McNally Robinson: January Music & Events l Friday Nite Live l Winnipeg Underground Film Fest l Art at the Zedek l Leather, Bears, & Lace l Bonivital Softball Clinics l Witchpolice l Wrestle Kingdom 10

McNally Robinson: January Events 

Phone 204-475-0483  (Toll-Free 1-800561-1833)

Todaschuk Sisters

Saturday January 2, 8:00 pm

Ukrainian Christmas Carols

The Shuckers

Friday January 8, 8:00 pm

Roots

Aaron Bartel Duo

Saturday January 9, 8:00 pm

Jazz

Grace Hrabi Trio

Friday January 15, 8:00 pm

Jazz

Hear here

Nightfall

Saturday January 16, 8:00 pm

Jazz

Brian Chipney / Tim Cummings Trio

Friday January 22, 8:00 pm

Jazz

Doug Edmond

Saturday January 23, 8:00 pm

Singer/Songwriter

Amber Epp & Larry Bjornson Duo

Friday January 29, 8:00 pm

Jazz

The Celtic Trio

Saturday January 30, 8:00 pm

Celtic

January 6, Noon

International Year of Pulses to raise awareness and consumption of nutritious pulse crops. Sample delicious foods. The UN sees pulses as key in eradicating hunger and addressing chronic health conditions. Contact Glen at glen@manitobapulse.ca or 204-730-3030.

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January 6, 7:00 pm

ChiSeries Winnipeg - Readings from Eileen Bell, David Fortier, and more. 

Learn more at http://chiseries.com/

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January 11, 7:00 pm  

Money Talks: When To Say Yes And How To Say No

Gail Vaz-Oxlade is one of Canada’s most respected financial writers and has authored several bestselling books, including Debt-Free Forever. She is a columnist for Metro.

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January 11, 7:00 pm

Composer Sid Robinovitch joins MCO guest con­ductor Alain Trudel to discuss the pieces that will be played at the Tuesday January 12 MCO concert. The performance will include a brand new concerto composed by Robinovitch. 

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January 14, 7:00 pm

Dr. John Wortley   Palladius of Aspuna: The Lausiac History

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January 19, 7:30 pm

Meet the Composer, featuring a presentation from Matthew Patton.

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January 20, 7:00 pm 

The Uof M Café Scientifique: “Gut Instinct: The science behind the brain-gut connection”

Please RSVP to research_communications@umanitoba.ca or 204.474.6689.

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January 21, 7:00 pm 

Barry Greenberg   28 Secrets the Dog Knew by Friday Poodle

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January 26, 7:00 pm

Joanne Kelly’s Book Club

Lissa Evan’s Crooked Heart, an original black comedy, set in World War II England. 

Get in touch with John by calling 204-453-0424, ex 227 if you have any questions.

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January 28, 7:00 pm

Philippe Erhard    The Ladders of Death

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SECOND CUP, 254 Edmonton St. 

SECOND CUP presents a new event FRIDAY NITE LIVE bands starting Dec. 18!

It may be taped for post on YouTube. 

Downtown Winnipeg  Biz supports this new event, too.

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THE CALL FOR ENTRY FOR WUFF 4 IS NOW OPEN 

DEADLINE MARCH 1, 2016

Open City Cinema is a screening series focusing on local (Winnipeg), collaborative, expanded and experimental works, presented alongside underground and forgotten rarities.

OCC is also behind the Winnipeg Underground Film Fest!   

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Congregation Shaarey Zedek, 561 Wellington Crescent, Wpg, MB R3M 0A6

Artists Call for Proposals - Art at the Zedek, a new project that welcomes modern artists to share artwork that demonstrates their connection to Jewish life, culture, identity or heritage. Selections will be displayed at the shul in small exhibition spaces. 

Submissions by email only 

Shaarey Zedek has a history of arts leadership, beginning with its fabulous, mid-century modern design, Leo Mol stained glass windows, contemporary menorah by Secter Associates, glass relief work in the foyer by Warren Carther, and more.

You must be a local artist or have ties to the community 

You do not need to be a member of Shaarey Zedek

You must be a professional or a student in the fields of Fine Arts, Architecture, Photography, Graphic Design, Landscape Architecture, Theatre Design, Fashion, Crafts

Original artwork only 

Include a three line bio & 100 to 150 word description of how the work relates to Jewish life, culture, identity or heritage 

A digital image of the work for publication (300+ dpi)

Title, date, media and dimensions of the work

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Jan 2, 2016 at 4:00 pm to Jan 3, 2016 at 2:00 am
Club 200, 190 Garry Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Tickets Available

Join DJ Wizzard & friends for Leather, Bears, & Lace - Glow Party Edition, an all gender inclusive event where we as a community can enjoy, celebrate and brag our kinkiness in a safe environment. The hanky code will be in full effect!

