The Exchange District BIZ

Jason Lujan | Expanded Dreaming
2024-08-02 17:00 - 2024-09-14 17:00 (America/Winnipeg) | Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art Gallery, Urban Shaman Gallery, 203-290 McDermot Ave, Winnipeg, R3B 0T2
Jason Lujan | Expanded Dreaming
August 2 – September 14, 2024
Opening reception: Friday, August 2nd, 2024 from 5:00 – 9:00 pm
Artist Talk and Livestream: Saturday, August 3rd from 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Expanded Dreaming features artwork that integrates Indigenous sensibilities in tandem with transnational experiences and aesthetics. Central to this exhibition is the notion of the travelling pilgrim, wandering mendicant, and the metaphor of open-air market as dominant aesthetic. In collecting goods and people from around the world, capitalism itself has the characteristics of an assemblage. Just as previous generations of Indigenous artists responded to the introduction of modern art making materials such as synthetic paint to record, recode, and reframe traditional ideas and put forth new ideas, the art in this exhibition emphasize transitive zones involving the processes of the unfamiliar becoming familiar, or the process of restoration becoming a creative endeavor.
Jason Lujan
Jason Lujan is originally from Marfa, Texas. He brings the experience of a 20 year career as an artist and arts administrator in New York City managing departments with the Dia Foundation, Museum of Modern Art, United Nations, Park Avenue Armory, and Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Jason has contributed to, planned, constructed, and managed productions and exhibitions by Ryoji Ikeda; Royal Shakespeare Company; Tom Sachs; Merce Cunningham; Janet Cardiff; Ann Hamilton; Paul McCarthy; Marina Abramovic; Douglas Gordon; Martin Creed; Taryn Simon; Herzog & DeMueron; Ai Wei Wei; The Met’s Costume Institute Ball; Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection; Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Church; Camp: Notes on Fashion, and more.
Associated projects involve assisting with fashion runway installations for Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Tommy Hilfiger, Marc Jacobs, and Y3, among others.
As an artist, he creates tools for understanding and interpreting the processes by which different cultures approach each other as a result of travel and communication. Largely integrating visual components rooted in North American and Asia, the work focuses on the possibilities and limitations of the exchanging of ideas, meanings, and values, questioning the concepts of authorship and authenticity. Jason is represented by Toronto galleries MKG127 and, as the collaborative project Native Art Department International, by Patel Brown.

First Fridays Pop Up @ Little Brown Jug
2024-08-02 18:00 - 2024-08-03 00:00 | Little Brown Jug Brewing Co, 336 William Avenue, Winnipeg
Save the date! You don’t want to miss this one. August 2nd, First Fridays, Little Brown Jug Patio and Taproom, 6PM-12AM
New apparel drop – Marc Kuegle
Photo exhibition – Scott Zielke
Acoustic set – The Good Sky Woman
DJ sets – Arayuh, TONY4QR, Boogey The Beat
Food – La Taqueria Mexican Street Tacos

201 Portage Mini Market on the Plaza
2024-08-06 11:00 - 14:00 | 201 Portage Plaza, 201 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 3K6, Canada
Join us on Tuesday, August 6 and August 13 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for a delightful showcase of local vendors and artisans. In case of rain or extreme heat, we’ll relocate indoors to the Conference Centre, next to the food court on concourse level.
List of Vendors:
• Magic Attic Witchy Inspired Gemstone Jewelry
• Macramé Kraft Korner
• Posie Creations
• Bint’ Chem Products & Services
• Bosko’s Exotic Boards
• Liv 2 Bake Gluten Free
…And more vendors to be added!

