Legislative Building free tours
We are pleased to welcome you to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
https://www.gov.mb.ca/legislature/visiting/tour.html
Public guided tours (groups under 10 guests), in English or French, every Friday at 2 pm.
Phone (204) 945-5813 or e-mail tour_reservation@leg.gov.mb.ca to book.
For groups larger than 10 guests see registration form
https://www.gov.mb.ca/legislature/visiting/docs/reservation_form.pdf
Limit of 30 people admitted for each guided tour.
Reservation or walk-up on first come first serve basis. Space not guaranteed without reservation. Reservations held until the start of the hour.
Please note that our office is closed for visits on statutory holidays.
Tour Information Pamphlets
Indoor Tour Information Pamphlets
https://www.gov.mb.ca/legislature/visiting/docs/indoorselfguidedtour.pdf
Outdoor Tour Information Pamphlets
https://www.gov.mb.ca/legislature/visiting/docs/outdoorselfguidedtour.pdf
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Please Help Our Food Banks
During these times there has been a growing need for help from our food banks, especially by parents of young children.
Please remember your fellow Winnipeggers during these difficult times. The best thing you could donate is money so that the food banks can buy what is truly needed at a fraction of the cost. Call your local Food Banks to learn what the can accept and what they need.
Many local organizations and sporting events have set up bins to collect donations to help others.
Don’t know what to buy?
This list of ideas and comments has been shared on social media:
1. Everyone donates Kraft Mac and Cheese in the box. They rarely use it because it calls for milk and butter. (It can be prepared with the pasta cooking water).
2. Boxed milk which does not require refrigeration is a treasure, as kids need it.
3. Everyone donates pasta sauce and spaghetti noodles.
4. Canned veggies and soup, especially with pop tops, are necessities.
5. Oil is a luxury but needed for Rice a-Roni.
6. Spices or salt and pepper would be a real Christmas gift.
7. Tea bags and coffee make them feel like you care.
8. Sugar and flour are treats.
9. They enjoy fresh produce donated by farmers and grocery stores.
10. Seeds are good in Spring and Summer because gardening can be done by some.
11. They rarely get fresh meat.
12. Tuna and crackers make a good lunch.
13. Everyone loves Stove Top Stuffing and Hamburger Helper.
14. They get lots of peanut butter and jelly but need sandwich bread.
15. Butter or margarine is nice too.
16. Eggs are a real commodity.
17. Cake mix and frosting makes it possible to make a child’s birthday cake.
18. Dishwashing detergent is very expensive and is always appreciated.
19. Feminine hygiene products are necessities.
20. Canned ham and corned beef are great for protein. Both have keys to open.
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Don’t Toss Out Good Food
Food prices are still high. No one wants to eat unsafe food, but there is confusion over what the dates mean.
Hope this helps you to get your money’s worth out of your purchases.
October 28, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Garden City Shopping Mall, 2305 McPhillips, Next to the Food Court & Mall Entrance.
Come join the Winnipeg Police Service for Treat N Fleet - Halloween
Treat N Fleet features Halloween safety tips, candy, costumes and cop cars!
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October 30, 7 PM
X-Cues, 551 Sargent Ave.
Theatre of Everyday by Grant Guy
The
inaugeral cabaret for the 2023/24 season with guest stars Bela Luna and
Murray Toews (Winnipeg) and Picasso Gaglione (Knoxville, Tennessee.
Video/Music/Performance and some pertinent poetry.
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Winnipeg Architecture Foundation FREE Events
We
have moved into the newly renovated offices of the Manitoba Association
of Architects at 101-177 Lombard Avenue, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0W5. Come
visit us and see the new space during one of our FREE noon hour
programmes happening this November.
We are currently able to accept
visitors by appointment only. The WAF online shop is open 24/7 and free
pick up is available.
https://shop.winnipegarchitecture.ca/?mc_cid=966e25466c&mc_eid=f876453815
November 3, 12:00 pm - 1 pm
101-177 Lombard Avenue (wheelchair accessible)
John
D. Atchison Architect: An Illustrated Talk
Join researcher and writer
Gail Perry for an illustrated lecture about the prolific and
accomplished architect John D. Atchison. Trained in Chicago, Atchison
later worked with “the father of the American skyscraper”, William Le
Baron Jenney. After working in Chicago for 11 years (including on the
1893 Columbian World Exposition) he moved to Winnipeg 1905.
In under
twenty years, John D. Atchison shaped the backdrop of Winnipeg,
designing over 160 buildings (some 60 of them still in use) and
advocated for its green and monumental spaces. He was a proponent of the
City Beautiful Movement, a member of several civic planning committees
and an advocate for the mall approach to the Legislative Building.
John
D. Atchison designed 177 Lombard. Gail Perry’s exhibit, “177 Lombard
Avenue”, will be on display and we encourage folks to arrive early to
view the display.
