January 2011
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Our Great Community
Sunday, January 16, 2011 from 11 AM - 5 PM @ The Manitoba Museum
Free Admission
The Winnipeg Foundation is celebrating its 90th anniversary with a free community festival on Sunday.
Our Great Community will take place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Alloway Hall at the Manitoba Museum, and celebrate the foundation’s history and the hundreds of charitable organizations that operate within the city. ...
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The December Man (l'homme de décembre) →
Running January 27, 2011 - February 13, 2011 @ Prairie Theatre Exchange
Preview January 26, 2011
Tickets: $25-42 (Preview $22.32 rush seating)
Special Student Package: 3 plays for $30 plus 3 plays for free! Purchase one of two three-play packages and get a PTEgoPASS, which allows you to see the other three plays for free!
A POWERFUL STORY OF THE MONTREAL MASSACRE’S HUMAN AFTERMATH
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Heaven →
Running January 27-29, 2011 @ 8 PM - The Rachel Browne Theatre (211 Bannatyne Avenue)
Tickets: Call 204 452 0229
*Nudity - Mature Audiences Only
The gasp of breath, the surprising slap of flesh against flesh, and the stamp of foot to floor, sounds the body’s vulnerability and power- this is the score of “Heaven”. Deeply physical, “Heaven” is Ivanochko’s most explicit example of...
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Acting Up! Performing the Indian
Thursday, January 20, 2011 @ 7 PM - Aqua Books
Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts presents Acting Up! Performing the Indian - a curatorial lecture by Rosalie Favell
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Bringing It All Back Home
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 @ 7 PM - Winnipeg Art Gallery
Free Admission
A special screening of two films. Free admission.
The Humble • A documentary about the Santa Fe art collective formed by young Native artists, including Cannupa Hanska, Micah Wesley, Rose Simpson, and Doug Miles.
Bringing It All Back Home • A documentary film by Chris Eyre about the performance work of James Luna.
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Soapbox Open Mic
Third Tuesday of every month @ 7 PM - Aqua Books
Aqua Books Emerging Writer-in-Residence David Jon Fuller
Every third Tuesday of the month, Aqua Books presents our open mic series, Soapbox, hosted by Bookstore Owner Kelly Hughes. Soapbox starts at 7pm and consists of two open-mic sets and a short break in between. This is Winnipeg’s only cross-genre open mic series. Bring your fiction,...
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Red Moon Road →
Friday, February 25, 2011 @ the CYRK (254 Young Street)
Doors open 8 PM Show starts 9 PM
$10 suggested donation
BYOB (no alcohol sales)
This band is new on the Winnipeg scene, but oh are they good. I am glad to have caught them before they sail away into world’s larger rooms.
Inspired by the lake, campfires, outdoor living and kitchen party jams, Red Moon Road is a down-home, acoustic...
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Documentary Screening: Being Human
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 @ 7 PM - Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall, University of Winnipeg
Free admission. Donations accepted.
In this NFB film exploring the public education system, director Denys Desjardins asks us to zoom-out from a too-tight focus on problems like dropout rates, loss of motivation among students and depression among teachers. Instead, Being Human (Canada, 2005, French with...
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WatchSaint Kris “ExtraOrdinary” Mixtape Release Party with Royal Canoe
Saturday, January 8, 2011 @ 9 PM - Lo Pub
Royal Canoe (featuring members of The Waking Eyes, The Liptonians, Tele) will be performing their brand of dancy, pop music laced with electro drum beats, falsetto vocals and big grooves. Additionally, to celebrate the occasion, the Canoe boys will perform a few selections...
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Big Dave McLean with Bernie Thiessen plus Nereo →
Friday, January 21, 2011 @ the CYRK (254 Young Street)
Doors open 8 PM Show starts 9 PM
$15 suggested donation
BYOB (no alcohol sales)
Here’s an amazing show for you good people. Two blues legends playing together (including Juno Award Winnipeg Big Dave McLean). Not to mention Nereo, one of the very top Canadian spoken word artists. A historical event!
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The Last Five Years →
Running January 5-9, 2011 @ 7:30 PM and January 8-9, 2011 @ 2 PM - Gas Station Theatre
Tickets: $30
An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. The show’s unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, telling her story backwards while Jamie, the man, tells his story...
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Speakeasy @ Pixels 2.1
Friday, January 7, 2011 from 7-7:45 PM @ Pixels 2.1 (217 McDermot Avenue)
Pixels 2.1 presents First Fridays Speakeasy with special guest Alex Morrison
First Friday of each month @ 6 PM
Pixels mandate is to promote the art of photography and to help support the growth of photography through exhibitions and educational workshops. On the first Friday of each month Pixels invites everyone with...
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Finding Your Voice for New Canadians
Tuesdays from 7-9 PM until February 22, 2011 Saturdays from 10 AM - Noon until February 26, 2011 Just a few spots left!
Finding your Voice is a free 8 week creative writing course for New Canadians being offered at the Millennium Library. This program is NOT an English language course. It is being moderated by Janine Le Gal, writer and human rights activist, and Alan Balingit, journalist and...