live out loud, winnipeg!

Skywalk Concerts and Lectures

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:00:10 -0600

12:10-12:50 @ Carol Shields Auditorium, Millennium Library

Free series!

Live Out Loud Picks!

January 16 - The Impact of Service Learning on the Lives of Inner City Children and Adults, with Allan Appel, UWinnipeg Education.

January 23 - Climate Normals are History, with Danny Blair, UWinnipeg Geography.

January 30 - The Browning of America: Race and Political Culture from Reagan to Obama, with Paul Lawrie, UWinnipeg History.

February 6 - LECTURE: Fun with French Historical Phonetics: Why Winnipeggers Rhyme Lagimodière with Gauthier, with Glenn Moulaison, UWinnipeg Modern Languages & Literatures.

February 20 - Tales from Afghanistan, with Talia Pura, UWinnipeg Education.

March 13 - Raising a Generation of Ethical Giants, with Jeremy Frimer, UWinnipeg Psychology.

For full listings, visit the link.

28 Manitoba Musicians donated a song each in honour of the Sandy Hook Massacre

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 01:14:02 -0600

28 Manitoba Musicians donated a song each in honour of the Sandy Hook Massacre:

withmy2hands:

For $12.99, you can get 28 songs from Manitoba artists, in honour of Ana Marquez-Green, one of the victims in Newtown.

Ana and her family used to live in Winnipeg where her dad was a professor in the Faculty of Music.

All proceeds will be donated to the Ana Marquez-Greene Music Scholarship Fund which was set up by the Greene family and the Western Connecticut State University.

Progressive Drinks

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:00:20 -0600

Progressive Drinks:

Sunday, December 23, 2012 from 7:30-10:30 PM @ Cousin’s Deli

Are you an environmentalist? Urbanist? Against poverty?

Come down and meet other folks just like you. This evening will serve as an informal and casual way to meet other folks interested in activism, politics and change. Bring some ideas and be ready to listen to some new ones over a drink or two.

Lets keep it non partisan folks. And feel free to invite and bring some friends.

Big Fun Festival Launch Party

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:30:55 -0600

Big Fun Festival Launch Party:

Tonight! Saturday, December 15, 2012 @ 9 PM - The Windsor Hotel

Admission: $5

Fred Penner not your thing? The Big Fun Festival’s launch party is tonight at the Windsor! Go party! Festival will run January 24-27, 2013, and the event schedule goes up today.

We weren’t joking. There is a Big Fun Festival 2013!

We are going give you all the details on 2013’s festival on Dec.15 at the Windsor.

We got some Big Fun 2012 Alumni hitting the stage, This Hisses and Departures will be providing the jams.

More goodies like the Big Fun 2013 Compilation will be available, as well as festival passes and WHATS THAT? There will be Prizes to be won. Oh man, what a good time.

Wait, did someone say special guest DJs? Oh yeah, we did! The’ll be some fantastic tunes played before, in between, and after the bands by DJ Brandon, DJ Olivia and DJ JP!

So come on out on Dec.15 and pick up a festival pass and or a festival guide and get stoked on Big Fun.

$5 Doors at 9pm.

Opening Reception: My Winnipeg - Winter Kept Us Warm

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:56:29 -0600

Opening Reception: My Winnipeg - Winter Kept Us Warm:

Now! Friday, December 15, 2012 until 12am @ Plug-In

Free Event (always free, actually)

The show runs until January 20, 2013, when the final exhibit for the My Winnipeg series will be installed.

My Winnipeg: Winter Kept Us Warm exposes the underbelly of the city’s social, political, and libidinal experiences as they consort and co-mingle in the galleries.

