It’s Manitoba’s second year participating in Culture Days, and we’ve really stepped up our game. I am impressed and again disappointed not to be in town. Check out the link for a full list of activities. 

Some of my top picks:

Friday, September 30, 2011

10-7 Graphic design and screen printing at Jumbo Show Posters
5:30-7:30 Introduction to Bellydance @ Au Set Bellydance Emporium

Saturday, October 1, 2011

10:30-11:30 Introduction to Bellydance @ Au Set Bellydance Emporium
12-5 Tile Making @ Monica de Jong’s
1:45-3 Aerial Dance Class @ Monica’s Danz Gym
2-4 Create a Ukrainian pysanka @ Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre
6-6 Nuit Blanche @ the WAG
7:30-11 WCD’s Nuit Blanche Variety Show
7-12 Raku firing workshop @ The Main Street Clay and Community Centre
8-12 Late Night Scavenger Hunt @ Dalnavert Museum
9-1:30 Nuit Blanche @ The Manitoba Museum
9-6 Nuit Blanche for Hoop Dancing @ Old Market Square

Sunday, October 2, 2011

1-4 Dance Downtown! @ RWB Building

Culture Days is a collaborative pan-Canadian volunteer movement to raise the awareness, accessibility,participation and engagement of all Canadians in the arts and cultural life of their communities. A national Steering Committee, together with provincial committees (known as Provincial Task Forces) self-mobilize at the grassroots level to implement concurrent, annual, province-wide public participation events that take place throughout the country over the last weekend of September. The first annual Culture Days event was held in September 2010 in over 700 Canadian cities and towns and, by all accounts, was a great success. The 2011 Culture Days weekend will take place September 30 to October 2, 2011. Annual, Canada-wide Culture Days events feature free, hands-on, interactive activities that invite the public to participate “behind the scenes,” to discover the world of artists, creators, historians, architects, curators, and designers at work in their community.