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RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Media Launch/Canada 150 Countdown Event Local art teacher Nereo II painted the outside of a cargo container for the launch of the WAG's 150 Countdown Event , a coast-to-coast-to-coast artistic journey in the summer of 2017, at a press conference at the WAG Friday. The Government of Canada is providing $300 000 in funding for the project called ART EXPRESS'D which will see three metal shipping containers, like the one in photo, transformed into mobile art studios and move across the nation where communities will be asked to create art for that expresses who they are as Canadians in celebration with Canada's 150 birthday year. September 16, 2016