Upcoming Events
Jul. 29, 2012
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Contemporary Interventions in the Collection on View
Jul 29, 2012
300 Memorial Blvd, Winnipeg, MB
P: 204-786-6641
W: http://wag.caContemporary works mingle with the historical works. allowing viewers to discover, interpret, and learn through new associations.
Hours: Tuesday through Sunday 11am - 5pm Thursday 11am - 9pm Closed Mondays
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Celebrations Dinner Theatre gets Ghostbusted
Jul 29, 2012
Celebrations Dinner Theatre - 1824 Pembina Hwy. Winnipeg, MB
P: 204.982.8282 or 1.877.823.8282
W: http://www.celebrations.caTonight, the world famous Dorchester Hotel, the oldest and most luxurious hotel in the city, is celebrating its 100th anniversary. The hotel manager is a little worried about the "incidents". Hotel guests have always told stories of strange encounters, but they seem to be getting more frequent, and more intense... who ya gonna call?
Hours: Seating Times Wednesday - Saturday 6:15 - 6:45 p.m. Sunday 5:00 - 5:20 p.m.
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Sunday Jazz Series in the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden
Jul 29, 2012
Assiniboine Park Conservancy 55 Pavilion Crescent Winnipeg, MB R3P 2N6
P: (204) 927-600/ 1 (877) 927-6006
W: http://www.assiniboinepark.caHours: 3:00pm
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Stephen Hutchings: Landscapes for the End of Time
Jul 29, 2012
Winnipeg Art Gallery - 300 Memorial Boulevard, Winnipeg, MB
P: 204.786.6641
W: http://www.wagThis hauntingly beautiful exhibition of eight monumental paintings takes its names from Olivier Messiaen’s (1908-1992) Quartet for the End of Time. Messiaen created his score while interned at a German prison camp in 1940; he and other prisoners first performed it for their fellow captives on January 15, 1941.
Hours: Tuesday through Sunday 11am - 5pm Thursday 11am - 9pm Closed Mondays
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Inuit Prints: Japanese Inspiration, Early Printmaking in the Canadian Arctic
Jul 29, 2012
Winnipeg Art Gallery - 300 Memorial Boulevard, Winnipeg, MB
P: 204.789.1760
W: http://www.wag.caInuit Prints: Japanese Inspiration is a groundbreaking inquiry into Japanese influences in the early years of the Cape Dorset print studio
Hours: Tuesday through Sunday 11am - 5pm Thursday 11am - 9pm Closed Mondays
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Jul 29, 2012
Winnipeg Art Gallery - 300 Memorial Boulevard, Winnipeg, MB
P: 204.786.6641
W: http://www.wagThe phrase may be a cliché but the works on display in this exhibition speak volumes. The manner in which literature touches our lives is profound and personal. Whether it is the act of reading a child a bedtime story, enjoying poetry in the park, or curling up in front of the fireplace to escape into a favourite classic, words move us and enrich our lives.
Hours: Tuesday through Sunday 11am - 5pm Thursday 11am - 9pm Closed Mondays
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Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination
Jul 29, 2012
Winnipeg Art Gallery - 300 Memorial Boulevard, Winnipeg, MB
P: 204.786.6641
W: http://www.wag.caFairy Tales, Monsters and the Genetic Imagination includes approximately sixty works by contemporary artists from around the world who have conceived humanlike, animal, or hybrid creatures to symbolize life’s mysteries, desires, and fears. The invented creatures and imaginary worlds featured in this exhibition have been inspired by oral and written sources as diverse as Aesop’s Fables, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, science fiction, and the products of the genetic experimentation in actual science. The artists selected for the exhibition redirect the emotional associations implicit in their sources–pleasure, fear, wonder, curiosity, and longing–to works of seductive fantasy and uneasy intrigue.
Hours: Tuesday through Sunday 11am - 5pm Thursday 11am - 9pm Closed Mondays
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Grant Marshall “New Works on Paper”
Jul 29, 2012
Clarence Tillenius Gallery 2nd Floor Pavilion, 55 Pavilion Crescent Winnipeg, MB R3P 2N6
P: (204) 927-600/ 1 (877) 927-6006
W: http://www.assiniboinepark.caHours: Open daily from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm Wednesdays open to 9:00 pm)
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Ciao presents Eat Winnipeg
Jul 29, 2012
Various Restaurants
W: http://www.ciaowinnipeg.comDuring the entire month of July, these Winnipeg restaurants invite you to experience unforgettable 3-course meals.
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Metamorphosis: A Conversation - Jackson Beardy, Eddy Cobiness, Jackie Traverse, Linus Woods
Jul 29, 2012
409 Tache Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba R2H2A6
P: (204) 235-3392
W: http://www.galeriebuhlergallery.ca"With this exhibition, the Buhler Gallery is paying tribute to several generations of First Nations artists--each leaders in their visual expressions and in their engagement with this place and its rich and long spiritual roots.
