HeART for Rachels' House of Hope l About Spectacle

HeART: Art Show for Rachels' House of Hope

June 1, 3:00 - 5:00 pm in the afternoon, and also at 8:00 pm - midnight

The Edge Village and Gallery,611 Main street

Tickets are $10 at the door.

You are invited to the heART exhibition of local talent in support of 

Rachel's House of Hope, a restoration house for women who are homeless 

or who have been sexually-exploited and are starting a new life. 

This event will include many art pieces available for purchase.

Refreshments and music.  

Lia at 204-997-0243 or Dustin at 204-391-2201 for more information, 

or if you'd like to participate in this event. 

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“How to Think... About Spectacle” with Glen Johnson

June 1, 4:00 pm until 6:00 pm

Atomic Centre, 167 Logan Avenue

Admission is Free.  Arrive early to see the exhibition.

A Total Spectacle, in partnership with Central Canadian Centre for Performance, is pleased to present “About Spectacle”, the first lecture in a new series by Glen Johnson titled, “How to Think”.

Glen Johnson is a Winnipeg-based writer, installation and performance artist. In 2011 he created the Artistic Licence Bureau for the Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts. He has exhibited and/or performed at aceartinc, The Annex, Atomic Centre, Gallery 803, Gallery 1C03, Mount Saint Vincent University, The National Gallery of Canada, The Tallest Poppy, Videopool Media Arts Centre and the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

Open City & Cinematheque: LEVIATHAN & Fundraiser: BANDS VS FILMMAKERS III / Explore Desire / Praba Pilar

May 23, 7:00 pm until 10:00 pm

Winnipeg Cinematheque, Main Floor - 100 Arthur Street

LEVIATHAN

Directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel

2012 | FRANCE, UNITED KINGDOM, USA | 87 MINS 

Preceded by the short film Not Clear Cut by Paul Turano selected by Open City. 

Skype interview to follow the film with Lucien Castaing-Taylor.

Presented in partnership with Open City Cinema in celebration of their first anniversary. 

Reception to follow in Artspace lobby.

Ever wonder what a documentary about the commercial fishing industry would look like from the product’s point of view? Leviathan is an immersive, almost assaultive piece of subjective cinema designed to literally plunge us into the deep, experiencing the catch of the day from inside the nets. 

A single night’s fishing off the New Bedford coast, where some of the action of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick took place. - NOW MAGAZINE

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BANDS VS FILMMAKERS III

A concert in support of Cinematheque!

West End Cultural Centre, 586 Ellice Avenue

June 6, 8:00 pm

Host: Ace Burpee

Music by: 

Mariachi Ghost

Mahogany Frog

Flying Fox & The Hunter Gatherers

Julia Ryckman (performing highlights from The Adventures of Prince Achmed)

JD Edwards Band

Films by:

Doreen Girard

Leslie Supnet

Ian Bawa

Nick Friesen

Admission: $20 advance / $25 door    Ticketmaster,
The Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store, Cinematheque, Music Trader & WECC

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Explore Desire
May 25, 12:00 pm
Radisson Hotel Winnipeg (Downtown), 288 Portage Avenue
ADMISSION: Free access to the information and vendor area. 18+
$25 for 1 seminar, $45 for 2 seminars, $60 for 3 seminars.

Last November, "Fifty More Shades of Pleasure" drew in a sold-out crowd to broaden one's understanding of female sexuality.  Explore Desire draws on the themes of heightening desire amongst couples; power exchange, role play and BDSM; and female sexual self discovery.

Cocktails, wine, hors d'oeuvres, adult 'items' for sale, groovy music

SEMINAR 1: Heightening Desire in Your Relationship

SEMINAR 2: Power Exchange. The Art and Lifestyle of Role Play and BDSM

SEMINAR 3: Female Sexuality: Discovering New Ways to Experience Pleasure

TICKETS - On sale NOW 
Any Love Nest Location (3737 Portage Ave., 1341 Main St., 172 St. Anne's Rd.)

