January at Oak Hammock Marsh l Human Rights Advocacy Series l The Proud Sons l I Should Behave l Artists By Night l Deadbeats and Essentials at The Park

Oak Hammock Marsh Interpretive Centre

phone: (204) 467-3300 or email

January 5 to February 2 

World Wetlands Day Colouring Contest

February 2nd is World Wetlands Day.

Oak Hammock has been celebrating this event with many activities.
Click to print the colouring sheet. Colour the page and drop it off or mail it to Oak Hammock before February 2, when judging will take place.

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January 11, 18 and 25 - 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Three-day course

Decoy Carving Workshop - Canvasback

Learn to carve your very own Canvasback decoy from award winning carvers. 
Pre-registration is required.  Workshop fee is $80 for members, $95 for non-members.

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January 11 - 1 p.m.

Birding Hour Workshop - Shorebirds

Shorebirds are among the most difficult birds to identify.
Resident Naturalist, Paula Grieef, will give you some tips and tricks.
Workshop fee is $5 plus admission.  Pre-registration required.

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January 15 - 7 p.m.

Astronomy Night - Exploring the Night Sky

Learn about the upcoming celestial events of 2015 and find out when eclipses, meteor showers and other astronomical events will take place this year. 

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January 24 - 1 p.m. 

Snowshoe Workshop

Snowshoes were invented 6000 to 8000 years ago by mimicking wildlife adaptations.
Join experienced snowshoeist, Dusty Molinski, and learn about the different styles. A snowshoe walk in the marsh and hot chocolate will follow.
Workshop fee is $5 plus admission.  Pre-registration is required.

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Starting January 26 

Enter our First Goose of the Year contest!
Guess the date and time of the arrival of first Canada Goose at Oak Hammock and you could win a great prize! Last year, the first goose was seen on March 15.
To enter the contest, fill out a ballot at Oak Hammock Marsh.
The contest will close on March 1st or when the first goose is seen.

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January 20 to March 3, (except February 17) Tuesday Evenings, 6:00 – 9:00 pm

University of Winnipeg

Amnesty International Group 19 presents 

Outrage to Action Human Rights Advocacy Series

Interactive workshops and action challenges will provide knowledge and strategies for addressing current human rights topics. Participants will build awareness, confidence and acquire the tools to effectively engage in campaigns. Topics will include Women’s rights, Indigenous rights, and business and human rights. 

There are 15 spots in this course available FREE of charge for community members who register through Amnesty International. All participants who complete the course will receive a certificate of completion. If you are interested, contact Louise 

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The Park Theatre, 698 Osborne Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3L 2B9

January 15, 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm   TICKETS

Last chance to see us, The Proud Sons, before we head to Vancouver to finish our album with Tommy Mac (Hedley). Special guests Kevin Roy and The Honour.

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January 24, 8:00 pm     Tickets 

Album Release Party - I Should Behave

Special Guest Neon Donkey

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January 25, 7:00pm

For those who haven't seen the film Artists By Night, now's your chance.

Filmmaker Kelly-Anne Riess will be in attendance along with the comic book artists David Alexander Robertson, Gmb Chomichuk and Scott Henderson who will read from their works.

Many young boys love comics. Some of these boys have a talent for drawing and dream they can someday become comic book artists. But they grow up, and suddenly the dream of becoming a comic book artist seems impossible for most. But not for Winnipeg comic book artists David, Scott and GMB.

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January 30, Doors 7:30 Show 9:00 After party 12:00

Tickets $10 in advance from The Park Theatre, Music Trader, the bands and online

Deadbeats is a party we throw every now and then. 

We have four really solid bands: Dangercat, Kids & Heroes, Elder Abuse, and Clipwing. 

Having just one of these bands on a show would be great, having them all is unreal! 

