Children's Hospital Foundation of Manitoba need your books!
Support sick and injured kids at the Book Market coming up in April.
Drop off new or gently used books at any Manitoba Dufresne Furniture & Appliances or at any Winnipeg Fire Hall.
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CKUW Fundrive kicks off Friday afternoon!
Phone 204-774-6877 - generally open from 8am-8pm and during live programming.
The website is now ready to take online pledges:
fundrive.ckuw.ca ckuw.ca/donate
- 2023 shirts are 100% cotton
- Unisex style only, sizes are Small - 3XL
- Vintage shirts are available by pickup only
- Hoodies are black, made in Canada, full zip with logo embroidered on front (classic hoodies).
Limited grey (2022 Cats style) hoodies are still available.
- Toques are the same style as previous years, embroidered with the classic logo.
- Mug, white with 2022 Fundrive cats, made of steel and designed by Seattle based Miir
- Limited number of Bluetooth radios (old timey style) are still available.
- At levels above $70, donors can swap one-for-one for any incentive from a lower level.
- Incentive donors at $70 and above may be eligible for additional music or show incentives.
- Incentive donors at $95.9 and above will be entered into the grand prize music draws.
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FREE EVENTS
https://www.wpgforfree.ca/free-things-to-do-in-winnipeg-this-wknd/
First Fridays in the Exchange
Visit art galleries and attend opening receptions. Full-on creativity where Galleries, artists, shops and restaurants welcome your visit each month. Participants are open 5 pm to 9 pm unless otherwise stated.
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Tobogganing Spots in City of Winnipeg Operated Parks Now Open
https://wpgforfree.ca/2022/12/24/a-list-of-toboggan-hills-and-slides-in-winnipeg-parks-wpg/
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The Arctic Glacier Winter Park Is Now Open at The Forks
Skate on over a full kilometre of groomed skating trails, Take a twirl under The Canopy, bring your toboggan and slide down any of the hills on site, and more.
https://www.wpgforfree.ca/2022/12/20/arctic-glacier-winter-park/
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First Fridays at The Manitoba Museum, 190 Rupert Avenue, from 5 pm to 9 pm, for drop-in tours, pop-up concerts, hands-on activities, and more. General admission is free to all three of the Museum’s core attractions: the Museum Galleries, the Planetarium, and the Science Gallery. https://manitobamuseum.ca/event/first-fridays-the-manitoba-museum/all
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Free Admission to Winnipeg Police Museum (Winnipeg Police Headquarters, 245 Smith Street)
Tuesday to Friday, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Many artifacts related to the history of the Winnipeg Police Force, from its beginning in 1874.
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Free Admission to the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame, 145 Pacific Avenue
Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Honouring those who have made their mark on Manitoba’s sports history by way of their activities and achievements.
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Free Admission to Canadian Museum for Human Rights, 85 Israel Asper Way
Every Friday, 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Explore the subject of human rights with a special but not exclusive reference to Canada.
https://www.wpgforfree.ca/event/first-fridays-the-manitoba-museum/2023-01-06/
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Ladies Free at Palomino Club, 436 Main St
Every Friday, 9 PM - 10 PM
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Live Music - Silver Spike Saloon, 202 Bond St
Every Friday and Saturday, 9:45 pm - 1:00 am Live Band On stage at 9:45 PM
No Cover Charge. At Winnipeg’s best live music destination
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ALMOST FREE : The Manitoba Electrical Museum, 680 Harrow St
Every Friday, 1 - 4 PM
$5.00 per person, children 5 years and under free.
Learn the story of hydroelectric development in Manitoba from 1870. This experiential museum guides visitors through the safe and efficient use of electricity and demonstrates how electrical energy works.
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Winnipeg Art Gallery, 300 Memorial Boulevard, Winnipeg, MB R3C 1V1
204.786.6641 wag.ca
Free Sundays at the WAG is no longer happening.
February 14, 20 - Valentine's Day – guests will be treated to an evening of amazing food, good conversation, and inspiring art at Nourish, our signature dinner and tour event! Enjoy a three-course meal from WOW! Hospitality and a tour of the galleries. Tickets available!
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February 18, 24 - Join us as we celebrate Black History Month with several free events in collaboration with local collectives. We'll kick things off with Canadian Black Artists United for an artist talk and dance performance in our theatre. Later in the month, Black Professionals in Music (BPM) presents an intimate evening of music in Eckhardt Hall featuring four local musicians. In March catch film screenings curated by the Black Film Collective Winnipeg.
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February 20 - Louis Riel Day! Learn about Louis Riel and Métis culture. Fun family craft in the Skylight Gallery, available all day or take part in the beading workshop with Claire Johnston from 1-4 pm. Select films throughout the day, curated by Wookey Films in French and English. Guided tour with Jocleyn Piirainen at 1pm.
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Our drop-in tours are FREE with admission and are held on select afternoons at 2 pm.
Explore Robert Houle: Red is Beautiful with our trained guides on Louis Riel Day.
