October 19, 2013

Chrysalis 2013 l Moses Mayes l Halloween Events: GOPHER and DJ Co-op & DJ Hunnicutt l "BLAM!" 3 Comic Art l CancerCare: Tea with Fran Drescher l Rhubarb’s Theatre Issue l palimpsest and Quit, India l The 2013 Global Justice Film Festival l The Masquerade l Craft Sale

Gallery Lacosse, 169 Lilac Street
Chrysalis 2013 runs from Oct 25 - Nov 8

Opening Night October 25, 7:30 - 9:30 pm
Come and see our 11 talented Deaf artists: Vanecia Austria, Campion Bourque,
Alice Crawford, Jocelynn Johnson, Brenda Roznowski, Jo-Ann Schroeder,
Jessica Szacilowski, Judyta Szacilowski, Coleen Turner, Denise Watson-Jarigen,
and Dana Zimmer. And California Guest Deaf Artist, Joshua Lacosse

Live performance by ASL Storyteller Christine Mitchell and video ASL storytelling
by Joanna Hawkins.  ASL Interpreters will be on site to bridge communications.

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October 25, 10:00 pm
The Pyramid Cabaret, 176 Fort Street

Moses Mayes' new album, featuring Maiko Watson on vocals, will be released online on Nov 1.
Advance copies of the cd will be available at the show. We'll be playing through the whole album and, of course, a selection from past albums and some of our favourite covers.

Tickets available at ticketmaster, Soul Survivors, Into the Music and Moses Mayes

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2nd Annual GOPHER THE CURE Halloween Dance
October 26, 8:00 pm
St James Legion #41755, Portage Avenue
$12 - All proceeds will be given to the Canadian Cancer Society!

Last year I created the GOPHER THE CURE to raise money to help fight cancer. This year it is in honor of my stepmother Minda Dobres and my Safta (Grandmother) Malkah Mansoor who lost her battle with breast cancer when I was too young to remember her... So this year we fight for them as well as all others with Cancers of all types.  Let's get together, have fun and fight breast cancer.  Mark DaGopher Dobres or call 204-294-4263

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October 26, 9:30 pm
Union Sound Hall, 110 Market Avenue
18+ w Photo ID

DJ Co-op & DJ Hunnicutt are proud to have invented:
"HALLOWEEN" Annual Social Event

*with LAMBO*

Advance Tickets $10 available at Music Trader and The Urban Bakery (Tub)

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Cre8ery gallery & studio, 125 Adelaide Street (2nd floor)
204-944-0809

The exhibit runs from October 26 to November 5 

Costume Event Opening Reception: October 26, 7:00 pm until 11:00 pm
If you can't arrive in costume, you can leave as a zombie! 
Provided by special FX artist John Royce Izzard

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October 27, 12:30 pm
$100 - $200
Winnipeg Convention Centre, 375 York Avenue

The Guardian Angels will host the 22nd annual Benefit - High Tea to raise funds in support of women's cancer. CancerCare Manitoba is counting on our help.

Our special guest is the star of the hit TV series The Nanny Fran Drescher.
Fran started the Cancer Schmancer Foundation to transform women from patients into medical consumers, and to shift the priority from searching for a cancer cure towards prevention and early detection of cancer.
The afternoon will feature a fashion show with cancer survivors modelling the latest fashions.

Contact: email or phone 204-956-1720

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October 27 - Doors open at 2:00, program at 3:00
Sam’s Place, 159 Henderson Highway

The Mennonite Literary Society launches Rhubarb’s Mennonite Theatre issue.
Reserved seats are $25.00 or $45.00 for two online or by contacting Victor Enns.
Featuring Steven Ratzlaff presenting a monologue and
actress Maggie Nagle reading from Patrick Friesen’s “crazy bone.”
Both playwrights are featured in the issue edited by Per Brask. The winners of the Winnipeg Mennonite Theatre (WMT) one-act play writing contest will be announced. Faspa follows the program including veggies, buns, cheese, sausage, fruit and Rhubarb Platz.

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PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts 
October 28, 8 pm in the gallery

PLATFORM announces the launch of our publications: palimpsest and Quit, India. 
Snacks and refreshments will be served, all are welcome to attend. 
palimpsest editor, J.J. Kegan McFadden and Visual Artist Divya Mehra will be in attendance.

palimpsest is an anthology for the programming that took place at PLATFORM during the 2012 programming year. 

Quit, India. documents Divya Mehra's two recent solo exhibitions: Turf War presented at PLATFORM in 2010 and The Party is Over, presented at Artspeak (Vancouver) in 2011.
It includes essays by: Amy Fung, Natasha Bissonauth and Kendra Place.

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November 1 (evening) and November 2 (all day)
The 2013 Global Justice Film Festival c/o Manitoba Council for International Cooperation
University of Winnipeg campus at 515 Portage Avenue

This year the theme is “Creating the World We Want”

Symphony of the Soil - Directed by Deborah Koons Garcia
November 1, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
University of Winnipeg, Room 4M31 (Manitoba Hall), 515 Portage Avenue
Best American Film, Traverse City Film Festival

November 2: over twenty films about social justice and local and international development.

Information can be found at our website, by calling (204) 987-6420, or email
Purchase tickets 

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November 1 - Doors 7:15 pm, Show: 8:00 pm
West End Cultural Centre, 586 Ellice Ave
Tickets: $25 at the door, $20 in advance purchased through:
Ticketmaster, WECC or call (204) 783 6918, email MAP or call (204) 942 8941
Attire: Formal Masquerade
The Masquerade will feature theatrical performances by Sarah Constible, Trish Cooper, Michael Nathanson, Ellen Peterson, Outside Joke, as well as a musical performance
by Red Moon Road – Amplified. 
Hosted by director Christopher Brauer with a benediction delivered by Rick Chafe.
Also red carpet photographs, appetizers, a cash bar, a silent auction and dancing. 
The Masquerade celebrates Winnipeg’s theatrical accomplishments, while raising funds for the Manitoba Association of Playwrights (MAP).
With so many members of our theatre community in the spotlight this year, there is no better time to celebrate our successes,
Rory Runnells, the Co-ordinator of the Manitoba Association of Playwrights. 
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Confusion Corner Craft Sale - Many local artists
420 Corydon Ave, at the Masonic Centre
Nov 2, 10 - 4
Lunch and free parking available 

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