Theatre & Arts

Theatre

Strong Poison

Join Lord Peter Wimsey on his quest for the truth in this romantic whodunit adapted from the 1931 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, MTC, to Nov. 14; $29.40 to $66.15 at 942-6537.

Souvenirs

A father and daughter divided by a generation are joined by the redemptive power of love and family, 8 p.m. today and tomorrow, 3 & 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Portage Place; $38 to $40, students/seniors $28 to $32 at 942-5483.

Le périmetre (Restraint)

A couple navigate the tempestuous waters of separation, presented by Le Cercle Molière, Théâtre de la Chapelle, 825 Saint-Joseph St., 7 p.m. today, 8 p.m. tomorrow and 2 p.m. Saturday; $25.71, students/seniors $23.33 at 233-8053.

Adhere And Deny: The Telephone

A chamber play inspired by Jean Cocteau's The Human Voice offers an alternative approach to Cocteau's story of a woman talking on the telephone to her former lover who is about to marry another woman, and her suicide, opens Tuesday, 70 Albert, to Nov. 8, 8 p.m. nightly; $10 at 774-6334.

Puppetry of the Penis

The Ancient Australian Art of Genital Origami starring a brand-new cast and featuring hilarious penis installations, including the Pelican, The Windsurfer, The Eiffel Tower, Loch Ness monster, and their signature installation, the Hamburger, 7 p.m. tomorrow, Burton Cummings Theatre; $37 & $47 at Ticketmaster.

Rent

By Jonathan Larson and presented by 7 Ages Productions, 8 p.m. tomorrow and 2:30 & 8 p.m. Saturday, Gas Station Theatre; $25, students/seniors $20.

Celebrations: Good Vibrations

The Summer of '68 featuring the music of The Beach Boys, Canad Inn Fort Garry, 1824 Pembina, to Jan. 9; $51.95 Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday and $61.95 Friday and Saturday, children $25.95 at 982-8282.

Dance

Razom: A Fusion of Ukrainian Dance

Featuring 90 Ukrainian dancers, 2 p.m. Sunday, Centennial Concert Hall; $34 to $39 at Ticketmaster.

Literary

Widows of Hamilton House

Local author Christina Penner reads from her novel, which draws heavily on a fascinating time in Winnipeg's paranormal history when mediums attempted to summon the dead, 12:10 p.m. tomorrow, Millennium Library.

Fiction Workshop

With Sandra Birdsell, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, 218 - 100 Arthur St., $150 or $100 (Manitoba Writers Guild members), pre-registration and submission info@mbwriter.mb.ca.

Jim Shilliday

Launches A Memory of Sky: A Pilot's View of Canada's Century of Flight, an illustrated history of both civil and military aviation written by a former RCAF jet fighter pilot, 2 p.m. Sunday, McNally Robinson Polo Park.

Come Walk With Me: A Memoir by Beatrice Mosionier

For years, readers have asked: How much of In Search of April Raintree, about two Métis sisters who struggle with racism, is from the author's own life? Come Walk With Me, is the answer to this question, 7 p.m. Monday, McNally Robinson Polo Park.

Carol Matas

Winnipeg children's and young adult author marks her 40th book, with the release of her Freak Trilogy, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, McNally Robinson Grant Park.

Lectures

Transportation: Shocking Society into the Future

By Professor Arne Elias, University of Winnipeg's Centre for Sustainable Transportation, SkyWalk Lecture Series, 12:10 p.m. Wednesday, Millennium Library; free.

Films

Three Monkeys

A politician hits a pedestrian with his car and asks his driver to take the rap (Turkish with English subtitles), 7 & 9 p.m. today and tomorrow, Ellice Theatre; $4.99.

Comedy

Saffrons Comedy Night

Featuring Ryan McMahon, John B. Duff, Cara Lytwyn, Andrew Lizotte, Lee White and Keener Dougherty, 681 Corydon, 9 p.m. today; free admission.

Just For Laughs Comedy Tour 2009

Hosted by Sugar Sammy with Danny Bhoy, Tommy Tiernan, Pete Correale and Godfrey, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Centennial Concert Hall; $35.50 & $42.50 at Ticketmaster.

Halloween Happenings

Boo at The Zoo

Assiniboine Park Zoo, 6 p.m. tonight and tomorrow; $7.50 at Safeway or $10 at the gate.

The Night of 100 Monsters

Presented by Art City, 4 to 8 p.m. tomorrow, Broadway Neighbourhood Centre. Free.

Winnipeg Ghost Walk

See some of Winnipeg's most haunted buildings. What was found hidden in the walls of the old Masonic Temple? Where did the first executions in Manitoba take place? Tours depart from the park across from Burton Cummings Theatre (Smith Street and Notre Dame Avenue) nightly at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday; $10, students/seniors $8.

Six Pines Ghostbuster Haunt

Featuring The Terror Train, Twisted Barn of Doom, hayride and horseback rides, plus the 1959 fully restored Ghostbuster Cadillac Ambulance, Special Gate Night tonight for adults only from 6:30-11 p.m. tonight and Saturday from noon-5:30 p.m., located four kilometres north of the Perimeter Highway on Sturgeon Road.; $10.

Halloween at the Cathedral

Lovers of spooky music, creepy history and good pizza can gather in the cemetery at the Anglican Cathedral of St. John, 135 Anderson Ave., to enjoy a walk with our departed ancestors on a tour of St. John's historic graveyard, a pizza supper and a concert of scary organ tunes, 5:30 p.m. tomorrow; $15, $10 for students at the door.

Kitchen Party Halloween Ceilidhe

A family friendly Fusion D.T. fundraiser, 7 p.m. tomorrow, Crescent FortRouge United Church, Wardlaw and Nassau; $10, children free.

