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Theatre and Entertainment Arts
The Manitoba Theatre Centre operates both a main stage and the Warehouse just a short walk away. The Warehouse doesn't have as much in the line-up, but it offers dependable productions. The Prairie Theatre Exchange, located on the third floor of the popular Portage Place mall, showcases local talent and has a drama school. Other theatres in the Exchange Districtinclude the Walker Theatre and Pantages Playhouse Theatre. Gas Station Theatre in Osborne Village, a walk through which is entertainment in itself, features amateurs taking to stage. The Manitoba Theatre for Young People is in The Forks, where there is a Select-A-Seat office that brokers for most of the production companies in town. The Main stage at The Forks Market is host to concerts, featuring local and imported talent. Twenty minutes north of downtown, at Kildonan Park, visitors will find the lovely outdoor venue, Rainbow Stage; which offers Broadway style shows all summer, and takes their troupe to Pantages in winter. If you like opera or dance, check out the Manitoba Opera, which has its own ticket line at 780 3333, or Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers.
Movie theatres downtown are distributed almost as tightly as the production houses. In the outlying regions they are found in most major malls; and nearly all movie houses have gone to the multiplex format. Video stores are on every street corner, it seems. Notable for Osborne Village is Movie Village, a shop catering to the viewing preferences of the city's subculture. Those folks into art films will find their needs met at Cinemateque in the Exchange, where independent films play for six bucks a head. If you're driving, Winnipeg still has an old-style drive-in theatre, the Odeon, just past the western limit of town.
Note: In recent years Winnipeg has been host to many independent and major film companies.
Museums and Galleries
A person strolling through the core of Winnipeg couldn't walk four blocks without encountering a museum or gallery of some form or another. Downtown houses the majors, with the Museum of Man and Nature/Planetarium/Concert Hall complex located just north of Portage and Main, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery a short trip up Portage at Memorial Boulevard. Osborne Village and Little Italy have an amazing number of galleries clustered together. Notable are the Sedentary Nomad, featuring work from Africa exclusively, the Prairie Shop gallery, both on Osborne, and the Stoneware Gallery about a mile west on Corydon. Both the core and outlying regions house smaller museums; such as the Transcona Historical Museum, which celebrates that neighborhood's railway past. Some must-see attractions outside of town include Lower Fort Garry near Selkirk, the only intact stone fort construct in North America, and the Mennonite Heritage Museum in Steinbach, a mock-up of a nineteenth-century Mennonite village.
Music
Live music can be found almost anywhere, and in almost any genre. Concerts are held in the arenas, the parks, stadiums, even Assiniboia Downs Horse Racing Track. Many nightclubs feature live music as well as dance music; some, like Braemar Village Restaurant and Cabaret (open late), even give dance lessons. Clubs like Coyote Cafe and the River City Brewing Company are great places to meet that special someone.
Amusements and Games
Winnipeg has some exciting amusement parks that are great for the whole family. Although some climbing and paintball clubs exist within town, most of the parks are just outside. Fun Mountain Waterslide Park, Grand Prix Amusements and Tinkertown Family Fun Park are all located just east of the city, while A Maze in Corn and Victory Lanes Speedway are a few miles past the South Perimeter Highway. Fifteen minutes north of town, at Lockport, is Skinners Wet & Wild—another big waterslide facility. The Prairie Dog Central Living Museum takes train tours out the west side; and if you go as far as Portage la Prairie, an hour west of Winnipeg, you will find the Strawberry Festival in the height of summer. Games could include anything from our pro teams to golf. This city has some excellent pro golf courses, most notable of which are once again located just outside town. John Blumberg Golf Course & Baseball Complex and Prairie Dog Central Living Museum are two of the finest. There are many courses and driving ranges in the outlying areas, as well.
Festivals & Cultural Events
Mentioning a few and not all seems unfair, but Winnipeg has some biggies that should be pointed out. The Winnipeg Folk Festival, held in the spacious Bird's Hill Park & Campground, is weekend of music, crafts and outdoor fun for the whole family. Folklorama, a weeklong celebration of ethnic diversity, is the largest of its kind in the world. The Winnipeg International Writer's Festival is fairly new, but is rivaling similar events in Toronto and Vancouver. The Fringe Theatre Festival, is a rapidly growing event that attracts people from the fringes of the earth. We also have some lesser-known events here that may be of interest. The North American Indigenous Games and the Special Olympics for disabled folks are two examples.
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