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Former Winnipeg fashion designer to host pop-up sale

Linda Lundström returns to Winnipeg this weekend and she’s bringing a new line of outerwear with her.

Lundström, an Ontario-born fashion designer who spent her high school years in Winnipeg, became a household name after she created the fashion-meets-function label Laparka in 1974. The Hudson’s Bay Company and Nordstrom were among the retailers for her parkas and winter accessories before she sold the company in 2008.

Cosy coats remain a passion for Lundström, and she has since joined forces with her daughters Mosha and Sophie Lundström Halbert to launch the Nordic outerwear brand, Therma Kota. The direct-to-consumer brand specializes in shearling coats and iridescent raingear.

The company will host a trunk show and pop-up sale at 3411 Roblin Blvd. from 3 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 27, and from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28. Lundström will offer custom shearling coat-fitting sessions for a select number of attendees; email info@thermakota.com to reserve a spot. Local mukluk maker Julie Pedersen will also be selling her wares at the pop-up.

— Eva Wasney

 

Manitoba Underground Opera takes over Dalnavert Museum

Dalnavert Museum has been a hot spot of community events over the past few years, hosting live theatre, interactive interpretative events and even ghost tours. This weekend the historic house will once again come alive — this time with music — in an exciting partnership with Manitoba Underground Opera.

Music for a Revolution features three nights of music: Operatic Rebellion focuses on music about women rebelling against their oppressors while Rebellion Throughout History explores the French and American revolutions. Closing out the weekend is The Artist’s Salon, which showcases how composers used to write music and secretly share it with one another.

The series features a wide range of operatic works including The Marriage of Figaro, Turandot and music by Kurt Weill, while also offering a glimpse at the behind-the-scenes stories of music history.

Music for a Revolution runs Sept. 28-30 at Dalnavert Museum, 61 Carlton St. The concerts on Saturday, Sept. 28, and Sunday, Sept. 29, are at 2 p.m. on the veranda and admission is free. The concert on Monday, Sept. 30, is at 7:30 p.m. and takes place inside the house. Tickets are $25 for general admission and $20 for members and can be booked by emailing reservations@dalnavertmuseum.ca by calling 204-943-2835.

— Frances Koncan

 

 

Manitoba Podcast Festival at the Park Theatre

Sunday, Sept. 29, is International Podcast Day, and in recognition of that, Winnipeg’s own podcast community will gather at the Park Theatre to partake in the second edition of the Manitoba Podcast Festival.

The festival includes local podcasters, producers and other members of broadcast media who will take part in panel discussions, Q-and-A and networking sessions and live recordings on-site as a way to help up-and-coming podcasters develop their skills and learn some tricks of the trade, as well as highlight Winnipeg’s active local podcast scene.

Podcasts involved with the fest this year include Witchpolice Radio, Thick n’ Sweaty, Koj-B Films Podcast, Beaver Does Movies, This Ain’t Babysittin’, Winnipeg’s Finest, The Reel Debaters, Giving Up The Ghost and SeanGeek Podcast, among others.

The Manitoba Podcast Festival runs from noon until 4 p.m. Sunday at the Park Theatre; admission is $5 in advance at Eventbrite.ca or at the door.

— Erin Lebar

 

Thin Air writers fest heavy on literary talent

Even if you’re not one of the 700 or so people who have tickets to see Margaret Atwood talk about her new book The Testaments on Monday, Sept. 30, there are plenty of chances to hear established and up-and-coming authors talk about their prose (or poetry) at Thin Air 2019: Winnipeg International Writers Festival.

On Thursday, Sept. 26, the festival’s mainstage event at Manitoba Theatre for Young People features writers from across the country using fiction to explore ways of coping. Christy Ann Conlin (Watermark), Steven Price (the Giller-longslisted Lampedusa), Adnan Khan (There Has to be a Knife), Matthieu Simard (The Country Will Bring Us No Peace) and Fawn Parker (Set-Point) get things underway at 7:30 p.m.; tickets start at $10.

The following night’s mainstage lineup is just as promising. With the night’s theme being On the Edge, the Friday, Sept. 27, event features fiction writers tackling things that aren’t quite what they seem. Michael Christie (the Giller-longlisted Greenwood), Tim Conley (Collapsible), Melissa Barbeau (The Luminous Sea), Karen McBride (Crow Winter) and Kris Bertin (Use Your Imagination) are appearing. The readings and discussion start at 7:30 p.m. and admission starts at $10.

Saturday, Sept. 28, sees a full day of diverse literary programming taking place at venues throughout the city. Things kick off at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location at 10:30 a.m. with Eric Hogan and Tara Hungerford, creators of the CBC kids’ program Scout & the Gumboot Kids, who have begun writing the Gumboot Kids Nature Mystery series of books. The event is free.

The Good Will Social Club (625 Portage Ave.) brings all manner of suspense and intrigue starting at 1:30 p.m. with the popular Pint of Bitter Murder event featuring thriller writers Bertin with Nathan Ripley (Your Life is Mine). At 3 p.m., the Poisoned Chalice event brings together Winnipeg-based author Seyward Goodhand (Even That Wildest Hope) and Sherwin Tjia (Plummet). Keith Cadieux hosts both readings; the $10 admission charge includes the two events.

That same evening, Ripley switches hats (and names) and hosts a dinner event at East India Company (349 York Ave.) starting at 6 p.m. He’ll host the event under his birth name, Naben Ruthnum (Nathan Ripley is his thriller novel nom de plume), and will chat about his book Curry: Reading, Eating and Race. Admission is $45 and includes a buffet dinner as well as taxes and gratuity.

For a list of all events throughout the weekend, as well as to buy tickets, visit thinairwinnipeg.ca.

—Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson

 

Cheech and Chong check out Canada’s new cannabis laws

Canada’s recent changes to cannabis legislation will receive a humorous review from a duo that knows plenty about the subject.

Cheech and Chong, the longtime comedy duo of Richard (Cheech) Marin and Tommy Chong, bring their O Cannabis Tour to the Burton Cummings Theatre on Tuesday, Oct. 1. The pair became famous in the 1970s and ‘80s, earning a Grammy Award in the process, for stoner jokes, hit comedy records and a series of drug-focused comedy films.

The cross-Canada tour, which takes place close to the one-year anniversary of the legalization of recreational and medicinal marijuana across the country, will also include many of Cheech and Chong’s greatest comedic bits culled from a half-century of stage and screen gags.

The two met in the late 1960s and released their first album in 1971. They became big box office in 1978 with the release of the film Up in Smoke, which became a cult hit. Cheech and Chong followed it with five more movies before breaking up in the mid-1980s. They both appeared on their own in TV and films — Marin starred with Kevin Costner in the golf comedy Tin Cup and the TV series Nash Bridges; Chong in TV comedies Dharma and Greg and That ‘70s Show and more recently on reality shows Dancing with the Stars and The Masked Singer. They reunited in 2008.

Ticket prices range from $49.25 to $145.50 plus fees and are available at Ticketmaster outlets and Ticketmaster.ca.

— Alan Small