Our mission: to cultivate a sexually informed, sexually healthy and sex positive culture.

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Atomic Centre, 167 Logan Ave.
May 25, 8:00 pm until 11:00 pm
Doors at 8:00 p.m. / Service begins at 8:30 p.m.

A Total Spectacle, in partnership with Central Canadian Centre for Performance, is pleased to host a Church of Nano Bio Info Cogno service presided over by Her Holiness, Reverend Praba Pilar. Do not miss the definitive high mass of the technofuture!  Come to futurity, come to have your files uncorrupted, come to void your petta, come to be saved!

Indian City's Spring Fever l A Total Spectacle

The Pyramid Cabaret, 176 Fort Street

May 9, 8:00 pm

Summers almost here Concert with Special Guests!

Come and kick off the spring/summer season of 2013 with Indian City! 

Tickets cost $10.00.

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A Total Spectacle

Atomic Centre, 167 Logan Ave.

May 17 to June 9 

Wednesday to Friday: 3:00 – 7:00 p.m. 

Saturday and Sunday: 12:00 – 4:00 p.m. 

Monday and Tuesday: Closed

Admission to the exhibition and all related events is free of charge. 

Exhibition launch May 17 from 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.

Opening ceremony beginning promptly at 8:00 p.m.

perfomed by Istvan Kantor 

After party: Central Canadian Centre for Performance's "Pin It to Win It" at Ozzy's. 

Celebrity gawking, fear mongering, and other distractions, oh my! 

Is spectacle a harmless escape from reality, or something more? 

Taking cues from blockbuster exhibitions, A Total Spectacle is created by Winnipeg-based independent curator, Milena Placentile, in collaboration with  Dayna Danger, Glen Johnson, Joe Johnson, Istvan Kantor, Praba Pilar, Scott Sørli, and Paul Wiersbinski.

May 18 at 6:00 p.m. - Artist talk with Scott Sørli at RAW, 290 McDermot Avenue 

                                       the political aesthetics of police kettling

May 25 - Church of the Nano Bio Info Cogno with Rev. Praba Pilar at 167 Logan Avenue

June 1 at 4:00 p.m. - First lecture in the series “How to Think” 

                                      by Glen Johnson at 167 Logan Avenue

The Walworth Farce l Easter lunch or dinner - Ethiopian cuisine: F.L.O.W.E.R and Gardening for Growth

The Atomic Center, 167 Logan Ave.

The Walworth Farce

Presented by The Incompletely Strangled Theatre Company

March 28 to April 7 

Evenings: Wednesday to Saturday @ 7:30 pm

Matinees: Saturday and Sunday @ 2:00 pm

Andrew Cecon

Toby Hughes

Bill Kerr

Kimiya Yussuf

Directed by Arne Macpherson

Stage Manager: Suzie Martin

Designers: Jeremy Rampton & Garrett Rusnak

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Fundraiser: F.L.O.W.E.R and Gardening for Growth

Kokeb Restaurant, 266 Edmonton Street

March 31: 1 pm for lunch or dinner at 7 pm 

Ethiopian cuisine 

$20 ticket (for lunch or dinner, please tell us which one you plan to attend)

The benefit to the non-profits: $10 / ticket

Please send an email  for tickets and more info.

If you can't make Sunday, the tickets will be valid at Kokeb after the event. 

Since it is Easter, why not skip the dishes in support of good causes and invite some friends and family.  Win win! 

Mary and Weyni are joining forces with Beata to put on a super awesome ethnic lunch / dinner.  Gardening for growth and F.L.O.W.E.R. will be giving a presentation about what they have already achieved as well as their plans for the future.  

F.L.O.W.E.R. founder Helen Attah, will also be presenting.

Gardening for growth is a seedling organization started by Mary and Weyni to help a rural Ethiopian community gain food security.

F.L.O.W.E.R. (facilitating learning for women in developed regions) is a more established Ghanian not-for-profit working to educate and empower women and girls.