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March 27 - April 1 - Spring break art camps! Come for a day or for the week. Themes change daily as campers explore the Gallery, play games, and make art! Registration is open.
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March 30 - April 1 - The 2022 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity – The World’s Best Ads re-runs playing in the Muriel Richardson Auditorium. Tickets $15. This fun evening also features a cash bar with snacks. https://www.wag.ca/event/cannes-lions-3/
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Winnipeg Architecture Foundation, 266 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0S8
Max Blankstein Architect exhibit, Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada, 123 Doncaster Open daily
Blankstein, one of the first Jewish architects in Canada, designed over 200 buildings, including many Winnipeg theatres, apartments, and commercial buildings, in a variety of styles.
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until June 30 - Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 4:30pm Unstacking the Deck exhibit
Dr. Paul H.T. Thorkalson Gallery, Icelandic Reading Room, Elizabeth Dafoe Library, U of M
Enlarged prints of a double deck of playing cards celebrating early women architects who studied and worked in Manitoba. Unstacking the Deck builds awareness of gender bias in design and calls for further action and inclusion: beyond binaries, beyond borders and toward Indigenous sovereignty. March 8, 11:30 am to 1:30 pm- a reception and sale of the decks of cards. https://umanitoba.ca/architecture/2022-2023-events-unstacking-deck
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Until June 1 - Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada
Queen Elizabeth II & Winnipeg: A Modern Elizabethan Era - Curator Daniel Guenther
The city's unique collection of architecture and urban landscapes define the modern Elizabethan Era. The decade-by-decade retrospective features important landmarks and examines Queen Elizabeth's legacy in Winnipeg. This exhibition is offered in English and French. Museum's hours and ticket costs https://royalaviationmuseum.com/plan-your-visit/welcome/?mc_cid=c703c2ae22&mc_eid=f876453815
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April 26 to 30 Architecture+Design Film Festival adff.ca
We will offer films from several countries with screenings at the Dave Barber Cinematheque, Millennium Library and the Manitoba Association of Architects space (if ready).
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Lectures at Centre Space, JAR, Fort Garry Campus, Faculty of Architecture, U of M
February 15, 6 pm - Visiting Architecture Lecture - Dilip Da Cunha
Where does design begin?
Dilip da Cunha is an architect and planner. In 2017, Mathur and Da Cunha initiated a design platform called Ocean of Wetness directed to imaging and imagining habitation in ubiquitous wetness rather than on a land-water surface. In 2020 da Cunha was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Ocean of Rain, an upcoming book and exhibition. https://www.arch.columbia.edu/faculty/661-dilip-da-cunha
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March 14, 6 pm - Harlyn Thompson Lecture - Jala Makhzoumi
From defined product to fluid process: Journeys in Landscape Architecture https://www.archnet.org/authorities/2833
Jala Makhzoumi pioneers a holistic developmental approach to landscape and seascape planning that mediates community needs with ecosystem health, biodiversity protection and heritage conservation. https://iflaeurope.eu/index.php/site/news-single/dr-jala-makhzoumi-is-the-laureate-of-the-2021-sir-geoffrey-jellicoe-award
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March 30, 6 pm - Seagram Visiting Lecture - Doug Olson
Landscape Architecture-from melancholy to Practice
Douglas is a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Landscape and received the CSLA Lifetime achievement award in 2017. He is currently the CEO of SAFE Design Operations where he focuses on multi-scale risk assessment and contemporary design that mitigates the risk and fear of crime. https://www.csla-aapc.ca/awards/college-fellows/douglas-olson
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April 29, 10 a.m. - Ghost Signs tour led by Matt Cohen
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ghost-signs-walking-tour-tickets-535328029547
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The shop has been redesigned with more options for pickup and delivery. You can find an array of books, mugs, magnets and viewmasters. https://shop.winnipegarchitecture.ca
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This February the Winnipeg Humane Society and our Animal Welfare team are bringing awareness to welfare concerns commonly associated with dairy production, and encouraging our community to learn more about the complex and sentient lives of dairy cows. One of the easiest ways you can make a difference is by reducing your dairy consumption.
We know that it is not easy to completely cut dairy from your diet. Our challenge for you this month is to try some of the dairy-free alternatives now readily available.
Try almond or oat milk in your morning coffee or cereal
Swap plant-based cheese on your pizza at restaurants
Look for plant-based yogurts, ice creams, and desserts at your local grocer
We’re asking you to ‘Try Dairy Free for Me’. You might think that your efforts will not make a difference, but small swaps and substitutes can lead to big changes. https://winnipeghumanesociety.ca/animal-issues/farm-animal-welfare/canadas-dairy-industry/
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Live Music
February 17, 9 PM – 9:15 PM
Club 200, 190 Garry Street,Winnipeg R3C 1G6
Tickets · $20 via Eventbrite
Club 200 Presents A Post Valentine Treat... RuPaul's Drag Race’s TINA BURNER in LUV SUX
Event by Kelly McIvor and Allen Morrison
Live Singing, Stand Up Comedy, and Signature Mixes
From Break Ups to Make Ups / Music Arranged and Orchestrated By Blake Allen
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February 17, 9:45 AM – February 18, 11:55 PM
Marion Hotel, Marion Street Eatery - Event by Pop Vegas
It's Festival Week and we've got your opening weekend nightlife excitement!
