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We Rock Winnipeg goes to Lilith Fair

Friday, 9 p.m.

Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club

Tickets are $22.85 at eventbrite.ca, $25 at the door

Enjoy your favourite ’90s jams as performed by some of Winnipeg’s best live acts, all for a great cause.

We Rock Winnipeg — formerly Girls Rock Winnipeg — runs a summer camp for female, trans, two spirit and gender non-conforming youth aged 10-15. Campers form a band, learn an instrument, write an original song and perform at a showcase at the West End Cultural Centre — all in the space of one week.

In addition to technical training, campers also participate in workshops aimed at fostering creativity and boosting confidence.

This year’s camp runs Aug 14-19, and has spaces for 35 campers, or seven bands.

It takes resources to make this kind of magic, so We Rock Winnipeg is holding a Lilith Fair Night to raise funds for this year’s youth summer camp. The bill includes Sierra Noble, Claire Thérése & The Lockdown, Mobina Galore, Gabriela Ocejo, Bicycle Face, A La Mode, French Class, Sleeping Climb and more.

Doors open at 8 p.m. Youth under 18 can attend with a parent or guardian. Can’t make the show? Support tickets are also available at eventbrite.ca

— Jen Zoratti

Bicycles & Bloomers

Friday, 6:30 p.m.

Crescent Fort Rouge United Church, 525 Wardlaw Ave.

Admission by donation

The role of bikes — and the liberation they offered to women — from the 1800s onward is the focus of a local production that will feature songs, jokes, skits, stories and more.

The Crescent Arts Centre’s Vaudeville camp program presents Bicycles & Bloomers: The History of the Bicycle and the Bloomers That Rode Them on Friday, May 12, at Crescent Fort Rouge United Church.

Along with chronicling the history and evolution of the bicycle, the production highlights some of the most famous women to ride around on two wheels, as well as an exploration of bloomers — both the uniform of choice for riding bikes hundreds of years ago, and what those who wore them came to be called.

The show, funded in part by a New Horizons grant, is being directed by vaudeville vet Grant Simpson with input from banjoist Tim Osmond, and features music written and composed with the assistance of Jaxon Haldane.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the show gets underway at 7. Admission is by donation at the door.

— Ben Sigurdson

Pinky Patel meets her Winnipeg priends

Saturday, 3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Park Theatre

Tickets: $39.14 and $80.60, including fees, for the 3:30 p.m. show. The 7:30 p.m. show is sold out.

Pinky Patel has packed her tiara and her lip balm and is making her way to Winnipeg for her New Crown Who Dhis tour.

The mother of two and IT worker from Chicago became an unlikely TikTok sensation shortly after starting her channel on the social-media site in October 2020.

“I make videos for one singular friend and she said to post it and here we are now,” Patel said in an interview with Chicago’s WGN Morning News in 2021.

Her sometimes raunchy observations and “Pinky-splaining” advice to her “priends” has gained her 5.3 million followers on TikTok, and the opportunity to discover if her brand of comedy works on the standup stage.

If sales for Patel’s Saturday shows at the Park Theatre are any indication, she’ll be as popular in person as she is on the internet. An evening concert sold out quickly but there are still tickets remaining for her afternoon set.

— Alan Small

Shania Twain brings Queen of Me tour to Winnipeg

Sunday, 7:30 p.m.

Canada Life Centre

Tickets from www.ticketmaster.ca

Grab your boots, get your cowboy hats, and Let’s Go!

Shania Twain returns to Winnipeg on her 49-date global Queen of Me tour, her first in nearly five years.

The five-time Grammy Award-winning songstress and bestselling female artist in country music history will showcase new music, sure to be as universally appealing as classics such as Man! I Feel Like a Woman! and That Don’t Impress Me Much.

The country crossover artist’s appeal continues unabated as Queen of Me, her sixth album, charted in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart after its February release. She is the only female artist other than Madonna to chart in the 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s. She continues to remain relevant, capturing the hearts of a new generation of fans after her appearance with Harry Styles at Coachella last year.

Twain has added a second Winnipeg show on Nov. 7 for those unable to make this one.

— AV Kitching

Celebrate downtown spirit

May 15-19

Various times and locations

Visit backdowntown.ca for more info

Back Downtown — a campaign to encourage people to return to the city’s core — is offering office workers five days of freebies during its upcoming Spirit Week event. The campaign was launched last fall by a coalition of neighbourhood organizations and business improvement zones

The fun begins Monday with oversized board games at Old Market Square and Central Park between noon and 1:30 p.m.

On Tuesday, the first 100 visitors to Harrisons Coffee Co., Human Bean Coffee & Tea or Hildegard’s Bakery will receive a free coffee or tea.

Enjoy a pro-bono workout on Wednesday at the Community Gym, GoodLife Fitness or Drop-In Dance — specific class times only.

Partake in some animal therapy on Thursday from noon to 1:30 p.m. at 201 Portage, True North Square Plaza or Central Park, featuring adoptable puppies from the Winnipeg Humane Society.

Spirit Week wraps up Friday with a neighbourhood-wide happy-hour event at participating restaurants between 4 and 6 p.m.

— Eva Wasney

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