The Scarlet Union: Smokebox & The Electrics

The Park Theatre, 698 Osborne Street 

February 4 

Tickets are $10 in advance at: Into the Music, Music Trader, and The Park Theatre 

or $15 at the door 

Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm  

The best Buddy Holly tibute show north of Clear Lake, Iowa, with your perennial hosts

The Scarlet Union.  This year's guests include the fabulous Smokebox (who will be playing Buddy Holly's second album front to back!) and The Electrics.   

This is a grand tribute to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and Dion as it was back in the winter of 1959.

Meeka Walsh: Start a Magazine

MAWA, 611 Main Street

STARTING YOUR OWN MAGAZINE

February 3, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Why would anyone want to start a magazine?

Meeka Walsh will begin with an examination of the soundness of the desire to undertake such a project. She will then move on to the passion necessary to start and sustain such an endeavour. Practical instruction will follow.

Meeka Walsh is the editor of Border Crossings magazine. She has contributed essays to a number of catalogues and most recently to the My Winnipeg exhibition catalogue for La maison rouge in Paris. She has served on the Board of the National Gallery of Canada and is on the Board of Plug In ICA . In 2007 she received an award from the RCA for her contribution to the visual arts in Canada.

AVENUE Q

District Theatre Collective presents the Winnipeg premiere of

AVENUE Q

Gas Station Arts Centre, 445 River Avenue • (204) 330-9877

February 2 - 8:00 PM

February 3 - 8:00 PM

February 4 - 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM

February 5 - 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM

Winner of the TONY® “TRIPLE CROWN” for BEST MUSICAL, BEST SCORE and BEST BOOK, AVENUE Q is part flesh, part felt and packed with heart. A hilarious, witty and raunchy musical about friendship, love and finding your purpose in life.

AVENUE Q features explicit language, mature themes and full puppet nudity. 

Music and Lyrics by ROBERT LOPEZ and JEFF MARX

Book by JEFF WHITTY

Based on an Original Concept by ROBERT LOPEZ and JEFF MARX

CAST

• Joshua Balzer - Nicky

• Nyk Bielak - Rod

• Scott Forbes - Brian

• Jackie Kurceba - Lucy/Bad Idea Bear/Mrs. Thistletwat

• Connie Manfredi - Gary Coleman

• Colin Peterson - Trekkie Monster/Bad Idea Bear

• Paige Pooley - Kate Monster

• Aaron Pridham - Princeton

• Stephanie Sy - Christmas Eve

PIP SKID / Greg Macpherson Band & DJ Co-op

February 2 

Lo Pub, 330 Kennedy at Ellice 

Tickets $10 available at Music Trader and The Urban Bakery 

18+ w Photo I.D.  

Marathon of Dope and Disintegration Records with UMFM and CKUW proudly present: 

Pip Skid - People are the Worst EP Release Show  

To celebrate this latest release, Pip and long-time collaborator DJ Co-op have enlisted the Greg Macpherson Band (Greg, Cole Woods and Rob Gardiner) to play live versions of tracks from the EP, as well as favourites from Pip's deep catalog of favourites.  

Opening the night are young lions The Happy Unfortunate and veteran Winnipeg MC/Singer/Storyteller Nestor Wynrush.

Richard Harrison: Start a Writing Group

January 31, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm 

Rose & Crown Pub, 1502 4th Street - private room upstairs. 

Exchanging ideas & edits - What it takes to start & sustain a successful writing group  

with Richard Harrison 

WGA members Free. 

Non-members $10 at the door (students $5).  Please RSVP to Writers' Guild Alberta    

Members are welcome to arrive as early as 6 pm 

WGA social will follow the presentation.  

Are you looking for feedback on your writing? A regular opportunity to discuss the craft and market place? Join Calgary author, Richard Harrison, for a discussion about what makes a writing group work; how to go about starting one; how to keep a group thriving; how to give and receive feedback; how a writer benefits from sharing their work with other writers; the creative process and the writing life.  

Richard is the author of six collections of poetry and has had much experience as an editor. He has facilitated a weekly poetry critiquing group in the city for many years. 

On the Same Page / Translation: The Setting Lake Sun

January 31, 7:00 pm, McNally Robinson, in the Atrium 

This panel discussion features author & poet J.R. Léveillé, whose book 

The Setting Lake Sun/Le soleil du lac qui se couche is the 2011/12 selection 

of the On the Same Page province-wide book club.  

This evening, Léveillé is joined in conversation by local literary translator Mark Stout and S.E. Stewart to discuss the art of translation. 

J.R. Léveilléis a retired Radio-Canada journalist and the author of many books, essays and collections of poetry, quite a few of which have been recognized with awards. 

He oversees the Collection Rouge, Éditions du Blé's new literature series. 

S.E. Stewart is an author, publisher and translator who worked for many years with the francophones of Western Canada.

Mark Stout works as a freelance translator and translation instructor for the translation certificate program at Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface. 

Winnipeg Humane Society's Puppy Sale

Whisker Wednesday on January 25 at The Winnipeg Humane Society is all about puppies!

Our shelter has a surplus of puppies that need forever homes. 

Come down to 45 Hurst Way between 10 am and 8 pm and 

adopt a puppy for $100 in our first ever Puppypalooza. 

This amazing one-day offer is limited to medium-size and large breed pups, 

6 months and under.

Thinking of getting a puppy for your family? 

Don’t miss out on the perfect one-day opportunity to adopt the furr-ever friend 

of a lifetime.  (Offer available while puppies last)