Jen Zoratti, Winnipeg Free Press

Jen Zoratti

Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg, MB, Canada

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Past:
  • Winnipeg Free Press
  • TorontoStar

Past articles by Jen:

Author offering a collection of body-horror stories, about women who ‘haunt and are haunted’

Which is scarier: dying, or living forever? → Read More

Artistic director, CEO André Lewis stepping down following nearly half century at RWB

Whenever anyone asks André Lewis how he’s doing, he’ll invariably give the same answer: “I’m living the dream.” → Read More

Opinion: Explosion of weather lingo is the worst

The language of weather apps has become increasingly unhinged, hasn’t it? → Read More

Like mother, like daughter, like… fun!

Perhaps in another life, Lea Thompson could have been a Royal Winnipeg Ballet company dancer. → Read More

A Guiding light for generations of Winnipeg girls

Those who knew and loved the feisty, big-hearted Dorothy Thom — and there were a great many who did — would have known her better as Dot. Or Dodo. Or, later, when her trio of beloved granddaughters were born, Bubbie. → Read More

Pathways to Performance helping RWB to support change and Black ballet creators

When George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was brutally murdered by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020, the systemic racism that exists in predominantly white institutions was brought to the fore. And that includes ballet. → Read More

What’s up: 5 things to do this week

Frostbyte @ Raw:Almond Sunday, 5-11 p.m. Raw: Almond structure, The Forks Market Tickets from $99, memetic.ca Ruth Bonneville / Winnipeg Free Press files Raw:Almond If you like your collaborative, river-based dining experience served up with a side of electronic music and dazzling visuals, the folks at Memetic and Raw:Almond have got you covered. The local proponents of digital creativity have… → Read More

Dive into some promising debuts while awaiting return small-screen faves

Already, 2023 is shaping up to be a banner year for the small screen. → Read More

Delayed gratification, spoilering and ‘squelching wetly’

The year-end television list is usually just that, a list. Top this, best that, in increments of 10 or 15 or, in the case of this year, 22. Sometimes, it’s not just “top” or “best,” but rather “essential” or “important” or “defining” (which, wow, relax). → Read More

When the going got pandemic, Bob Stroh commited to Hallmark

When the pandemic started, Bob Stroh felt unmoored. → Read More

‘It was like the end of the world’

For the Ukrainian people, Mariia Balieieva says, there is a before and an after. → Read More

Rink rock

Picture it. Winnipeg, 1995. → Read More

Toews brings rehab fiction to book club

The Free Press Book Club, in conjunction with McNally Robinson Booksellers, is pleased to welcome Winnipeg-born, Toronto-based author Georgia Toews to the next virtual meeting on Monday, Nov. 28 at 7 p.m. to read from and discuss her debut novel, Hey, Good Luck Out There. → Read More

Equity report suggests WAG needs more employees of colour

White employees are moving through Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq towards permanent positions at a higher rate than Indigenous or racialized staff, who are also disproportionately younger, newer and... → Read More

What’s up

<h4><strong>Ariel Posen goes global on Downtown</strong></h4> <strong>Monday, Nov. 14, 8 p.m.</strong> <strong>Park Theatre</strong> <strong>Tickets: $30.81, including fees, at <a... → Read More

Shawn Mendes spreads his wings in latest world tour

Much has changed in the three pandemic-addled years since Canadian pop sensation Shawn Mendes was last through Winnipeg. Even the arena has a new name. → Read More

Winnipeg performer part of dynamic duo on Amazing Race Canada

In June 2013, Catherine Wreford Ledlow received life-altering news. She had terminal brain cancer, and doctors told her she had two to six years to live. → Read More

Book chronicles Winnipeg couple’s seven-year infertility journey

Spoiler alert: Morwenna Trevenen’s infertility story has a happy ending. Her book about her fertility journey, however, is a bit more open ended. → Read More

Philanthropist gives RWB program $3M endowment

The Royal Winnipeg Ballet School’s Aspirant Program is getting a $3-million gift — and a new name. The Anna McCowan-Johnson Aspirant Program is named for the longtime dance educator, the founder and artistic director of Interplay School of Dance in Toronto. → Read More

Kidsfest a belated chance for Fred Penner to celebrate The Cat Came Back

Fred Penner has been celebrating the 40th anniversary of The Cat Came Back — the debut album whose title track launched his career as a beloved children’s musician — for two years now. You see, the milestone was to be officially commemorated with a tour in 2020, but we all know how that year went down. → Read More