Region Category: Winnipeg

Brittany Lagassé (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist and has worked professionally in theatre, music, dance and comedy.

She began collaborating with others professionally in 2013, creating ‘Make/Shift Theatre’ with university pals Kristian Jordan and Elio Zarrillo. They wrote, produced and acted in original plays inspired by mediums outside the realm of theatre, from graphic novels to albums.

As Brittany continued to act and produce original work, her curiosity and love for music continued to grow.  BUNNY was born: a ukulele-comedy duo she performed with Heather Thomas (of Diaphanie). Their comedic shows blended theatre and music and they found themselves catapulting into the comedy scene, performing for The Winnipeg Comedy Festival and The SheDot Festival in Toronto.

Ten years after meeting backstage at a BUNNY show, Brittany and Mario Lagassé are partners in love and music, supporting each other in their respective artistic projects. Their first co-creation being the musical for kids, ‘Croakinole & Croakette.’ This pair of lively frogs sing, dance and hop their way through music of all genres, and have performed at Bike & Circuses (Green Kids 2024), The Winnipeg Fringe Festival (2025) and The Frog Follies Festival (2025).

Outside of music and creation, Brittany has performed and worked on several local theatre productions. Some of her favourite theatre credits include Love & Information (Company Link, 2021), Crazy Bone (Theatre Projects Manitoba, 2018) and Deserter (Moving Target Theatre, 2018).

Through the lens of his Métis heritage and a deep-rooted connection to the land, Jason Lee explores the intersection of adventure and visual art. Based in Manitoba, his work is a record of a journey—one that involves trekking to hidden waterfalls, navigating backcountry rivers by canoe, and traversing frozen northern lakes by snowmobile. Jason’s photography serves as an invitation to witness the extraordinary scale and raw majesty of the Manitoba landscape in its most authentic, enduring form.

Taanshi! Bre dishinikashoon.

I am an emerging interdisciplinary artist currently based in Manitoba, Canada. I am a proud two-spirit, Red River Michif being with an overactive imagination, a wild sense of humour, and a taste for chaos that leads my work in any direction it pleases. That’s what keeps it fun!

I seek out rich colour and texture in the mediums I work with. These are featured alongside naturally-sourced materials (such as raw and live-edged wood) and found objects. Often, my choice of materials holds subconscious intention for the project to come.

I love to work intuitively with a focus on experience in the immediate present. This particular approach allows me to be more viscerally in-touch with the ideas that arise while I’m in the act of physically creating. In this way, I consider art-making a deeply personal ritual, where I’m deliberately engaging in conversation with my spirit, surroundings, experiences, and roots. I am always finding profound connections through my artworks.

My broader goals involve exploring the crossroads of paint, design, and conceptual art through experimentation. I am actively seeking new ways to harmonize my eccentric fields of interest in order to reach for more ambitious -- and powerful -- projects.