In his rarely seen and historically signiﬁcant major work, Notes from the Inquest: Essay and Drawings, Jeff Funnell presents a sequence of drawings from the murder inquest of Northern Manitoba Cree Chief, J.J. Harper. This room-sized installation places the ofﬁcial published verdict and a slow-motion video recording of the inquest’s re-enactment of the event against Funnell’s personal documentation as an independent visual artist. Reminiscent of “ofﬁcial” court-room drawings, these hundreds of sketches go beyond mere documentation to become subjective and historically relevant meditation cum eye-witness account of one of Winnipeg’s most notable 1980s-era public events.

Two Kindred Spirits, a life-size installation of a log-cabin diorama by Kent Monkman, depicts the story of two famous cowboy-Indian—and vaguely homoerotic—partnerships: Tonto and the Lone Ranger and Winnetou and Old Shatterhand. Monkman, a multidisciplinary artist of Cree ancestry, displays the sidekicks hovering over their passed out fearless leaders on Hudson Bay blankets surrounded by precariously placed crushed cans of beer. Framed on the wall behind them are the words “The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name” written in English and German respectively, referencing Oscar Wilde’s deﬁnition of homosexuality.

The exhibition includes a Noam Gonick-curated section that presents over 30 artists in a contained salon-styled installation referencing the back-door entrances of adult movie theatres and 19^th-century drawing rooms. The title, Winter Kept Us Warm, takes its name from David Secter’s 1965 ﬁlm, which in turn took its name form T.S. Eliot’s poem “Wasteland.” Through his research, Gonick suggests that the repression and isolation of the prairie city long cold winter contributes to its inhabitants fevered desires. Gathering artifacts from sensational moments in Winnipeg’s visual art history, one can piece together a composite portrait of Winnipeg through the sexual fetishes scrawled, painted, sculpted, ﬁlmed and otherwise proffered by generations of Winnipeg artists.

The exploration of Winnipeg’s fevered underworld continues in Guy Maddin’s ﬁlm Cowards Bend the Knee. Presented for the ﬁrst time in ﬁve cubicles, reminiscent of a confessional or peep show booth, the installation re-frames the autobiographical, salacious, chaotic, cowardly, and of course, hockey-related plot line ﬁlmed within Maddin’s own childhood haunts—the hockey rink and his mother’s beauty parlour. Set in the 1930s, Maddin adopts the stylistic choices of a traditional ﬁlm noir, with dark shadows, cynical attitudes, and sexual motivations. Divided into chapters, the viewer is allowed to peep at the psychologically “true stories” of Maddin’s life, in the ﬁlmakers own words, “no matter how bizarre, stupid, silly or gratuitous.”

My Winnipeg: Winter Kept Us Warm exhibition is open from December 15^th, 2012 to January 20^th, 2013.

Fred Penner's Annual Grown-Up Show Pub Style Sing-a-long

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:49:30 -0600

Fred Penner's Annual Grown-Up Show Pub Style Sing-a-long:

Saturday, December 15, 2012 @ 8 PM - West End Cultural Centre

Tickets: $18.50 advance / $20 plus door

Guess where I’ll be tomorrow night!

Fred Penner’s annual Grown-Up Show Pub Style Sing-a-long continues this December15th, 2012 at the West End Cultural Centre.

Since Fred Penner’s musical career and appeal spans generational divides, it’s only natural that Fred performs an evening pub style sing-a-long with the keg taps open for those big kids.

Grab a beer, grab a chair, and sing a long with your favourite Fred Penner song!

Supported by UMFM 101.5 and 102.3 Clear FM
Saturday, December 15th, 2012
Doors 7:15 pm | Show 8:00 pm
Tickets: $15 Advance | $20 Door
Tickets available at the West End Cultural Centre, Ticketmaster, Music Trader and the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store.

