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Kilterpalooza

• Kilter Brewing Co., 450 Rue Deschambault
• Saturday, noon to 11 p.m.
• Free

Kilter Brewing Co. celebrates eight years of beers this weekend with the annual Kilterpalooza taking place at the St. Boniface brewery on Saturday from noon to 11 p.m.

The event is more than just a release of new/limited-run craft beer — although it’s that as well. There’s live music throughout the day (including Tiana and George Foreman & the Grills, as well as tunes being spun by DJ Dad) plus daytime activities (noon to 6 p.m.) including a tie-dye station, temporary tattoos, outdoor games (Connect 4, giant Jenga, corn hole and tic-tac-toe), prizes and face painting.

A vendor market kicks off at noon, running to 6 p.m. or later featuring 1882 Fruit Based Hot Sauce, Happyland Print Shop, Rewind Vintage, Victory Pints and others, including Kilter’s own beer and merch store.

On the drinks front, Kilter is rolling out a bevy of new brews (six to be precise) including the Birthday Cake Oat Cream Pale Ale (featuring two kinds of hops, as well as vanilla and milk sugar), the Pickle Pils (brewed with Primo’s Deli pickle brine) and the Soak Up the Sun Hazy IPA, a collaboration with Calgary’s the Establishment Brewing Co. that features a range of dry and cryogenic hops. There will also be cocktails and cocktail slushies as well as plenty of non-alcoholic options.

For those worried about getting peckish while sipping on birthday brews, there will be hot dog and taco stand specials throughout the day.

Kilterpalooza is free for all ages, and the expanded backyard beer gardens and patios are pet-friendly. The event also includes a free bike valet.

— Ben Sigurdson

Wave Interlake Artists’ Studio Tour

• Various studios and galleries in the Interlake
• Saturday and Sunday
• Free

The artists of the eastern Interlake area are celebrating 25 years as Manitoba’s original self-guided artists’ studio tour.

This year 21 artists will be opening their studios and galleries to the public during the annual celebration of arts and culture, which takes place over two weekends; in early summer and again in September.

For this weekend’s free tour, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, Interlake-based artists will open their studios, offering behind-the-scenes access to creative processes across a wide range of media, including pottery, painting, glass, jewelry and carving.

Visit watchthewave.ca to download a guide before setting off on your very own art adventure.

— AV Kitching

Gabriela Ocejo and Kyle Cobb

• Langside Grocery, 164 Langside St.
• Thursday, 7 p.m. and 9 p.m
• Free

When new management unveiled Langside Grocery 2.0 in January, they promised not much had changed. Those who piled into the freshly renovated West Broadway cocktail bar on reopening night probably first noticed the missing taxidermy — absconded after the previous owners moved on. Oh well.

But on top of redoing the menu, there are also new upstairs neighbours: Public City Architecture, who now run the restaurant and bar on the main floor to boot. The latest addition to Langside’s menu is a venue, because every Thursday the bar serves South American-flavoured jazz sets, transforming the West Broadway staple into a music space.

The chefs are Gabriela Ocejo and Kyle Cobb. They perform standards, originals and improvise into the night, sometimes with guests. Cobb is one of the city’s jazz-guitar virtuosos on the rise and the Argentine-born Ocejo (of the all-female jazz septet Juvel) is as distinctive a crooner here as any.

—Conrad Sweatman

Josh Johnson

• Burton Cummings Theatre
• Sunday at 5 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
• Tickets: $66 to $97 at Ticketmaster

The comedy universe is festooned with stars — Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, John Oliver, Hasan Minhaj, Jabouki Young-White and Roy Wood, Jr. — who have held the title of Daily Show correspondent, the on-air talent who’ve supported hosts Craig Kilborn, Jon Stewart and Trevor Noah over the course of the Comedy Central tentpole’s 30-year reign.

On the current roster is American comedian Josh Johnson, who released his first HBO Max standup special, Symphony, last month. Before beginning his hour, Johnson stands under a sign reading, “If art is how we decorate space and music is how we decorate time, comedy is how we decorate reality.”

Get a feel for Johnson’s design sensibility on Sunday for his Comedy Band Camp Tour back-to-back stand at the Burt.

Can’t swing a ticket? Check out Dave Hemstad’s residency at Rumor’s Comedy Club. A regular contributor to CBC’s The Debaters, the Kelowna, B.C.-raised comic served as Gas Station Arts Centre host at this spring’s Winnipeg Comedy Festival and has already been booked to return in 2027. Hemstad goes up each night through Saturday, with tickets ranging from $20 to $25 (rumorscomedyclub.com).

— Ben Waldman

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