Editing Manitoba (section)

=== Arts ===
[[File:Wpgconcerthall.jpg|thumb|[[Centennial Concert Hall]] in Winnipeg]]
The [[Minister of Culture, Heritage, Tourism and Sport (Manitoba)|Minister of Culture, Heritage, Tourism and Sport]] is responsible for promoting and, to some extent, financing Manitoban culture.<ref>{{vcite web|url=https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/ourdept/index.html|title=Culture, Heritage and Tourism|publisher=Government of Manitoba|accessdate=11 April 2011|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110427070113/http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/ourdept/index.html|archivedate=27 April 2011}}</ref> Manitoba is the birthplace of the [[Red River Jig]], a combination of Indigenous [[pow-wow]]s and European [[Reel (dance)|reels]] popular among early settlers.<ref>{{vcite journal|author=Bolton, David|date=September 1961|title=The Red River Jig|journal=Manitoba Pageant|publisher=Manitoba Historical Society|volume=7|issue=1|url=http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/pageant/07/redriverjig.shtml}}</ref> Manitoba's traditional music has strong roots in Métis and First Nations culture, in particular the old-time [[fiddle|fiddling]] of the Métis.<ref>{{vcite journal|author=Lederman, Anne|year=1988|title=Old Indian and Metis Fiddling in Manitoba: Origins, Structure, and Questions of Syncretism|journal=The Canadian Journal of Native Studies|volume=7|issue=2|pages=205–230}}</ref> Manitoba's cultural scene also incorporates classical European traditions. The Winnipeg-based [[Royal Winnipeg Ballet]] (RWB), is Canada's oldest ballet and North America's longest continuously operating [[ballet company]]; it was granted its royal title in 1953 under Queen Elizabeth II.<ref>{{vcite book|author=Dafoe, Christopher|title=Dancing through time: the first fifty years of Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet|publisher=Portage & Main Press|year=1990|pages=4, 10, 154|isbn=978-0-9694264-0-0}}</ref> The [[Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra]] (WSO) performs classical music and new compositions at the [[Centennial Concert Hall]].<ref>{{vcite web|url=http://www.wso.mb.ca/history.asp|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080504203455/http://www.wso.mb.ca/history.asp|archivedate=4 May 2008|title=More About the WSO|year=2008|publisher=Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra|accessdate=23 February 2010}}</ref> [[Manitoba Opera]], founded in 1969, also performs out of the Centennial Concert Hall.

[[File:Former home of Margaret Laurence.jpg|thumb|Author [[Margaret Laurence]]'s home in Neepawa]]
[[Le Cercle Molière]] (founded 1925) is the oldest French-language theatre in Canada,<ref>{{vcite journal|author=Moss, Jane|date=Spring 2004|title=The Drama of Identity in Canada's Francophone West|journal=American Review of Canadian Studies|publisher=Routledge|volume=34|issue=1|pages=82–83|issn=0272-2011|doi=10.1080/02722010409481686}}</ref> and [[Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre]] (founded 1958) is Canada's oldest English-language regional theatre.<ref>{{vcite journal|author=Hendry, Thomas B|date=Autumn 1965|title=Trends in Canadian Theatre|journal=The Tulane Drama Review|publisher=MIT Press|volume=10|issue=1|page=65|doi=10.2307/1124680|jstor=1124680}}</ref> [[Manitoba Theatre for Young People]] was the first English-language theatre to win the Canadian Institute of the Arts for Young Audiences Award, and offers plays for children and teenagers as well as a theatre school.<ref>{{vcite web|url=http://www.mtyp.ca/about-mtyp.cfm|title=About Us|publisher=Manitoba Theatre for Young People|accessdate=11 April 2011|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706190335/http://www.mtyp.ca/about-mtyp.cfm|archivedate=6 July 2011}}</ref> The [[Winnipeg Art Gallery]] (WAG), Manitoba's largest art gallery and the sixth largest in the country, hosts an art school for children; the WAG's permanent collection comprises over twenty thousand works, with a particular emphasis on Manitoban and Canadian art.<ref name="wag">{{vcite web|url=http://www.umanitoba.ca/schools/art/gallery/hpgs/wag/ |title=Winnipeg Art Gallery |publisher=University of Manitoba |accessdate=8 November 2009 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022224230/http://www.umanitoba.ca/schools/art/gallery/hpgs/wag/ |archivedate=22 October 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{vcite web|url=http://wag.ca/about/history|title=History|year=2009|publisher=Winnipeg Art Gallery|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091025103850/http://wag.ca/about/history|archivedate=25 October 2009}}</ref>

