors Open Winnipeg Awards presented today at the Winnipeg Free Press News Café Doors Open visitors voted in five award categories: Best Restoration Best Overall Experience and the Hidden Gem Wesley Hall was the first building erected on the campus of The University of Winnipeg It was completely restored to its original grandeur in 2007 The original restoration project plan was to repair the sandstone facade due to the methods of construction used in the 1800’s the project became a multi-million dollar replacement that involved civic There were many challenges in meeting current construction standards and maintaining the building’s heritage status Executive Director of Campus Infrastructure at The University of Winnipeg led visitors on a tour of Wesley Hall and presented a lecture and step-by-step slideshow of the restoration project Acting Deputy Mayor and City Councillor for Charleswood -Tuxedo-Whyte Ridge presented the Best Restoration Award a ceramic sculpture created by Winnipeg artist Jordan Van Sewell “A project such as The University of Winnipeg Wesley Hall was a once-in-a lifetime opportunity,” said Hugh Swan “and it couldn’t have happened without the architects The average age of the stone masons was sixty Every stone that you see on that building is an exact replica of the stone behind it and you’re more than welcome at any time to come down and have a look at it We love telling the story and we’re very grateful for this honour The University of Winnipeg is proud to be part of Doors Open Winnipeg. The eighth annual free public event put on by Heritage Winnipeg took place May 28th and 29th, 2011. Seventy-seven buildings were opened to the public for a free weekend of access and tours. For more information about Doors Open Winnipeg, visit www.doorsopenwinnipeg.ca Olumoroti (Moroti) Soji-George has just come off an exceptional year Soji-George met all the qualifications for his master’s degree in SFU’s School for the Contemporary Art “I specifically looked at how Black men were depicted in 17th- and 18th-century French and British arts,” Soji-George says He points out that this period coincided with the Age of Enlightenment and the beginnings of the slavery-abolitionist movement I was essentially looking at how the Black male body was constructed in a frame,” Soji-George continues “And how these constructions around the Black male body and Western arts were used to mark the Black body as the ‘other’ and a sexual being—and how that affects our society today.” Meanwhile, as the artistic director of Gallery Gachet Soji-George also curates events and exhibitions Aileen Bahmanipour’s How to Invest in Iran continues until January 27 Soji-George reveals that in February, Gallery Gachet will present a new exhibition called Saltwater Cures All, featuring the work of Barbadian Canadian artist Racquel Rowe “Her work is a compilation of video and performance work that speaks to the importance of water and the history that Black people—and especially people of the Caribbean—have with water and family,” Soji-George says He’s also eager to discuss The Black Arts Centre at 10305 City Parkway near Surrey Central Station The other directors are performance artist Arshi Chadha “We really want to make it a hub that centres Black creativity…where the artists don’t feel they have to cater to the white gaze or anything like that,” Soji-George says This year, the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is co-producing afternow with The Black Arts Centre at the Roundhouse Exhibition Hall from January 28 to February 5 This free show features works by four-time Bessie Award winner nora chipaumire It includes the artist’s new opera Nehanda which will be played on a huge speaker setup a revolutionary behind the uprising against British colonists in the late 19th century,” the PuSh Festival website states The Black Arts Centre is curating a Club PuSh event at Performance Works on February 3 Soji-George says that he admires how Phiri incorporates sonic elements of techno “I really enjoy that she is trying to make space for young Black people and Black people in general in the party scene in East Vancouver,” he adds “And she’s doing this by combining the familiar with sounds and feelings that some Black people might not even know they could enjoy.” he emphasizes that Phiri’s sets are also “very political” artists play an important role in causing people to rally behind movements or ideas that “might not be super-present in our milieu and our society” He reveals that his curatorial practice is fuelled by an urge to uncover It’s also driven by a desire to speak to issues that artists and people in their community understand and how people are making sense of their individual realities,” Soji-George says He points out that The Black Arts Centre came into existence after the murder of George Floyd and the great racial reckoning of 2020 Directors want to create a safe space for Black people to express themselves artistically “We are working on this understanding that Blackness is not a monolith,” Soji-George states “Different Black people have different meanings of what it means to be a safe space.” Soji-George has been influenced by important Black writers He cites Franz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and Éduard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation as two books that had an impact on him he mentions Black writers such as Angela Davis along with white writers Susan Sontag and Joan Didion The Black Arts Centre is planning other events in February “One of my goals while I’m working at BLAC is to cause the general public to engage with Black arts academia,” Soji-George says “I find a lot of reading groups typically have one book to read and something like that But I want to get members of the reading group to read a scholarly article and we can all sit and discuss that during Black History Month.” Soji-George emphasizes that he also learns a great deal from members of the Black community in Vancouver who’ve shaped his practice: curator Nya Lewis and The Black Arts Centre director Rebecca Bair “They encourage me to do what I love and be what I want to be,” he says the people that he’s working with must know that his efforts are for them “This can be lost when there is so much academic vernacular.” The Black Arts Centre is also planning a movie night He then mentions another of the centre’s priorities in Black History Month—highlighting the idea of “rest as resistance” this is sometimes due to the burden of representation that they face in their lives we developed with this work ethic because the country is hard,” he says “You need to work hard already when you’re in Nigeria you just keep this work ethic—and opportunity 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Follow Pancouver on Twitter @PancouverMedia Pancouver fuels creativity and promotes a more inclusive society You can contribute to support our mission of shining a spotlight on diverse artists Donations from within Canada qualify for a tax receipt Joséphine Jobert and Allan Hawco star as police officers solving crimes in France’s Territorial Collectivity of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon musician is one of 18 international artists invited this year to the renowned indie music conference in Japan The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band) we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.