Online ticket sales:
http://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/11004950E09DCD6D?artistid=1791989&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=2
WECC event link:
http://www.wecc.ca/site09/performers/Fred_Penner_Grown-up.html

Food For Folks: Block Rocking Beets

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:13:00 -0600

Food For Folks: Block Rocking Beets:

Friday, November 30, 2012 from 7 PM - 1 AM @ Winnipeg Polish Canadian Legion #246 (1335 Main Street)

Tickets: $20 ($10 for youth or low-income)

Tickets on Sale at:

Mondragon @ 91 Albert
Organic Planet @ 877 Westminster
Jonnies Sticky Buns @ 941 Portage
Kustom Kulture @ 470 River Ave.
University of Winnipeg Information Booth
Pollocks Hardware @ 1407 Main Street

We are hosting a party on November 30th at the Winnipeg Polish Canadian Legion #246.

There will be live music and dancing, a crokinole tournament, silent auction prizes, 50:50 draw, catering, there will be a bar and coffee & tea, and guest speakers from the North End A Team Co-op Federation.

Food For Folks can be described as:

- Connecting community and inner-city neighbourhoods with local farmers, produce and livestock. Supporting inner-city food production, urban agriculture, fostering social enterprise, creating jobs and building wealth.

We welcome you into a beautiful old hall in the North End to help us celebrate the founding of this family we call the North End A Team Co-op Federation:

Food For Folks, Music First, AYO! (Aboriginal Youth Opportunities): Food & Food Security; Music, Culture & Management; Indigenous Capacity Building.

Please help us raise funds for our new organizations as we through a party you won’t want to miss.

Check out a recent WFP article on Iain Brynjolson and Michael Champagne: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/our-communities/times/Duo-making-a-real-difference-in-the-North-End-180162881.html?device=mobile

Social Media Town Hall on CNOOC/Nexen

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:54:54 -0600

Social Media Town Hall on CNOOC/Nexen:

Thursday, November 22, 2012 @ 3 PM PST / 6 PM EST / See below for all time zones

Dear Friend,

Stephen Harper is running one of the most secretive governments this country has ever seen.

Just look at secret trade deals like CNOOC/Nexen.

Behind closed doors, Conservatives are selling off ownership of our natural resources, risking good Canadian jobs and compromising environmental standards.

New Democrats are fighting back. But we have no time to waste. We learned today that Ottawa may be pushing to approve the Nexen deal before the December 10th deadline.

If we’re going to push back, we need to act now. That’s why we want to hear from you.

Join me for a Social Media Town Hall this Thursday, November 22nd

3 PM PST
4 PM MST
5 PM CST
6 PM EST
7 PM AST
7:30 PM NST

I’ll be taking your questions and sharing ideas on where we go from here. And I would like you to be a part of it.

Have your say. Submit your questions in advance here. And spread the word.

Join me this Thursday for the Social Media Town Hall on CNOOC/Nexen. Together we can stop Harper’s secret trade deals.

Peter Julian, MP
Energy and Natural Resources Critic
Canada’s New Democrats

1st Downtown Community Residents' Association Meeting

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 10:00:00 -0600

1st Downtown Community Residents' Association Meeting:

Sunday, November 25, 2012 @ Union Centre (275 Broadway Avenue)

Free, but please RSVP by email

Doors: 6 PM
Presentation: 6:30-7 PM, followed by mingling

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Our First DCRA Meeting

Sunday, November 25, 2012. Doors open at 6:00pm – Program starts at 6:30pm.

Union Centre, 275 Broadway Avenue Smith Street

Duration: 30 minutes presentation with coffee and mingling before and after the meeting.

This meeting is free to everyone. Please RSVP at downtowncommunity@gmail.com

This is a casual introduction to the DCRA, and a chance for our community to come together for the first time. This meeting will include a small presentation about what the DCRA has been up to thus far, what the DCRA could be used for in our neighbourhood, and a few words from key neighbourhood stakeholders.

The Central Canadian Circus Arts Club

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:00:33 -0600

Sunday, November 18, 2012 from 12-3 PM @ Broadway Neighbourhood Centre (185 Young Street)

Free Event

Free, free, FREE!

Ladies and Gentleman! Kids of all ages!

