The Winnipeg Foundation and the Winnipeg Public Library selected Jake MacDonald’s Juliana and the Medicine Fish was selected by Manitobans as this year’s featured book for the province-wide reading initiative On The Same Page for 2011. Congratulations to Jake who said at the press conference “It’s not about writers, it’s about writing. And it’s about stories.” Continue reading ‘JULIANA IS QUITE A CATCH!’
Prairie Theatre Exchange recently launched its Capital Campaign — Revitalizing, Reconnecting and Renewing Our Work and Our Community with the largest contribution by the Federal Government in the theatre’s history. The Honourable Vic Toews, Minister of Public Safety, announced the Federal contribution of $734,510 to the project on behalf of The Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, this morning.
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Nothing we love more than Festival! More than 200 shows in 10 days – the diverse programming offers numerous activities that will please the whole family; concerts, sleigh rides, snow shoeing, historic Fort Gibraltar, great food and magnificent snow sculptures, there is truly something for everyone.
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On January 13, 2011, St-Boniface Hospital Foundation launched the much-anticipated 2011 MegaMillion Lotto! And on March 17, one lucky Manitoban will walk away with an incredible fortune – a life changing $1 million!
The fiction imprint of Great Plains Publications, Enfield & Wizenty, presents the first issue of an online literary magazine: www.thewinnipegreview.com. The Winnipeg Review publishes on-line every quarter, with weekly updates, from its eponymous home. Like the inhabitants of this midcontinental city, TWR is always opinionated, occasionally cranky, and ethnically confused. It exists to review literary books, mostly Canadian fiction, and to showcase interviews, excerpts of fiction and non fiction, poems, articles, and columns by writers with something to say.
Alliance Seed Corporation recently launched a promotion targeted at Western Canadian farmers. CDC Verona, a durum variety, is the Alliiance’s latest offering. Durum wheat is used almost exclusively for making pasta…its seemed only fitting to invite farmers to eat what the sow. Continue reading ‘FARMERS GET A TASTE’
A Dog’s Breakfast is full of trouble-free recipes for treats, meals, and even desserts. Most of the ingredients are already in your pantry. Try these simple and surprisingly affordable recipes in your home and you’ll soon find your favorite Fido begging for more. Continue reading ‘FEED YOUR FAVOURITE FIDO’
Coming off of an extensive touring schedule in North America and Europe – the Juno Award winning band Chic Gamine recently releases their second independent album titled ‘City City’. The album was recorded over the course of the last year in Montreal at the legendary Studio Victor. The album consists of 14 tracks packed with the raw emotion and sincerity that Chic Gamine has been honing for the past three years-ranging from soul to pop to doo-wop to french chanson and all the way back. Continue reading ‘CHIC GAMINE GETS TO THE HEART OF THEIR STORY’
The Manitoba Children’s Museum is closed until April 2011 – renewing and refreshing the exhibits and galleries in the historic CN train repair building with a $10M Capital Campaign. Visit the campaign website to see the new project and watch the progress of the new galleries.
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Take one slaughtered cow, a murdered Mountie, toss in a washing machine and a broken piano and what do you get? Well, the 21st season of Theatre Projects Manitoba, of course. Two dynamic plays, Almighty Voice and His Wife, a Native Earth Performing Arts production written by Daniel David Moses, and The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz, written by Manitoba author Armin Wiebe, are on deck.
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