Amnesiac l Authority Zero l Shoebox Drive l A Christmas Space Odyssey l Open House l Breakfast with Santa & a Movie l All I want for Christmas is Rock N' Roll l Medium Reading l Commerce Carol 2015 l Christmas Eve Services

December 18, 10:00 pm
The Pyramid Cabaret, 176 Fort Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 1C9

$12 ($15 @ the door) at Music Trader, Into the Music, The Pyramid, Ticketmaster

Happy Holidays!!! We are more than excited to invite you to join 

AMNESIAC: Radiohead Tribute, sponsored by UMFM/ Canadian Event Productions.

Special Guest: DJ Co op

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December 18, 9:00 pm
Windsor Hotel, 187 Garry Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C1Z5
Tickets at Into the Music, Music Trader and online 

The Windsor Hotel and UMFM 101.5 Present

From Mesa, Arizona punk rock royalty AUTHORITY ZERO

with special guests VERSUS THE WORLD (ex-Ataris/Lagwagon) and CLIPWING

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December 19, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

North End Business Development Centre, 

607 Selkirk Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba R2W 2N2

Info email - donations can be dropped off 

at 1089 Manitoba Ave 203-869-1963

Fifth Annual Christmas Shoebox Drive, gifting children of the north end and core area

Fill a shoe box with small toys, hygienes, socks, mitts, books, art supplies, 
gift cards, Christmas Candy and treats! Anything a child would enjoy! 

Label it with gender and age and keep the lid open. We will accept boxes right up to December 19 at 12:00 noon; for those who cannot drop off any sooner, boxes can be dropped off the night before at address provided. 

For many Christmas can be a stressful time of year - the added pressures and expenses to a low income family can be hard. Some children will get very little at Christmas. Here is your opportunity to bless a child with something extra.

If you cannot make a box you can sponsor a gift box for $30 to $50. 

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St. Philip's Norwood Anglican Church, 240 Tache Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba R2H 1Z7

Phone: (204) 237-3650

Worship Service: Sunday at 11:00am

December 13, Advent 3 11:00 am Holy Eucharist. 

Guest Preacher Sean Carlson, speaking on the Ugandan Orphans Fund. 

We will be joined by musicians from the Cadet Band led by Doug McKay. 

There will be a potluck lunch after the service. The theme is Joy

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December 19, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

A Christmas Space Odyssey - old fashioned carols, accompanied by European-style 

electro-acoustic sounds. Music to chill you out during the holiday rush. 

Producer: Crux

Singers: Claire Fast, James Magnus-Johnston, and Al Schroeder

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Reverend Donald is preaching the following:

December 24, Christmas Eve

7:00 pm is a carol sing, followed by Christmas Eve Holy Eucharist at 7:30 pm 

December 25, Christmas Day, 11:00 am Holy Eucharist

December 27, 11:00 am Morning Prayer

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December 19 and 20, 1 to 4 pm

Craig Street Cats, 16-1421 St. James St., Winnipeg, Manitoba R3H 0Y9

Join Craig Street Cats for our Christmas Open House! 

Baked goodies ready to go, stocking stuffers, and lots of great gifts for your critters!

Coffee will be on all weekend. The critters are looking forward to seeing you.

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December 19, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Bord Aire Community Centre, 471 Hampton Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba

The event is free to attend, breakfast will be available for purchase in the canteen.

Bord Aire will be hosting their 2nd Annual Breakfast with Santa Morning!

Join us for breakfast, crafts and a visit with Santa. At 11 am we will show the movie The Grinch!! It is for the whole family, babies to grandparents.

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December 19, Doors 8:00 pm / Show 9:00 pm
The Park Theatre, 698 Osborne Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3L 2B9
$10 at the door / Tickets

All I want for Christmas is Rock N' Roll - Featuring:

The Proud Sons, Lonewolfe and Mobina Galore

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December 20, Doors open at 6:00 pm, rush seating. 6:30 pm - 9:15 pm
Viscount Gort Hotel, 1670 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3J 0C9
Tickets: $38.00 including GST/Fee, for the group medium reading (6:30 pm to 8:00 pm)

VIP Intimate & Interactive Tickets are $55.00 including GST/Fee. 