• Dangercat’s new album is ‘To The Moon’. They have opened for Comeback Kid, The Flatliners, and more.
• Kids & Heroes have been seen sharing a stage with bands such as Propagandhi, The Flatliners, Death By Stereo, Belvedere, and Total Chaos.
• Elder Abuse play something that is fast and catchy as well as bringing together emotional lyrics and catchy sing alongs.
• A blend of rock and punk influenced by The Flatliners, Smoke or Fire, Foo Fighters and more, Clipwing makes loud, energetic and passionate music

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February 1, 7:30 pm - 11:00 pm

Tickets

Essentials Last Show! at The Park Theatre  

Escape From Echo Base (Winnipeg Metalcore)  

Sky Monitor (Winnipeg Metalcore)

Set Free (Winnipeg Hardcore) 

Municipal Elections l Elena Anciro: Lupus Advocacy l Shakespeare Reading Series l Bahamas and Boy And Bear l Does Science Belong On My Plate? l Tin Can Bandits l Winnipeg CX 2014 l Anarchist Bookfair Canzine Diyfest l David Suzuki

October 22
Municipal Elections

General municipal elections are held every four years on the fourth Wednesday in October.  This includes elections for mayors / reeves, councillors and school trustees.

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A note from my friend and fellow Winnipeg blogger, Elena Anciro:

I usually keep my Lupus advocacy to my blog and twitter feed, but I've just celebrated my 5th year in the blogosphere, with the hope of increasing Lupus community input in the 6th. 

If you know anyone connected with Lupus (patients, caregivers, and loved ones alike), please share.

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October 22, 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
The Canwest Centre for Theatre and Film, 400 Colony Street

Please RSVP by October 15, with the subject line 'Experiencing Shakespeare RSVP'

Please join us for our first monthly Experiencing Shakespeare Reading Series, where actors, artists, students and lovers of Shakespeare can gather to share the experience of reading one of the Bard's plays aloud. 

Our first play will be Coriolanus.

It is our belief that practical workshops may spring from these gatherings.

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October 23, Doors at 7:15, show at 8:00 PM
Burton Cummings Theatre, 364 Smith Street

Tickets at the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store 

and Ticketmaster for $27.50 plus fees in advance.

The Winnipeg Folk Festival is thrilled to present Bahamas and Boy And Bear 

with Reuben and the Dark.

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October 23, 6:45 pm Doors Open l 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm
University of Manitoba, Richardson Centre for Functional Foods & Nutraceuticals
Smart Park (Free Parking)

Does Science Belong On My Plate?
The event is FREE however, register today
-hands on learning with gluten
-Q & A session with Kevin Folta
-delicious nibbles
-conversation & community
  
Keynote Speaker Kevin Folta will share examples of how the future of farming and food production will change what we will be eating.

Guest Speaker Dr. Nancy Ames - Follow a food scientist “behind the scenes” to learn about some of the food research going on to help make your food taste its best and even be healthier for you! 

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October 24, 10:00 pm
Shannon's Irish Pub, 175 Carlton Street

Tin Can Bandits is quickly rising through Winnipeg's rock charts.  

We will be playing all night long so pop in and let’s make some memories!

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October 24 - 26
The Forks, 1 Forks Market Road, Winnipeg
Winnipeg CX 2014: Canadian Cyclocross Championship 

October 24 - cyclocross derby, featuring races for riders of all abilities. It will also include numerous educational opportunities and social events to introduce newcomers to the sport of cyclocross.

October 25 - the Canadian Cyclocross Championships
Cheer on some of the country’s top athletes and witness the crowning of national champions.

October 26 the Manitoba Grand Prix of Cyclocross, an international competition open to professional and amateur racers.

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October 24, 7:30 pm to October 26
the Hive, University of Winnipeg

Winnipeg's Anarchist Bookfair Canzine Diyfest kicks off with a friday evening cabaret, includes "Canzine Central" all day Saturday, a second cabaret on Saturday evening, and features discussion and DIY skills workshops both Saturday and Sunday with bookfair tabling continuing Sunday afternoon Oct 26.

For more information about Canzine, email 

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Oct 24 at 7:00 pm to Oct 25 at 3:00 am
Burton Cummings Theatre  Tickets Available

The Blue Dot Tour With David Suzuki And Friends

Holding Power to Account l Forum Art Show l Bands vs. Filmmakers l Pride of the Prairies l Jenn's Furry Friends’ Adoption Fair l Craig Street Cats Anniversary l Teddy Bears' Picnic l Arlington United

June 13 to 15

University of Winnipeg

Holding Power to Account: Journalism, Democracy and Human Rights

International Conference for Journalists

Early bird registration: May 16, 2014 - registration details.