Extra Ordinary
2024-08-08 11:00 - 2024-08-20 17:00 | Winnipeg
Extra Ordinary is a story about a plain bike that accidentally changed everything, i.e. opened up a whole new world for Juanita, cruising through old Winnipeg neighbourhoods on a new-old bike, feeling like a kid at 55, seeing her familiar surroundings with new eyes. This show is about doing new things that are old, enjoying ordinary adventures, and it is about practicing how to get out of the house to breathe the air and look at the sky every day, appreciating a regular job and ordinary days where ordinary things happen.
Extra Ordinary is also about figuring out how to become visible while struggling with apocalyptic levels of anxiety because staying invisible feels so much safer. What surrounds you on these walls is her daily anchoring exercise, one manifestation of learning how to fight addiction and achieve balance, i.e to become ordinary. This is a quest for ordinary, to have as much ordinary as possible, to become extra ordinary. This is about practicing gratitude and juggling more of everything with less energy while the clock ticks faster into forever. This art is about THIS moment, right NOW, and it is about sailing on a bike (a.k.a. lifeboat) close to other people, making connections to make the journey easier, shedding unnecessary baggage to prepare for the home stretch.
The “home stretch” in this case is in Winnipeg, which is located within Treaty No. 1 Territory, the traditional lands of the Anishinabe (Ojibway), Ininew (Cree), Anisininew (Oji-Cree), Dene, and Dakota, and it is the birthplace and National Homeland of the Red River Métis Nation. Awareness of other peoples’ historic and ongoing relationships to this land is part of cultivating a broader and more nuanced experience of place, learning how to see what we haven’t seen before from someone else’s perspective.
A plain bike is the central theme of constant movement through the spaces we call home. Other key themes are cats, trees, water, Winnipeg, birds, fishing spiders, and our beloved solar system. Smoke, fire, flood, and meteors are always present because they represent chaos, along with the Covid virus which is literally everywhere, including space. Sound is key, too, the hum of Winnipeg, the sounds of the clunky old bike and a neighbourhood filled with birds and people going about their days.
This was a labour of love, and it was a labour of dogged perseverance through trial and error, figuring out how to take photos while biking, then how to print them. The 20×20 inch wood panels required a lot of prep work and Juanita drew the background star-field, which she then printed and transferred to each panel, moving Captain James Kirk (the cat) around a central axis. After each star-field was applied, there were many layers of paint and layers of clear pouring medium that followed, embedded with objects that “move” from one panel to the next. Juanita wanted to create a 3D effect that works if the viewer moves past quickly or stops for a closer look. Above all, she hopes her work will be fun for you to see, a break from the heavy things we’ve all got to carry.

201 Summer Concert Series: Andrina Turenne - LIVE
2024-08-08 12:00 - 13:00 | 201 Portage Plaza, 201 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 3K6, Canada
Join us on Thursday, August 8 at the plaza for a LIVE performance by Andrina Turenne! Andrina is a singer, songwriter, and musician born and raised in St Boniface, Manitoba with strong ties to her Métis and Francophone roots. Her sound is largely shaped by the rich musical traditions of her hometown of Winnipeg. (Rain location: 201 Portage Concourse/Food Court).

The Death Tour Screening
2024-08-09 18:00 - 19:30 | 100 Arthur St., 100 Arthur St., Winnipeg, R3B1H3
Each winter, when the lakes freeze over, a motley gang of professional wrestlers leaves Winnipeg on a one-of-a-kind wrestling trip through remote Indigenous communities of Northern Manitoba. Wrestling insiders call it the ‘Death Tour’ – both for the physical hardships endured on the road and the emotional toll it takes on those who experience it.
The Death Tour, written and directed by Stephan Peterson and co-directed by Sonya Ballantyne, is a road trip movie like none other which takes viewers on an epic journey to a part of the world rarely captured on camera.
August 9 includes Special Post-Screening Q+A with
Writer/Director Stephan Peterson, Co-Director Sonya Ballantyne
Iconic Wrestling Promoter Tony Condello
Wrestler Sage Morin “The Matriarch”
Wrestler Sean Dunster “Massive Damage”
and Wrestler Levi Night

201 Summer Concert Series: Gator Beaulieu - LIVE
2024-08-15 12:00 - 13:00 | 201 Portage Plaza, 201 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 3K6, Canada
Join us for a LIVE performance at the plaza on Thursday, August 15 by Gator Beaulieu. Nominated for a Native American Music Award 2022 nominee Gator will captivate you with his unique sound and authentic style of music interweaving his love of country ballads, blues and honky tonk sounds. (Rain location: 201 Portage Concourse/Food Court).

