Theatre/Arts

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Feelgood

Black comedy by Alistair Beaton set in Britain, Manitoba Theatre Centre Warehouse, opens today, to Nov. 29; $11.77 to $40 at 942-6537.

Blood Relations

Canadian playwright Sharon Pollock retells the real-life, gruesome story of Lizzie Borden and the axe murders, presented by the Black Hole Theatre Company, to Nov. 22, all performances at 8 p.m., University College; $11, students and seniors $9 at 474-6880.

Yeliena

Local actor/playwright Maggie Nagel’s reconstruction of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, presented by Adhere & Deny, to Saturday, 405-52 Albert; $10 at 774-6334.

Joan The Maid

The story of Joan of Arc, 8 p.m. tomorrow and Saturday, St. Margaret’s Anglican Church, Ethelbert & Westminster; $10 at 774-9533.

I Saw Someone Killing Santa Claus

Murder at the Marlborough Mystery Dinner Theatre, 7 p.m. Saturday, Ramada Marlborough Hotel, 331 Smith; $46.95 at 957-7913.

Hansel & Gretel

Presented by Fantasy Theatre for Children, Deaf Centre Manitoba, 285 Pembina Hwy., opens Monday, to Nov. 23, performances at 6:30 p.m. Monday to Friday, 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Tuesday and 1 p.m. Saturday & Sunday; $7, with group rates available for 10 or more by calling 944-0581.

Harry & Sally’s Wedding

What happens when Archie and Edith’s little girl decides to marry a rich ‘foreign fella’ and what happens when the parents of these two lovebirds never meet until the day of the wedding? Celebrations Dinner Theatre, Canad Inn, 1824 Pembina Hwy., to Jan. 10, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday, 5 p.m. Sunday; $45.95 Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday, $55.95 Friday and Saturday; seniors $32.95 Wednesdays, $34.46 Thursdays and Sundays and $41.95 Fridays and Saturdays, children 12 & under $19.95; for reservations call 982-8282.

Dance

Manohar Performing Arts of Canada

Steps and Echoes, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Pantages Playhouse; $15 & $20 at Ticketmaster.

Literary

Matthew Shaw

Launch of Great Scots! How the Scots Created Canada, about the vital and pervasive role the Scots played in the creation of Canada and the role they continue to play, 8 p.m. today; McNally Robinson, Grant Park.

Ian Ferguson

Village of the Small Houses: A Memoir of Sorts, 7:30 p.m. tomorrow; McNally Robinson, Grant Park.

Mag Ruffman

How Hard Can It Be? Adventures of a Tool Girl, by this actress, writer and building contractor who says to women, “You can pay big money for a self-esteem seminar or you can buy yourself a cordless drill — I recommend the drill.” 7 p.m. Monday; McNally Robinson, Grant Park.

No Safe House

A compelling first novel by Diane Poulin, set in Winnipeg, about two 11-year-old girls poised between childhood and adolescence. Mayor Glen Murray will introduce the author, 8 p.m. Monday; McNally Robinson, Grant Park.

Regina Paul-Bloxham

Autographing Out of the Ashes, a memoir based on the events in her life following the collapse of the Soviet Union, 7 p.m. Tuesday; McNally Robinson, Grant Park.

Ghost Towns of Manitoba: A Record of Pioneer Life

Thirty-seven of Manitoba’s abandoned pioneer towns are showcased by Portage la Prairie writers Helen Mulligan and Wanda Ryder, 8 p.m. Tuesday; McNally Robinson, Grant Park.

Ilana Simon

125 Best Ground Beef Recipes by this Winnipeg Free Press food writer, 8 p.m. Wednesday, McNally Robinson, Grant Park.

Out and About

Inspiring Women Luncheon & Series

Hosted by Winnipeg Free Press Careers columnist Barbara Bowes, and featuring Elaine Ali, senior vice-president of CTV, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. tomorrow, Hotel Fort Garry; $50 or $400 for a table of 8 by calling Donna at 697-7207.

