Theatre / Arts

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Miss Saigon

Musical about a tragic love story played out during the fall of Saigon, 8 p.m. today and tomorrow; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday; 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Centennial Concert Hall; $55 to $85 at Ticketmaster.

From Meeting Place to Metropolis

This historical production takes participants on a 6,000-year journey in less than 60 minutes, 11 a.m. Wednesday to Sunday and 1 p.m. Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday to Aug. 24, The Forks; $3 to $6 on site at Explore Manitoba.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Biblical musical about Jacob’s favourite son, Rainbow Stage, Kildonan Park, to Aug. 24, 8 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday; $12 to $36 at Select-A-Seat.

In Riel’s Footsteps

Meet some of Manitoba’s most fascinating historical characters in this theatrical tour of St. Boniface Cathedral’s cemetery, Theatre in the Cemetery, to Aug. 31, English tours at 7 p.m. Wednesday and Friday, 2 p.m. Thursday, 2 & 4 p.m. Saturday and 2 & 7 p.m. Sunday; French tours at 2 p.m. Wednesday and Friday, 7 p.m. Thursday, and 4 p.m. Sunday; $6, seniors $5 or $14 for a family.

The Big Thrill

Featuring the music of The Big Chill era plus a friendship story spiced with blackmail, forbidden romance and mistaken identities, Celebrations Dinner Theatre, ends Saturday, 6:30 p.m. today to Saturday; $33.95; children $19.95; for reservations call 982-8282.

Literary

Susan Dobbie

Reading and signing When Eagles Call, 8 p.m. today; McNally Robinson, Grant Park.

Lake Winnipeg Voices

Launch of the fiction and poetry anthology by the Lake Winnipeg Writers’ Group, 8 p.m. Monday; McNally Robinson, Grant Park.

Lorraine Mignault

Autographing copies of Canadian Women Invent, 7 p.m. Tuesday; McNally Robinson, Grant Park.

Out and About

Folklorama 2003

At 47 pavilions, continues to Aug. 16, various locations; $3.75 single admission, $33.75 family pack (12 tickets for the price of nine) at pavilion entrances and Folk Arts Council, 183 Kennedy. Guide booklets available at Manitoba Liquor Mart locations, visit www.folklorama or call 982-6210.

Rabbit and Guinea Pig Display

By Red River Rabbit & Cavy Association, 1 to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, 1092 Pritchard; admission by donation.

Assiniboine Valley Railway

Open rail, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, 3001 Roblin; donations.

Singles Dinner and Dance

Strict dress code, 7 p.m. tomorrow, Masonic Memorial Temple, 420 Corydon; $20 at 772-1637.

Plug In City Fair Block Party

A reception for the summer exhibit Art of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966-76, and celebration of freedom of speech, noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, McDermot between Princess and King; free, call 942-1043.

The Real Thing Coca, Democracy and Rebellion in Bolivia

A documentary about an indigenous people who have never given up their fight for their sacred leaf and their right for self-determination, 8 p.m. today and tomorrow, Ace Art Inc.; $5 at Urban Bakery, Into the Music, Mondragon, Prairie Sky Books, call 292-9467.

Muddy Water Tours

Boom & Bust of Winnipeg, 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday to Saturday; Murder, Mystery & Mayhem, 7 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday; Pestilence, Shamans & Doctors, 1 p.m. Friday and Saturday; Brookside Cemetery, Monday 7 p.m., to Sept. 6; starts at 123 Main Street; $4 to $8.

Paddlewheel Riverboat Cruises

The Paddlewheel Queen and the River Rouge take sightseeing luncheon cruises from 1 to 3 p.m. daily, with dinner and dancing cruises from 7 to 10 p.m. daily, and moonlight dance cruises every Friday and Saturday from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.; $13.75 at 942-4500.

St. Norbert Farmer’s Market

Outdoor market of fresh produce, preserves, baking and crafts, beside the St. Norbert Community Club on Pembina Highway, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays.

Victory Lane Speedway

Street Stock Special, 7:30 p.m. today; eight kilometres south of Winnipeg on Highway 75; $15.