They’ve uncovered corruption, exposed break-ins, tracked criminals and brought down a United States president. Now is your chance to hear from top journalists at an international conference in Winnipeg.  Co-hosted by CBC and The University of Winnipeg. CBC Journalists that will be presenting include Peter Mansbridge, Adrienne Arsenault, and Diana Swain.

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May 22 to 25

Forum Art Centre, 120 Eugenie Street - Call 204.235.1069

Everything Art! Fresh Art Show 

Join Forum Art not only for fabulous art done by Manitoban artists but wonderful entertainment on Friday night and free caricatures on Saturday afternoon. 

Some new 12 x 12 canvas for only $50 each & 7 amazing chances on a raffle ticket! 

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May 23 Doors 7:15 pm | Show 8:00 pm
West End Cultural Centre, 586 Ellice Avenue

Bands vs. Filmmakers IV: A Concert in Support of Cinematheque
Tickets: $20 advance | $25 door

BANDS
Birdapres and Grey Jay
hana lu lu
Ridley Bent
Mise en scene
Les Jupes

FILMMAKERS
Damien Ferland
Kayla Jeanson
Madison Thomas
Tyler Funk
Matheu Plouffe

Tickets Available:West End Cultural Centre, Ticketmaster, Music Trader, Winnipeg Film Group and Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store!

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May 23 to June 1
The Forks | The Legislature | The MET

Check out the Pride Winnipeg Festival Events happening through the city. 

On May 31 head over to the Festival at the Forks, with live entertainment.

Rise and shine on Pride Day June 1 with a Rally at the Legislature at 11 am followed by the Pride Parade through downtown. 

Rounding out the weekend is the Official Dance Party at the MET!

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May 24, 11 am - 3 pm 

Pet Valu, 27 Marion Street   

Jenn's Furry Friends Rescue’s Bloomin’ Buds Adoption Fair!!

Hey all, our first adoption fair of the season is coming up. 

We will be featuring both our cats and dogs, and are sure to bring some of our critters too.

Come out and pick out your new bud!   Email for info

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May 24 and May 25 at 4:00pm
Craig Street Cats, 489 Madison St.

Join Craig Street Cats May 24 & 25 for our 2nd anniversary celebration.
We'll have an open house from 1 to 4 both days.
Our Kitten Baby Shower is Sunday afternoon from 2 to 4.

The barbeque will be going, and we'll have one of our amazing bake sales.

Please come and celebrate with us!

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May 25, 9 am - 5 pm
Assiniboine Park

Calling all kids, teddy bears and parents! Check out The 28th Annual Teddy Bears' Picnic. 

Visit CBC's tent where kids will get a chance to have their picture taken with 'Ron and Don' from Hockey Night in Canada and meet CBC News Winnipeg anchor, Janet Stewart! 

Plus, there's a colouring station too!

You can sign up to volunteer here.

New to the 2014 Teddy Bears’ Picnic, the Children’s Hospital Foundation 50/50 draw! 

For rules and details please click here.

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Friday, May 30, 9:00 pm

Garrick Hotel, 287 Garry Street

Arlington United with Guests!

Let’s make this one a dance party. Winter was way too long, we gotta get off our chairs and couches and shake the booty. Let's do it!

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

MY MONUMENT l Gordon Fitzell l Fritz Lang’s Metropolis l Winnifred Sim l Randy Bachman l Winnipeg Comedy Festival l University of Manitoba Opera Theatre

to April 5, 2014

Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue, presents
MY MONUMENT, a multimedia exhibition featuring exchanges among artists cam bush, Steven Leyden Cochrane, Roewan Crowe, and Paul Robles, using Crowe's book Quivering Land to explore monuments and vanished feminist/queer/alternative cultural sites.