Mini Hoops Basketball Benefit

The Canadian Half-Pints challenge the Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Association of Canada Celebrity Basketball Team, 7 p.m. today, University of Winnipeg’s Duckworth Centre; $10, or 5 tickets for $40 by calling 1-800-661-4555.

Fall Supper

4:30 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Le Club Belge, 407 Provencher Blvd.; $8, children $4.

Assiniboine Park Conservatory

Featuring chrysanthemums in every colour and variety, to Sunday.

Comedy

Rumor’s

Todd Paul, who combines juggling and magic with humour and an upbeat musical soundtrack, opens Tuesday, to Nov. 22; 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.

West End Comedy Night 5-Year Anniversary Show

Host Pat Riordan welcomes Jason Beck, Kenton Larsen, Charlie Onyske, Rob Bruneau, Ondrej Pacin, Ron Moore, Darcy Taves, BB Eakin, Matt Bernard and Derek Jones, 8 p.m. Monday, West End Cultural Centre; $3.

Movies

Global Justice Film Festival

Featuring films from the Travelling World Community Film Festival, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. tomorrow and 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, St. Mary’s Road United Church, 613 St. Mary’s Rd.; $8 for tomorrow and $12 for Saturday or $20 for both days by calling Pat at 257-0678.

IMAX

Top Speed, Bears, Alaska & Amazon and T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous; call 956-IMAX for times and prices.

Cinematheque

Origins of the Japanese Avant Garde — Saskatchewan filmmaker Ian Toews has assembled a selection of films from the Japanese film underground, such as Emperor Tomato Ketchup and Naval and A Bomb, 7 p.m. today; Camp, the story of a group of ambitious kids working hard to develop as singing stars at a performing-arts summer camp, 7 p.m. tomorrow to Nov. 20; Cinemania, about five wildly obsessed New York movie buffs who have built their whole lives around watching movies, 9 p.m. tomorrow to Nov. 20; Having A Good Cry, Women Audiences and The Hollywood ‘Weepie’ Film, a talk by film professor Brenda Austin Smith, 2 p.m. Sunday; 100 Arthur St., $7.

Museums

Manitoba Museum

Meet the experts who have brought the new Parklands/Mixed Woods Gallery to life: Tanya Cochrane, assistant curator of native ethnology from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday and Ann Hindley, collections manager of human history, 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday; open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday to Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 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. weekends and 3 p.m. Tuesday to Friday; The Sky Tonight, noon weekends; The Super Sky Show, 11 a.m. & 2:30 p.m. weekends; $5, children and seniors $4, family $15.

Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural & Educational Centre

Ukrainian Antiquities, currently on display at the gallery, 184 Alexander Ave. E.; 942-0218.

Western Canada Aviation Museum

On The Home Front: WWII, a special exhibit of magazine covers, illustrations and advertisements from the 1940s that offers insight into civilian life during wartime, compiled by local writer/researcher Vinnie Glass, open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday; $5, children $3 or $12 for a family.

Galleries

Adelaide McDermot Gallery

Artists 6 On 2, six artists (Ruby Bennett, Beth Hiscox, Violetta Miramon, Jill Hiscox, Mandy Onchulenko and Marilyn Settle) with studios in the Peguis Building present their work, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. from tomorrow to 21, 310 McDermot Ave.

Birchwood Art Gallery

An afternoon of art & jazz with artists Derek Anderson, Caroline Pyevich, Robert Blampy, Michael Montcombroux, Mike Woodcock and Harald Wodtke, and musical entertainment by Walle Larssen, 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, 1740 Wellington Ave.

Bread & Circuses Bakery & Cafe

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

Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre

Rentrer Chez-Soi (To Come Home), new paintings by Brigitte Dion, opening reception at 8 p.m. today, 340 Provencher Blvd.

Fleet Gallery

Paintings and collage works by Halia Stolar, 65 Albert.

Five On Third Gallery

Intimate Reflection, an exploration of mind through body by John Roshon, to Nov. 29, 290 McDermot Ave.