The 1960s pop group [[the Guess Who]] was formed in Manitoba, and later became the first Canadian band to have a No. 1 hit in the United States;<ref>{{vcite journal|author=Elliott, Robin|date=December 1998|title=Before the Gold Rush: Flashbacks to the Dawn of the Canadian Sound|journal=CAML Review|publisher=Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres|volume=26|issue=3|pages=26–27}}</ref> Guess Who guitarist [[Randy Bachman]] later created [[Bachman–Turner Overdrive]] (BTO) with fellow Winnipeg-based musician [[Fred Turner (musician)|Fred Turner]].<ref>{{vcite book|author=Melhuish, Martin|title=Bachman-Turner Overdrive: Rock Is My Life, This Is My Song|publisher=Methuen Publications|year=1976|page=74|isbn=978-0-8467-0104-0}}</ref> Fellow rocker [[Neil Young]], grew up in Manitoba, and later played in [[Buffalo Springfield]], and [[Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young]].<ref>{{vcite web|url=http://www.rockhall.com/inductees/neil-young|title=Neil Young|year=2007|publisher=The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc.|accessdate=23 February 2010|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329002745/http://rockhall.com/inductees/neil-young|archivedate=29 March 2010}}</ref> Folk rock band [[Crash Test Dummies]] formed in the late 1980s in Winnipeg and were the 1992 [[Juno Award]]s Group of the Year.<ref>{{vcite book|author=Bianco, David P|title=Parents aren't supposed to like it|publisher=U*X*L|year=2001|edition=2nd|volume=1|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780787617325/page/42 42]|isbn=978-0-7876-1732-5|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780787617325/page/42}}</ref>

Several prominent Canadian films were produced in Manitoba, such as ''[[The Stone Angel (film)|The Stone Angel]]'', based on the [[Margaret Laurence]] book of the [[The Stone Angel|same title]], ''[[The Saddest Music in the World]]'', ''[[Foodland (film)|Foodland]]'', ''[[For Angela]]'', and ''[[My Winnipeg]]''. Major films shot in Manitoba include ''[[The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford]]'' and ''[[Capote (film)|Capote]]'',<ref>{{vcite web|url=http://www.mbfilmmusic.ca/Film/WhosFilmedHere/tabid/73/language/en-US/Default.aspx|title=Who's filmed here?|publisher=Manitoba Film & Music|accessdate=11 November 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091214150627/http://www.mbfilmmusic.ca/Film/WhosFilmedHere/tabid/73/language/en-US/Default.aspx|archivedate=14 December 2009}}</ref> both of which received [[Academy Award]] nominations.<ref>{{vcite web|url=http://old.oscars.org/press/presskit/nomannc/pdf/03_80th_fact_sheet.pdf|title=80th Annual Academy Awards Oscar Nominations Fact Sheet|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|accessdate=11 November 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5lKGcKIcw?url=http://old.oscars.org/press/presskit/nomannc/pdf/03_80th_fact_sheet.pdf|archivedate=16 November 2009}}</ref> ''[[Falcon Beach]]'', an internationally broadcast television drama, was filmed at [[Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba]].<ref>{{vcite news|url=http://falconbeach.ca/index.aspx?go=/pr_060621.aspx|title=Falcon Beach filming again in Manitoba|author=St. Germain, Pat|date=21 June 2006|publisher=Winnipeg Sun|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706180330/http://falconbeach.ca/index.aspx?go=%2Fpr_060621.aspx|archivedate=6 July 2011}}</ref>