It will also be shown in the Hamilton Galleria, 4th floor mezzanine, Centennial Hall in the Library, The University of Winnipeg.

also…
Ghost Launch performance with Chandra Mayor
March 15 at 2:00 p.m. in front of 478 River Avenue
They will join Mayor in front of the former site of Bold Print - The Women's Bookstore

The Book is Happening with Roewan Crowe
March 20, 12:00 - 4:00 p.m. at Gallery 1C03
Crowe will deliver a reading of Quivering Land

Conversation with the artists
March 26 at 7:00 p.m., Rm 2M70, 2nd floor of Manitoba Hall at The U of W

MY MONUMENT includes the website which maps vanished feminist/queer/alternative bookstores and solicits stories, images, and experiences of these bookstores.

Gallery 1C03 hours: Monday - Friday: 12:00 - 4:00 p.m., Saturday: 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Admission is always free and everyone is welcome. Wheelchair accessible.

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McNally Robinson Booksellers Grant Park,  1120 Grant Ave.

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

March 25, 7:30 pm in the Travel Alcove

Meet the Composer featuring Gordon Fitzell    Co-presented by GroundSwell

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Fritz Lang’s Metropolis: A Panel Roundtable

March 27, 7:00 pm in the Atrium

Fritz Lang’s 1927 science fiction classic Metropolis was a stunning film achievement. The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra will present this masterpiece of film-making April 12 with the orchestra performing the gigantic Gottfried Huppertz score live to the movie. 

With Oliver Botar, School of Art, University of Manitoba; Brenda Austin-Smith, Film Studies, University of Manitoba; Julian Pellicano, resident conductor, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra; and James Manishen, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

Watch: Metropolis Trailer

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March 27, 8:00 pm in Prairie Ink Restaurant

A Candid Coda: Reflections on the Life and Music of Winnifred Sim

Winnifred Sim never auditioned for a job, yet she became a nationally recognized organist, accompanist, adjudicator, teacher, conductor and the musical director of CBC Television’s hit show, Hymn Sing, which was broadcast weekly for 30 years. Glimpse Winnifred’s life, and also behind the scenes of one of the longest running shows in Canadian television history. 

Winnifred is a published composer of choral anthems and chaired the committee that founded the National Youth Choir in 1984. She is a recipient of the YM-YWCA “Woman of Distinction” award and is listed in the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada and the International Who’s Who in Music. She lives in Winnipeg.

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March 29, 2:00 pm in the Atrium

Randy Bachman in conversation with Howard Manshein of 92 Citi-FM 

and signing Tales from Beyond the Tap

Randy tells more great stories from a life in rock. He is a legendary figure through his talents as a guitarist, songwriter, performer and producer. Known best for his work in The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, he has earned more than 120 gold and platinum album/singles awards. Bachman’s Vinyl Tap Stories was a national bestseller.

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March 29, 8:00 pm in Prairie Ink Restaurant

Al Rae brings along stars of The Winnipeg Comedy Festival for a festival comedy preview complete with ticket giveaways and other treats.  You’ll dine laughing! 

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March 30, 2:00 pm in the Atrium

A special musical presentation from members of the Desautels Faculty of Music’s Advanced Opera Studies program at the University of Manitoba.  

Featured performers include: Natasha Fransblow (piano), Jessica Kos-Whicher (soprano), Anne-Marie MacIntosh (soprano), Marlise Ritchie (soprano), Meghan Symon (mezzo-soprano), and Jan van der Hooft (tenor).

Toonies For Tummies l WSO Gala: Martinis & Manhattans with Al Simmons l UofW Ghost Launch: Call for Submissions l International Women’s Week Cabaret: Rise Up!

Toonies For Tummies

From February 6 – 20, 2014 you can donate $2 in store at several supermarkets across Ontario and the Atlantic provinces. 100% of the funds collected will be donated to breakfast programs, which provide nutritious meals to children in schools.

The numbers are staggering.

One out of every six Canadian children goes to school hungry. Toonies For Tummies helps children who don’t have the “luxury” to start their day with breakfast by raising funds for Breakfast for Learning and the Breakfast Club of Canada.

And all it takes is $2 to make a difference.

How You Can Help

• Watch the Little Change, Big Change video here and donate online.
• Donate $2 in-store during the campaign period.
• Start and keep the conversation going on Facebook and Twitter #Toonies4Tummies
• Share the campaign badge on Facebook and encourage others to donate.

