What’s Up: Kids Help Phone walk, Abdulrehman reading, Ningiukulu Teevee and Zuki Selects, WPG RPG CON

BMO Walk So Kids Can Talk

• St. Vital Park, 190 River Rd.
• Sunday, 10-11 a.m.

Winnipeggers can do their part in spreading some warmth and cheer in the lives of others by walking with more than 14,000 people across the country this weekend at the annual BMO Kids Help Phone walk.

The annual five-kilometre walk is in aid of the dedicated 24/7 e-mental health service, which offers free, multilingual and confidential support to young people.

The event will help the charity rally communities, increase awareness and work towards changing the landscape of youth mental health in the country.

Established in 1989, the charity began as a phone counselling service supporting youth experiencing forms of abuse, but evolved after listening to feedback from users to address everything from crisis situations to everyday concerns of growing up.

Those in need of mental health services can text trained volunteer crisis responders, access professional counsellors over the phone and via online chat, or access the website for information on how to care for their well-being.

This year, the organization launched the national KHP Foundation to further support the professional counselling and volunteer-led services.

For more information, registration details and how to donate visit walksokidscantalk.ca

— AV Kitching

 

Speaking Crow featuring Dr. Rehman Abdulrehman

• St. Boniface Library, 131 Provencher Blvd.
• Tuesday, 6:30 p.m.
• Free

National Poetry Month may be coming to a close, but the monthly Speaking Crow poetry reading series is keeping the verses flowing into May.

The long-running event has offered both in-person and virtual gatherings for aspiring poets, and for May returns to an in-person format at the St. Boniface Library, where Dr. Rehman Abdulrehman will serve as the month’s featured reader.

Abdulrehman is a Winnipeg author and psychologist whose published work includes the novel Jinn in the Family and the handbook Developing Anti-Racist Cultural Competence and, most recently and pertinently, has been a contributor to and editor of the anthology The Poetry of Angry Black and Brown People, published in October 2025.

Those looking to read at the event should arrive a bit early and can sign up on site.

— Ben Sigurdson

 

WAG Wednesday Nights: Ningiukulu Teevee and Zuki Selects

• WAG-Qaumajuq, 300 Memorial Blvd.
• Wednesday, 6 to 9 p.m.
• Free

Be the first to see Ningiukulu Teevee: Stories from Kinngait, the much-anticipated exhibition featuring the work of the celebrated graphic artist, at the next instalment of WAG Wednesday Nights.

Teevee, who was born and is based in Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Nunavut, is known for her whimsical, colourful and often cheeky depictions of both modern Inuit life and traditional tales passed down. Her work has been exhibited internationally; a smaller version of this show was presented at Canada House in London, England, in 2024, and her version of the well-known legend The Owl and the Raven is currently being projected onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House.

All the works in Stories from Kinngait, curated by Darlene Coward Wight, WAG-Quamajuq’s curator of Inuit art, are from Cholakis Dental Group’s Inuit Art in Practice collection, the largest corporate collection of Teevee’s work in the world.

The public opening starts at 7 p.m. From 6 to 9 p.m., join Winnipeg DJ Zuki (a.k.a. Felix Idigbe) in the Skylight Gallery for Zuki Selects: a special three-hour set of afrorock, roots, reggae and soul. Doors open at 5 p.m., galleries are open until 9 p.m., cash bar.

— Jen Zoratti

 

 

WPG RPG CON

• Canad Inns Fort Garry, 1824 Pembina Highway
• Friday-Sunday
• Sign up at wpgrpgcon.com
• Full weekend: $75; Friday and Sunday $45 each; Saturday $60

WPG, that’s easy enough to get — but WTF are RPG and CON?

Maybe this will clarify: the convention (CON) celebrates table-top role-playing games (RPG), which lure their players into improv theatre alongside the board game elements. Dungeons & Dragons is probably the most famous example.

While some players commit fully to the bit — don’t be surprised if you spot wizard hats or fake elf ears — the event also welcomes newbies to experience some of the most immersive table-top games you can play. It can be a heck of a lot of fun.

The convention features several scheduled game sessions, special guests from the RPG world — including Dragonslayer author Greg Gillespie and actor/game master Ronin Wong — and open gaming tables with “players wanted” opportunities.

If you want to confuse yourself once again, consider WPG RPG CON’s own description, inviting all “who want to build an animal community in the forest to the dark spacefaring future of Mothership.”

— Conrad Sweatman