New mural unveiled at Winnipeg’s Valour Community Centre [Video]

A new mural that captures the heart and soul of the city’s South Valour community was unveiled Sunday afternoon.

The mural, titled “Gathering Light: Capturing Community,” is a collaboration between the South Valour Residents Association and local artist Sarah Crawley. It was created in partnership with the Winnipeg Arts Council’s “With Art” program.

The association is relatively new – only getting up and running in the last few years.

“We were started in the pandemic and we were struggling to figure out what our identity as community was,” said Rachel Andrushuk, one of the association’s founding members. “And so we took the opportunity of this project to figure out what it meant to live in South Valour and what our version of community meant to us.”

The artwork includes two photo-collage panels at the Isaac Brock Community Centre, as well a trail plaque at Omand’s Creek.

“We worked with alternative …