What’s up: Brew at the Zoo, World Wellness Day, and Art on the Harte Trail

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Beers, bears and bisons — Brew at the Zoo is back

Assiniboine Park Zoo
Friday, Sept. 15, 7-10 p.m.
Tickets from $55 at assiniboinepark.ca

After a four-year absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic, local producers of beer, cider, wine and spirits are once again flocking to Assiniboine Park as part of this year’s Brew at the Zoo.

A number of local craft producers — including, among others, Brandon’s Section 6 Brewing and Winnipeg’s FullGeek BrewLab and Namesake Brewing — have come online since the walkabout tasting was last held and will be participating for the first time. There’ll be plenty of tried-and-true local favourites returning, including Kilter, Little Brown Jug, Sookram’s and Barn Hammer.

In addition to local brews, Manitoba-made wine, cider and spirits will be available to sample, along with non-alcoholic options and more. Food will be available throughout the zoo grounds, including a couple of dishes made specially for the event.

Tickets to Brew at the Zoo start at $55 plus fees, which includes all samples and a souvenir tasting cup. Premium admission is $75 plus fees and includes early admission (at 6 p.m. instead of 7 p.m.) as well as a food voucher. The event will proceed rain or shine.

To buy tickets and for a complete list of participating producers, see assiniboinepark.ca.

— Ben Sigurdson

CMHR celebrates World Wellness Day

Friday, Sept. 15, events begin at 11 a.m.
Canadian Museum for Human Rights, various sites throughout
Events are free with registration; meals $19-$50

Sept. 15 is World Wellness Day, and the CMHR is offering a suite of events to help you take care of your mind, body and soul.

The Winnipeg Humane Society will have therapy dogs on hand for snuggles and pats, while local chiropractor Nick Simoes will offer a pair of workshops on healthy movement habits and stress.

Modo Yoga’s Sari Levitt will lead a yoga class in the Stuart Clark Garden Garden of Contemplation and Heather Steppler will offer an Indigenous Paint Night.

For those who want to nibble on nourishing, whole-food dishes, Boreal Bistro will offer a $19 lunch special and a $50 four-course dinner, with seatings at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.

On Saturday, CMHR knowledge keeper Marilyn Dykstra will host a workshop on Indigenous sacred medicines. Participants will also be able to make their own medicine bags to take home with them.

Registration required. For sign up, dinner tickets and the full schedule, visit this website.

— Jen Zoratti

Art on the Harte Trail

Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 16 and 17; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Various locations
Visit hartetrailstudiotour.net for more information

The annual Harte Trail Studio Tour takes place this weekend with 19 local artists and crafters opening their homes and studios to the public.

This year’s stops are located in Charleswood, Tuxedo, St. James and Headingley, with many sections of the tour navigable by foot or bike.

The studio tour was founded in 2018 by a collective of neighbourhood artists and is named after the Harte Trail, a 6.5-kilometre section of the Trans Canada Trail running through south Charleswood.

Participating artists include painters, sculptors, ceramicists, photographers and jewellers. While the event is free to attend, artwork will be available to purchase from individual artists.

Visitors can pick up a passport at any of the studios. Collect stamps from each stop you visit and be entered into a draw to win a $400 credit toward a painting or object of your choosing.

— Eva Wasney

Théâtre Cercle Molière turns dinner into a show

Saturday, Sept. 16, from 7 to 9 p.m., 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
CCFM, 340 Provencher
Price: $225 for meal, $25 for afterparty at cerclemoliere.com

Théâtre Cercle Molière pairs fine dining with high-flying entertainment this Saturday, partnering with Deer + Almond on L’Escapade, a fundraiser that combines the culinary and circus arts.

Chefs Mandel Hitzer and Kris Kurus’ menu is a four-course meal, including hors d’oeuvres (mini corndogs, popcorn shrimp, tomato tartar cornets) along with bluefin tuna carpaccio, a duo of ravioli served with parmesan and black truffle mushrooms and a roast pork loin. That will all be paired with performances by contortionist Anastasia Evsigneeva, aerial artist Liz Cooper, circus pro Sarah Teakle and contemporary dance artist Robin Poitras. St.-Pierre-Jolys artist Sol Desharnais programmed the night.

For those who can’t make it to dinner, rest assured, TCM has you covered with its afterparty ($25), where guests can play fairground games, get tarot readings, or make memories in the photobooth. Then comes a set of fiddle-infused house music from DJ Douzie and dancer Tiauni Starr, known for performing on stilts or with fire. To close out the night, the award-winning group the Mariachi Ghost will take the theatre stage, joined by dancer Emily McDougall.

— Ben Waldman

Opera company hoists the sails aboard the Nonsuch

Sept. 20-23. 7:30 p.m.
Nonsuch Gallery, Manitoba Museum
Tickets: $30, $22 for seniors, students and arts workers at eventbrite.ca or manitobaundergroundopera.com

Arrr, mateys, are you ready for some Verdi?

The Nonsuch, a reproduction fur-trading ketch that is the flagship of the Manitoba Museum, will be taken over by pirates Sept. 20-23 when the Manitoba Underground Opera performs Giuseppe Verdi’s The Corsair, which is based on Lord Byron’s 1814 poem.

Mezzo-soprano Simran Claire plays Corrado, a chief corsair, or pirate captain, who leaves her lover, Medora (Ashley Boychuk) behind and sets sail for the Mediterranean Sea with his crew of choristers to attack the Turks in search of plunder.

Corrado is usually performed by a male tenor, but Manitoba Underground Opera’s version is inspired by female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read.

There’s only so much room in the museum’s Nonsuch Gallery, where the replica of the 17th-century ship that sailed from England to Hudson Bay is docked, so tickets are scarce. The Sept. 20, 22 and 23 performances are already sold out, according to ticket-selling website eventbrite.ca.

— Alan Small