What’s Up: Club Soda, winter carnival, Festival of Beers, Tetyana Haraschuk, Good Will Social Club

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Parlour Coffee becomes Club Soda

• Friday, 8 p.m. until late
• Parlour Coffee (468 Main St.)

This non-alcoholic pop-up is for you and is zero-proof positive that good times — and good drinks — don’t need to come with bad hangovers.

For one night only, Main Street’s Parlour Coffee will transform into Club Soda, featuring mocktails by local distillery Patent 5 and beer and wine from Academy Road’s SOBR Market. DJ Milly B will be spinning tunes all night.

If you’re sober, sober-curious or participating in Damp or Dry January — a month-long challenge in which one cuts back or abstains from alcohol completely — this club’s for you.

Doors open at 8 p.m. Cover is $5.

— Jen Zoratti

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Snow much fun in Charleswood

Roblin Park Winter Carnival

• Until Sunday
• Roblin Park Community Centre, 640 Pepperloaf Cres.
• Most activities free; $15 for Saturday’s broomball social and casino night at roblinpark.org/carnival

The week-long annual event, which started on Monday with a house-league hockey tournament, continues with a family bingo night tonight, bonfire and fireworks on Friday, family activities Saturday followed by a broomball tournament, social and casino night, and culminates with the hockey tournament finals on Sunday.

Now in its 75th year, the popular neighborhood event features raffles and a 50/50 draw running throughout the week.

Weekend festivities kick off with a pancake breakfast at 9 a.m. Saturday followed by a family fun day complete with a fish pond, crafts, cookie decorating, glitter tattoos and a circus show at 3.30 p.m.

From 6 p.m. to 1 a.m., it’s time for the grown-ups to get their glad rags on for the annual social and casino night, featuring a DJ, food, drinks and fire pits.

On Sunday, as well as the hockey finals. there will be horse-drawn sleigh rides and a petting farm from 11 a.m to 2 p.m.

— AV Kitching

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Brasserie holds pint-sized beer fest

Promenade Brasserie’s Festival of Beers

• Monday, 6-10 p.m.
• Promenade Brasserie, 130 Provencher Blvd.
• Tickets $60 plus taxes at wfp.to/jTE

Over a half dozen local brewers will convene at Promenade Brasserie on Monday for their inaugural Festival of Beers.

The event, which runs from 6-10 p.m., will feature live music, food by Promenade Brasserie, giveaways and, of course, plenty of lagers, ales, sours and more from local craft producers.

Brewers and representatives will be on hand pouring beers from (among others) Oxus, Torque, One Great City, Trans Canada, Nonsuch, Kilter and Bookstore Brewing Co. — expect samples of both core pours along with products exclusive to the t.

Promenade Brasserie is the brainchild of Jay Lekopoy, who took over the space in April 2023 and has created a menu that combines Prairie ingredients (many foraged) and Métis influence with fine dining techniques and components.

— Ben Sigurdson

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Jazz Winnipeg welcomes Ukrainian-Canadian composer

Tetyana Haraschuk

• Sunday, 7 p.m.
• Fort Garry Hotel Club Room, 222 Broadway
• Tickets $20 at jazzwinnipeg.com

Drummer and composer Tetyana Haraschuk leads a trio Sunday as part of the Jazz at the Fort Garry Hotel concert series.

The Ukrainian-Canadian — Haraschuk was born in Kyiv but has music degrees from the University of Manitoba and the Berklee College of Music in Boston — will team up with bassist Devon Gillingham and guitarist Kyle Cobb for a show Jazz Winnipeg expects will bend most of the musical rules.

Haraschuk released a four-song EP, Someone You’ve Never Been, in 2023 and started a newsletter, Until the Sun Comes, which focuses on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

She visited Warsaw in 2023 and found the Polish capital has become a bilingual city owing to the many Ukrainians who have moved there to escape the war.

— Alan Small

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Paradise in a polar vortex

• Friday and Saturday
• Kilter Brewing Company, 450 Rue Deschambault
• Free

Kilter is eschewing the frigid outdoor temperatures and leaning into its tropical decor with a paradise-themed pop-up this weekend.

Bindy’s Caribbean Delights will be serving hot, spicy rotis and jerk chicken wings in the taproom of the St. Boniface brewery on Friday and Saturday. Island cocktails, slushies and specialty beers will also be available for purchase.

The food and drink will be paired with tropical tunes from 7 to 11 p.m., with DJ sets by Adam Collier on Friday, and Fold Paper and Sara St. Cyr on Saturday.

This is Kilter’s fourth event in its “Another Day in Paradise” series.

— Eva Wasney

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How To Say Goodbye

• Friday, 8 p.m.
• Tickets $20 at showpass.com
• The Good Will Social Club, 625 Portage Ave.

Since the venue opened in 2014, hundreds of Winnipeg bands have made the Good Will Social Club their home. The beloved Portage Avenue spot is set to close its doors on Feb. 1, sending local music fans spiralling into the fog of nostalgia, trying to remember every artist encountered there. On Friday, five bands will unite to send the venue off with a bang.

Surprise Party, Mulligrub, Hut Hut, Catamounts and Fencing will take the stage. Bring your earplugs, grab your Kleenex, and raise a toast to a soon-to-be-mourned music venue that defined Winnipeg’s indie music scene for a decade.

— Ben Waldman

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