Theatre/Arts

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Cookin’ At The Cookery

Musical celebration of the late blues and jazz legend Alberta Hunter, who at age 60 gave up music to become a nurse, opens today, to Nov. 1, Manitoba Theatre Centre; $10.70 to $50 at 942-6537.

Encore

Dramatic comedy by Marc Prescott, about a couple who, on each anniversary, seek to rekindle the magic of their first meeting, presented by Le Cercle Moliere, opens tomorrow, to Nov. 1, Theatre de la Chapelle, 825 St. Joseph St., performances at 8 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday; $21.50, students and seniors $19.75 at 233-8053.

I Saw Someone Killing Santa Claus

Murder at the Marlborough Mystery, premieres this Saturday, 7 p.m., Marlborough Hotel, $46.95; for reservations call 957-7913.

Noble Savage, Savage Noble

The 18th-century philosophers Rousseau and Voltaire take a fictional trip across Western Canada in 1762, arguing about man’s conflicting relationship with nature and society, by Bob Armstrong, presented by Theatre Projects Manitoba, to Sunday, Prairie Theatre Exchange, third floor, Portage Place, performances at 8 p.m. today to Saturday with a 2 p.m. Sunday matinee; $15, students and seniors $10 at 989-2400.

Aladdin

Presented by Fantasy Theatre for Children, Deaf Centre Manitoba, 285 Pembina Hwy., 1 & 6:30 p.m. Monday, 10:30 a.m., 1:30 & 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. only Wednesday to Friday, 1 p.m. Saturday & Sunday; $7, with group rates available for 10 or more by calling 944-0581.

Snowflake

Master clown Gale LaJoye stars in this silent comedy about a character who lives on a vacant lot strewn with rubbish that he recycles into comic treasures, Manitoba Theatre for Young People, to Sunday, public performances at 7 p.m. tomorrow, and 1 & 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, CanWest Global Performing Arts Centre, The Forks; $11 at 942-8898.

Literary

Laura Langston

Reading Lesia’s Dream, a moving story about a Ukrainian girl’s struggle to survive in a new land, for ages 13 and up, 7:30 p.m. today; McNally Robinson, Grant Park.

Food For Thought

The University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities presents guest speaker Dr. Roison Cossar who will give a talk on Responses to Epidemics in the Middle Ages, 7:30 p.m. today; McNally Robinson, Grant Park.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

With Alissa York, presented by Chapters, 7 p.m. tomorrow, Winnipeg Art Gallery; $10 at Ticketmaster.

Melanie Cameron

Reading Wake, a new book of poetry by Winnipeg poet Melanie Cameron, along with Mark Morton’s The Lover’s Tongue: An Erotic Odyssey Through the Language of Love and Sex, 7 p.m. tomorrow, McNally Robinson, Grant Park.

M.G. Vassanji

Autographing The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, a new novel by the winner of the first Giller Prize, 6 p.m. Tuesday; McNally Robinson, Grant Park.

Lloyd Axworthy

Navigating A New World: Canada’s Global Future, 8 p.m. Tuesday; McNally Robinson, Grant Park.

Magical Mysterious Lake of the Woods

By Toronto writer Heather Robertson and the late Melinda McCracken, a lifelong friend of one of Canada’s most beloved writers, 8 p.m. Wednesday; McNally Robinson, Grant Park.

Out and About

Congress of Black Women of Canada (Manitoba Chapter) Unity Dinner & Dance

With guest speaker Veronica Joseph, court program challenge mediator, with musical entertainment by Mike’s Supersound, 7 p.m. Saturday, Viscount Gort Hotel; $30 at 633-4097.

A Weekend of Trains

Presented by Assiniboine Valley Railway, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, 3001 Roblin Blvd. (next to Assiniboine Park); free, donations gratefully accepted.

15th Annual Breweriana Trade Show

Beer cans, bottles, mirrors and signs, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, CanadInn, Windsor Park; free admission.

Six Pines Halloween Tours

Open every weekend throughout October, including Thanksgiving Monday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., no reservations required, located four kilometres north of the Perimeter Highway on Sturgeon Road, just minutes north of the city; for more information call 633-3326.

The Future of Yiddish

Panel presentation, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16, Holocaust Education Centre, Asper Jewish Community Campus; $5.

The Notion of Global Terrorism

Lecture by Michel Wieviorka, one of France’s leading sociologists, 4 p.m. Oct. 16, 1L07, Lockhart Hall, University of Winnipeg; free.

Assiniboine Park Zoo

The Things They Do At The Zoo, an interpretive program, daily 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., except for Wednesdays; zoo admission $3.75, seniors $3.50, students $2.15, children under 12, $1.60.

Comedy

Rumors

Kelly Moran, to Oct. 18; 8 p.m. Tuesday to Thursday, $8.50; 8 p.m. (non-smoking show) & 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, $12 at 488-4520.

Movies

IMAX

Top Speed, The Matrix Reloaded, Dolphins & Amazon; call 956-IMAX for times and prices.

Cinematheque

The Deadpan Comedy of Finnish Master Aki Kaurismaki featuring The Man Without A Past about a gangly chain smoker who’s hospitalized after bat-wielding thugs take his possessions and leave him for dead, 7 p.m. today; The Cuckoo, set in 1944 during the Second World War, the story of two soldiers, one Russian, the other Finnish from different sides of the war who take refuge with a Lapp woman who can’t believe her good fortune — she’s been four years without a man and now she has two, 9 p.m. today; Ariel, about a mine worker who loses his job in Lapland and makes his way to Helsinki where he gets caught up in a downward spiral of crime, 7 p.m. tomorrow and 2 p.m. Sunday; Hamlet Goes Business, refashioning of Shakespeare’s tragedy, set in the cut-throat world of high finance, makes surprising analogies between the rotten state of Denmark then and the corrupt state of Finland in the money-hungry ’80s, 7 p.m. Saturday; The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, newly restored 35-mm print of Sergio Leone’s classic spaghetti western, 7 p.m. Tuesday to Oct. 16; $6, students $5, seniors and children under 12 $4.50.