Live Thoroughbred Racing

7 p.m. tomorrow and Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday (Family Fun Day), Assiniboia Downs; free general admission and parking.

Movies

IMAX

Kilimanjaro: To the Roof of Africa, Bears, and Heartland; call 956-IMAX for times and prices.

Cinematheque

The Safety of Objects, 7 p.m. today; Levity, 9:15 p.m. today; Russian Ark, 7 p.m. tomorrow to Aug. 14; Derrida, 9 p.m. tomorrow to Aug. 14; $6, students $5, seniors and children under 12 $4.50, all seats $4 on Monday.

Museums

Dalnavert

My House, Your House, weekly workshops for families, 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesdays, with this Wednesday’s craft being picture frames; $4 per person or $45 for a Family Summer Program Pass; reservations required at 943-2835.

Manitoba Children’s Museum

Prehistoric Playground, to Sept. 1, The Forks; $6 for children, $5.50 for adults and $5 for seniors, children under 2 admitted free.

Historical Museum of St. James-Assiniboia

Pioneer Children of the Brown Family, theatrical presentation in The Brown House, an authentic Red River frame log house built in 1856, open daily 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; donations.

Manitoba Museum

Open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily; $6.50, children and seniors $5, family $20.

Science Gallery

More than 100 hands-on exhibits, same times as Manitoba Museum.

Planetarium

Red Planet Mars, live updates from the Mars expeditions, 1 & 4 p.m. daily; The Super Sky Show, 11 a.m. & 2:30 p.m. daily; The Sky Tonight, 5 p.m. daily; Search For Life in the Universe, noon daily; $5, children and seniors $4, family $15.

Riel House

Costumed bilingual guides share stories of Louis Riel, the Metis of the 1880s and their traditional river lots; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily; admission by donation.

Seven Oaks Museum

Representing life at the Red River Settlement in the 19th century, east of Main just off Rupertsland; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

Martyrs Shrine & Museum of Blessed Bishop Velychkovsky

Open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, and Sundays noon to 3 p.m., in St. Joseph’s Ukrainian Catholic Church, 250 Jefferson; 338-7321.

Naval Museum of Canada

Photos, uniforms and ship models, at 1 Navy Way, south end of Smith Street, open Sunday 1 to 5 p.m.

Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame & Museum

Featuring: On Deck: Little, Bishop & Koskie… Baseball History in Manitoba, includes history on the ManDak League, All American Girls League, the past and present Goldeyes team and more, Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a. m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays, noon to 5 p.m.; closed on Mondays, 5th floor, The Bay Downtown. Donation. Call 774-0002.

Galleries

Adelaide McDermot Gallery

GAZE, photos by Meera Singh and Candice Reynolds, opens 7 p.m. today, to Aug. 12, noon to 5 p.m. tomorrow to Tuesday; 318 McDermot.

Bread and Circuses Bakery and Cafe

Navigator, portraits from northern Afghanistan, photos by Bruce Hildebrand, 238 Lilac.

Five On Third Gallery

One Woman, One Body, by Jordan L. Miller. Open Saturdays noon to 4 p.m., to Aug. 30, 290 McDermot.

La Maison des Artistes

Artist’s Choice, works by Colette Balcaen, Joel Bouchard, Robert Freynet, Simone Hebert Allard, Marcien Lemay, Helene Lemay, Evelyne Mangin Mauws, Marco Montess, Michelle Moreau and Gaetanne Simone Sylvester, to Sept. 15, 219 Provencher (former St. Boniface city hall).

Mayberry Fine Art

Open Spaces — The Art of Cottage Country, 50 works by 15 Canadian artists including Wanda Koop, Andrew Valko and Robert Genn, inspired by the Interlake and Lake Winnipeg beaches and the Whiteshell, to Aug. 15, 212 McDermot.

Manitoba Crafts Council Exhibition Gallery

Fire on the Mountain, new stoneware by Manitoba ceramic artist Kirk Creed, to Aug. 23, 237 McDermot.

Marion and Ed Vickar Museum of the Jewish Heritage Centre

Mame-Loshn: Yiddish in Winnipeg, to Dec. 15, 123 Donald.