No refunds on tickets; please contact us at 204-223-8778 or email

Winnipeg Holiday Group Medium Reading

Psychic Medium Kristel Kernaghan will channel evidential messages from your loved ones in spirit to confirm life after life by sharing their personalities and characteristics, bringing up past memories, talking about your current events to confirm they are still with you, and any other information they feel will validate their existence and connection to you. 

Attending does not guarantee a reading.  

No cameras or recording devices. 18+ or 14+ with a parental figure.  

A variety of spirited items and gifts for purchase, we accept cash and credit cards.

Kristel was born with the gift of feeling, seeing and communicating with spirits, guides, and angels. She teaches over 45 workshops a year, and also offers private individual and group medium readings. Check out Medium Reading FAQ and book online.

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December 23, 9:00 pm - 2:00 am
RBC Convention Centre Winnipeg, 375 York Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 3J3

18+ No intoxicated entry

Tickets at Answers UC and Canad Inns Fort Garry

$30 regular / $45 VIP / Maximum of 10 tickets only. If any ticket numbers sold from any set are scalped, ALL tickets from that set will be void!

Commerce Socials proudly presents the annual Commerce Carol!

Business formal dress code will be fully enforced

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December 24, 3:00 pm, 4:30 pm & 6:00 pm
Springs Church Winnipeg, 595 Lagimodiere Blvd, Winnipeg, Manitoba R2J 3X2

Come join us on Christmas Eve for a special service. Bring the whole family to this festive event full of joy and laughter. There will be exciting special elements and an amazing message from Pastor Leon. Don't miss this Christmas Eve at Springs!

Please note there will be no kids classes during the services.

NUIT BLANCHE: Chill Vibes & VESTIGE & Children's Museum l Rainbow Trout Festival Bike Jams l Queen Sing-Along l Light the Night l The Poisoned Chalice l After Words - Club Jazz l FemSelections l Winnipeg Harvest: Chili Cook Off

C SPACE, Frame Arts Warehouse, 318 1/2 Ross Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba

September 26, 6:00 pm

NUIT BLANCHE

DJ's & Chill Vibes to set you up for success and the long night ahead of you. 

Featuring Artists: NATALIE BAIRD//PIP SKID//JULIA WAKE//MATEA RADIC

DANY REEDE//GIBRIL BANGURA//PAT LAZO//BEN KROEKER//TOBY GILLIES

JADE RENNIE-HARPER//ERIN AHL//GABRIELLE FUNK//FREDDIE THOMAS

VESTIGE, a bittersweet commemoration of the closure of the Frame Arts Warehouse and CSPACE Gallery, this contemporary mural incorporates themes of loss, longing, shadow and memory, while still celebrating this city, its local art scene, and the power of collaboration.

This mural will live on forever in memory and also via technologies such as photography, social media, and public art apps. Vestiges will be left behind, contributing to the history and future of street art in Winnipeg.
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September 26, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Manitoba Children's Museum, 45 Forks Market Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 4T6
Tickets
Contribute to our art project outside the Museum between 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
Mini Nuit Blanche - Spark your creative learning after dark!
Enjoy FREE admission to the museum galleries  (max 800), and special musical performances by Seanster and The Monsters at 7:00 PM and 8:00 PM!

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September 26, 9:00 pm - 1:00 am

Rainbow Trout Festival Bike Jams 2015

The Bike Jam is a group ride with music. 

People outfit their bikes with lights and we party

The Bike jams are a Rainbow Trout Music Festival FUN-raiser. 

Please bring a loonie or a twoonie to donate!

We're supported by Rainbow Trout Music Festival www.rainbowtroutmusicfestival.com

and Natural Cycleworks www.naturalcycle.ca/cycleworks

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September 26, 10:00pm
Winnipeg Cinematheque, Main Floor - 100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 1H3

NUIT BLANCHE: We Will Rock You Queen Sing-Along

FREE to the public to encourage and celebrate arts and culture in our community. 

Anyone who's ever been to one of our sing-alongs knows what to expect: full music videos onscreen with song lyrics, and everyone sings all at once! It's impossible not to sing along, however terribly, when Queen is cranked on the stereo.  