The Central Canadian Circus Arts Club is about to begin! So dress up, grab your toys and come on down for three hours of amazing skills and fun!!!

Are you a JUGGLER? SPINNER HULA HOOPER? Or even a UNICYCLIST?

If YES, come hone your skills with like minded people in enough space to practice your hardest tricks.

If NO, come out and learn! Have some fun, meet new people, build new talents!

Email us for more info: cccaclub@gmail.com

Play Reading

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:00:17 -0600

Monday, November 19, 2012 @ 7:30 PM - Winnipeg Free Press News Café (237 McDermot Avenue)

Playwrights Talia Pura (Winnipeg, MB) and Cornelia Hoogland (Hornby Island, BC) will be reading from new plays.

Free coffee and snacks. Wine, beer and menu items available.

Girl About Town: The Bad Girl Bathroom

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:47:00 -0600

Saturday, November 17, 2012 from 7-10 PM @ The Urban Forest

Admission: $5

The Bad Girl Bathroom is a fun story telling night, and a launch party for Girl About Town, a webzine that has all well rounded feminist needs, from craft projects to slut walks.

Join us as we tell you about the times we’ve tried to present as witty, attractive, well groomed ladies and failed miserably. The first half will feature women telling their baddest, saddest and funniest stories. In the second half we will invite brave audience members to share their own tales.

The Line Up:

Rebecca Gibson - Actor/Producer/Writer/Director/Mother

Jacqueline Loewen - of “Hot Thespian Action” Fame

Chantal Marostica - host/performer at “The Winnipeg Comedy Festival”

Dana Smith - writer of/performer in the Fringe Festival hit “Lady Skits”

Heather Witherden - comedian, performer in Fringe Festival show “Stretchmarks”

Veronica Ternopolski - the lady who shows you how to place your carts

Lindsay Dora - Educator

Everyone is welcome, but please be advised that we will rely heavily on adult material.

Into The Woods

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:00:07 -0600

Into The Woods:

January 29 - February 2, 2012

Tickets: $25.82

withmy2hands:

By District Theatre Collective, the talented folks who brought Avenue Q to Winnipeg.

Ditto! District Theatre Collective did such a good job with Avenue Q, and I appreciated how accessible they make theatre!

Sondheim’s spellbinding, romantic and hilariously dark Tony Award-winning masterpiece, Into the Woods weaves classic fairytales together to find out what happens after ‘happily ever after’.

When a baker and his wife learn they’ve been cursed by a witch, they embark on a quest for the special objects required to break the spell, swindling, lying to and stealing from Cinderella, Little Red, Rapunzel and Jack (the one who climbed the beanstalk). Everyone’s wishes are granted, but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them later, with disastrous results.

An enchanting and whimsical reimagining of beloved childhood stories featuring dazzling lyrics, sumptuous melodies and a wickedly delectable plot.

Diss by acclaimed Toronto playwright Rex Deverell

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:00:18 -0500

Wednesday, November 7, 2012 @ 6:30 PM - Carol Shields Auditorium, Millennium Library (251 Donald Street)

Free Admission

Admission is free but donations are encouraged!

Seating is limited; to reserve please call Tali at 204-586-2236.

If you would like to book the show, spaces are still available on our tour.

Call us at 204-586-2236.

Diss tells the story of a newcomer family as they navigate through their new lives in a big Canadian city. Overwhelmed by the desire to fit in, the son soon becomes entangled in the world of immigrant youth gangs and gun violence.

Infused with hip-hop elements, this Forum Theatre piece is sure to inspire audience to speak up and stand up for those in their communities.

Rex Deverell holds arts and theology degrees. He has been writing plays since the 1970s and his works have been translated into several languages. With a passion for empowering youth through the arts, Deverell plays have been commissioned by various performance companies throughout Canada.

Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame Grand Opening

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 09:58:47 -0500

Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame Grand Opening:

Today! Saturday, October 27, 2012 from 10 AM - 4 PM @ Sport for Life Centre (145 Pacific Avenue)

Not an incident of, I want to go there!, but nonetheless, it’s free and I’m sure there are readers who’d enjoy it!

