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ALAN SMALL / MUSIC

Victoria Day weekend also Manito Ahbee weekend

The Manito Ahbee Festival — the annual celebration of indigenious arts and culture — moves into the May long weekend and the RBC Convention Centre, mostly, for 2016. Among the major events are an indigenous music conference on Thursday, May 19, and the International Pow Wow on Saturday, May 21, and Sunday, May 22. On Friday, May 20, the Celebrate Indigenous Music Concert takes place at the Club Regent Event Centre — scheduled performers include Susan Aglukark, William Prince, Rhonda Head, the Dee Erin Band, Rescued by Dragonflyz, Twin Flames, Dawn Wood and the Stoney Park Drum Group. Tickets are $20 at Ticketmaster.

 

 

 

 

 

 

BRAD OSWALD / TV

Marge does hard time on The Simpsons

When we hear “ripped from the headlines” in reference to a TV-show storyline, we usually think of hard-hitting procedural dramas such as Law & Order or C.S.I. or N.C.I.S. This week, however, it’s the most cartoonish of clans — The Simpsons — that offers up an episode that folks in these parts might feel hews very close to real-life events. In the season-finale episode Orange Is the New Yellow (which airs Sunday, May 22, at 7 p.m. on Fox and Global), Marge finds herself behind bars after being arrested for allowing Bart to go to the playground unsupervised. But the joke’s really on Homer, who’s overwhelmed by chores, while Marge finds jailhouse life to be a walk in the park compared with being a wife and mother in the Simpson household.

 

BEN MacPHEE-SIGURDSON / BEER

List of budding local breweries, brew pubs keeps growing

Add another name to the list of forthcoming potential Winnipeg brew pubs and breweries. Trans Canada Brewing Co. has little more than a landing page and Twitter account at present, but they’ve included an actual bricks-and-mortar address — 1290 Kenaston Blvd., just a stone’s throw from Fort Garry Brewing Co. They join the recently (mostly) opened Peg Beer Co. brew pub, as well as a handful of breweries under construction (Torque, Barn Hammer, Little Brown Jug) and a few others that have been announced (including One Great City and Stone Angel). It remains to be seen whether any will have beer to pour at this year’s Flatlander’s Beer Festival June 24 and 25 at the MTS Centre.

 

RANDALL KING / THEATRE

Break on through to the other side

It has been estimated that some 25 per cent of Manitobans have received treatment for mental-health issues. Local theatre company Sarasvàti Productions broaches the prickly subject with Breaking Through, a community theatre project that follows five characters and their experiences with the health-care system, their internal struggles and their mutual desire for understanding. This work-in-progress has been compiled from real stories by Sarasvàti artistic director Hope McIntyre and co-writer Cairn Moore. A local cast will present a staged reading of the work at the Asper Centre for Theatre and Film on the University of Winnipeg campus, at 3 p.m. on May 22 and 28, and at 7 p.m. from May 24 to 27. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students/seniors. To purchase tickets visit www.sarasvati.ca.