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Ministry Quest, In Review: students and leaders reflect on biennial vocation discernment retreat
Posted in Stories | Thursday, February 27, 2020 @ 1:00 PM
"I was grateful to spend time with a group of young adults who care so deeply about the church; it was a great encouragement to me!" – Kathy McCamis
Late last month, 12 students joined five leaders from CMU and the wider church for a weekend apart from daily routines. They gathered at St. Benedict's Monastery near Winnipeg to share stories, seek God's voice, and encourage one another in a time of focussed vocational discernment.
Continue ReadingHeroes and helpers theme of March 15 Mennonite Community Concert
Posted in News Releases | Tuesday, February 25, 2020 @ 10:11 AM
2:00 PM at Jubilee Place, 173 Talbot Ave. Admission by donation.
In 1815, Ludwig von Beethoven composed his Eroica Symphony, to celebrate the general spirit of heroism in the world.
Continue ReadingHeroic Overtime Comeback Gives CMU First NIAC Championship
Posted in News Releases | Monday, February 24, 2020 @ 7:00 PM
The Providence Pilots did what they could to try to ice Madison Wood, but the 2nd year product of Morden Collegiate held her nerves and calmly swished a championship-winning free-throw with 3.7 seconds left in overtime to give CMU a 72-71 lead and their first-ever NIAC championship banner.
It was an all-Manitoba final on Sunday afternoon in the 2020 Northern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference women's basketball championship game when the Pilots and Blazers clashed in Cass Lake, Minnesota, both teams leaving everything on the floor in an effort to bring a trophy back to Canada.
Continue ReadingFaculty: In Their Own Words - Dr. Cheryl Pauls
Posted in Faculty Profiles | Tuesday, February 18, 2020 @ 2:15 PM
Dr. Cheryl Pauls is the serving president of CMU. Prior to her installment in 2012, she taught for 26 years in the areas of piano and music theory.
What do you love about your work here?
As much as I value the creativity of the arts, I have to admit, even to my musician friends, that I find it takes even more creativity to do administration. That's what I love about my current role; I love the range of people that I get to bring together, the ways I have to think forward when there's no template for how things should go. It's a wonderfully creative task for me!
Continue ReadingCMU’s Neil Weisensel receives $50,000 SSHRCC grant for continued development of Louis Riel opera
Posted in News Releases | Wednesday, February 12, 2020 @ 9:00 AM
Funding will help ensure every possible measure is taken to make Li Keur, Riel's Heart of the North a reconciliation project, curtain to curtain.
Grant writing is notoriously difficult, time-consuming, meticulous work, yielding unpredictable return on investment. Yet it remains an essential and unavoidable demand of research and creative careers. For Neil Weisensel, adjunct Professor of Music at CMU and composer of Li Keur, Riel's Heart of the North which débuted last year, the effort is paying off. He recently received $50,000 in the form of a federal grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) for further work on a thriving production.
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