Join us from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm for FREE admission into the brand new Hall of Fame. The decade galleries of sport will walk you through time. You’ll see artifacts and memories of Manitoba’s rich sport history, like the AVCO Cup and Clara Hughes’ bike from the ‘96 Olympics.

Creation in Peril: Protect What You Love

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:07:29 -0500

Creation in Peril: Protect What You Love:

Saturday, October 27, 2012 from 9 AM - 1 PM @ The University of Winnipeg - Convocation Hall

Free Event and Workshops

I really wish I could be there for this one! Wow!

CREATION IN PERIL:
Protect What You Love
A half day conference on faith & the environment
Saturday Oct. 27th 9-1
Convocation Hall, University of Winnipeg

9:00 – 9:50 am WELCOME Terry Hidichuk, Dean of Theology

OPENING SESSION KEYNOTES Shaun Loney & Willard Metzger

9:50-10:45 am FAITH REFLECTIONS Sherrie Steiner, Moderator

An Aboriginal Perspective Katherine Whitecloud

A Christian Perspective Bruce Duggan

A Hindu Perspective Pundit Venkat Machiraju

Group Discussion Debrief Mishka Lysack

10:45-11 am BREAK

11 - 12 am WHAT ARE WE FACING? Sherrie Steiner, Moderator

Focus on Science in Manitoba Danny Blair

Focus on Civil Society Gaile Whelan Enns

Focus on National Energy Strategy Mishka Lysack

Practical Aspects of Advocacy Bill Blaikie

12 – 1:00 pm GROUP DEBRIEF AND WRAP UP Mishka Lysack

Brock Tyler & Mitten Claps

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:03:00 -0500

Brock Tyler & Mitten Claps:

Thursday, October 25, 2012 @ Sam’s Place (159 Henderson Highway)

Doors: 7 PM
Show: 7:30 PM

Admission: By donation

Brock is an amazing, eclectic musician! Great musicality. Go, go!

Brock Tyler returns to his hometown of Winnipeg and joins forces with local percussion-powered pop purveyors Mitten Claps for an epic night of music! No cover but donations gladly accepted. Music starts at 7:30 PM; seating is limited. Be there!

Architectural Walking Tour

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:23:00 -0500

Sunday, October 14, 2012 from 12-1:30 PM

Free admission, but reservations required by telephone 786-6641 ext 227 or email nfletcher@wag.ca

The WAG building stands as an icon of modernist architecture in Winnipeg’s urban landscape. Learn how the Gallery contributes to our city’s modernist building heritage on this one-hour downtown walking tour with Serena Keshavjee, Associate Professor at the University of Winnipeg.

Serena Keshavjee is an associate professor at the University of Winnipeg. She is interested in the relationship between art and science in late-nineteenth century Europe and teaches European art and architecture. Keshavjee edited a book on Winnipeg Modernist Architecture in 2006, and often tours her students around Winnipeg’s historic and modernist heritage buildings.

Tour departs from the WAG’s front lobby. Please bring appropriate footwear.

Free admission but please call 786.6641 ext. 227 or send an email to nfletcher@wag.ca to reserve your spot.

Upcoming Folk Fest concerts at WECC! Read: AWESOME.

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 09:57:47 -0500

Bahamas
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Bahamas is the musical pseudonym of Toronto-based singer-songwriter-guitarist Afie Jurvanen. Despite his tropical title, Afie (pronounce AY-fee) isn’t from the Caribbean, but from little Barrie, Ontario.

His lastest album Barchords, released back in February of this year, offers 12 compelling new examples of Afie’s distinctive song craft that includes uncanny knack for combining subtly indelible melodies with lyrics of uncommon insight and vulnerability. The songs’ eloquent evocations of longing, loss and regret are supported by Afie’s sublimely expressive vocals and subtly inventive guitar work.