201 Summer Concert Series: Mark Lefebvre - LIVE
2024-08-22 12:00 - 13:00 | 201 Portage Plaza, 201 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 3K6, Canada
Join us at the plaza on Thursday, August 22 for LIVE performance by Mark Lefebvre! Whether it is through his visual art, as a storyteller, through his humour or as a singer-songwriter, Mark invites us along in his quest to unmask what is real by intensifying the colours of everyday life to go beyond the background noise. (Rain location: 201 Portage Concourse/Food Court).

201 Summer Concert Series: The Prairie Joggers - LIVE
2024-08-29 12:00 - 13:00 | 201 Portage Plaza, 201 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 3K6, Canada
Join us for our final LIVE performance of the season with The Prairie Joggers scheduled at the plaza on Thursday, August 29. The Prairie Joggers are a gritty folk-rock band out of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Blending warm electric guitar, raw vocals and dampened drums, the Joggers form a thick vintage sound that cushions their bleak but not entirely hopeless lyrical themes. (Rain location: 201 Portage Concourse/Food Court).

Outside of the Box
2024-09-05 11:00 - 2024-09-24 17:00 | Winnipeg
Go down memory lane with JoAnne’s paintings, influenced by her Icelandic heritage and life on a dairy farm in the fifties. She is very connected to nature which determines her choice of subject matter.
Julia’s championing of women artists through the ages comes from her feeling of their sparse representation in the art world. That’s why they are created in the form of portraits. She came to know their stories while she painted them in her studio that is surrounded by her companion trees.

FIRST FRIDAYS in the EXCHANGE
2024-09-06 17:00 - 21:00 | The Exchange District, The Exchange
Serving the September 6 FIRST FRIDAYS in the EXCHANGE:
On the 1st Friday of each month, Galleries, Artist-Run Centres, Studios, Shops + Museums stay open late at this free event in Winnipeg’s Exchange District.
Click the link to see the details for over 40 events, including free Art Talks, and download or print out the Tour Map.
Enjoy!

First Fridays Art Talk with Curator Dr. Riva Symko, from the WAG-Qaumajuq
2024-09-06 18:00 - 18:45 | 100 Arthur St., 100 Arthur St., Winnipeg, R3B1H3
Contemporary artists around the globe are concerned about nature in crisis. They are creating transformative artwork, that is inspiring new ways of seeing our interconnected world. Riva Symko will share examples of creative and impactful artwork which explores the relationship between people, industry, economics and politics in climate change. We will see the power of artists to respond to land, colonialism, socio-economic, and environmental issues. Moderator Susan Freig and Riva’s conversation will show how their work inspires, guides, and leads to change.

DOWNTOWN DIVA ENSEMBLE
2024-09-06 18:00 - 21:00 | Centennial Concert Hall, 555 Main St, Winnipeg
On September 6th, The Centennial Concert Hall lobby will be filled with sound and movement for the first ever Downtown Diva Ensemble! This unique collaboration will feature local drag performers and vocalists accompanied by Musicians of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.
This free event is a glamorous takeover of the concert hall’s front steps and lobby as part of First Fridays in the Exchange led by the Musicians of WSO to bring in the public inside. The doors open at 6 PM with an outdoor drag show at 6:30 then the official show begins at 7 PM.
“We look forward to showcasing the cultural and artistic talent which thrives in our downtown area. Come meet and mingle with us and our business partners in our beautiful Centennial Concert Hall: join us as we commemorate a new season of music, theater and dance.” – Alex of The Musicians of the WSO
This event is produced by Synonym Art Consultation, NDP Manitoba Caucus, Musicians of WSO and The Exchange District Biz

Culture Days Manitoba
2024-09-20 - 2024-10-13 | Winnipeg
Culture Days Manitoba is embracing a multi-week celebration from September 20 – October 13, 2024. Hundreds of free events will take place province-wide, animating cultural institutions, and the artists right in your own backyard.
From Churchill down to Altona, events will highlight the cultural fabric of Manitoba, presenting a “behind the scenes” point of view of arts and culture. Whether through workshops for Student Day at The Forks, soapstone carving in Flin Flon, Dauphin’s Yardfringe or Illuminating the Night at Nuit Blanche – you will find something that amazes, inspires or simply brings a smile to your face. Create, share, and celebrate – join us for Culture Days 2024!

