What’s Up: Book launches, monster trucks, Feist, the Trews

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Curator tour and book launch for Tim Gardner: The Full Story

• Friday, Feb. 2, 6 p.m.
• WAG-Qaumajuq
• Free

Get the full story behind this landmark exhibition on a tour with its curator, WAG-Qaumajuq director and CEO Stephen Borys.

On view until April 7, Tim Gardner: The Full Story is the first retrospective and largest exhibition of Gardner’s work, featuring over 130 artworks spanning three decades. The Iowa-born, Manitoba- and Ontario-raised artist — who earned his BFA at the University of Manitoba — uses watercolours, oils and pastels to capture a side of masculinity and male camaraderie that is both tender and rambunctious, based on snapshots of his brother and his friends.

A fully illustrated hardcover exhibition catalogue, written by Borys with essay contributions from several Canadian scholars, will also launch on Friday night and will be available at ShopWAG.

Doors open at 6 p.m. The book launch program begins at 6:30 p.m., and the tour begins at 7 p.m.

— Jen Zoratti

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Heritage Winnipeg book launch

• Tuesday, Feb. 6, 7 p.m.
• McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park
• Free

Heritage Winnipeg is kicking off Winnipeg’s 150th anniversary year with the release of a book that details the city’s rich history through words and artwork.

The non-profit charitable organization, which works to promote the preservation and restoration of Winnipeg’s built landscape, launches its latest book, Winnipeg 150: Stories our Buildings Tell, on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson.

In addition to stories about Winnipeg’s built environment, the book features 150 original pieces of art by Robert Sweeney, who will be on hand for the launch alongside Heritage Winnipeg executive director Cindy Tugwell and president Greg Agnew.

Admission is free, and the event will also be available to stream on McNally Robinson’s YouTube page. The book will be available Tuesday, and can also be obtained in hardcover or paperback through Heritage Winnipeg’s website. https://heritagewinnipeg.com/store/books-2/

— Ben Sigurdson

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RAM Motorsports Spectacular

• Canada Life Centre, 300 Portage Ave.
• Saturday, Feb. 3, 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 4, 2 p.m.
• Tickets $23.50-$110.95 at Ticketmaster

Rev your engines, the monster trucks are back in town! Strap yourself in for an extravaganza of speed, power and car-crushing challenges as seven of the world’s toughest monster trucks race against each other on a junk-car-filled track.

With appearances by Train Wreck, Rockstar, Power Up, Identity Theft, Sabotage, California Kid and Spitfire, monster truck fans will have the chance to get up close and personal with the trucks and meet some of the drivers.

There will be quad battles, featuring two teams of three riders fighting it out to win the Battle Quad Challenge, and high-flying motocross freestyle jump in the Radical Jump Contest.

— AV Kitching

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Feist begins a final tour for her latest record

• Tuesday, Feb. 6, 8 p.m.
• Burton Cummings Theatre
• Tickets $32-$152 at Ticketmaster

A three-year process to record a critically acclaimed album is about to come full circle.

Feist, whose 2023 record Multitudes earned a spot on the Polaris Music Prize’s shortlist last year, begins a leg of 10 concerts in Canada and the United States at the Burton Cummings Theatre on Feb. 6 that she’s calling a finale.

Feist’s Multitudes journey began with the birth of her daughter in 2019 and the sudden death of her father in 2021.

The vast array of emotions the two life-changing events created led Feist to seek out her previous self: one that had earned 11 Juno Awards and four Grammy Award nominations.

So she embarked upon an on-the-go creation of Multitudes’ indie-rock songs, transforming an Airbnb house into a makeshift studio and using a residency in Hamburg, Germany, and intimate concerts to polish songs such as In Lightning, Hiding Out in the Open and Song for Sad Friends.

— Alan Small

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The Trews celebrate 20 years

• Saturday, Feb. 3, 8 p.m.
• Burton Cummings Theatre
• Tickets $40.50-$120 at Ticketmaster

In 2003, the Trews were not ready to go. Twenty years later, the Nova Scotia-born rock band is coming back to the record that started it all,

The group — made up of vocalist Colin MacDonald, lead guitarist John-Angus MacDonald, bassist Jack Syperek, drummer Chris Gormley and keyboardist Jeff Heisholt — is in the midst of a cross-country tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of its debut album, House of Ill Fame.

The album has Canadian Platinum certification and the single Not Ready to Go topped the Canadian radio charts the year it was released.

The Trews will play House of Ill Fame, which also includes the hit songs Every Inambition and Tired of Waiting, in its entirety during the first set of their Winnipeg stop. The second half of the show will be dedicated to other fan favourites.

— Eva Wasney

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