Bring your Sash and work those Toques cause we're bringing you tunes to shake them Boots!
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February 18, 8 PM – 1 AM
Belgian Club, 407 Provencher Blvd, Winnipeg, MB
(204) 237-4263 belgianclub@mts.net
San Valentine Social 2023 - dance, food and live bands!
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February 25 / doors open at 6 PM / show starts at 7 PM
West End Cultural Centre Masks are highly encouraged.
Tickets ai-kon.org/2023/01/31/tickets-for-winter-dream-stage-available-now
Winter Dream Stage, a 4 hour spectacular featuring our BEST local talents in a curated music and dance showcase to really warm you up this winter! Recommended age is 14A.
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March 4, 9:30 PM – 1 AM
The Osborne Taphouse, 112 Osborne St, Winnipeg, MB R3L 1Y5
Cover will be $10 to support the bands
Join us every Thursday, Friday and Saturday for Winnipeg's best live bands.
We’re stoked to have a triple bill featuring Phantomhead, The Rules and Manther!
$10.99 Triples, $4.50 PBR’s, $5.50 pints, 3 for $15 Jag Bombs, “9 for $9.99” appetizers
Great people and live music... what more can you ask for?
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February 19, 1 PM
Dalnavert Museum and Visitors' Centre Masks required
Tickets fareharbor.com/embeds/book/friendsofdalnavert/items/436747
$15 per person per lecture. (Does not include entrance. For a tour, please book ahead online.)
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: Victorians and Fortune Telling
Learn about crystal gazing, reading tea leaves, séances and other 19th-century methods of predicting the future. Join us for The Language of Dalnavert: An Insider’s Perspective of the House and the Victorians, a monthly lecture series starting in February with our Collections Registrar, Inés Bonacossa who will share her insights into different aspects of Dalnavert’s collection and Victorian culture. www.friendsofdalnavert.ca/the-language-of-dalnavert
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Book Launches
Live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park
Mask use is recommended.
To attend physical events: https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/event-attendance?fbclid=IwAR26rcNUrebzYRM0ajxsAuNQDYnS4Vb6JbL2aBtRkcYPbiGYny5YpVTdVqU
February 21, 7 PM – 8 PM
Senator Patricia Bovey Hybrid Book Launch, hosted by Shawna Dempsey
Simultaneous YouTube stream featuring live chat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwWAtgCdIlA
Western Voices in Canadian Art is the first survey of the art and artists from Western Canada. With more than 260 works reproduced in full colour, this comprehensive overview amplifies the importance of this diverse group of artists from the eighteenth century to the present. Insights from Bovey’s studio visits and conversations with artists inform the text and offer new avenues of understanding Canadian artistic creation in the four western provinces.
Patricia Bovey LLD, FRSA, FCMA is former director of the WAG (1999-2004) and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (1980-1999). She was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 2016.
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March 23, 7 PM – 8 PM
Simultaneous YouTube stream featuring live chat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufv5xS7HxP8
Author Liz Harmer discusses her new novel, Strange Loops, with host Seyward Goodhand. Harmer returns with a novel about the paradoxes of desire. With plot twists, lean prose and big ideas explored alongside the messy truth of human relationships, Strange Loops asks questions about faith, love and desire.
Harmer’s novel, The Amateurs, was a finalist for the Amazon First Novel Award.
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March 11, 2:00 to 3:30 PM
Artspace Boardroom, 100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg, MB R3B 1H3
The Manitoba Writers’ Guild presents the first of our Book Launch program with two books by author Scott Ellis: Benny the Antichrist and Other Stories and Crawling to the Moon and Other Stories (Fossil Cove Publishing)
Copies of the books available to purchase. $15 per copy, cash only please.
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March 3, 5:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Manitoba Museum
Tickets · $86.53 www.eventbrite.com/e/bmcc-2023-black-history-month-dinner-with-the-hon-dr-jean-augustine-tickets-538398393087
Black Manitobans Chamber of Commerce - 2023 Black History Month
The Honorable Dr. Jean Augustine made history as the first Black Woman elected to Canada’s Parliament and served from 1993-2006. Her legislative successes include the historic Black History Month Motion, and the Famous Five Motion, which authorized the first statues on Parliament Hill depicting women other than Queen Elizabeth.
Dr. Jean will tell us why it was so important for Canada to legislate Black History Month.
The evening will start with the screening premier of Steadfast - The Messenger and the Message, a documentary of the life of Honorable Dr. Augustine, from her beginnings in Grenada to her many achievements in Canada.