Get your glow on and wear white to be as bright as can be!

Dance till the late hours with DJ Wizzard, Dj Danthrax, & Dj Zeo.

Dragons' Lair will be on-site selling everything you need to satisfy your kinky needs.

Doors open at 4 PM, happy hour 5 PM - 7 PM (domestic beer & bar shots for $3)

The kitchen will be open from 4 PM to 8 PM with a full menu & 50¢ wings on special.

Live entertainment from 6 PM to 8 PM with a meat draw at approximately 7 PM.

Kinky Bingo from 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM with prizes provided by Smitten Osbourne. 

Bingo cards are $1 each.

Club 200 has VLTs, a full service restaurant and a dance floor featuring Winnipeg's best club music. Club 200 is a gay owned & operated club. Come down for the fun!

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Greendell Community Centre, 75 Woodlawn Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba R2M 2P3

January 3, 1:00 pm

Bonivital Pitching Clinic

Bonivital Softball Association is proud to announce exclusive windmill pitching lessons for any member of a Bonivital club or age groups U10-U18 “B”.

Cost per pitcher is $112.50. Each pitcher must bring proper attire including inside shoes, duck tape, glove and a catcher (parent, teammate, etc.), per session. 

Lessons with a maximum 5-1 ratio of kids to clinicians.

The lessons will be structured for each group including warm-ups, warm-downs, basic and advanced drills, reps, individual assistance and an individual progress report.

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January 3, 1:00 pm

Bonivital Softball Hitting Clinic

Bonivital Softball Association is proud to announce exclusive hitting lessons for any member of a Bonivital club for the upcoming season for age groups U12-U18.

Cost per batter is $100.00. Each batter must bring proper attire including inside shoes, bat, helmet, and batting gloves per session.

Lessons will also have individual hitting in a batting cage.

Email - Attention Doug Creighton

Mailing address: 90 Marine Drive, Winnipeg, MB, R2N 0E1

There will be 10 sessions per age group. Lessons will be in a group atmosphere. Qualified clinicians will be designing and delivering each age appropriate session.

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The Handsome Daughter, 61 Sherbrook St, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 2B2

January 3, 7 PM - 9 PM
FREE SHOW    Tickets   

Garbage Hill Media presents another live on stage Witchpolice Radio podcast! With regular host Sam Thompson and co-host Ryan Sanders. Live interviews, live songs, live fun.

Check out our last live podcast 

Witchpolice Radio 'Holiday Hangover' live podcast with

Quinton Blair - 2015 Manitoba Country Music Award winner!

Smoky Tiger - psychedelic space wizard

Erin Shorten - ukulele songs!

and special guest DJs Loose Fit

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January 4, 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM

WRESTLE KINGDOM 10 

THIS EVENT IS NOT LIVE BUT WILL BE BROADCASTED THE SAME DAY OF THE EVENT.

Edamame and Japanese snacks will be available as well!

IWGP HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi

IWGP INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPIONSHIP: Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. AJ Styles

IWGP JUNIOR HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP: Kenny Omega (c) vs. KUSHIDA

ROH World Championship: Jay Lethal (c) vs. Michael Elgin

IWGP Tag Team Championship:

Bullet Club (Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows) (c) vs. GBH (Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma)

NEVER Openweight Championship: Tomohiro Ishii (c) vs. Katsuyori Shibata

Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga & Takahashi) vs. Toru Yano & TBA

Hirooki Goto vs. Tetsuyta Naito

IWGP JUNIOR HEAVYWEIGHT TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP:

reDRagon (c) vs. Matt Sydal & Ricochet vs. Roppongi Vice vs. Young Bucks

Forum Art Centre: For Everything Art l Winnipeg Underground Film Festival

The Forum Art Centre offers Summer art classes for adults/teens and art camps for children. Located at 120 Eugenie Street, we’re in Coronation Park so we can enjoy art in the park during many of these classes. 

Classes include: Plein Air Drawing and Painting, Introduction to Animation, 

On Location Photography, Drawing Outdoors, Drawing in Parks, Manga, 

Into the Attic: A Vintage Scrapbooking Class, and Children’s Animation. 