Gallery One One One

Blind Spot: The Gothic Unconscious, curated by Sigrid Dahle and featuring work by more than 50 artists spanning 500 years of image-making, speculates that Winnipeg is a city haunted by the ghosts of its traumatic social history (the genocide of its First Nations peoples, dispossession of the Metis, etc.), University of Manitoba School of Art, to Dec. 5.

Gallery 1C03

Invisible Cities, a series of intricately embroidered crazy quilts by Rae Bridgeman, University of Winnipeg’s Centennial Hall.

Grain Exchange Gallery

Recollection, paintings by Margaret Switala, on display until Dec. 31, Grain Exchange Building, 6th floor — 167 Lombard Ave.

La Maison des Artistes

Regard Spirituel, group exhibition celebrating the theme of spirituality featuring works by Etidal Arbach L’Heureux, Colette Balcaen, Robert Freynet, Marcien Lemay, Helene Lemay, Michelle Moreau, Michel Saint-Hilaire, Gaetanne Simonne Sylvester and more, to Dec. 30, 219 Provencher Blvd. (former City Hall).

Manitoba Crafts Council Exhibition Gallery

Past History, New Beginnings, multimedia sculpture by Richard Finney, 237 McDermot.

Mayberry Fine Art

The Heart of Hockey, exhibition and sale of new paintings by Calgary artist Bill Brownridge, children’s author and designer of first NHL Calgary Flames jersey, to Nov. 22; 212 McDermot Ave.

Medea Gallery

Testing The Light, recent photographs of Lake Winnipeg sunrises and sunsets by Wayne Ferrand, 132 Osborne.

Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery

Public opening for two exhibitions, The Peace On Earth Art Show and The Annunciation Series by Christian Worthington, 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, 600 Shaftsbury Blvd.

Piano Nobile

Works by Luther Pokrant, Centennial Concert Hall, to Dec. 6; to view during the day, call Arnold Ross at 489-2850.

Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art

Who Means What, paintings by Bent Roe, curated by John Armstrong, 286 McDermot Ave.

Site Gallery

Recent watercolours by Grant Marshall; Afterview, group show featuring the work of 32 gallery members, to Dec. 12, 55 Arthur St.

Wayne Arthur Gallery

Forms in Fibres by Diana Gordon, 186 Provencher Blvd.

Wah-sa Gallery

Scattered featuring Woodland artists Nokomis, Beam, Bell, Claremont, McCue, Noel and Thomas, 302 Fort.

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 creative process, to Jan. 4; Gallery 6/7/8: 150 paintings by Tom Thomson, to Dec. 7; Mezzanine: Angst – German Expressionism, to Apr. 25.

Past the Perimeter

The Pinawa Players

Present the Dining Room, 8 p.m. today to Saturday, Pinawa Community Centre; $11.

Teulon Seniors Club Old Time Country Fest

Featuring The Silvertones, 1 p.m. today, Teulon Rockwood Centennial Centre; $4.

Ted Longbottom

With Daniel Koulack, 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, Carman Collegiate Theatre; $15, children $10.

Ghost Towns of Manitoba: A Record of Pioneer Life

Writers Helen Mulligan and Wanda Ryder, 1 p.m. Saturday, Portage la Prairie Public Library; Thursday, Nov. 20 at 3 p.m. at Candlewood Books in Brandon.

Christmas Craft Sale

Featuring The North Pole Market, Mrs. Claus’ Canteen, Jingle Bell Rock Stage, Santa’s Photo Studio and a Silent Night Auction, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday; Dr. George Johnson School Gym, Gimli.

The Kentones’ Swan Song & Dessert Party

With guests Kristin Scott, United 4 Singing, Dora & Wally Gray and Virden Prairieland Chorus, 2 p.m. Sunday, Kenton Memorial Hall, north of Virden, on Hwy 259; $5, children $2, preschoolers free.

Coming Up

Zadie’s Shoes

In association with Winnipeg Jewish Theatre, opens Nov. 27, Prairie Theatre Exchange, 3rd floor, Portage Place, to Dec. 14; $28, students and seniors $19.25 at 942-5483.