Events in Winnipeg: June 9 to 11, 2017

1. Madagascar, the Musical

MTI’s Madagascar the Musical presented by StudioWorks Youth Academy – a new musical for all ages of the much-loved madcap journey from New York’s Central Park Zoo to the beaches of Madagascar. See Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, Gloria the Hippo and the always-plotting penguins. Details

2. Twin Swords Pirate Fest!

A fantastic festival full of pirates, Vikings and adventure.
Don’t miss out on this amazing opportunity!
There will also be a pirates of the Caribbean marathon at X-cues during the day and a pirate social during the night! Details

3. RCMP Musical Ride & Ray St. Germain Concert

Family fun events including pony rides, petting farm, glitter tattoos & bouncy gyms. RCMP musical ride will be followed by a meet and greet where you can see the RCMP and their horses up close and personal. Enjoy the concert by Manitoba Country Music Legend Ray St. Germain. Details

Sunday, June 11, 2017 | 9:00 AM
Family fun events 12:00 PM. – 4:00 PM
RCMP musical ride starts at 1:00 PM
St. Germain concert | 2:30 PM

Assiniboia Downs, Winnipeg

Rush seating $14.95 plus GST and agency fees. Children 12 & under are admitted free (must be accompanied by an adult).

4. Kidsfest

The 35th annual Kidsfest is an extravaganza of interactive fun and imagination that will virtually take over the banks of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers. Venues including “big top” tents, will showcase world class entertainment, from theatre, to music, to storytelling, to dance. Details

June 8 – 11, 2017 | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

The Forks, 1 Forks Market Rd, Winnipeg

Tickets: $9.43 – $15.24

5. Family Fun Day

Family Fun Day is an annual event hosted for South Transcona families featuring bouncers, games, activities for kids, a candy scramble and more!! Details

More To Do

1. Concerts on Weekdays

1. Downtown Concert Series on Tuesdays, June 6 – August 29 @ Outdoor Cityplace Terrace – 2nd floor Food Court, 333 St. Mary’s Avenue, Winnipeg
2. Tim McGraw & Faith Hill on Wednesday, June 7, 2017 | 7:00 PM @ MTS Centre
3. George Harley and the Big Noise, The Bourbon Birds, Akina on Thursday, June 8, 2017 | 8:00 PM @ The Park Theatre

2. Mozart and More!

Co-sponsored by The Winnipeg Art Gallery, these programs were created especially for Mozart lovers and chamber music fans, presenting masterpieces of the repertoire — our own mini-Festival featuring Winnipeg’s most popular classical artists — with special guests, flutist Jan Kocman and cellist Desmond Hoebig — performing some of the greatest chamber music ever written! Details

3. Up Dharma Down

Canada Tour 2017 Details

4. 18th Annual
Ellice Street Festival

June 9: Justin Lacroix, Quinton Blair

June 10: The Rainbow Minotaurs of Jeff (students from our Tune In program), Sand Skyscraper (music and storytelling for children of all ages), Kakagi (up and coming folk-rock outfit), SHEENA (funk group led by Sheena Rattai of Red Moon Road), and West Central favourites JD & The Sunshine Band! Details

5. Agassiz Chamber Music Festival

Celebrating Canada 150. Details

6. Tauber Music Festival

36th annual Tauber Music Festival features several hundred students performing solos on acoustic piano, ensemble piano, guitar, keyboard, violin and voice. Details

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. Darcy Oake

An Evening with Darcy Oake – A Fundraiser for the Bruce Oake Foundation, will feature thrilling illusions from Oake with 100% of the proceeds going toward the building of the Bruce Oake Recovery Centre, a state-of-the-art, non-profit long-term treatment facility in Winnipeg for those suffering from addictions. 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

4. Prairie Dancers

Since the Prairie Dancers began, director Paula Blair has worked with an ever-changing roster of dancers. What began as a regular weekly dance class has become a creative entity that thrives on live performance. Through working with guest choreographers, and setting their own pieces, the Prairie Dancers are constantly working to create new work, and fulfill a passion for dancing, and a love of performing. Details

5. Nanabush and the drum

Reflecting on the unique legacies of the French and First Nations people in Canada through a spectacular theatrical presentation. The trickster is jealous. He’s fallen for the daughter of a powerful chief. Unfortunately for him, another man has laid claim to her heart: a coureur de bois, a little on the naïve side to boot! What’s a poor trickster to do but send his rival packing with a series of ploys that leave the outsider battered and bruised? The young woman, though, is far stronger, sager and more resourceful that anyone could have imagined. Details

6. Lame Is: a disability cabaret

Performed by an intrepid troupe of cripple-threats (artists who identify as Deaf, disabled, Mad or sick) along with our allies, Lame Is… seeks to redefine disability.