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September 26, 5:00 pm - 11:30 pm
The Forks, 1 Forks Market Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 4L9

Light the Night is a 5km walk throughout The Forks and St. Boniface in support of blood cancer awareness. Every Champion for a Cure (min total of $100 raised) will receive a Lantern, T-Shirt and Food & Beverage at the walk! 

Red Lanterns are for Supporters, White are for Survivors and Gold is in memory of. 

Sign up your team and be a part of Winnipeg's best walk yet!

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September 26, 3:00pm
The Good Will - Social Club, 625 Portage, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B2G4
Tickets Available - will be available for pick up at the door of the event.

The Poisoned Chalice  The weird and the horrific trigger a primal fear within us. 

Join us for an afternoon of readings and conversation with two veteran authors of the dark fantastic. David Annandale’s Gethsemane Hall is a genuinely chilling horror novel.  

David Nickle’s Knife Fight and Other Struggles is a set of pitch-black tales.

Food & bar service.

Enter our door prize draw for the featured book. Books on-site for purchase.

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September 26, 8:00 pm
Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain, 340 boulevard Provencher, Winnipeg, Manitoba R2H0G7

After Words - Club Jazz

Master jazz artists Derrick Gardner and Steve Kirby love to improvise with poets.  It’ll be great listening, but even more fun if you step up to the mic and put a poem in the air. 

English and French welcome, an original piece or a poem you love. 

Sign up when you arrive. Two minute time limit.

Bar service.

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October 1, DOORS at 7.30 pm / 8:00 pm
Garrick Hotel, 287 Garry Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 1H9
Tickets: $5    18+

The debut event of FemSelections: An Evening for the Local Songstress! 

Join four female singer-songwriters as they share their songs and stories in the heart of downtown Winnipeg.  

8-8:45 Joanna Kouchintchanova

9-9:45 Skye Callow

10-10.45 Madeleine Roger

11-11.45 Ashtyn Walker     

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October 2, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

St. Philip's Norwood Anglican Church

240 Tache Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba R2H 1Z7

Tickets: $7.00

Chili Cook Off in Support of Winnipeg Harvest

Beer will be on sale for $5.00 a glass

Coffee and Tea will also be available

All proceeds from the evening will support Winnipeg Harvest.

There will be prizes for the first three places, plus a people's choice prize.

Limited cooking spots available.  Deadline: October 1

If you would like to enter please email

It's A Wonderful Life l Domestic Violence March l Pet Photos with Santa l World AIDS Day l Pub Night l Chickens by Margaret Shaw-MacKinnon l Holiday Craft Sale l Buzz Oven Performance Soiree l Sumak Design l Paws for the Season

Nov 28, 6:30 pm
Nov 29, 2:00 pm and 6:30 pm
One88, 188 Princess Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 1L2
Tickets are $25 / person 

An Eastview Community Church and One88 production of
It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Drama
This is a live radio drama dinner theatre show.
Teri-Lynn Friesen is directing actors from the One88 & Eastview communities.

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November 29, 2:00 pm
North Point Douglas Women's Center, 221 Austin Street

Everyone is welcomed to join us on our Domestic Violence Awareness Final March. We will start at the Centre, walk down Main Street to Portage Avenue, then back to the Centre.

“We hear it, we see it, we feel it, LET’S STOP IT!!!”
While Domestic Violence affects many in the neighbourhood, the issue is rarely addressed head on, and isn’t spoken about enough. They have chosen to take a public stand with hope that more families experiencing violence will take steps to heal and change.
For more information please contact Ashlyn or Tara at 204-947-0321.

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November 30, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Global Pet Foods - Winnipeg St. Vital, Unit C 1220 St. Mary's Road

Pet Photos with Santa - Hosted by Earthdog Terrier Rescue of Manitoba - first come, first serve

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December 1, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
in front of the Manitoba Legislative Building, 450 Broadway, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 0V8

World AIDS Day is an internationally recognized day when individuals and organizations bring attention to HIV and stand in solidarity with people living with HIV.

Join Nine Circles Community Health Centre as we light up the Leg in red.  Then join us inside in the Rotunda for free food, hot beverages and a look at what's next for the fight against HIV in Manitoba.  The first 50 people to arrive get a free toque!
RSVP by November 28.

