What’s up: Sounds of Ukraine, smooth jazz, and… Tina Belcher

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From Bob’s Burgers to Rumor’s

Thursday, April 13, to Saturday, April 15, various times

Rumor’s Comedy Club, 2025 Corydon Ave.

Tickets $29 at rumorscomedyclub.com

The man behind horse-loving animated teenager Tina Belcher brings his monotone standup to Winnipeg this weekend for a three-night residency at Rumor’s Comedy Club.

Dan Mintz — best known as the voice of the eldest sibling of the Bob’s Burgers clan — is a writer, actor and comedian originally from Anchorage, Alaska. He kicked off his comedy career in Boston and has gone on to perform on nearly every late-night program, including The Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live and Late Night with Conan O’Brien. His 2014 comedy album, The Stranger, was named best of the year by Variety magazine.

As a comic, Mintz is about as awkward as the 13-year-old girl he plays on TV — although his standup routine likely includes less erotic zombie fan-fiction. Prepare for a barrage of observational one-liners delivered in a practiced deadpan.

Mintz takes the stage at Rumor’s tonight at 7:45 p.m., tomorrow at 7:15 and 9:45 p.m. and Saturday at 9:45 p.m. (tickets for Saturday’s early show are already sold out).

— Eva Wasney

Erin Propp brings solo show to Fort Garry Hotel

Sunday, April 16, 6 p.m.

Club Room at the Fort Garry Hotel, 222 Broadway

Tickets $18 plus fees at wfp.to/0nF

Jazz Winnipeg and the Fort Garry Hotel have teamed up for twice-weekly programming dubbed, quite sensibly, Jazz at the Fort Garry Hotel, which sees performances in the hotel’s lower-level Club Room on Wednesdays and Sundays. (The space doubles as Yuk Yuk’s comedy club Thursdays through Saturdays.)

This weekend’s featured performer is local Juno-nominated singer-songwriter Erin Propp, who doesn’t exactly fit neatly into the genre of jazz — or any other label. A frequent collaborator with jazz musician and producer Larry Roy, Propp’s vocal melodies and songs deliver elements of folk, jazz, world music and some of pop’s best-known vocalists.

Propp and Roy’s 2012 album, Courage, My Love, won best jazz album of the year at the 2013 Western Canadian Music Awards and was a finalist for vocal jazz album of the year at the 2014 Junos. Their most recent album was 2021’s We Want All the Same Things.

Doors open at 6 p.m., with the first set at 7 p.m. and the second at 8:15 p.m. A selection from the Fort Garry’s food and drinks menu is also available during the show.

— Ben Sigurdson

The sweetest deal in town

MAWA’s Over the Top art auction and cupcake party

Sunday, April 16, 1-5 p.m.

MAWA, 611 Main St.

Tickets $10 in advance at mawa.ca, $12 at the door

A chance to own an original artwork by an exciting talent and all-you-can-eat cupcakes? Say no more.

More than 100 works by emerging and established artists will be up for bid at Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA)’s annual art auction, which also packs a sugar rush in the form of artfully decorated cupcakes. CBC Radio’s Faith Fundal will host.

The event, now in its 19th year, typically raises more than $30,000 for the not-for-profit registered charity, so it can keep providing visual art education and programming — including mentorships, lectures, skills workshops, critical reading groups and a beading circle — for women and gender-marginalized people as it has done for the past 39 years.

For those who can’t make the cupcake party, pre-bidding will be open at MAWA’s Main Street gallery on Friday, April 14, from 6 to 10 p.m. or Saturday, April 15, from noon to 5 p.m. For more information, visit mawa.ca.

— Jen Zoratti

Oseredok, CMHR team up for Sound of Ukraine

Monday, April 17, 6:30 p.m.

Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Tickets: $50 at oseredok.ca

Music and art by some of Ukraine’s greatest artists, past and present, will be the focus at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Monday.

The Sound of Ukraine Immersive Concert includes the Canadian debut of Ukrainian pianist and composer Tymur Polianskyi, who will perform with Winnipeg mezzo-soprano and folk-music vocalist Lizzy Hoyt, who earlier this month won a Canadian Folk Music Award for her 2022 Celtic music record, The Parting Glass.

Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre, which is presenting the Sound of Ukraine with the CMHR, will also bring The Immersive World of Ukrainian Art, a visual projection of works by painters Taras Shevchenko and Maria Prymachenko to the CMHR; Oseredok has hosted the exhibition at its museum since last October.

The immersive videos will be accompanied by music Polianskyi composed for the musical film Hutsulka Ksenya, which in 2020 won a Zolota Dzyga award, Ukraine’s equivalent of an Academy Award.

The Immersive World of Ukrainian Art, as well as Ukraine: Land of the Brave, an immersive exhibition that focuses on Ukraine’s struggle against Russia’s invasion, will continue at Oseredok (184 Alexander Ave. E.) until April 30.

— Alan Small

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