Artisthood
2024-09-26 11:00 - 2024-10-15 17:00 | Winnipeg
As a child I always felt I was able to express myself with art. Words were never my friend. Reading was never as enjoyable as it was to others, math and most sciences were tolerated, French and physics class were suffering. The only time I felt like I was intelligent, confident and truly myself was when I was creating something. Over the years I have done a little bit of everything. I took up beading in high school and even sold my jewelry in some craft fairs. I studied and practiced photography during my undergrad and ventured into wedding photography. Theatre design allowed me to explore a large cross section of skills, technical drafting, model making, costume rendering, sculpting with form and even light. During the pandemic I sold paint poured coasters with a good friend. But all of these practices eventually turned into a chore. I enjoyed the process of creating and expression, and still do. They truly brought me joy. But the product of my work was for others. The jewelry was made for others to wear. The photos were taken to celebrate others special days, the set and costume designs were for others to act on and to wear, the coasters were sold as a means during the pandemic. And that was enough, for a while at least.
When I became a mother, that changed. Motherhood is hard. Motherhood during a global pandemic is even harder. I returned to work after 9 months of maternity leave with my first son. Four months later my father died. One month after that the world shut down and I was cut off from my creative outlet, my job. Needless to say, my mental health suffered. I didn’t realize how much I needed a creative outlet. It was during that time that I first picked up a pallet knife. I had always been intimidated by it, thinking it was beyond my skill set. But as I spread the paint across a canvas for the first time, it felt right. It felt like me. It is easy to lose yourself in motherhood and I definitely did for a while. Taking care of small humans consumes your identity and your time. In the rare instances when you do find time for yourself, you are exhausted. When I take the time to paint, I am taking back a piece of myself, remembering who I am as an individual, feeling at home, enjoying something I am good at. It is meditative, it brings me joy, it brings me peace, it brings me confidence. It is just for me.
There is nothing complicated about these paintings. There is no deeper meaning. I don’t have time for anything more than that. Ultimately what it comes down to is “I like to paint and flowers are pretty”.

Skate Spot Session One
2024-09-28 18:00 - 19:00 | Old Market Square, 275 Bannatyne Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 1H9, Canada
Join us on Nuit Blanche for the official launch of the new Skate Spot behind the Cube at Old Market Square!
Watch the crew from SK8 Skates bring the Spot to life with a showcase of tricks and lines, and then stick around to explore and ride this unique space for yourself.
The Skate Spot may be small, but it’s been crafted by skaters for skaters and built to inspire creativity and provide fun challenges at all levels.
Come out, bring your board, and be part of the first session.

Nuit Blanche Winnipeg
2024-09-28 18:00 - 2024-09-29 03:00 | Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada
Nuit Blanche Winnipeg is fast approaching! September 28th, 6pm – late, we are hosting an exciting night of contemporary art installations, performances, Winnipeg’s most venerated art institutions, independent curators and 30,000 art animators in one night – we can’t wait!
This year our celebration will focus on four zones:
The Exchange District
Downtown (The WAG-Qaumajuq, The Canadian Museum for Human Rights)
The Forks
St. Boniface
We encourage you to take in these events as a pedestrian. Walk, bike, roll, or any creative way you can consider to visit our exhibits. If you need help reaching different zones throughout the evening we offer a free of charge Trolley or Water Bus service from 6pm – midnight.
Nuit Blanche Winnipeg is a free nighttime exploration and celebration of contemporary art held in Winnipeg’s historic Exchange District and Downtown.
Events in the Exchange District: https://culturedays.ca/en/collections/5568ec33-7e01-4399-ae6c-b69e4b597ade