For details about classes or call 204-235-1069
or email Daryl Dumanski – B.I.D., Executive Director

Check out Art Camps for children age 8 – 12 years
They run August 11 – 15 or August 18 – 22. 

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June 27 to 29

Frame Arts Warehouse, 318 1/2 Ross Avenue

$10 / day [or] $20 / 3-day pass

Passes available at the door or in advance at Into the Music + Music Trader

Open City Cinema kicks off the second Winnipeg Underground Film Festival with a 90 second bang - ultra-short films from around the world - followed by two programs of radical short film and video work, a live 16mm performance by Texas-based filmmaker Michael A. Morris, and a video premiere and performance by YWG hip-hop artist Rob Crooks. 

Day 1

7:00 the 90 SECOND

8:30 PLACE STUDIES

10:00 PHENOMENOLOGY

11:30 NEW MUSIC/VIDEOS ft. ROB CROOKS

Day 2

2:00 SPENDING TIME WITH YR ELDERS

3:30 TWO FILMS x MIKE HOOLBOOM

7:00 CATS OF THE AVANT-GARDE

8:30 FREE FORMS

10:00 SYSTEMS BROKEN

11:30 DAMIEN'S VIDEO BIRTHDAY DANCE PARTY

Day 3

5:00 A FLEA'S SKIN

6:30 RITUALS + TRAUMAS

8:00 TWO MORE FILMS x MIKE HOOLBOOM

St. Norbert Farmers’ Market l Lindsey Walker l The Rise and Fall of God l NAYSA l Gutsy Walk For Crohn's and Colitis l [Homo]Phonic l Manitoba High School Playwriting Competition

St. Norbert Farmers’ Market Opening

May 24 8:00 am - 3:00 pm

(204) 275-8349

3514 Pembina Highway, St. Norbert, MB, Canada

Every Saturday morning for the past 26 years, Manitoba’s farm families have loaded up their vehicles with farm fresh fruit, flowers, meats and vegetables.

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The Edge Gallery and Urban Art Centre, 611 Main Street

May 24, 7:00 pm, show at 7:30 pm   $10 at the door

Lindsey Walker will be stopping in Winnipeg, her old stomping ground!

Come by and say hello, and see what Lindsey has been up to!

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May 27, Doors at 8:30, Show at 9 pm   $7 at the door

Open City Cinema presents Everything is Terrible's

 "THE RISE AND FALL OF GOD" with Mike Maryniuk's "Stay Positive"

a FUNdraiser for the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival!

Join us for an evening of deep spiritual reflection as we examine the apocalypse, eternal punishment, images of the divine in everything from snack food to slop buckets.

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May 28, 8:00 pm
Union Sound Hall, 110 Market Avenue
$5 gets you in to the show.
$55 gets you an early bird pass (includes camping!) to the Rainbow Trout Music Festival. 

The first show at Union Soundhall features NAYSA, Kipp Kocay and Employee of the Month.

In addition to the three-day festival in August, RTMF will be celebrating local music throughout a series of shows.

With over 125 artists applying to play this year’s fest, it was impossible for every incredible artist to take the stage during the weekend. Now you can pick up your tickets to RTMF and catch some juicy acts each month leading up to the festival!!

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2014 Gutsy Walk For Crohn's and Colitis on June 8

This walk raises funds for research that leads to better treatments and brings us closer to a cure every day.  

  

Crohn’s Disease affects over 129,000 people across Canada, with over 5,700 new cases diagnosed every year.  It is more than twice as common as multiple sclerosis or Parkinson’s disease, and just as common as diabetes or epilepsy.  

People with Crohn’s face life with debilitating physical symptoms, social stigma, and mental health concerns.  Risk of premature death is 47% higher than that of the general public. 

It’s time to overcome the stigma of living with Crohn’s, and raise awareness. 

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May 29, 7:00 pm
Fitzroy Restaurant, 102 Sherbrook Street
$ 5 COVER / FOOD AND BEVERAGE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE!

Homophone: a word having the same sound as another, but of different meaning.
Homophonic: characterized by moment of all parts to the same melody; in unison.

We chose 8 of our favourite photographers and gave them each a homophone as a conceptual basis to their work. Pairing these works with poetry, we are putting selected parts of the 3rd Issue  of Rip/Torn right on the wall for you to see.

