Manitoba Museum, 190 Rupert Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0N2
to Aug. 31, 10 am - 4 pm
https://manitobamuseum.ca/event/critical-distance-summer25-2/2025-07-30/
Critical Distance follows Kiki, an eight-year-old orca, and a group of resident orcas known as J pod. Seen through the eyes of Kiki, Critical Distance offers a unique and immersive AR experience where visitors can interact with sound waves and touch elements to learn about echolocation, noise pollution, and the daily perils facing this critically endangered pod as they navigate life in the Salish Sea.
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Sept. 5, 4 pm - 9 pm
Join us on the First Friday of every month for FREE general admission to our three core attractions: the Museum Galleries, the Planetarium, and the Science Gallery. No ticket required for First Friday.
Current: https://manitobamuseum.ca/series/first-fridays-the-manitoba-museum/
First Fridays at the Manitoba Museum is supported by Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries.
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Aug. 28, 2 pm - 3 pm
Dalnavert Museum and Visitors' Centre, 61 Carlton St, Wpg, MB R3C 1N7
The Poverty and Prosperity Walking Tour
What was life like for people in Winnipeg 100 years ago? This city was quite different and had some major waves in growth. From being the "Gateway to the West" and "Chicago of the North" to the present day, Winnipeg's foundations have been shaped by classism, inequality, and histories forgotten and overlooked.
This tour of downtown explores Winnipeg's roots and foundations. Join us to hear stories of the city and learn how Winnipeg became the city it is today.
Tours proceed rain or shine, but may be cancelled in the event of extreme heat or lightning.
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Food Events & Farmers’ Markets
Every Wednesday: Aug. 27 - Oct 15, 4 pm - 8 pm
Lord Roberts Community Centre, 725 Kylemore Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3L 1B8
Fireweed Food Co-op Presents: the 10th Annual South Osborne Farmers’ Market!
Shop farm fresh veggies, local food items and handmade goods in the rink just east of the the Community Centre. It will include many of the local vendors you know, alongside new faces. Enjoy food, live entertainment, and beer gardens featuring local beer and cider. https://www.fireweedfoodcoop.ca/aboutmarket
Takes place outdoors. Washrooms are accessible. Bike racks available. You can walk your bike through the market. Limited parking lot spaces in the LRCC's lot. Street parking also available.
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Aug. 28 to Sept. 1, 11 am - 7 pm
Fort Gibraltar, 878 St Joseph St, Winnipeg, MB
A celebration of culinary excellence featuring gourmet tastings, beverage pairings, and live entertainment. This food sampling event by TasteofManitoba showcases Manitoba restaurants.
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Sept. 6 and 7, 12 pm - 9 pm
King St., between James and Rupert St, Wpg, MB R3B 3G8
Manitoba Taste of Asia Festival, by Foodtrip Market, presents Winnipeg’s First Lantern Festival!
Join us as we light up the night and celebrate community, culture, and creativity! Enjoy:
Lantern displays and installations
Live performances and music
Delicious food vendors, Family-friendly activities and Lantern Workshops
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Sept. 14, 8 am - 10 am
X-Cues Event Centre, 551 Sargent Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 1W4
FREE Pancake Breakfast hosted by Cobra Collectibles at the Sargent Avenue Block Event! We'll be serving up fresh pancakes and fruit cups! This is a fantastic family-friendly event, and we have a special treat for the kids. You'll get to meet Pikachu and Grumpy Bear! Breakfast is first-come, first-served while supplies last.
Huge thanks to our sponsors and partners: Sargent Business Community, Councillor Cindy Gilroy, Cobra Collectibles, Foot Patrol, and X-Cues Event Centre!
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Sept. 20 and 21, 12 pm - 9 pm
221 Memorial Blvd, Winnipeg, MB R3C 1T9
Foodtrip Market is excited to keep the momentum going with a brand new event that celebrates the heart and soul of our downtown!
Get ready for Live, Love Downtown, a vibrant festival that brings together local food, music, art, and community spirit. This event will shine a spotlight on the amazing people, nonprofits, and small businesses that make our city centre so special. In partnership with Culture Days.
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Book Launches
McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park, 1120 Grant Ave, Wpg, MB
These events will be hosted live in the Atrium and are also available as a YouTube stream.
Sept. 4, 7 pm - 8 pm
Join Philipp Schott for the launch of his eighth book, Heal the Beasts : A Jaunt Through the Curious History of the Veterinary Arts. Featuring a conversation hosted by Dr. Keri Hudson Reykdal (Dr. Keri: Prairie Vet).