Medea Gallery

Annual summer exhibit of photos, clay, ceramic and other original works by gallery members, to Sept. 8, 132 Osborne.

Pavilion Gallery

My Trudeau Years, photos by Jean-Marc Carisse, former official photographer to Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1977 to 2000, to Aug. 23, Assiniboine Park.

Platform Gallery

Breath Taking, recent works by Toronto artists Sue Lloyd and Kelly McCray, Suite 218, 100 Arthur.

Piano Nobile

Batik works by Karen Johannsson, to Aug. 30, Centennial Concert Hall; to view during the day, call Arnold Ross at 489-2850.

Plug In Gallery

Art of the Great Proletarian Revolution, 1966 to 1976, to Aug. 23, 286 McDermot.

Site Gallery

Visual Alchemy, works by gallery artists in Gallery One, to Aug. 31 and Urban Mirage, acrylic paintings by Peter McConville in Gallery Two, to Saturday.

Wayne Arthur Gallery

The Delight of Sunflowers, photos by Rosanna Parry, to Aug. 20, 186 Provencher.

Winnipeg Art Gallery

Gallery 1: The Jerry Twomey Collection featuring Inuit sculpture from the Canadian Arctic, to March 7, 2004; Gallery 2: Slices of Silver, to Sept. 28; Gallery 3: Works by Danish Canadian silversmith Carl Poul Petersen (1895 to 1977), to Sept. 28; Galleries 6, 7 & 8: A Thousand Hounds, a walk with the dogs through the history of photography, to Sept. 7; Mezzanine Gallery: Qiviuq, A Legend in Art, drawings, prints and sculpture illustrate centuries-old Inuit stories, to Aug. 24.

Past the Perimeter

Great Woods Music Festival

Great Woods Park, Beausejour. Outdoor folk and blues festival with Tim Williams, Hamilton Loomis, Michael Jerome Brown and Yvonne Hernandez, 8 p.m. today, 7 p.m. tomorrow and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Four-day passes $45, or $20 for youths. Day passes $20 to $8. Camping $5 a person. All tickets at Ticketmaster.

Prairie Days Festival

Various scientists and presenters, information sessions and hands-on workshops, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Manitoba Tall Grass Prairie Preserve, one-hour south of Winnipeg on Hwy. 59 at Hwy. 209 in Tolstoi; $3, children free. Call 942-6156 or 1-204-425-3229.

Sand Sculpture Contest

Grand Beach Provincial Park, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday (rain date Sunday), registration 9 to 11 a.m. by West Beach; $10 team of up to 10 participants. Call 1-204-754-5046.

St. Andrews Rectory National Historic Site of Canada

Annual flower show, 2 p.m. Sunday with Archdeacon Cockran and harp music 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Call 334-6405.

Children’s Days at Lower Fort Garry

Storytelling, hands-on activities such as churning butter, between Lockport and Selkirk on Highway 9; Wednesday and Aug. 20, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Wasagaming Community Arts

The Berry Patch Drawings by Bob Haverluck, Transition by Denise Parent, Feline Revisited, to Wednesday, Clear Lake, Riding Mountain National Park.

Wasagaming Chamber Days Weekend

7 p.m. tomorrow, 10 a.m. Saturday, 9 a.m. Sunday, Clear Lake, Riding Mountain National Park. Free. Call 1-204-848-2742.

St. Norbert Provincial Heritage Park

Meet the ghosts of St. Norbert’s past and find out why it was the place to be at the ghost hike, 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow; 40 Turnbull Drive, off Highway 75.

Teulon & District Agricultural Society Fair

Featuring Glen Williams Rockalypso Band and Dale McKay, activities, exhibits, barbecue and more, noon to 5 p.m., Green Acres Park, Teulon; $3, 6 to 12 years $1, pre-schoolers free.

Cook’s Creek Heritage Museum

Dedicated to the early pioneers who settled in Canada from Ukraine, Poland and other Eastern European countries, featuring artifacts , religious articles, farm tools and machinery, at the corner of Sapton Road and Highway 212, 4.8 kilometres east of the east gate of Birds Hill Park, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, closed Wednesday; $3, children and seniors $2, under 5 admitted free; 1-204-444-4448.