Winnipeg 
I. Family & Kids Activities
1. Manitoba Highland Gathering
The Manitoba Highland Gathering is a non-profit, volunteer (youth-senior) supported, family fun filled, community designated 51 year old event which strives to preserve, promote, nurture, educate and share about our wonderful, colourful Scottish Culture and Heritage, arts, sports and agriculture. Details
Legacy Park, Hwy 59 and PR #212, East Selkirk (Behind the East Selkirk Arena)
2. A Family Jamboree
A trio of Winnipeg’s best variety artists join forces to present a modern twist on the vaudeville show! Featuring magic from the Great Gregoire, hilarious antics from Sleepy the Clown and a daredevil finale by your host Mr. Circus, this show has something for the whole family. Details
Free with gate admission
3. Red River Ex
Enjoy the Red River Ex! Details
Sundays, June 25: 10:30 AM – Midnight
June 19 – 21: 3 PM – Midnight
(no access after 11 pm)
Winnipeg Transit will pick up and drop off at the new west entrance.
Advance Pay-One-Price Ride All Day Wristband:
Includes all-you-can-ride-midway-rides plus one gate admission. $37 (plus GST)
Pay-One-Price Ride All Day Wristband purchased at the Gate: (Does NOT include gate admission) $45 (includes GST)
Midway Express Access Pass: $25
Individual Ride Tickets: 1 ticket: $1, 11 tickets $10; 22 tickets $20; 55 tickets: $50
Wednesday, June 21: Seniors’ Day – $7.50 gate admission for Seniors’ 60+ only when you present your I.D. at the ticket booths. Seniors receive one free ride on both the Merry-Go-Round and the Giant Ferris Wheel.
More To Do
II. Live Music
1. Concerts on Weekdays
- Downtown Concert Series on Tuesdays, June 6 – August 29 @ Outdoor Cityplace Terrace – 2nd floor
- Music at the Millenium on Tuesdays, June 13 – August 15, 2017 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM @ The Millenium Centre, 389 Main Street | Free
- World Refugee Day Benefit Concert on Tuesdays, June 20 @ Gas Station Arts Centre
- Mavis Staples on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 | 7:30 PM @ Burton Cummings Theatre | $40 – $60
- Gregory Porter on Thursday, June 22, 2017 | 7:30 PM @ Burton Cummings Theatre | $40 – $60
- River Town Saints – Featuring David James on Thursday, June 22, 2017 | 8:00 PM @ Red River Exhibition Park
- Hot Summer’s Night Dream on Thursday, June 22, 2017 | 7:00 PM @ The Meteropolitan Entertainment Centre
- 54-40 in concert on Thursday, June 22, 2017 @ Nashville’s
2. Wolf Parade
TD Winnipeg Int’l Jazz Fest Presents Wolf Parade With Ghost Twin. Wolf Parade is an indie rock band formed in 2003 in Montreal, Quebec of musicians from British Columbia. The band went on indefinite hiatus in 2011, but announced its return to recording and performing in January 2016. Details
$15.00 – $40.00
3. Chad Brownlee
Free with gate admission
4. Folk Fest at 510 Two Crow For Comfort
The Winnipeg Folk Festival and City Hall’s new summer concert series features some of the best and brightest Manitoban artists who have participated in the Winnipeg Folk Festival’s Stingray Young Performers Program. Details
Free
5. Chansons à Danser
Join baritone and harpist Michael McKay in a program of medieval and renaissance songs and instrumental dances.