How and why did humans begin to treat sick and injured animals? And how did those practices evolve from prehistory to the present day? Dr. Schott shares stories of 22 different animal healers and veterinarians from across eras and continents.
Schott lives and practices veterinary medicine in Winnipeg. His first book, The Accidental Veterinarian, was a bestseller and was translated into five languages.
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Sept. 5, 7 pm - 8 pm
Join Brittany Penner for the Winnipeg launch of Children Like Us: A Métis Woman's Memoir of Family, Identity and Walking Herself Home, and a conversation hosted by Shelagh Rogers.
A Métis girl is adopted by a Mennonite family in this memoir about family lost and found. Children asks difficult questions about family, identity, belonging and cultural continuity. How do you deal with the truth of your own story when you've always been told you should be grateful? What does it mean to belong when you feel torn?
Penner is an author, practicing family physician and lecturer with the U of M.
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Sept. 6, 7 pm - 8 pm
Join acclaimed Canadian comics creators Jeff Lemire and Jenn Woodall as they discuss their work as part of Prairie Comics Festival 2025. https://prairiecomics.com/
Lemire is a New York Times bestselling, award-winning author, and creator of the graphic novel Sweet Tooth, and others. His most recent work is 10,000 Ink Stains: A Memoir.
Woodall is an award-winning illustrator and comics creator from Toronto. She self-publishes her comics and also has her work distributed and published through Silver Sprocket. Her most popular series, Magical Beatdown, is still ongoing. She is one of the editors for Pulping, an anthology that publishes work from Toronto and Ontario-based cartoonists.
Sept. 10, 7 pm - 8 pm
Join Catherine Hunter for the launch of Seeing You Home: Stories. Featuring a reading and a conversation hosted by Margaret Sweatman.
Seeing is a poignant collection of interconnected short stories that navigate love, loss, and the quiet search for meaning in the wake of tragedy. In Winnipeg’s St. Boniface Hospital, Clare watches her husband battle cancer. Seeing traces the threads of their relationship through an intimate portrait of devotion, grief, and the task of finding a way forward.
Hunter is a Winnipeg poet and novelist. Her work includes four poetry collections, the novel After Light, the novella In the First Early Days of My Death, and three mystery novels. She has won several prizes and honours, and her latest poetry collection, St. Boniface Elegies, was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award.
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Sept. 11, 7 pm - 8 pm
Join David A. Robertson for the launch of The World's End, the sixth book and dramatic conclusion of his bestselling Misewa Saga. Hosted by Rosanna Deerchild.
In this award-winning, Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series, Eli must embrace his heritage and make an impossible decision about his future, and the future of Misewa. Eli, Morgan and Emily free themselves from captivity as the battle between the humans, animal beings, and Bird Warriors rages.
Robertson, of Norway House Cree Nation, is the author of numerous books for young readers including Governor General’s Literary Award winners On the Trapline and When We Were Alone. The Barren Grounds, Book 1 of The Misewa Saga series, was a Kirkus, NPR, and Quill & Quire best middle-grade book of 2020. Winner of the Writers’ Union of Canada’s Freedom to Read Award, as well as the 2021 Globe and Mail Children’s Storyteller of the Year recipient.
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Sept. 17, 7 pm - 8 pm
Join Lauren Carter for the launch of her new book, The Longest Night. Featuring a reading and a conversation hosted by Seyward Goodhand.
Lauren Carter’s novel is a thriller about one girl’s search for home. Melding time travel, magic realism, horror, and literary suspense, it follows 18-year-old Ash Hayes as she finds herself locked out of her family home in rural Minnesota. She seeks shelter from the freezing cold at the closest house. The next morning, everything is off-kilter, and in her efforts to get out of the house, Ash finds herself transported to an even stranger place and time.
Carter is the author of two novels, a collection of short stories, and two poetry collections. Her work has appeared in multiple journals and anthologies, including Best Canadian Stories, and won several awards, including the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, the Prairie Fire Literary Awards and the Room Magazine Poetry Contest.
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Sept. 22, 7 pm - 8 pm
Join David Bergen as he celebrates the launch of his new novel, Days of Feasting and Rejoicing. Presented as part of THIN AIR 2025, an annual fall celebration of books and writing.
David Bergen introduces Esther Maile, an expat American living in Thailand in a house rented by the richer, more popular Christine. While on holiday in Bali, Christine, caught by an ocean wave, drowns. Esther rushes to save her. In the chaos, the police confuse Esther for Christine.
Bergen is the bestselling author of twelve novels and two collections of short fiction. Among his most acclaimed works are The Time in Between, a national bestseller; The Age of Hope, a finalist for Canada Reads; and Out of Mind, a follow up to The Matter with Morris. He has won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year five times, and his writing has also been shortlisted for Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and a Pushcart Prize. In 2018 Bergen was presented with the Writer’s Trust Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life. He lives in Winnipeg.