See new black and white photographs by Creature Haunts, Scott Leroux, Ian Johnson, Meg Kroeker, Meganelizabeth Diamond, Nic Adamson, Warren Humeny, Zoe O'Brien-Moran. Poetry by Andrew Eastman and Marika Prokosh.  MUSIC BY SELCI!

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May 29 to May 30 at 8:00 PM

Tom Hendry (Warehouse) Theatre, Rupert & Lily

Advance Tickets: $10.00 Regular $8.00 Students

(Available at MAP 503-100 Arthur St. - Phone: 942-8941) 

At The Door: $15.00 Regular $10.00 Students

The 14th Annual Scirocco Drama Manitoba High School Playwriting Competition

Marcus Schneider  “A Parable of Pagans”

Ecole Selkirk Junior High, Directed by Tatiana Carnevale

Richelle Burchill “It’s Definitely About The Keys”

Westgate Mennonite Collegiate, Directed by Jane Walker

Sarah Luby “Our Name”

Vincent Massey Collegiate, Directed by Rick Caslake

Keira Hasenack “Forsaken Love”

St. Mary’s Academy, Directed by Kendra Jones

Isabella Fiorentino “Train To Nowhere In Particular”

St. Mary’s Academy, Directed by Megan Andres

Winnipeg Pet Rescue Shelter Bake Sale l Jessica MacCormack l FREE: The Laramie Project l Spring at the Millennium Library l Books & Brunch

March 20, 9 am to 8 pm and March 21, 9 am to 6 pm
Crossroads’ Insurance 2 locations
St. Vital Square, 2-851 Dakota Street
Tyndall Market Mall, 850 Keewatin Street

Please support Manitoba's first registered charity "no-kill" animal shelter.
All proceeds of the bake sale will be given to the Winnipeg Pet Rescue Shelter.

Any donations will be entered in a draw for a $100 gift certificate to a restaurant (your choice).  Anyone who spends $20 or more, or who signs up for monthly donations, will qualify for 2 entries in to the draw.

Help support this great cause where animals are given the right to live!

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March 28 // Doors @ 7:30 // Screening @ 8:00
aceartinc., 290 McDermot

Open City Cinema & aceartinc. present the animated works of Jessica MacCormack and the Winnipeg launch of her illustrated book The See.
Artist Jessica MacCormack in attendance!

MacCormack dramatizes the kinds of hallucinations that one’s mind is forced to create when one is unable to face – or even conceive of – an experienced trauma. This state of daydreaming is more akin to a nightmare: visual manifestations of past abuses and indignities that can’t show their real forms can only shift in and out of legibility.

Jessica MacCormack’s recent works integrate animation, video, painting and collage in social interventions and community productions that explore issues of criminalization, HIV/AIDS, racism, transphobia, sexual assault and mental health.

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Tuesday, Apr 1 to Friday Apr 4 at 8 pm
Saturday Apr 5 at 7 pm
Gas Station Arts Centre, 445 River Avenue

THE UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE AND FILM
invites you to a production of  The Laramie Project
written by Moisés Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Workshop
Recommended for mature audiences.
Admission is FREE.  Reservations are suggested.
For reservations (24-hours): email or call 204-786-9152
For group reservations, call Patty Hawkins, 204-786-9955.

Director: Christopher Sigurdson
Assistant Director: Lia Zarrillo
Set: Jamie Plummer
Costumes: Joseph Abetria
Lighting: Tim Babcock and Jacqueline Robertson

The Laramie Project, by Moisés Kaufman and The Tectonic Theater Company, was written following the savage beating of a gay college student, Matthew Shepard, on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. It chronicles the community’s effort to redefine itself following Matthew’s death, and portrays the residents dealing with their anger, their own misgivings, and the onslaught of media scrutiny that broadly labeled the community as intolerant.

This is a timely piece in light of recent headlines from Russia and Uganda to Arizona.
In rural Manitoba recent events have exposed concerns about intolerance toward the LGBT community. The closure of a restaurant in Morris and a Steinbach high school student’s fight with the school board to start a Gay-Straight Alliance have drawn national attention.

However, once the media glare fades away, these communities are left to resolve the lingering divisions among the residents on their own.

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Events at Millennium Library

Blankstein Gallery

March: Cancer Crossing, founded by Dr. Tse Li Luk, is a book about life’s meaning as seen by those with cancer and their caregivers. 

April: Andrew Marek: Five Years Finding represents five years of artistic exploration. 

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Folk Festival in the City, Millennium Library Reader Services

Saturday workshops for all music lovers! 