WNDX Festival of Moving Image
2024-10-02 19:00 - 2024-10-06 21:00 | Manitoba Museum, 190 Rupert Avenue, Winnipeg, R3B 0N2
Based in Winnipeg, the WNDX Festival of Moving Image is a five-day experimental film festival lovingly cared for by Winnipeg and Prairie-region filmmakers and curators since 2005.
All events will take place at the Dave Barber Cinematheque, the Black Lodge (the Winnipeg Film Group’s 3rd floor Artspace Studio), or the Manitoba Museum Auditorium.
Festival highlights this year include:
Opening Night Screening – Field Notes from a Rainy Day: The Animations, Meditations and One Takes of Leslie Supnet – curated by Cecilia Araneda. This 50 min. program is the first-ever Manitoba retrospective for Supnet, a Winnipeg Filipinx animator and one of Manitoba’s most accomplished filmmakers, whose work has been selected by some of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, including Toronto International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the Flaherty NYC. Reception to follow in Artspace lobby for all ticket holders.
Interdisciplinary performances by Anto(n) Astudillo and Freya Björg Olafson:
TRANS THE MIRROR (2024),Canadian Premiere.A 20-minute performance by Brooklyn based Latinx artist and curator Anto(n) Astudillo, on what it feels like to inhabit a trans/queer body in a world that has rendered their bodies as vulnerable.
MÆ – Motion Aftereffect by Winnipeg’s own Freya Björg Olafson (20 min, 2019) are digital collages of motion-capture data (both found online and uniquely generated); ready-made and custom 3D models alongside varied internet-sourced monologues.
I Use to Live There (14 mins, 2023), by Winnipeg-born, Montreal-based, Ryan McKenna, Manitoba premiere. Blending documentary-style filmmaking with fictional elements, the film stars Daniel Gerson and Monika Schneider as semi-fictionalized versions of themselves, and focuses on the relationship between a photographer who is losing his vision due to a degenerative eye disease and the actress who hired him to take her new headshots. The film was selected as part of the TIFF’s 2023 Canada’s TOP TEN list, and screened at Locarno International Film Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, and DOXA (among others)
Terra Long’s’ feature documentary Feet in Water, Head on Fire (90 mins, 2023), Prairie Region premiere. An invisible line connects California to parts of the Middle East and North Africa, where similar climates provide ideal growing conditions for date palm trees. Using textural 16mm, Long surveys the arid California landscape along the San Andreas Fault—from microscopic plant cells to macroscopic pans of the golden mountains—and zooms in on the lives of those whose livelihoods are dependent on the trees’ sweet fruits and the exoticism they lend the region. Programmed by Jaimz Asmundson, WNDX Festival Producer and Board Member, for over a decade, until his untimely death in early 2024.
wndrland (50 min), 15 films from Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Quebec, Yukon, BC, Germany, Switzerland, Brazil, Italy/Netherlands, and Argentina. This program has been curated for film lovers of all ages who are interested in films that reside outside of the big-box movie theatres!
Back again – and always a filmmaker and audience fav – the One Take Super 8 Event. 5 participants are each given one roll of Super-8 film and a Super-8 camera to work with. The unedited results are revealed when the filmmakers see their work for the first time along with the audience!
Tickets for the opening night screening and reception are $10. Admission for all other screenings are pay-what-you-can ($5 recommended). Tickets are available for advance purchase at the Cinematheque, through WNDX’s website – https://wndx.org/festival-program/ – or at the door. Full schedule can be found here – http://www.wndx.org

"Heaven and Earth" A Solo Exhibition by Manny Schulz
2024-10-03 18:00 - 21:00 | 65 Albert St, Albert Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 1G3, Canada
OPENING RECEPTION:
Thursday October 3, 2024
6:00 – 9:00 pm
65 Albert St.
Live Music and Refreshments
Show Runs October 3 – 17, 2024
ARTIST STATEMENT
“Heaven and Earth” is an exploration of the relationship between the vast, open skies and the land we call home. The horizon is not just a literal meeting point between the heavens and the earth, but also a figurative reminder of the delicate balance that sustains us.
I hope that these works will not only captivate the eye but also touch the soul, reminding each of us of our responsibility to treat the land and its inhabitants with greater care and purpose.

