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Culture Days brimming with more than 260 free activities
Manitoba music videos will play on the IMAX screen at Portage Place, artists will try to fill the sidewalks of the Exchange District with colourful drawings for a Chalk Walk, and visitors can "pet the art" at a Moonlight Petting Zoo outside a gallery.
Those are just a few of the activities planned for the third-annual Culture Days Manitoba weekend, Sept. 28-30, organizers announced Monday.
Culture Days is a national weekend full of free events to raise the awareness, accessibility, participation and engagement of Canadians in the cultural life of their communities.
More than 260 free activities are planned so far in Winnipeg and communities across the province.
Nuit Blanche, a dusk-to-dawn celebration of the arts, takes place on Sept. 29. The Winnipeg Art Gallery will once again throw open its doors from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. and other venues in downtown, the Exchange and St. Boniface will have programming.
There will be free shuttle-bus service to transport participants between Nuit Blanche venues.
Last year, Nuit Blanche attracted more than 7,500 participants. Attendance across the province for the entire weekend numbered close to 30,000, project manager Kevin Walters said in a news release.
In Winnipeg, the 2012 Culture Days weekend includes concerts, screenings, art exhibitions, dance performances, behind-the-scenes tours of cultural facilities, a retro fashion show, storytelling events, workshops in everything from chess to martial arts, and much more.
There’s a Victorian scavenger hunt on the grounds of Dalnavert Museum, a Pop-up Film Festival that will appear in various neighbourhoods, and Art on the Bus. It will see a transit bus run on its regular route during Nuit Blanche in hopes of surprising riders with the transformation of "a mere functional vehicle to a space that holds wonder."
For a full list of activities, visit www.mb.culturedays.ca
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