Participating stores in Ontario and Atlantic Canada:

• Colemans
• Co-op Atlantic
• Food Basics
• Foodland
• Freshco
• Galati Market Fresh
• Highland Farms
• Longo’s
• Metro Ontario
• Michael Angelo’s
• Price Chopper
• Rabba Fine Foods
• Sobeys and independent stores across Ontario and Atlantic Canada

The Grocery Foundation is an Ontario-based not-for-profit, representing leaders from Canada’s grocery industry. It was established in 1979 to enrich the lives and well-being of children. 2014 marks the 35th Anniversary of the Grocery Foundation.

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February 25, 5:30 pm

WSO Achievement Awards Gala Honouring Entertainer Al Simmons

Martinis & Manhattans

RBC Convention Centre, 375 York Avenue

Black Tie Optional

Gala Ticket - $225  l  Corporate Table - $2,500  l  Gold Table - $3,500

For tickets, contact Jason Hayes at 204-949-3973 

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Ghost Launch is seeking submissions of personal accounts, historical ephemera, writing, and art that record, remember, or respond to feminist and queer bookstores that no longer exist in Canada. 

The website will be a space to remember and reflect on vanished bookstores and as a platform for the virtual “launch” of works.  The website will also feature a variety of projects by feminist- and queer-identified artists, writers, performers, and activists.

Produced in conjunction with MY MONUMENT, the forthcoming exhibition at 

the University of Winnipeg’s Gallery 1C03 at the University of Winnipeg by Roewan Crowe, 

cam bush, Steven Leyden Cochrane, and Paul Robles (March 6 - April 5, 2014). 

Please indicate if you would prefer to have your submission published anonymously. 

Audio files can only be accepted via email at this time. Electronic submissions only. 

Submissions may also be emailed as attachments or file-sharing links. 

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March 7 and 8 at 8 pm

Colin Jackson Studio Theatre, Prarie Theatre Exchange, 3rd Floor Portage Place

Tickets $10, can be purchased online or by calling (204) 586-2236.

Sarasvati Transformative will again be producing a cabaret of monologues by Canadian playwrights to celebrate International Women’s Week.  This year’s theme is Rise Up!

Stories will focus on young women, new forms of advocacy and ways women tackle adversity!  This year's line-up includes:

• Something’s Not Right by Wren Hookey; 
• performed by Samantha Walters 
• Teen Trucker by Sara Arenson; 
• performed by Ashley Kowalchuk 
• Hide Away by Kendra Jones; 
• performed by Kaeleigh Ayre 
• Black and White by Cairn Moore; 
• performed by Andrea Houssin 
• Who Killed Snow White (Excerpt) by Judith Thompson;
• performed by Brittany Thiessen 
• White Girl Problems by Frances Koncan; 
• performed by Shanley Spence 
• I am not Malala by Hope McIntyre; 
• performed by Shae Burstow 
• What Being a Girl Means by Hannah Burns; 
• performed by Victoria Hill 
• Reflection by Sarah Simpson-Yellowquill; 
• performed by Hailley Rhoda 
• The Entaglement: The Nature of A Woman 
• Slam Poetry written and performed by Ali Tataryn 

Chrysalis 2013 l Moses Mayes l Halloween Events: GOPHER and DJ Co-op & DJ Hunnicutt l "BLAM!" 3 Comic Art l CancerCare: Tea with Fran Drescher l Rhubarb’s Theatre Issue l palimpsest and Quit, India l The 2013 Global Justice Film Festival l The Masquerade l Craft Sale

Gallery Lacosse, 169 Lilac Street

Chrysalis 2013 runs from Oct 25 - Nov 8

Opening Night October 25, 7:30 - 9:30 pm

Come and see our 11 talented Deaf artists: Vanecia Austria, Campion Bourque,
Alice Crawford, Jocelynn Johnson, Brenda Roznowski, Jo-Ann Schroeder,
Jessica Szacilowski, Judyta Szacilowski, Coleen Turner, Denise Watson-Jarigen,
and Dana Zimmer. And California Guest Deaf Artist, Joshua Lacosse

Live performance by ASL Storyteller Christine Mitchell and video ASL storytelling
by Joanna Hawkins.  ASL Interpreters will be on site to bridge communications.