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Sept. 23, 7 pm - 8 pm
Join Duncan Mercredi for the launch of his new poetry collection, Only the Scent of You Remained. Presented as part of THIN AIR 2025.
Walk with the author during intimate reflection and pause to remember the people who have been a part of his life and journey, the ones who influenced him, both good and bad.
Mercredi is Cree/mixed, born in Misipawistik aka Grand Rapids, MB, part of the Indigenous Writers' Collective, storyteller, writer, travelled extensively around Turtle Island, sharing stories and poetry. He was Winnipeg's Poet Laureate in 2021.
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Sept. 27, 7 pm - 8 pm
Join Winnipeg representatives of The Land and Labour Poetry Collective as they celebrate the launch of I’ll Get Right On It: Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis. Hosted by editors Jamie Paris and Melanie Dennis Unrau. Presented as part of THIN AIR 2025. Co-presented by the Manitoba Energy Justice Coalition (MEJC).
Featuring readings from contributors Levy Abad, Mike Bagamery, Myla Chartrand, Jean Clipsham, Renee Cronley, Jennifer deGroot, Kristian Enright, A.W. Glen, Lance Guilbault, Duncan Mercredi, Cole Osiowy, Mhao (em) Palevino, Marjorie Poor, Ron Romanowski, Ivan A. Salazar M., Sabrina Spenser Smith, Jessica Smithies, Hanako Teranishi, and Evan Woelk Balzer.
The deepening climate crisis is making all kinds of work harder, more dangerous and more unpredictable. All kinds of workers have something to say about it. I’ll Get is an anthology about making a living and carrying on despite smoky air, fires, climate grief, species loss and increased precarity.
Paris is a mixed-race (Black, Métis, and Scottish) Instructor II at the U of M, and an assistant editor for Early Theatre. He has a book, entitled Clothed Villainy, forthcoming.
Unrau is a poet, editor, scholar, and climate organizer from Treaty One territory and Métis homeland in Winnipeg. She is the author of The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-Worker Poetry, Happiness Threads: The Unborn Poems, and Goose.
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Psychic Fairs & Haunted Houses
Sept. 4 and 5: 2-10 / Sept. 6: 11-10 / Sept. 7: 11-6
Canada Inn Garden City, 2100 McPhillips St.
Tickets $10 (Good All Weekend) / Children 12 and under Free
Galaxy Psychic Fairs GalaxyPsychicFairs.com
Some of Canada’s Top Psychics, Mediums, Astrologers, Rune Reading, Healers, Tea Leaf, Palm Readers. Beautiful crystals, hand made jewelry and Door Prizes! Cash or card accepted.
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Sept. 12, 7:30 pm - 11 pm
Tickets https://3common.com/event/paranormal-investigation-seven-oaks-house-museum/6852ec9d5b24196237617b56
The Seven Oaks House Museum is steeped in history, and its reputation as Manitoba’s oldest haunted house makes it the perfect setting for a paranormal investigation.
The Winnipeg Paranormal Group is offering brave souls the chance to explore the museum using specialized equipment to detect spectral activity. Imagine standing in the dimly lit rooms, listening for unexplained whispers or watching as the EMF meters flicker to life. The museum hosts haunted walking tours, where participants can explore by candlelight and hear eerie tales of its ghostly past.
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Sept. 13, 6 pm
The Metropolitan Entertainment Centre, 281 Donald St
Tickets $56.99 https://www.ticketmaster.ca/dinner-and-movie-jaws-winnipeg-manitoba-09-13-2025/event/110062FCB76B308C
Dinner and Movie - Jaws 50th Anniversary
As part of the Ambassador Banquet & Conference Centre brand, The MET strives to provide each guest with a great event, including great food, served by great staff.
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Sept. 25, 8 am - 8 pm
Pick up and drop off at the Walmart parking lot, 1000 Taylor Ave Wpg, MB R3M 1T6. The bus departs promptly at 8 AM.
Tickets https://www.mhs.ca/product/fall-bus-tour-2025/
Join Manitoba Historical Society for a Fall bus tour of southern Manitoba. We will stop at the site of the former Leary brickworks and visit the Ste. Therese chapel in the village of Cardinal. We will continue to Manitou to see several historic sites with a lunch stop at the Manitou Opera House. Then on to the Darlingford Pembina Heritage Museum and the Darlingford Memorial Park which honours those who served in two world wars. In Morden we will tour the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre. The tour will wrap up with supper at the Pembina Threshermens Museum near Winkler.
