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SKYWALK
CONCERTS & LECTURES
Bring your lunch and be informed and entertained by the Skywalk series of noonhour
events! Wednesdays feature thought-provoking lectures from some of the
University of Winnipeg’s best teachers and researchers. Thursdays bring you concerts
by an eclectic assortment of local musical performers. Brought to you by the
Winnipeg Public Library, the University of Winnipeg, and Virtuosi Concerts.
MILLENNIUM LIBRARY, Carol Shields Auditorium
12:10-12:50 pm
Wednesday Lectures
October 5: “Where Grammar Comes
From: What the Lowly Preposition
Reveals About the Origins of
Language” with George Fulford,
UWinnipeg Anthropology
October 12: “The Psychology of
Religion: Including Prejudice,
Altruism, and Science” with Jim Clark,
UWinnipeg Psychology
October 19: “Looking Inside a Brain
with a Magnet: MRIs in Psychology
and Medicine” with Esmat Elhami,
UWinnipeg Physics
October 26: “Hawkins Cheezies: A
Canadian Snack Food History” with
Janis Thiessen, UWinnipeg History
Leana Rutt & Madeline Hildebrand
Thursday Concerts
October 6: WSO Presents: WSO cellist
Leana Rutt and pianist Madeline
Hildebrand explore the beauty of Ravel,
Hindemith, Schumann and Janáček.
October 13: North Star Falling with
singer-songwriter Jeffery Straker
performing songs from his albums
including Vagabond and North Star
Falling.
October 20: Metheny, Montgomery,
and More: The Jazz guitar stylings of
the Ian Hodges Trio
Photo: Steven Ackerman
Cybele and
the Polyxena
Sarcophagus
from Troy
for adults
In 1994, excavations at a burial mound
east of Troy revealed a beautiful marble
sarcophagus dating to around 500 BC.
Although the decorations referred to
women and marriage, skeletal analysis
determined that the deceased was a
man. This lecture reconsiders the images
with reference to the cult of Cybele, a
goddess worshipped by self-castrated,
cross-dressing, dancing priests. Prof.
Timothy McNiven speaks on one of the
most exciting finds of recent decades, the
Polyxena Sarcophagus.
In partnership with the University of
Manitoba Department of Classics and the
Archaeological Institute of America.
Timothy McNiven is a professor in the
departments of Classics and the History
of Art at Ohio State University. He is
visiting Winnipeg as a lecturer for the
Archaeological Institute of America’s
touring lecture program.
MILLENNIUM LIBRARY
Carol Shields Auditorium
Sunday, October 2: 2-4:30 pm
Sign Language
Interpretation
Sign language interpretation is available
for library programs in English at no
charge. Please contact us two weeks
before the event through Contact Us at
winnipeg.ca/library or by TTY
204-986-3485.
October 27: WSO Presents: Ensemble
Exchange with Elation Pauls, violin,
Micah Heilbrunn, clarinet, and
pianist Madeline Hildebrand,
performing French music and
Armenian composer Khachaturian
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