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October 25, 10:00 pm
The Pyramid Cabaret, 176 Fort Street

Moses Mayes' new album, featuring Maiko Watson on vocals, will be released online on Nov 1.
Advance copies of the cd will be available at the show. We'll be playing through the whole album and, of course, a selection from past albums and some of our favourite covers.

Tickets available at ticketmaster, Soul Survivors, Into the Music and Moses Mayes

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2nd Annual GOPHER THE CURE Halloween Dance
October 26, 8:00 pm

St James Legion #41755, Portage Avenue

$12 - All proceeds will be given to the Canadian Cancer Society!

Last year I created the GOPHER THE CURE to raise money to help fight cancer. This year it is in honor of my stepmother Minda Dobres and my Safta (Grandmother) Malkah Mansoor who lost her battle with breast cancer when I was too young to remember her... So this year we fight for them as well as all others with Cancers of all types.  Let's get together, have fun and fight breast cancer.  Mark DaGopher Dobres or call 204-294-4263

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October 26, 9:30 pm
Union Sound Hall, 110 Market Avenue
18+ w Photo ID

DJ Co-op & DJ Hunnicutt are proud to have invented:
"HALLOWEEN" Annual Social Event

*with LAMBO*

Advance Tickets $10 available at Music Trader and The Urban Bakery (Tub)

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Cre8ery gallery & studio, 125 Adelaide Street (2nd floor)

204-944-0809

"BLAM!" 3 Comic Art

The exhibit runs from October 26 to November 5 

Costume Event Opening Reception: October 26, 7:00 pm until 11:00 pm

If you can't arrive in costume, you can leave as a zombie! 

Provided by special FX artist John Royce Izzard

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October 27, 12:30 pm
$100 - $200
Winnipeg Convention Centre, 375 York Avenue

The Guardian Angels will host the 22nd annual Benefit - High Tea to raise funds in support of women's cancer. CancerCare Manitoba is counting on our help.

Our special guest is the star of the hit TV series The Nanny Fran Drescher.

Fran started the Cancer Schmancer Foundation to transform women from patients into medical consumers, and to shift the priority from searching for a cancer cure towards prevention and early detection of cancer.

The afternoon will feature a fashion show with cancer survivors modelling the latest fashions.

Contact: email or phone 204-956-1720

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October 27 - Doors open at 2:00, program at 3:00
Sam’s Place, 159 Henderson Highway

The Mennonite Literary Society launches Rhubarb’s Mennonite Theatre issue.
Reserved seats are $25.00 or $45.00 for two online or by contacting Victor Enns.
Featuring Steven Ratzlaff presenting a monologue and
actress Maggie Nagle reading from Patrick Friesen’s “crazy bone.”
Both playwrights are featured in the issue edited by Per Brask. The winners of the Winnipeg Mennonite Theatre (WMT) one-act play writing contest will be announced. Faspa follows the program including veggies, buns, cheese, sausage, fruit and Rhubarb Platz.

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PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts 

October 28, 8 pm in the gallery

PLATFORM announces the launch of our publications: palimpsest and Quit, India. 

Snacks and refreshments will be served, all are welcome to attend. 

palimpsest editor, J.J. Kegan McFadden and Visual Artist Divya Mehra will be in attendance.

palimpsest is an anthology for the programming that took place at PLATFORM during the 2012 programming year. 

Quit, India. documents Divya Mehra's two recent solo exhibitions: Turf War presented at PLATFORM in 2010 and The Party is Over, presented at Artspeak (Vancouver) in 2011.
It includes essays by: Amy Fung, Natasha Bissonauth and Kendra Place.

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November 1 (evening) and November 2 (all day)
The 2013 Global Justice Film Festival c/o Manitoba Council for International Cooperation
University of Winnipeg campus at 515 Portage Avenue

This year the theme is “Creating the World We Want”

Symphony of the Soil - Directed by Deborah Koons Garcia
November 1, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
University of Winnipeg, Room 4M31 (Manitoba Hall), 515 Portage Avenue
Best American Film, Traverse City Film Festival

November 2: over twenty films about social justice and local and international development.

