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August 19, 2015

McNally Robinson: September Music and Events l Dog Walk l Sound & Sky Benefit Concert: Hedley & Sloan l Twin Shadow l End of Summer Luau & Beach Battle of the Bands

McNally Robinson: September Events 
Phone 204-475-0483  (Toll-Free 1-800561-1833)


Blazz Trio
Friday September 4, 8:00 pm
Jazz

Helen White Trio
Saturday September 5, 8:00 pm
Jazz

Matchstalk Men
Friday September 11, 8:00 pm
Jazz

Bob Watts Trio
Saturday September 12, 8:00 pm
Jazz

Chloé Plamondon & Brian Zimmerman
Friday September 18, 8:00 pm
Classical/Jazz

Nightfall
Saturday September 19, 8:00 pm
Jazz

The Burton Trio
Friday September 25, 8:00 pm
Jazz

The Blue Noise Duo
Saturday September 26, 8:00 pm
Acoustic/Blues


September 2, 7:30 pm
Phyllis Gussin Goldberg  Whose Couch is it Anyway?: Moving Your Millennia
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September 3, 7:00 pm
Armin Wiebe Armin’s Shorts
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September 4, 7:00 pm
Jerry Storie Becoming Family: Living and Learning at Frontier Collegiate
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September 4, 7:00 pm in the Community Classroom
Free Korean Movie Night
Showing Hot Young Bloods (Pikkeulneun Cheongchun) with English Subtitles.
Doors open at 6:50 pm - all are welcome! 
Contact The Korea Times at 204-663-5051 or e-mail tkoreatimes@gmail.com
Donations are welcome and appreciated.
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September 6, 2:00 pm
Helen Kish Hastman Displaced Person
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September 8, 7:30 pm
Pauline Holdstock The Hunter and the Wild Girl
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September 10, 7:00 pm
Linda McIntosh & Steven Fletcher  Master of My Fate
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September 11, 7:30 pm
Caterina Edwards  The Sicilian Wife 
with guest reader Carmelo Militano  Sebastiano’s Vine
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September 15, 7:00 pm
Clara Hughes, her memoir Open Heart, Open Mind
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September 16, 7:00 pm
Elinor Berglund Barr  Swedes in Canada: Invisible Immigrants 
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September 16, 7:30 pm
On the Same Page 2015/16 Shortlist Readings
Some of the nominated contributors will read and discuss their work.
Vote instore or visit http://wpl.winnipeg.ca/library/onthesamepage.asp to vote online.
The poll closes Friday September 18.
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Winnipeg International Writers Festival Events
An Evening with Camilla Gibb, Thursday September 17, 7:00 pm
Lawrence Hill, author of The Book of Negroes The Illegal  September 20, 2:00 pm
David R. Boyd, Wednesday September 23, 7:00 pm   DavidRichardBoyd.com
Douglas Gibson, Tuesday September 29, 7:00 pm a special theatrical presentation based on his book Across Canada by Story
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THIN AIR Afternoon Book Chat
Elizabeth Hay & Mike Steeves, Monday September 21, 2:30-3:30 pm
Marnie Woodrow & Paul Yee, Tuesday September 22, 2:30-3:30 pm
Garry Thomas Morse & George Murray, Wednesday September 23, 2:30-3:30 pm
Michael Christie & Jon Chan Simpson, Thursday September 24, 2:30-3:30 pm
Alexandra Grigorescu & David Nickle, Friday September 25, 2:30-3:30 pm
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September 23, 7:30 pm
Stefan Epp-Koop  We’re Going to Run this City: Winnipeg’s Political Left After the General Strike with guest speakers Brendan Reimer and Judy Wasylycia-Leis.
Wasylycia-Leis worked as MP for Winnipeg North from 1997–2010. In Ottawa, Judy was critic of Heath, Finance, Status of Women, Immigration and Persons with Disabilities. Judy resigned to run for Mayor in 2010 and in 2014.
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September 26, 7:00 pm
Adara Goldberg  Holocaust Survivors in Canada: Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947-1955 featuring guest speaker Dr. Jeremy Maron
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September 29, 7:00 pm
Joanne Kelly’s Book Club: Kimberly Elkins’ What is Visible, a fictional treatment of the life of Laura Bridgman, the first deaf and blind person to learn language. 
Get in touch with John by calling 204-453-0424, ex 227.

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Assiniboine Park & Zoo, 2355 Corydon Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3P 2N6

September 2, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Boston Terrier & Pug Rescue of Southern Manitoba (BTPRSM)'s Dog Walk 
This is a public park and all dogs must be ON LEASH at all times! 
Bring water/bowl, poop bags and mosquito spray! 
Make sure your dog is wearing it's City of Winnipeg License.
We will meet at the Pavillion area. 
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September 4, 5:30 pm
Tickets $34.95 online or at the Assiniboine Park Pavilion or the Zoo entrance
Any questions e mail  
featuring multi-platinum selling, award winning pop group Hedley with special guests Sloan!
A spectacular open-air concert event.
Proceeds support the Assiniboine Park Conservancy.

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September 2, 7:00 pm
Garrick Centre, 330 Garry Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2G6
Tickets  
All Ages Welcome 
unionevents.com presents Twin Shadow, with guests

That moment when something pure and constant is broken, where you’re filled with vulnerability, that moment is what I live for in art, George Lewis, Jr. (Twin Shadow)

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September 5, 3 pm - 10 pm
Gimli Beach, Manitoba

End of Summer Luau
Come out!  Dress the part!!
Hula your way to some prizes!
Don’t forget your lei!!

Enter your band into the Beach Battle of the Bands. 

Submit a clip of your music 
with BEACH BATTLE in the subject line to gimlicdc@rmgimli.com

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