Hours: Daily 10:00am – 8:00pm Saturday & Sunday noon – 4:00pm
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Salsa Sundays
Jul 29, 2012
The Forks Cancopy - 1 Forks Market Road
W: http://www.theforks.comSunday nights sizzle under the Canopy, with fabulous free dance instruction and demonstrations set to an exhilarating blend of live Latin music and DJ mixes. Leave your blues at home and bring your dancing shoes — because this salsa is HOT!
Hours: 6:30pm - 10pm, Under the Canopy
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Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
Jul 29, 2012
Old Market Square, 63 Albert Street in the Exchange District
P: 204-942-6537
W: http://www.winnipegfringe.com -
The Royal Winnipeg Ballert presents Nutcracker
Jul 29, 2012
Centennial Concert Hall - 555 Main Street Winnipeg, MB R3B 1C3
P: 204-956-2792
W: http://www.rwb.orgDon't miss this holiday classic for the whole family. “Nutcracker endures as a captivating fantasy…rapturously romantic.”
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Flap Jack Sundays at Grant's Old Mill
Jul 29, 2012
Grants Old Mill - 2777 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Mb
P: 204-986-5613 (summer) or 253-4904.
W: http://www.cuthbertgrant.ca/grantsoldmill.htmFree flap jacks are served....by donations Tour this working replica of the flour mill (1829) operated by Cuthbert Grant. Organic grain grown locally, freshly ground triticale, rye, whole wheat, buckwheat flour and pancake mix.
Hours: 10:30 to 2:00pm
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Green ... Grass ... Dot ...
Jul 29, 2012
Winnipeg Art Gallery - 300 Memorial Boulevard, Winnipeg, MB
P: 204.786.6641
W: http://www.wag.caThis summer the stone modernist edifice that is the Winnipeg Art Gallery is going to literally come to life. Winnipeg artist Ewa Tarsia will interact with the formal building, treating aspects of its exterior and public interior spaces as supports for living plant-life. Public Openings: Green ... Grass ... Dot Meet artist Ewa Tarsia and learn how she integrates nature into her art. Thursday, July 26 from 6pm to 9pm
Hours: Tuesday through Sunday 11am - 5pm Thursday 11am - 9pm Closed Mondays
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Canadian Junior Track & Field Championships
Jul 29, 2012
University Stadium, 32 Service Street, 3 NW Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2
P: (204) 474-6495
W: http://www.juniors.athletics.caAthletics Manitoba is playing host to the 2012 Championships at University Stadium, located at the University of Manitoba. Come cheer on the best up & coming athletes.
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Winnipeg Goldeyes Baseball
Jul 29, 2012
One Portage Avenue East Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3B 3N3
P: 204-982-BASE (2273)
W: http://www.goldeyes.comSioux Falls Pheasants return to Shaw park for the second time this month.
Hours: July 27th - 7:00pm July 26th - 6:00pm July 29th - 1:30pm
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MAMMA MIA!
Jul 29, 2012
Centennial Concert Hall - 555 Main Street Winnipeg, MB R3B 1C3
P: 1-855-985-5000
W: http://centennialconcerthall.comSeen by over 50 million people around the world, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus’ global smash hit musical MAMMA MIA!, based on the songs of ABBA.
Hours: July 28 - 2 PM & 8 PM July 29 - 1 PM
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Summer Music Series at the Lyric Theatre presents Brian Simpson
Jul 29, 2012
Assiniboine Park Conservancy 55 Pavilion Crescent Winnipeg, MB R3P 2N6
P: (204) 927-6000 / 1 (877) 927-6006
W: http://www.assiniboinepark.caSmooth Sunday Jazz Series Celebrated keyboardist, composer and studio musician, Brian Simpson has been the ‘go-to’ man for everyone from Janet Jackson and Teena Marie to George Duke, Stanley Clarke and Dave Koz, for whom he has had the distinction of being musical director for the past 15 years. The chart-topping musical chameleon who wrote the #1 R&B hit “The First Time” for Surface in the 1990s confesses, "Ultimately, my listeners inspire me to make my music.”
Hours: 7:00pm
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Slim Cessna's Auto Club
Jul 29, 2012
West End Cultural Centre - 586 Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg, MB R3B 1Z8
P: 204-783-6918
W: http://www.wecc.caEngaging, riveting, sad and humorous; demanding the audience to participate both live and while listening to their albums; Slim Cessna's Auto Club has been branded with every musical description possible. This seems fitting, as SCAC describes their music as American (Is that not what America is and has been, a mixture of every one and thing resulting in something new?); and after two decades of working and living as SCAC, they have created their own genre.
Hours: 8:00pm
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