FIRST FRIDAYS in the EXCHANGE
2024-10-04 17:00 - 21:00 | Winnipeg’s Exchange District
Step into your Culture Days zone on October 4!
Talk with artists and creatives in their studios, galleries, and unique shops tucked away in historic buildings, and open late to welcome your visit.
Attend our ART TALK followed by a guided ART WALK to a selection of galleries + studios.
See films, and live performances, fuel up at one of the many wonderful eateries, and explore!
Click the link for the details on over 40 events!

First Fridays Art Talk: Art in Set Design, with Set Designer Brian Perchaluk and Royal MTC’s Artistic Director Kelly Thornton
2024-10-04 18:00 - 18:45 | 100 Arthur St., 100 Arthur St., Winnipeg, R3B1H3
Theatre set design creates a believable world for the audience to sink into, engaging with the story, characters, and mood. The styles mirror familiar art movements such as Realism, Impressionism and Minimalism. Expressionism, in set design, emphasizes the emotional experience of characters over a realistic depiction of their surrounding. The stage’s physical environment, often altered or distorted, uses lines and shapes such as uneven floors, slanting walls, or elongated forms to create a deep, gut-level experience for the audience, digging into the complexities of the human spirit and life. Moderator Susan Freig’s conversation with Brian Perchaluk and Kelly Thornton will explore the connection between art and set design, and will go “behind the scenes” about the relationship between set designs, director’s vision, and production.

Frankie Freako Screening
2024-10-11 - 2024-10-20 | Dave Barber Cinematheque, Arthur Street, Winnipeg, Winnipeg, R3B 1H7, Canada
He’s BAAAAAAAACK! Steven Kostanski’s latest horror-comedy, Frankie Freako, hits screens across Canada starting October 4. Get ready to join the monster mayhem!
Workaholic yuppie Conor has a dilemma: no one in his life respects him! Not his boss, not his coworkers, not even his wife Kristina, who thinks he’s an uptight “square”! Conor sees no way out of this existential rut until one night while channel-surfing, he catches a bizarre ad for a party hotline hosted by a strange dancing goblin: Frankie Freako. Conor is entranced by Frankie’s promises of wild and freaky adventures, just a phone call away – could this be just the recipe to spice up his flavourless life?

The Play That Goes Wrong
2024-10-16 - 2024-11-09 | 174 Market Avenue, 174 Market Avenue, Winnipeg, R3B 0T9
“It would be very wrong to miss this laugh-a-thon” – Calgary Herald
“An absolute blast…pure comedy gold” – Edmonton Journal
Despite their spotty track record, the Cornley Drama Society has high hopes for their new play The Murder at Haversham Manor. Who doesn’t love a 1920s murder mystery set at a grand manor?
But if you believe this show will go off without a hitch, you’d be dead wrong. Thwarted by missing props, a malfunctioning set and dubious acting choices, this ill-fated production unravels at an alarming rate. By the end of the play, solving a murder is the least of everyone’s worries. The Play That Goes Wrong is the right choice if you’re looking for a hilarious night out!

Breath Work + Sound Meditation
2024-10-17 19:00 - 20:00 | 66 King St., 66 King St. 7th Floor - The Warehouse, Winnipeg, R3B 1H6, Canada
Join us for an in-person experience at 66 King St, The Third Place in the Exchange, where we combine the transformative power of breath-work and sound therapy. This session is designed to help relax and restore your mind, body, and soul through regulated breathing techniques and soothing sound frequencies. Whether you’re looking to release stress, improve focus, or simply make space for rest, this event offers a serene environment to recharge your energy and deepen your sense of well-being. No experience necessary. All are welcome.