Shane Koyczan
Monday, November 5, 2012

I attended Shane’s last sold-out performance at WECC, and it was incredible! Go, go, go!

In a world where poets rarely intersect with stardom, the Opening Ceremonies for the 2010 Winter Olympics introduced us to Shane Koyczan. With a collective “wow” across Canada, we found the poet of our generation. And we weren’t even looking for one. Powerfully engaging and authentic in attitude, his explorations are relevant to our times in the way that Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Gordon Downie and Leonard Cohen are to theirs. But unlike the musicians that he’s often compared to, poets rarely infiltrate pop culture. Shane emerges in a new wave of 21st century poetry that dares to belong to the people and speak directly to them in their own voice.

With his rhythmic verse in high gear, he navigates his audience through social and political territory with a furious honesty and a tender humanity that has brought audiences to their feet in New York, London, Edinburgh, Sydney and Los Angeles. Winner of the US Slam Poetry Championship and the Canadian Spoken Word Olympics, Shane is truly an extraordinary talent that has blown the dust off of the designation “poet.”

The Tom Fun Orchestra
Saturday, November 17, 2012

With outrageously immodest and ambitious beginnings, The Tom Fun Orchestra sauntered into the Canadian music scene the way an Italian funeral saunters through a mountain village. That is, with many loud instruments, casks of wine and complete irreverence for everything happening around them.

A year into the band’s life, they travelled the country with eighteen of their friends in a school bus. It suited the band’s affinity for spectacle, noise, and gas fumes. Such was that affinity that the band went on playing a well worn ribbon, as they say from St. John’s to Victoria and further to old world haunts like The United Kingdom and Ireland. Much to the band’s delight, these tours increased in size and ambition as growing audiences applauded their approval.

2008’s You Will Land With a Thud received an East Coast Music Award as the Galaxie Rising Star Recording of the Year 2009, it inspired three wildly successful music videos domestically and internationally (ECMA 2010 Video of the Year, 2009 UK Music Video Awards nomination for Best Animation), and garnered support for their 2008 Music Nova Scotia accolade for “Entertainer of the Year.”

Local rockers to play 24 shows in 24 hours for Winnipeg Harvest

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:08:41 -0500

Local rockers to play 24 shows in 24 hours for Winnipeg Harvest:

Tonight! Friday, September 28, 2012

Take a nap!

For 24 hours a Winnipeg band will literally rock around the clock in support of Winnipeg Harvest’s fall Share Your Thanks campaign.

Beginning tonight at 9 p.m., local rockers The Treble will be playing a total of 24 short acoustic sets every hour at various venues and locations throughout the city.

The purpose of this event is to garner donations in exchange for advertising opportunities. In addition to the publicity resulting from participation as a performance location, this entire event will be documented and transformed into a music video that will showcase these local businesses in their collaborative effort to support this cause.

The Treble will perform at the following spots:

9 p.m.- Saigon Jon’s

10 p.m.- Earl’s Pembina

11 p.m.- Winnipeg Sign

Midnight-Le Nob

1 a.m.-The Grove Pub

2 a.m.-Corn on the Curb (osborne)

3 a.m.-Old Market Square

4 a.m.-Portage and Main

5 a.m.-Anytime Fitness,

6 a.m.-University of Manitoba

7 a.m.-Legislative Building

8 a.m.-Frenchway Bakery

9 a.m.- The Red Top

10 a.m.- Style 11:11

11 a.m.- Winnipeg Harvest

Noon- Mts Centre

1 p.m.- Fort Garry Palm Room

2 p.m.-SK8 Skates

3 p.m.-Unburger

4 p.m.- Crawford and KOS C.G.A.

5 p.m.-Shaw Park

6 p.m.-Provencher Bridge

7 p.m.-Winnipeg Blue Bomber game (halftime show)

8 p.m-Park Theatre (with guests).