Winnipeg Babysitter

On November 27, 28, 29, 2025 at 7 pm
Three nights only!

Limited seating, first come, first served!
90 minutes
In English
Free

Paying bar from 6 to 7 pm
Free popcorn
Artist's merch

In the late ’70s and throughout the ’80s, Winnipeg experienced a “golden age” of public-access television. As a condition of their broadcasting licence, cable companies were obliged to give airtime to anyone with a creative vision. Winnipeg Babysitter is an archival project and a live performance that travels through this almost lost history. Daniel Barrow showcases a collection of broadcasts, arduously put together by the artist, with the help of TV fans and enthusiasts while living and working in Winnipeg. Accompanying the compilation, full of outrageous personalities with bizarre eccentricities, pre-internet and proper to the era, Barrow uses overhead projection to footnote the videos. In doing so, the artist provides biographical or anecdotal context, but also a kind of recognition and admiration for these local stars of the past.