March 22 at 1:30 p.m.

“Inspired By...” with Jesse Matas (Crooked Brothers), TJ Blair (Magnificant 7s) 

and Vanessa Kuzina (Oh My Darling)  

April 26 at 1:30 p.m.

“A Book to Build a Song On: Songs Inspired by Historical Events and Books Read”  

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NFB Film Club  Drop-ins welcome!

Millennium Library, Carol Shields Auditorium. 204-986-6489 to register.

March 29 at 2 p.m. 

Finding Dawn puts a human face to the national tragedy of the Aboriginal women who have gone missing or been murdered in Canada.

coincides with Walking With Our Sisters at the Urban Shaman Gallery 

April 6 at 2 p.m.

My Prairie Home an intimate portrait of transgender singer Rae Spoon. PG

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April 5 from 1 - 4:30 p.m.

Millennium Library, Carol Shields Auditorium Complex 

Books2Eat - invites book lovers, chefs, and those who enjoy a good pun to create an edible piece of art that has something to do with books. Those are the only rules – how people choose to interpret them is part of the fun!

• The deadline for entry forms is Monday, March 31.

Send an email with your name, phone number, and “book” title 

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April 5 is International Tabletop Game Day

No registration, just drop in to the following branches and have fun: Charleswood, Fort Garry, Osborne, Pembina Trail, Sir William Stephenson, and Westwood Libraries.

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April 8, 9, and 10 from 12:10 - 12:50 p.m.

Millennium Library, Main Floor

Comedy Lunch Hour Special The Winnipeg Comedy Festival returns for a new season that includes three FREE sessions of lunchtime laughs. 

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April 12 starting at 11 a.m.

Millennium Library, Carol Shields Auditorium

Inside Publishing - In 50-minute sessions you’ll get the inside scoop from the authors, editors, or publishers of different books.  This year’s line-up will include Anita Daher and Peanut Butter Press talking about picture books, David Robertson and Portage and Main Press talking about Graphic Novels, and much, more.

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April 23 at 6:30 p.m.

Millennium Library, Buchwald Room, Call 204-986-6779 to register

Write Your Life Story - Join Sherry Bailey and learn how to begin writing and how to stay motivated. No writing experience needed.  

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The Theatre+ Arts Pass 

Each Pass allows complimentary entry to a theatre production from our partner venues.

*Check the availability of Passes on “Theatre Arts Pass” in the online catalogue.

* Each pass provides complimentary tickets to a production that month (usually 2 tickets).

* Passes are available the first of every month (or when the Library is next open), and are first-come, first-served.

* There is a limit of 1 Pass to be borrowed for each of January-June and July-December, per Library card.

Borrow a Pass early in the month for the best selection of productions! 

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May 4 at 10:30 a.m.

Books & Brunch at The Gates on Roblin, 6945 Roblin Boulevard

“BOOKS I HAVE KNOWN AND LOVED” with

MC: Joanne Kelly, Book Club Host, Teacher, Broadcaster

Scholar and code-breaking protagonist of The Hermetic Code Dr. Frank Albo

Arts and entertainment writer, and Winnipeg Free Press columnist Alison Gillmor

Brunch • Rainbow Auction • Q & A

Tickets: $55 (tax receipt of $25) at the Best of Friends Gift Shop (204-947-0110) in the Millennium Library, or e-mail 

Visa & Mastercard accepted. Tables of 8 may be reserved.

A Friends Fundraiser in support of Winnipeg Public Library projects

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!

Honouring Women Zine Party l Domestic Goddesses Run Amok l Alison Davis: Smutty Winnipeg Shorts for Valentine's Day l HAMLET (gender-reversed) & Art Auction l Crosseyed Rascals Valentine Show

Mentoring Artists for Women's Art (MAWA), 611 Main Street

February 14, 7 - 10 pm

Release party for the Honouring Women Zine Project

*contributors reading and performing 

*live music

*love letter writing activities and postcard making 

*drinks, snacks, celebrations, and get your copy of the zine! 

The heart is a muscle the size of a fist, keep loving, keep fighting

This project aims to explore our love and respect for women, our recognition of their resilience, strength, struggles and power. It works to combat gendered violence and sexism by celebrating, reinforcing and acknowledging the inherent value, resilience, struggles, and strength of the women we know.

This is a call to respond against sexism, violence, and hate that women experience. While women are often objectified, this project will work to celebrate women as whole, bringing the pieces together. 