Lame is… features music, mime, spoken word, stand up comedy, and all manner of unruly performances. Digging deep into exploring what it means to be disabled, we will challenge audiences’ assumptions about their own bodies and abilities. Details

1. MABBA – Provincial Championships

Annual body building championships presented by the Manitoba Amateur Body Building Association. Details

2. Nitro Circus Live

The stunts performed in Nitro Circus Live are among the most dangerous in the world. When athletes are attempting insane stunts 40 feet in the air over a 75 foot gap, the weather conditions have to be perfect as the onset of rain, dew, wind or other factors could be fatal. Details

Friday, June 9, 2017 | 07:00 PM – 11:00PM

Investor’s Group Field, Chancellor Matheson Road, Winnipeg

$35 – $100

3. Eco Adventure Race

Travel by foot, bike and boat and use your orienteering skills to navigate to checkpoints around the southwest part of the city. There is no set running or cycling route for this year’s race, racers will receive race maps with set checkpoints marked 30 minutes before the race start. Details

4. Canada WNT

Canada Soccer`s Women`s National Team back-to-back Olympic Bronze medallists will return home to play Costa Rica. Details

5. Zombie Apocalypse 2017

A Live Action Zombie Apocalypse game. Grab your Nerf blaster and foam swords and join with hundreds of other players to battle zombies and try and survive until the end of the night. Ages 16+. Details

6. Lundar Duck Race

Buy your ducks soon as there are a limited number of ducks! There will also be a BBQ following the race! All proceeds go to the Lundar Community Pool. Details

7. Walk/Run

1. Challenge for Life 2.0 – 20k walk or 200 min work it. Details

2. TELUS Walk To Cure Diabetes – 5K walk. Details

1. Sharing Dance 2017

Sharing Dance has been chosen as a Canada’s 150th Project as an initiative used to motivate Canadians of all ages to participate in FREE, healthy, fun and creative dance activities. Learn the awesome annual routine, perform it in your community, and fundraise along the way. Details

2. Flatlander’s Beer Festival

Join us for the 15th Annual Flatlander’s Beer Festival presented by Manitoba Liquor Marts, in support of the True North Youth Foundation. 18+. Details

3. WAVE – Interlake Artists’ Studio Tour

Take an Art Road Trip on the western shore on Lake Winnipeg. Starting just north of Winnipeg, meet Interlake artists FACE to FACE in the spaces in which they create! Take the opportunity to see what happens on the other side of the studio doors, check out tools, works in progress and speak with the artists about how works are conceived, planned and made a reality. Details

4. Spring into Summer

Unique Crafts – Trades – Holistic – Wellness. Over 80 + Unique Small Business’s! Details

5. Mayor’s Luncheon for the Arts

Each year the Winnipeg Arts Council hosts the Mayor’s Luncheon for the Arts, to celebrate Winnipeg’s artistic achievement, and to honour the individuals and partnerships that make Winnipeg a true “city of the arts.” Details

6. Dixie’s Tupperware Party

Tupperware Parties filled with outrageously funny tales, heartfelt accounts, FREE giveaways, audience participation and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware ever sold on a theater stage. Details

7. Winnipeg International Salsa Congress

Join hundreds of avid dancers from across North America for the 2nd Winnipeg International Salsa Congress. This highly anticipated congress will be featuring some of the very best dance instructors, performers from all levels including kids, amateurs and professionals. Details

8. WildWoodRose Vintage Market

There will be over 50 vintage, antique and eclectic-styled vendors featuring jewelry, clothing, home decor, hats, soaps and so much more! The Exchange BIZ is thrilled to present live music at the Cube Stage. Sol James, Lanikai, Scott Nolan and Red Moon Road will have you dancing all day long! Details

9. Western Water & Wildlife Tour

Join us as we travel by bus to several natural areas in western Manitoba, and EXPERIENCE the area with short interpretive walks. LEARN about the wilderness, wildlife, and water, and what we need to do to preserve them.

We’ll visit Whitewater Lake, the Lauder Sand Hills, and the Souris River, as well as other spots. Details

10. From Talk to Table: Dinos Edition

Join Dr. Graham Young, Curator of Geology and Paleontology at the Manitoba Museum, for a look at Manitoba’s own fossilised history. Discover our province’s past through a deep-time look at the creatures that lived here during the age of the dinosaurs. Walk through World’s Giant Dinosaurs, and learn about new paleontological discoveries in Manitoba and beyond.

The tour will be followed by a discussion and delicious food at Peg Beer Co. Details

11. Manitoba Pet Expo

Come on out the 2017 Manitoba Pet Expo and see local animal rescues/shelters, advocacy groups, pet food companies, pet supply companies, pet service companies such as groomers, dog sitters, doggy daycare, veterinarians. Details

12. 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

13. Montcalm Heritage Festival

Enjoy pancake breakfast on Saturday morning, museum visits & demonstrations, the parade, the petting zoo as well as Manitoba artists performing on both days. A baseball tournament is held on Saturday. A canteen is open all day Saturday and Sunday. A brunch is available at the Community Hall on Sunday morning. Delicious suppers are available on Saturday and Sunday evenings. Details