MARCH 1, 7 PM – 8 PM
Online Event by McNally Robinson Booksellers
A Virtual Evening with Margaret Atwood in conversation with Judy Blume.
Pre-order a signed copy of Margaret Atwood's Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 to receive access: https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9780771003929/margaret-atwood/burning-questions-signed-ed?fbclid=IwAR0Ujkgk2D-ZigWE2t71eLfWaXkeBJ1qTGB3OWJqbQI2xEWOf070mF5gAYY
Margaret Atwood offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from debt and tech to how to define granola.
Her work has been published in more than 45 countries. She is the author of The Handmaid’s Tale, and more than 50 books. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour.
Moderator Judy Blume has published 29 books, including Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. She has written four novels for adults. She was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2004.
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Online Art Classes
MARCH 1, 8 PM – 9:15 PM
Free Online acrylic painting class - Paint Night at Home by Zealous Art
No signup or link required to view this class, live on my Facebook page Zealous Art and on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/c/ZealousArtwithFreda
Zealous Art Community group https://www.facebook.com/groups/zzealousart/
This video will be on Facebook and Youtube for 24 hours then the video moves to my Paint Night at Home membership. For an email reminder on days I do a free live class sign: https://zealousart76918.activehosted.com/f/5 fbclid=IwAR1TTfbpkyhVQy0emQsAmbrveYWbS4zp9hjbOnBTAFejHxXxmPtPCf6WA5U
Acrylic paint; craft paints or student grade is perfect for these projects. Visit my Amazon store here: https://www.amazon.ca/shop/zzealousart?fbclid=IwAR2VCXl_wrqmqaN1Gh7s02-3irCH1geBiSv-iOY5jIjFC5GR9K19mJCrNPw
For access to more than 100 of my online classes:
https://zealousart.thinkific.com/bundles/paintnightathomemembership?fbclid=IwAR0ssM5_F8-R8SKVwMXwrYTbeZJ34r4tj89VAtDGHZJhyGFYv_MAhPxLjXY
It is $19 a month and you can cancel anytime! You have access to all the videos and new paintings get added every month.
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MARCH 2, 5:30 PM
FREE YouTube Painting Tutorial Release - Poppy in Bloom
Online Event by Artist's Palette Durham Region
Watch the premiere here: https://youtu.be/erFAsdw0O18
Subscribe to our channel, Artist’s Palette Durham, on YouTube to be notified when this video will premiere https://www.youtube.com/c/ArtistsPaletteDurham
Video remains up forever.
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MARCH 5, PM – 3:30 PM
FREE Acrylic Painting Tutorial - Shamrock Gnome
Online event by Jesse Robertson & Keep It Colourful
Watch it for free until March 12
Visit my website: https://app.jesserobertson.com/#/watchfree
You will need to register for a free account to watch on the website.
This class is pre-recorded so you can paint at your own pace.
Tip $5 or more by March 12 and receive an HD virtual copy of this Tutorial. https://app.jesserobertson.com/#/results/tiptoown/
Find supplies here https://app.jesserobertson.com/#/supplies
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March 3 – April 9, 2022
Gallery 1C03 at the University of Winnipeg
SWARM is an online exhibition program of the SWARM artist collective. It includes the launch of the arc.hive, a virtual sympoetic space that holds the work of 8 artist-researchers. Through beading technologies, digital worlding, embroidery, sculpture, storytelling, poetics, sound, and performance works, artists Dallas Cant, Roewan Crowe, Lorena Sekwan Fontaine, Franchesca Hebert-Spence, Kaliesa Beasse McGillvray, Hailey Primrose, Willow Rector, and Maram Rocha, present work developed in a context of sympoiesis, or, making-with.
SWARM is curated by Dallas Cant and Roewan Crowe, in collaboration with Jennifer Gibson
View online beginning March 3 - https://swarm.greenhouseartlab.com/?fbclid=IwAR2xVtVGvNDePuXVnTWg6vVLsRpKnffSxmpZhcncZCyaMCQyaQQthzqZSGg
March 10, 7:00 – 8:30 pm - Conversation with SWARM artists
March 11 – 18 - Honeyland, presented in partnership with the Winnipeg Film Group. Watch Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov’s powerful 2019 film online for free.
Information visit: https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/art-gallery/programming/2021-22/swarm.html?fbclid=IwAR2ZCNyF5u4iH5FAIXDgfngtzBXA1vn_tXUVm521BmwKLqYZiO07m4iljA
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Live Music
MARCH 4, 7 PM & 10 PM
Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club, 234 Main St.
$17.45 www.eventbrite.ca/e/new-orleans-night-dirty-catfish-brass-band-tickets-262288811897
DCBB bring NOLA Night back with another double header. Early and late shows!
10 PM show features an opening set by Freddy and The Fire Nation.
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MARCH 4, 8:30 PM – 2 AM
The Pyramid Cabaret, 176 Fort St https://pyramidcabaret.com/
Tickets · $11.62 - $16.93 https://thedarkeightiesmarch4.eventbrite.com
The Dark Eighties DANCE PARTY
We'll have more The Cure and Depeche Mode for you, PLUS we play
EBM I GOTH I INDUSTRIAL
DEATHROCK I NEW ROMANTICS SYNTH POP I DARK WAVE
MINIMAL WAVE I POST PUNK I CULT 80S HITS I and MORE!
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MARCH 24, Doors at 7 pm. Movie at 8 pm.
The Park Theatre, 698 Osborne St.
$15 at myparktheatre.com and Eventbrite.ca
Admission includes a specially brewed 16 oz pour from Sookram’s Brewing.