Our use of the word "women" includes all those who identify as a woman and to acknowledge all the differences within that term.

For more information, email

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Domestic Goddess Run Amok
Cre8ery gallery & studio, 125 Adelaide Street, 2nd floor
Featuring Group of 8 Artists and Guests:
Suzanne du Plooy, Jane Gateson, Sherry Glanville, Pat McCullough, Lin Milne, Helen Stein
February 14 - 26
Opening Reception February 14, 7 - 9 pm

Seven women decide that making art is more fun than making dinner. They turn their passion and creativity towards painting. Each follows her own inner voice, painting what is important to her. Abstraction reigns, landscapes and figures appear. Oil and cold wax, acrylic, pastel, graphite!!

Originally suggested in 2010 by Deborah Stacey, former member of the Group of 8 Artist Salon, who passed away from cancer in 2011. We dedicate this show to her memory.

Please see full bios, statement, and exhibition info  

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FRAME ARTS WAREHOUSE, 318 1/2 Ross Avenue (Gallery c)

February 14  doors open 7:30 l movie 8:00

$7.00

Sailors, webcams, striptease, kink & perversion!

Revel in the deviant visions of Winnipeg filmmakers at Open City Cinema’s screening of Smutty Winnipeg Shorts.

Program presented and curated by Alison Davis.

The sexy program includes work by Arlea Ashcroft & Andrea von Wichert,

Jaimz Asmundson, Jenny Bisch, Deco Dawson, Clint Enns, Damien Ferland,

Noam Gonick, Barb Hunt, Freya Olafson, Sheena Shand, Matthew Rankin &

Alek Rzeszowski, and Aaron Zeghers.

Alison Davis graduated with a BFA in Film Animation in 2004 from Concordia University. After graduation she moved back to Winnipeg where she draws her animated films, which have played at festivals around the world.

She is also the head projectionist at the Winnipeg Film Group’s Cinematheque.

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February 14, 7:00 pm l show starts 8:00 PM

Fame Nightclub, 279 Garry Street

Red Czarina Productions is proud to announce a new staging of 

William Shakespeare’s HAMLET directed by Ashley Hirt.

TICKETS $10 

ART AUCTION and SOIREE to FOLLOW the PERFORMANCE

This bold, sexy and stylish new production will feature gender-reversed casting. 

Fame Nightclub is known for putting on impeccable, fabulous shows, and we are thrilled to be working with them. This is going to be a spicy Valentine's Day, for couples, or for singles who deserve to celebrate just as much as anyone.

CAST:

Hamlet: Ferron Guerreiro 

Claudius/The Ghost: Shannon Jacques 

Gertrude: Tyhr Trubiak 

Polonius: Cheryl Soluk 

Horatio: Stefanie Austin 

Ophelia: Shaylyn Gimby 

Laertes: Ashley Hirt 

Rosencrantz/Bernardo: Kelly Allum 

Guildenstern/Marcellus: Samara Von Rad

Osric/Francisco:Satara Subedar

UNDERSTUDIES:

Taesia Scratch

Kelsey Jane Norquay

PRODUCERS: Rebecca Gibson, Danishka Esterhazy, Ashley Hirt, Rebecca Sandulak 

DIRECTOR: Ashley Hirt

DIRECTORS ASSISTANT: Samantha Layer

STAGE MANAGER: Madison Thomas

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER: Richard Wong

HAMLET is proudly sponsored by The Academy of Acting

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Crosseyed Rascals: Sgt Rascals Lonely Hearts Club Show
February 16, 7:30 pm (doors open at 7:15 pm)
Prairie Theatre Exchange, 3rd floor Portage Place
Tickets are $8 in advance or $10 at the door.

The Crosseyed Rascals (Improvised Comedy) are presenting
their annual Valentine's Day show!

House of Psychotic Women & The Brood

Cinematheque, 100 Arthur Street

November 3, 7:00 PM

Introduction By Author Kier la Janisse

W/ David Cronenberg's 1979 classic The Brood 

OPEN CITY CINEMA and the WFG Cinematheque present an unforgettable evening with legendary film programmer and horror writer Kier la Janisse as she returns to launch her highly acclaimed new book House of Psychotic Women, an autobiographical and highly personal exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films. 

This sharply-designed book with a 32-page full-colour section is packed with rare stills, posters, pressbooks and artwork, with a filmography that traverses the acclaimed and the obscure.  It will be available for sale in the Lobby both before and after the screening.