In 2000, Ottawa-based journalist Deborah Cowley went to Ghana in Africa to write an article about Kathy Knowles, the Winnipeg founder of the OSU Children’s Library Fund.
Artist Lita Fontaine still remembers the image clearly: her mother, bent over a colourful piece of cloth, carefully sewing, stitching, and working the fabric into the shape of a dress.
White linens dress every table in a corner of Prairie Ink Restaurant. Tables are set just so with ever-so delicate vintage tea cups and saucers straight from grandma’s dining-room hutch.
It’s all about documentaries this week at Cinematheque, like ChristCORE, a rough and ready documentary by Regina-raised filmmaker Justin Ludwig that takes a baffled but open-minded look at the growing phenomenon of Christian hardcore.