Dugald Haunted House

Featuring Hollywood-style props and spooks and ghouls to entertain kids and adults, Double Spurs Ranch, 29145 Prairie Grove Rd., Dugald, today to Saturday from 6-10 p.m. For more information, visit www.ds-ranch.net.

Meet Market Adventures Singles Halloween Haunt

6:30 p.m. tomorrow, Six Pines Ranch, four kilometres north of the Perimeter Highway on Sturgeon Road.; $19.99 by calling 663-6338 or visiting www.meetmarketadventures.com.

Out and About

Central Canada Comic Convention

Featuring Adam West (Batman), Julie Newmar (Catwoman), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) and Dirk Benedict (Battlestar Galactica), 5-9 p.m. tomorrow and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Winnipeg Convention Centre; $20 for a weekend pass.

Manitoba Ahbee Festival

A celebration of Aboriginal music, art and culture opens Wednesday, MTS Centre, Winnipeg Convention Centre and other venues around the city, to Nov. 8, www.manitoahbee.com

Museums

Manitoba Museum

Robots + Us, a 6,000-square-foot traveling exhibit that shows how biology and technology are intertwined. As soon as you walk in, you're greeted by a robot avatar, a computer-simulated face that reacts to your words, to Jan. 17; Phase one of the Cretaceous Life exhibit in the Earth History Gallery includes dinosaur fossils, a rare glimpse inside a dinosaur's bones and insects trapped in amber; Gathered Treasures, some of The Museum's most intriguing artifacts, open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday to Friday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and closed Monday; admission $8 adults, $6.50 youths/seniors, $26.50 family; visit www.manitobamuseum.ca.

Planetarium

The Halloween Show -- Corky the Bat and The Wise Old Owl dispel myths about bats and explain the origins of our most popular Halloween traditions, 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. weekends; To the Moon -- featuring the voice of Ace Burpee, highlights the exploration of our nearest celestial neighbour, 1 & 3 p.m. weekends; Manitoba Skies -- current sky events and how to observe the sky with the unaided eye, binoculars or a telescope, 4 p.m. weekends.

Galleries

Ace Art

Horror Fables by Howie Tsui, a painting-based installation using imagery from traditional Asian ghost stories that satirises the disturbing social climate of fear and fantasy in contemporary western culture to Nov. 13, 290 McDermot.

Assiniboine Park Conservatory

Victorian Chrysanthemum Show, until Nov. 15.

Assiniboine Park Pavilion Gallery

Belgrade Light, photographs by Sarah Crawley, to Jan. 3.

Birchwood Art Gallery

Duetto by Shirley & Alexus Elias and introducing sculptor Ruth Campbell, to Nov. 21, 1170 Taylor.

Buhler Gallery

Perspectives: Robert Houle & Tim Schouten Exhibition, focusing on key moments of Western Canadian and Manitoba history, including First Nation Treaty sites, spirituality and prairie landscapes; meet the artists on Thursday, Nov. 5 at 7:30 p.m., St. Boniface General Hospital.

Gallery Lacosse

Paintings by Janice Kenworthy, to Nov. 6, 169 Lilac.

Gallery 803

Paul Robles' Rabble Rousers, large and small scale collages depicting often humorous scenes of his "army of creatures" pushing, pulling and climbing across the paper, to Nov. 21, 803 Erin.

Maison des Artistes

Litanie by Lorraine Pritchard and J.R. Léveillé, to Nov. 10, 219 Provencher.

Manitoba Crafts Museum & Library

Focus on Fibres 60th Anniversary Celebration of the Manitoba Weavers and Fibre Artists, 183 Kennedy.

Medea Gallery

Gantzel's Glimpses, photography by Jack Gantzel, opening reception Sunday, 1-4 p.m., 132 Osborne.

Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery

Urban Textures by the Articulation Textile Group, to Nov. 14, 600 Shaftesbury Blvd.

OSEREDOK Ukrainian Cultural & Educational Centre

Woodcuts by Jacques Hnizdovsky, to Nov. 7, 184 Alexander Ave. East.

Paul Thorlakson Gallery

Linearis, Paintings by art librarian Liv Valmestad, to Nov. 26, University of Manitoba's Elizabeth Dafoe Library.

Piano Nobile

Symphony in Glass by Kathleen Black & Lesley Dawyduk, to Dec. 12, Centennial Concert Hall.

Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art

Disruption from Within by Michel de Broin, to Nov. 21, 286 McDermot.

Stoneware Gallery

Shifting Palettes by Kevin Stafford, to Nov. 25, 778 Corydon.

Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art

Métis/sage by David Garneau explores the messy realities of cultural convergence in modern life, the merging of Métis (the people), métisage (mixing), and sage (wise folk and the sacred plant), pointing to the equal significance of the past and the present in current experience, to Nov. 14, 290 McDermot.

Wah-sa Gallery

New acrylic works on paper and canvas by Ted Oster, to Nov. 7, The Forks.

Wayne Arthur Gallery

Spirit of a Province, paintings and quilts by Judith Panson, opens tomorrow, 186 Provencher.

Winnipeg Art Gallery

Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, to Jan. 10; Yousuf Karsh: Regarding Heroes, to Jan. 3; EUROfix, celebrating five centuries of European art with over 150 works, to Feb. 7; Inuit Sculpture: Selections from the Collection, to Nov. 15; admission $8, students/seniors $6, children $4 or $18 for a family.

Past the Perimeter

Akon

With Danny Fernandes and Girlicious, 8 p.m. today, Westman Place, Brandon; $39, $59 and $69.

Brandon University Symphonic Band

8 p.m. today, Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium; $10, students/seniors $8.

Brandon University School of Music's Open House

Today and tomorrow.