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The University of Winnipeg Library moved locations on campus many times before finding its permanent home at Centennial Hall in the ‘70s. Taken in 1932, this ph...oto shows the library in Wesley College just two years before it moved into the two-storey brick expansion behind Wesley Hall. #ThrowbackThursday : UWinnipeg Archives

If you’re UWinnipeg student or alumni with a physical disability, The UWSA is asking you to fill out a survey as part of their ‘More Than A Door’ campaign. The goal is to assess the accessibility needs and limitations students who use mobility aids face on campus. Take the survey!

Alumna Sasha Amaya (BAH 10) was selected as CBC Manitoba Future 40 winner in 2020. She is a writer and founder of the interdisciplinary art, design, and architecture journal, MVT, as well as a highly accomplished artist, performer, and director, working in the fields of art, notably opera and music direction, where women and persons of colour are still significantly underrepresented. She is a longstanding community volunteer, with affiliations to Cluster Festival, UN-Habitat, the Jane Goodall Institute, and the WAG, as well as a member of MAWA.

All are welcome to attend a Zoom webinar this evening: Monday, November 16 at 7:00 pm titled: Weaver girl limns two rainbows: An Artist Talk by iris yirei hu in conversation with Nasrin Himada and Jennifer Smith. Register here. Gallery 1C03 is pleased to invite you to this online gathering as part of Sovereign Intimacies, an exhibition co-curated by Nasrin Himada and Jennifer Smith in partnership with Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, with support from Video Pool Media Arts Centre. Artist iris yirei hu will discuss her artistic practise and, in particular, her sculptural installation Weaver girl limns two rainbows, which is included in the exhibition. Sovereign Intimacies curators Nasrin Himada and Jennifer Smith will join the artist in conversation.

The Black Writing in Canada Speaker Series, hosted by the Department of English, continues this Wednesday from 12:00 1:00 pm with Tessa McWatt! An author of ...six novels and two books for young people, her fiction has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award, the City of Toronto Book Awards, the OCM Bocas Prize, and the Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Non-Fiction. McWatt is one of the winners of the Eccles British Library Award 2018, for her memoir: ‘Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging,’ which also won the Bocas Prize for Non-Fiction 2020 and is a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Non-Fiction 2020.