More Information:
https://winnipegarchitecture.ca/john-d-atchison-architect-an-illustrated-talk/?fbclid=IwAR3PQKOKSfSvlrquDsHldVpDUmrCil35wJp-3FhDrPkHkHnj-zDpBQn6Zzo
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November 9, 12:00 pm - 1 pm
Join
us for a lunch hour screening of “Places+Spaces: Winnipeg”. Director
Noam Gonick, Producer Leslie Stafford, and Host Hayden Mushinsk will be
in attendance for a Q&A following the screening.
This is a series
of vignettes that reveal some of the city’s most iconic buildings and
communities. Stunning visuals and fascinating backstories showcase
housing projects, libraries, places of worship, historic banks,
skyscrapers and civic buildings, highlighting the city’s architecture
and design.
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November 23, 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
Join us
for a screening of “Writing on the Wall,” a documentary about Winnipeg’s
Ghost Signs.
Winnipeg has one of the largest and most well preserved
collections of hand painted signs in North America. Ghost signs are
hand-painted, outdoor ads that have been preserved on sides of
buildings. They are also known as fading ads or brick ads and were
prevalent from the 1890s through to the 1960s. As outdoor advertising
mediums evolved, ghost signs became less popular and were replaced by
billboards and vinyl banners.
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November 4 Doors open 7:30 pm / band plays at 9 pm.
171 Dumoulin St, Winnipeg, MB R2H 0E2
$20 Tickets available at ABBAdiscoparty.com or direct link:
https://organizer.3common.com/event/651dda5f07a1b6b9c1d8f48c
CALLING ALL DANCING QUEENS AND KINGS!
Come
dance the night away at The Super Douper ABBA Disco Party, featuring
ABBA tribute band, The Super Troupers, and a Video DJ dance party of 70s
(and some 80s) dance hits!
Come dressed in your grooviest 70s outfit and be ready to party like it's 1979!
$10 from every ticket sold will go to the St-Boniface Hospital Foundation.
Support a great charity and have fun, too!
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Sales: Antiques & Crafts
November 5, 10 am - 4 pm
Viscount Gort Hotel, 1674 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3J
Admission $5, children 12 and under free.
Lots of Free parking at the hotel and across the street at Polo Park.
Manitoba Antique Association Fall Sale
Come browse our many tables to find that treasure you're looking for!
Lots of Pyrex, art glass, mid-century decor, jewellery, farmhouse antiques and more!
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November 25, 10 am - 3 pm
Breezy Bend CC, 7620 Roblin Blvd., Headingley
$2 entry that will be fully donated to The Dream Factory!
Come down for the annual Fox and Fern Market!
Over 40 local vendors!
Breezy Bend will be serving some delicious food and drinks.
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November 25, 10 am - 4 pm
East End Arena, 517 Pandora Ave E, Winnipeg, MB R2C 0A5
Winter Makers Market by Tails of Freedom Rescue Inc.
30+ hand made vendors and boutique food creators!
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December 1, 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
December 2, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Via Rail Union Station, 123 Main Street
Pitâw Mīno Muskîkî 2023 Indigenous winter market
“brings good medicine”
There will be shopping, food + baking, music, crafts for kids, and more.
Brought to you by @medicinegardensociety, @anishinaabegirl, and @blackwolfdogx
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November 28 Doors at 6 pm / Event at 7 pm
Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq
Muriel Richardson Auditorium, 300 Memorial Blvd, Winnipeg, MB R3C 1V1
Tickets
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-memoirs-of-miss-chief-eagle-testickle-kent-monkman-and-gisele-gordon-tickets-738170918087
by McNally Robinson Booksellers in association with McClelland & Stewart. This event will NOT be streamed on our YouTube channel. Signed books will be available at the door.
The
two volumes follows Miss Chief
as she moves through time, from a complex lived experience of Cree
cosmology, to the arrival of European settlers, to the colonial violence
and tragedies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Blending
history, fiction, and memoir, this is a deeply Cree and gloriously queer
revisioning of our shared history.
Join celebrated Cree artist Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon as they discuss their new work "The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island", a genre-defying work based on the paintings of one the most important painters working today that will remake readers' understanding of the land called North America. A story of this continent that reframes the narrative to be one of Indigenous resilience, reshaping our shared understanding and lighting the path ahead.
After a reading with Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, Monkman and Gordon join host Niigaan Sinclair for a conversation.
Monkman’s
artworks are held in the public collections of
institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn
Museum, the Denver Art Museum, and the National Gallery of Canada. For
decades his paintings have featured a recurring character: his
gender-fluid alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, a time-traveling,
shape-shifting, supernatural being who reverses the colonial gaze.
Gisèle
Gordon is a settler media artist and writer based in Dish With One
Spoon Territory (Toronto, Canada). Her solo work includes the
feature-length documentary, "The Tunguska Project" (Best Feature Length
Film at the Planet in Focus Film Festival, 2005), and the video
installations "Crosscurrent" (2013 Moscow Biennale) and "The Land that
Dreams".