Every movie night we will have a specially brewed Sookram’s beer named after the movie.
Hard Core Logo Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. A truly classic independent piece of Canadian Cinema directed by Bruce MacDonald and starring Hugh Dillon and Callum Keith Rennie.
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MARCH 25, 26 and 31 (doors 1 hour before performance)
The Good Will - Social Club, 625 Portage Ave.
Tickets www.reallovewpg.com Proof of vaccination required for all shows.
Real Love Winnipeg is celebrating our 10 Year Anniversary and everyone is invited! We want to respectfully party with you at (at least) one of these shows:
March 25 at The Good Will:
9:15 - Mooki
10:00 - Super Duty Tough Work
11:00 - Haviah Mighty (2019 Polaris Prize Winner)
March 26 at The West End Cultural Centre:
8:00 - Living Hour
9:00 - Braids
March 26 at The Good Will:
10:15 - Meadows
11:15 - Animal Teeth (reunited at long last)
12:15 - Surprise Party (reunited at even longer last)
March 31 at The Good Will:
9:15 - Slow Spirit
10:15 - Chad VanGaalen
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Supporting Winnipeggers
MARCH 6, 12 AM – 11:45 PM
Overdose Awareness Memorial Garden Manitoba, 270 Waterfront Drive, Wpg
Black Balloon Day - Families and loved ones will display black balloons in remembrance of those who have lost their lives to overdose and other substance-related harms. Overdose Awareness Manitoba will be running a billboard campaign, featuring 17 loved ones, to March 6 on Donald Ave & River Ave in Winnipeg.
We will be having loved ones’ names on cardstock at a location in St. James, and running a national Black Balloon Campaign
We encourage the public to put up Black Balloon Day posters. Please submit any photos to overdoseawarenessmb@gmail.com or let us know of events happening around Manitoba.
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MARCH 19 5 PM – 9 PM
The second annual Sunshine House SHINE-A-THON!
An evening of music, drag, comedy and more of the creative chaos you've come to expect from Sunshine House! The event will broadcast live on Facebook and YouTube.
50/50 RAFFLE: The winner will announced during the Telethon!
You can give directly to support our programs that work to provide folks with food, hygiene and harm reduction supplies as well as the essential social connection and inclusion that is at the heart of what we do.
You can give today! https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/70390?fbclid=IwAR0HTclK6He94IjjH6CzlwaejWoFFcv64rLRi9QRkhvcevnqJlgp5sAQZFo
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MARCH 7, 1:30 PM – 3 PM
Free Event by The Deathly Dark Tours
Ghost Stories From The Fireplace
Join us, Dorian and Dede Deathly, as we chat about spooky nonsense. Tales From The Fireplace is like a bizarre radio show featuring your ghost stories, images captured and more.
Got a spooky story to share? Email us at talesfromthefireplace@googlemail.com
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MARCH 8, 7 PM – 9:30 PM
DOME@HOME Courses: Getting to Know the Stars
Online Event by Manitoba Museum
$20 for Museum members and $25 for non-members
https://tickets.manitobamuseum.ca/Selection.aspx?item=647&sch=41247&fbclid=IwAR1rxMiiO5k1ohvMbQds_6tHpEhizGztDxjzvKGByr7P_uV0h5rWdqFNTeM
Level: Introductory - This one-evening course, with Planetarium Astronomer Scott Young, provides everything you need to learn the constellations and find your way around the sky. Learn how to use them to locate star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies you can see with the unaided eye or binoculars. We’ll help you demystify the motions of the night sky.
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Online Travel
MARCH 12, 10 AM
Event by Your Friend in Reykjavik
A live stream chat with Jeannie, the founder of Iceland With a View. Jeannie helps people plan their dream trip to Iceland. She and her husband visited Iceland on their honeymoon, which prompted them to uproot their lives, and call this country home! www.icelandwithaview.com
Available for later viewing on https://www.facebook.com/icelandwithaview and on https://www.youtube.com/c/YourFriendInReykjavik
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MARCH 23, 4 PM – 5:30 PM
Free Virtual Tour: Slovenia - by Girl Travel Tours
Free zoom registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WFoJbMsESZmsNSBblbEVqg?fbclid=IwAR0hTsFYcFMhEGU0KyiVENa1mcNHlAr3YNzeO85S86-D-3t19J_X_giczRw
Slovenia – Europe’s best kept secret!
Slovenia offers something for everyone: stunning Alpine scenery, emerald rivers, underground cave networks, endless forests, all 3 big European beasts, romantic coastal towns with nice beaches, vineyards, picture-perfect towns, several castles and fortress, excellent food and wine and perhaps the best beekeepers in the world.
Join Primoz, our tour guide, for a virtual tour presentation of Slovenia!
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MARCH 27, 2 PM – 3 PM
Nile Cruise Episode 6: Dendera and Abydos, Ancient Egypt Virtual Tour
FREE via Eventbrite · Online Event by World Virtual Tours
Add the event to your calendar to avoid time zone issues. If you don’t connect during the first 10 minutes from tour start, we reserve the rights to assign your reserved seat to someone else.
Live event from Egypt in English, with Khaled K., Local Egyptologist and licensed tour guide. Immersive Experience with Live Q&A. Contents suitable for children.
In Dendera find Hathor Temple, with its sacred lake and famous astrological roof.
In Abydos explore the Temple of Osiris, where the ancient Egyptians believed Osiris, the god of the underworld, was buried.
Discover the history and significance of these interesting temples by using virtual maps and by looking at photos from inside the temples.