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December 5, 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
St. Philip's Norwood Anglican Church, 240 Tache Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba R2H 1Z7
There is a $5.00 cover charge for the evening. All food and drinks are by donation.

A Pub Night/Coffee House fundraiser to pay for the roof we replaced this summer.

Our special musical guests are the Narwhals. Among their members is Geoff Woodcroft, priest at St. Paul St. Paul's Fort Garry Anglican Church.  Rumour also has it that Rev. Donald may be joining the Narhwals on a couple of numbers.
For  numbers please respond through Facebook.

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December 5, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm - Artist’s talk at 7:30 pm
St Norbert Arts Centre, 100 Rue des Ruines du Monastere, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3V 1L6

When the Chickens Come Home to Roost Art Show
You are invited to a delightful wintry evening of art, music, wine and appetizers.

View 30 artworks created by Margaret Shaw-MacKinnon on the free-and-far-ranging theme of chickens. Original artworks, framed by Gallery Lacosse, available for purchase and prints for order (cash or cheque).
For every purchase the artist will purchase a chick through We Day to aid families in need.

SNAC Gallery Hours with Artist in Residence:
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, December 8 to 12 and December 15 to 19.
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December 9 and 16, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Art Tuesdays Retreat: join the artist and hosts for two days of creating. Snacks will be provided and some art supplies, or you can bring your current art project (painting, drawing, video editing, guitar playing) and spend these days creating.

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December 5, 4 pm - 10 pm
December 6, 11 am - 6 pm
The Edge Gallery and Urban Art Centre, 611 Main Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 1E1

ART & HANDMADE GIFTS created by talented local artists & artisans!
Find something for everyone on your holiday shopping list!
Fine art, ceramics, housewares, clothing, jewelry & accessories, natural health & beauty products, toys, novelties, edibles, and much much more!

LIVE MUSIC: Dec 5, 8:30-10pm
PHOTOS WITH SANTA: Dec 6, 1-4pm
FREE FAMILY ART WORKSHOPS: Dec 6, 1-3pm
HOT CHOCOLATE & COOKIES: All sale long!

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December 6, Curtain at 8 pm (box office opens at 7:30pm)
STUDIO 320 - 70 Albert Street, Winnipeg
Admission is Pay-What-You-Can at the door.
Proceeds to be donated to the Actors Fund of Canada.

Come see what's cooking in the Buzz Oven!
Theatre Incarnate invites you to a Performance Soiree evening of clown, music, movement, poetry, spoken word, mime, and spiced with a dash of Shakespeare.  Small reception to follow.
Hosted by our Master of Ceremonies: Joseph Common
and featuring the talents of:
Bunny
Ardyth Johnson
Brenda McLean
Leigh-Anne Kehler
Giuseppe Condello
Spenser Payne
Alissa Watson
Ivan Henwood
Kendra Jones
Rod Belifuss & Dora Carroll
Stephanie Plaitin
Daina Leitold & Karl Thordarson
Leif Norman
Dave Pruden
Jane Walker
Ray Strachan
Kim Zeglinski & Angela Chalmers

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December 6 and 7, 10 am - 5 pm
Sumak Design Studio, 395 Elm Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba
204-488-3234

Artisan Holiday Open House: Sumak Designs - jewelry;
Turned Out Designs - pens and things of wood; Donna's Soap - handmade soaps

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December 7, 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The Winnipeg Humane Society, 45 Hurst Way, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 0R3

Come deck the halls, pet the pups, and cross everyone off your shopping list!
Liberty Tax presents Paws for the Season - The WHS’s annual holiday open house.
Come join us for:
- Local Vendors and Artisans - support and shop local!
- Bake Sale - Kids' Activities - Tree Lighting Ceremony
- The spirit of the season in support of our animals!

- Garden Goodies has delicious-smelling handcrafted beauty and personal care products.
- JR Watkins is bringing natural products for home and health.
- K9 Comforts has everything you need to keep your pets entertained all winter long.
- Snuggle Wraps will keep your pup cozy in the cold months.

You'll also find jewellery, pet beds, fun collectibles, and everything you'll need for entertaining in the holiday season from Epicure spices, to Tupperware products!