Information can be found at our website, by calling (204) 987-6420, or email
Purchase tickets 

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November 1 - Doors 7:15 pm, Show: 8:00 pm

West End Cultural Centre, 586 Ellice Ave

Tickets: $25 at the door, $20 in advance purchased through:
Ticketmaster, WECC or call (204) 783 6918, email MAP or call (204) 942 8941

Attire: Formal Masquerade

The Masquerade will feature theatrical performances by Sarah Constible, Trish Cooper, Michael Nathanson, Ellen Peterson, Outside Joke, as well as a musical performance
by Red Moon Road – Amplified. 

Hosted by director Christopher Brauer with a benediction delivered by Rick Chafe.

Also red carpet photographs, appetizers, a cash bar, a silent auction and dancing. 

The Masquerade celebrates Winnipeg’s theatrical accomplishments, while raising funds for the Manitoba Association of Playwrights (MAP).

With so many members of our theatre community in the spotlight this year, there is no better time to celebrate our successes,
Rory Runnells, the Co-ordinator of the Manitoba Association of Playwrights. 

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Confusion Corner Craft Sale - Many local artists

420 Corydon Ave, at the Masonic Centre

Nov 2, 10 - 4

Lunch and free parking available 

UWinnipeg Artsfest 2013 & Boys Club l Eva Stubbs l Cancer Killers l Girls! Girls! Girls! Fundraiser

The University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue

The University's cultural heritage collection will be on display at the UWinnipeg Artsfest.

To kick off the 9 day celebration there will be a Wine & Cheese Art Auction and Live Cabaret Performance co-hosted by Wanda Koop and featuring a cabaret performance by Tony Award winner Len Cariou on Sept 27 at 6:30 pm.  Get Tickets

The university will showcase highlights from its large visual art collection, rare books, ancient artifacts and historic letters, as well as productions from Theatre Projects Manitoba, Virtuosi Concerts, The Downtown Jazz Band and the UWSA Freestyle Festival.

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Boys Club

Public reception Oct 3, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m., Gallery 1C03, University of Winnipeg

Featuring remarks by U of W President & Vice-Chancellor Dr. Lloyd Axworthy

Panel Discussion Oct 25 at 12:30 p.m., Room 2M70 (Manitoba Hall) at The U of W

Moderated by Boys Club curator Jennifer Gibson and 

featuring speakers Dr. Bruno Cornellier, Bill Kirby and Kegan McFadden

Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg invites you to Boys Club, a group exhibition of artworks from the University’s collection that explores representations of masculinity, featuring works by Canadian artists David Barbour, H. Eric Bergman, Kelly Clark, Ivan Eyre, E. J. (Ted) Howorth, Yousuf Karsh, Gerry Kopelow, Bill Lobchuk, Tom Lovatt, Murray McKenzie, Tony Tascona, Patrick Treacy, Linus Woods and others. 

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October 3 

Gurevich Fine Art Gallery, 200 - 62 Albert St. 

Telephone 204 488 0662 or email

A tribute to Stubbs will be given by Stephen Borys and Andrew Kear, WAG Curator of Canadian Historical Art. 

The dinner will be held in the gallery surrounded by Stubbs’ studio work and maquettes. 

In celebration of the 52-year career of Winnipeg artist Eva Stubbs, the Winnipeg Art Gallery has commissioned a bronze cast of Generation to add to the five works by Stubbs already in their collection. 

Stubbs’ remaining works will be shown at an exhibition at Gurevich Fine Art in October.

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October 5, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM 

Maples Community Centre, 434 Adsum Dr.

How much do we really know about cancer? 

Maximized Living will show you that cancer’s cause is actually its cure, as well as build the blueprint for the “Don’t Get It” plan that will transform you into a Cancer Killer. 

TICKETS: Maples Chiropractic, 1297 Jefferson Ave

COST: $25 / family, which includes “The Cancer Killers” book

204-632-4080 

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October 27 

Gas Station Arts Centre, 445 River Avenue 

Girls! Girls! Girls! fundraiser, themed Tools of the Trade in support of Gas Station Theatre.

Gala Reception 6:00 p.m. l Gala Performance 7:00 p.m.

Tickets: $20.00 available at the Gas Station Arts Centre

Phone: (204) 284-9477

Artwork will be hung on October 26 and may remain on display until December 30.