“Chansons à Danser” is devoted to early songs connected with the dance: either dance tunes with added words, songs reminiscent of dance tunes, or songs that would (or could) have been danced to. Details
$20
6. Concert: À La Mode
La Mode will be at Alliance Française du Manitoba to celebrate Fête de la Musique and the beginning of summer! Meet us for a cosy concert and enjoy their synthpop music. We will have a great time, full of deep emotions and excentric humour! Details
Free
7. Winnipeg Jazz Festival
Super Pass $225; Jazz Pass $100; 5-Show Multi-Pass $135; Individual tickets: Varies
8. Postmodern Jukebox
Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox is a genre-busting, rotating collective of musicians and vocalists that reimagines modern pop hits in the style of jazz, ragtime, and swing classics of the 1920s-1950s. An act that crosses all musical boundaries and generations, Postmodern Jukebox has developed a niche all its own, and performs a live show unlike any other – a must-see for anyone who loves jaw-dropping live performances. Details
$35 – $60
9. A. R. Cash Show
Johnny Cash Tribute. Details
Free with gate admission
10. Rosemarie Todaschuk Quintet
Rosemarie’s quintet features an impressive cast of musicians that includes Ron Paley on piano, Ken Gold on saxophones, Karl Kohut on string bass, and Owen Clark on drums. Details
$15
11. Beethovan Lives Upstairs
This world famous production features a lively exchange of letters between young Christoph and his uncle about the “madman” who has moved into the upstairs apartment of Christoph’s Vienna home. Through their touching letters, revealed by our two actors and accompanied by beautiful Beethoven excerpts, Christoph comes to understand the genius of Beethoven, the beauty of his music, and the torment of his deafness. Details
$29.00
III. Theatre & Performing Arts
1. Kurios – Cabinet of Curiosities
presented by Sun Life Global Investments. KURIOS – Cabinet of Curiosities is a tale in which time comes to a complete stop, transporting the audience inside a fantasy world where everything is possible. In this realm set in the latter half of the nineteenth century, reality is quite relative indeed as our perception of it is utterly transformed. The name of the show refers to the humble and strange characters that inhabit the Seeker’s Cabinet of Curiosities. Details
2. Little Shop of Horrors
Book by Howard Ashman. Details
3. Romeo & Juliet
Hot summer nights breed passion, lust and violence. Don’t miss Shakespeare’s famous tale of star-crossed lovers and feuding familes performed amidst the stunning St. Norbert Trappist Monastery Ruins. This is theatre that will literally move you. Details
June 1 – 24, 2017
Monday – Saturday | 7:30 PM
Sunday | 2:30 PM
$12.00 – $35.00
4. Speechless
One of Winnipeg’s favourite DJs, Mama Cutsworth (a.k.a. Sarah Michaelson), has collaborated with Felipe Ortiz and Daniel Orrantia, two Colombian improvisers and circus performers, to bring you SPEECHLESS: a beautiful, surreal, long-form improvised theatre piece. Elements of Buster Keaton’s physicality or the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez are wrapped inside rich musical soundscapes. Based on physical theatre, clown techniques and film scores, SPEECHLESS lives at the intersection of familiar and surreal. Details
5. Billy Gardell
Comedy. 18+. Details
$36.75 – $57.75
IV. Sports
1. Walk/Run
1. Winnipeg Brain Tumour Walk 2017 Details
Saturday, June 24, 2017 | 10:00 AM @ Assiniboine Park Conservatory Tent, 55 Pavilion Cres.
2. Paws In Motion – 2.5km or shortcut 1.75km walk. Details
Sunday, June 25, 2017 | 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM @ Assiniboine Park, Lyric Theatre
V. Exhibitions, Festivals & Other Events
1. Postcolonial Postcards
The Dalnavert Museum presents “Postcolonial Postcards” – part performance, part object theatre, part museum tour, part slide show, part installation! Audiences will travel the delicate and exotically Victorian rooms and experience a snapshot-like-postcard-scene, overturning expectations of the local environment and disrupting the traditional narrative before moving on to the next room. Come and discover the delightful complications of Postcolonial Postcards. Details
Dalnavert Museum and Visitors’ Centre, 61 Carlton Street, Winnipeg
2. Keeping the Fires Burning
Ka Ni Kanichihk Inc. will host its 15th Annual Keeping the First Burning — now one of Manitoba’s largest Indigenous events, which brings together 700-800 Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to honour and celebrate Manitoba’s diverse and dynamic Indigenous cultures. Details
3. Winnipeg Jets Draft Party
Join other passionate fans in the excitement as our first round draft picks are announced at this year’s 2017 Winnipeg Jets Draft Party presented by Sport Chek. Defenceman Josh Morrissey, Forwards Kyle Connor, and Jack Roslovic will act as hosts for the event along with Jay Richardson, the Jets public address announcer. Details
Pre-Draft Broadcast Coverage – 5:30-6:00 (subject to change)
2017 NHL Draft Broadcast Coverage – 6:00 – 9:00pm (subject to change)
Club Regent Event Centre, 1425 Regent Avenue West
$30 – General Admission Mezzanine Seating (Non-Reserved)
4. Homesteader Festival
The DIY Homesteader Festival is a one-of-a-kind boutique style event, in Manitoba, that offers people a fun and warm way to learn important skills they can bring to their modern life. Details
Early Bird Teen 13-18 = $38.50 / Regular Teen = 43.50
Early Bird Adult $77 / Regular Adult = $87
5. In Riel’s Footsteps
In Riel’s Footsteps is an outdoor guided tour of the cemetery, a theatrical experience that makes learning about French-Canadian and Métis heritage fun and exciting. Your guide is Angélique Nolin, Western Canada’s first lay school teacher, a dynamic character who knows a lot about Manitoba’s history. She makes sure your visit is anything but a dull history lesson. From the arrival of the first explorers to the birth of a province, St. Boniface cemetery tells the story of 150 years of courage and perseverance. Details
Le Musée de Saint-Boniface Museum
494 Taché Avenue Saint-Boniface