Manitoba has a strong literary tradition. [[Bertram Brooker]] won the first-ever [[Governor General's Awards|Governor General's Award]] for Fiction in 1936.<ref name="ggla-past">{{vcite web|url=http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/CCA1B1A6-59E5-4748-BFEE-B64313E92624/0/CumulativeWinners2008.pdf|title=Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards|year=2008|publisher=Canada Council for the Arts|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111102194218/http://www.canadacouncil.ca/NR/rdonlyres/CCA1B1A6-59E5-4748-BFEE-B64313E92624/0/CumulativeWinners2008.pdf|archivedate=2 November 2011}}</ref> Cartoonist [[Lynn Johnston]], author of the comic strip ''[[For Better or For Worse]]'', was a finalist for a 1994 [[Pulitzer Prize]] and inducted into the [[Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{vcite web |url=https://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/lynn-johnston-to-enter-canadian-cartoonists-hall-of-fame-on-friday/ |title=Lynn Johnston to Enter Canadian Cartoonists' Hall of Fame on Friday |author=Astor, Dave|date=6 August 2008 |website=Editor and Publisher |url-status=dead |archivedate=22 August 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822190506/https://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/lynn-johnston-to-enter-canadian-cartoonists-hall-of-fame-on-friday/ }}</ref> Margaret Laurence's ''The Stone Angel'' and ''[[A Jest of God]]'' were set in [[Manawaka]], a fictional town representing [[Neepawa, Manitoba|Neepawa]]; the latter title won the Governor General's Award in 1966.<ref>{{vcite book|author=Rosenthal, Caroline|title=The Canadian Short Story: Interpretations|editor=Reingard M. Nischik|editor-link=Reingard M. Nischik|publisher=Camden House|year=2007|page=219|chapter=Collective Memory and Personal Identity in the Prairie town of Manawaka|isbn=978-1-57113-127-0}}</ref> [[Carol Shields]] won both the Governor General's Award and the Pulitzer Prize for ''[[The Stone Diaries]]''.<ref>{{vcite book|author=Werlock, Abby|title=Carol Shields's the Stone Diaries|publisher=Continuum|year=2001|page=[https://archive.org/details/carolshieldsssic00werl/page/69 69]|isbn=978-0-8264-5249-8|url=https://archive.org/details/carolshieldsssic00werl/page/69}}</ref> [[Gabrielle Roy]], a Franco-Manitoban writer, won the Governor General's Award three times.<ref name="ggla-past" /> A quote from her writings is featured on the Canadian $20 bill.<ref>{{vcite web|url=http://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/bank-note-series/canadian-journey/gabrielle-roy-canadian-author-of-the-quotation-on-the-back-of-the-new-20-note/|title=Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author of the quotation on the back of the new $20 note|publisher=Bank of Canada|accessdate=2 April 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025084642/http://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/bank-note-series/canadian-journey/gabrielle-roy-canadian-author-of-the-quotation-on-the-back-of-the-new-20-note/|archivedate=25 October 2012}}</ref> [[Joan Thomas]] was nominated for the Governor General's Award twice and won in 2019 for ''Five Wives''. The province has also been home to many of the key figures in [[Mennonite literature]], including Governor General Award-winning [[Miriam Toews]], Giller winner [[David Bergen]], [[Armin Wiebe]] and many others.<ref>{{vcite web|title=From Plain People to Plains People: Mennonite Literature from the Canadian Prairies|publisher=American Studies Journal|url=http://www.asjournal.org/63-2017/plain-people-plains-people-mennonite-literature-canadian-prairies/|accessdate=February 19, 2020}}</ref> [[Sandra Birdsell]], whose [[fiction]] focusses on her [[Métis people (Canada)|Métis]] and [[Mennonite]] heritage, was thrice nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award for English Language Fiction, and also for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2001.<ref>{{vcite web|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sandra-birdsell |title=Sandra Birdsell|website=The Canadian Encyclopedia |date=4 December 2018|author=Boyd, Colin; Grandy, Karen; Skelly, Julia|archivedate=27 April 2021|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427011621/https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sandra-birdsell}}</ref>