Museums

Dalnavert

The Victorian home of Sir Hugh John Macdonald at 61 Carlton St., open noon to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday to Thursday and Saturday and Sunday; $4, seniors $3, students $2 or $8 for a family.

Manitoba Children’s Museum

Ride the train. Climb the tree. Be a TV news anchor. Explore the six fun and educational hands-on galleries designed especially for kids; Watch a children’s movie every Saturday at 6 p.m.; Crafts geared just for preschoolers every Monday; open daily at The Forks.

Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame & Museum

Baseball history in Manitoba, fifth floor of The Bay downtown, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, closed Mondays; donations; group tours by appointment at 774-0002. Weekends; $6.50, children and seniors $5, family $20.

Science Gallery

More than 100 hands-on exhibits, same times as Manitoba Museum; Amazing Science Show, 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. weekends.

Planetarium

Legends of the Equinox, 1 and 4 p.m. Tuesday to Friday; $5, children and seniors $4, family $15.

Marion & Ed Vickar Museum of Jewish Heritage

Mame — Loshn: Yiddish in Winnipeg, a millennium of Yiddish evolution, to Dec. 31, Asper Campus.

Galleries

Alliance Francaise du Manitoba

Women “Au Naturel”, by Genevieve Trudeau, and Black and White Photographs, by Jacques Cambray, to Oct. 19, 934 Corydon Ave.

Birchwood Art Gallery

An exhibition and sale of paintings, sculpture and porcelains by Rikey Ingimundar of Reykjavik, Iceland, to Dec. 31, plus paintings by Barry Burdeny, opens tomorrow, continues to Nov. 8, 1740 Wellington Ave., near the airport.

Bread & Circuses Bakery & Cafe

An exhibition of paintings, by Jean Smallwood, to Nov. 30, 238 Lilac St.

Franco Manitoban Cultural Centre

Photographs and poetry by Hermenegilde Chaisson and Francis Coutellier, to Nov. 9, 340 Provencher Blvd.

Gallery 1C03, University of Winnipeg

Reunion, a series of sensitive portraits created by photographic artist William Eakin, to Oct. 19, 515 Portage Ave.

Lion & The Rose Gallery

Two Houses by Elsa Bluethner, 875 Corydon Ave., to Sunday.

Martha Street Studio

Farewell Exhibition for Aurora Landin, who is moving to Alberta, on display to Oct. 18, 11 Martha St.

Manitoba Crafts Council Exhibition Gallery

Vinyl Nature, jewelry by Aliza Amihude, to Oct. 24.

Main Access Gallery

Halcyon, new work by Megan Vun Wong, to Oct. 18, 100 Arthur St.

Mayberry Fine Art

Recent works by prairie impressionist artist Terry Fenton, public opening from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday with the artist in attendance; also on display through the month of October works by Winnipeg painter and ceramic artist Leonard Marcoe, 212 McDermot Ave.

Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery

Stories to tell, by Winnipeg artist Jean Wiens and Rhonda Harder, from Camrose, Alta., to Nov. 8, 600 Shaftesbury Blvd.

Medea Gallery

What I Did Last Summer, paintings by Ainsley Davis, to Oct. 19, 132 Osborne St.

Piano Nobile

Works by Marcel Dzama, who’s cartoon-like ink and watercolour drawings have been published in local and national newspapers and magazines, to Nov. 1, Centennial Concert Hall; to view during the day, call Arnold Ross at 489-2850.

Platform Centre for Photographic & Digital Arts

The Bestiary: Instincts of the Herd by Calgary artist Mireille Perron, public opening tomorrow at 7 p.m. with the artist in attendance, 100 Arthur St.

Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art

My Mad Skillz, touring exhibit of Paul Butler’s collage creations, to Oct. 25, 286 McDermot Ave.

Pavilion Gallery

Small sketches by the man who drew Pooh, Ernest Shepard, on display until Dec. 2; Assiniboine Park.

Site Gallery

Closer Distances, abstract acrylic paintings by Keith Wood, to Oct. 31; Afterview, group show featuring the work of 32 gallery members, to Dec. 12, 55 Arthur St.

Upstairs Gallery

Changing Colors, recent watercolours and oils by Libby Weir, public opening Saturday with artist in attendance from 10 a.m. to noon and 2 to 4 p.m., 266 Edmonton St.

Wayne Arthur Gallery

Marcien Lemay’s Encaustics, to Oct. 29, 186 Provencher Blvd.

Winnipeg Art Gallery

Gallery 1: The Jerry Twomey Collection featuring Inuit sculpture from the Canadian Arctic, to March 7, 2004; Gallery 2/3: States of Becoming, offers insight into the whole creative process, to Jan. 4; Gallery 4/5: Marion Tuu’luq, whose vibrantly coloured wall hangings are rooted in a legacy of Inuit skills and imagery, to Sunday; Gallery 6/7/8: 150 paintings, by Tom Thomson, to Dec. 7; Mezzanine: Qiviuq, A Legend In Art, featuring drawings, prints and sculptures illustrating the centuries-old Inuit stories of Qiviuq and his Odysseus-like quests, to Oct. 19; Art For Lunch: Jackson Pollock: Love And Death On Long Island, video, noon Wednesday.