2024 Cape Dorset Annual Print Release - Katie + Gunner Gallery
2024-10-19 07:00 - 17:00 | Katie + Gunner Gallery, 102-141 Bannatyne Ave., Winnipeg, R3B0R3, Canada
2024 marks the 65th anniversary of the Cape Dorset Annual Print Release.
This year features 34 limited-edition prints by 15 Inuit artists.
50 sets produced.
Join us on Saturday, October 19, 2024 for the official launch of this year’s collection.
The gallery opens at 7:00 a.m. and refreshments will be served in the morning.
On display and for purchase, you will see the best of Inuit art and print making.
The artist continue to create works that represent contemporary and traditional themes of life in Northern Canada.
The print making on display covers may techniques: stonecut, linocut, lithograph, etching & aquatint, etching & chine colle.
All pieces are for sale.
The exhibit runs from Saturday, October 19 through Saturday, November 23.

Pop-Up Vaccine Clinic - Hosted by QDoc & 201 Portage
2024-10-25 10:00 - 15:00 | 201 Portage Conference Centre, 201 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, R3B 3K6
Stay healthy this season! We’re happy to host a pop-up vaccine clinic at 201 Portage, in the Conference Centre, in partnership with QDoc. Choose between a flu shot, COVID booster, or both! Please remember to bring your Manitoba Health Card with you.
Walk-ups are welcomed! This event will operate on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last. However, we encourage the public to sign up in advance to help the QDoc team manage vaccine supplies effectively.

The Art of Tribal Rugs
2024-10-25 19:00 - 21:30 | Rubia Darya Rug Gallery, 102-132 James Avenue, East Exchange District, Winnipeg
‘The Art of Tribal Rugs’ evening at Rubia Darya is an Open House event with hands on discussions exploring the use of natural dye colors, symbolic patterns, and the overall artistic expression in one of a kind hand woven rugs made by tribal women from various nomadic families for their own family’s use in central and west Asia up to 140 years ago. A fun and educational event.
Enjoy tea and chocolates as well.
Parking is available across the street as well as in the nearby Sport Manitoba building, 145 Pacific Ave.

The Ghosts We Create, Anja Studer
2024-10-31 11:00 - 2024-11-12 17:00 | Winnipeg
This newest series of work titled “the ghosts we create” was born in the summer of 2023 at the Venezia Contemporanea Residencies Program in Venice, Italy. The series features mixed media paintings and papercuts inspired by wildlife and the pressing environmental challenges they face, causing their numbers to diminish until they vanish.
The mixed media paintings feature abstract watercolor washes that loosely evoke landscapes, playing with the dynamic between nature and emotion. The color washes are enriched with details in ink, acrylics, 24k gold and graphite. Each artwork includes a wildlife illustration in graphite. Opting for graphite instead of her usual medium of black ink emphasizes the fragility of our ecosystem and underscores the threat of wildlife extinction due to habitat loss, exploitation and pollution. The wildlife illustrations consist of simple line drawings and geometric patterns inspired by folk art from all over the world, and in particular Swiss papercuts.
For the first time the Swiss artist is unveiling a limited edition of papercuts as a homage to this old Swiss tradition. The artist has had a love for traditional Swiss papercuts ever since her childhood and her illustrations have long been inspired by this artform and were translated to ink. A workshop in Switzerland in 2018 gave her the needed confidence to explore papercutting within her art practice. Anja’s delicate papercuts depict wildlife in her distinctive graphic style using patterns. The patterns unravel into lines of paper, echoing the message of wildlife being in danger of becoming extinct and disappearing in front of our eyes.
The artist continues to use her work to raise awareness about climate change, urging action to protect our wildlife before more and more species vanish, becoming ghosts of the past.
Anja will be donating 10% of sales from this exhibition to the Manitoba-based Wildlife Haven Rehabilitation Centre. Wildlife Haven’s main goal is to treat injured and orphaned wildlife and to successfully release them back into their natural habitat.

Brianna Wentz | Warpaint
2024-10-31 17:00 - 2024-12-14 17:00 | Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art Gallery, Urban Shaman Gallery, 203-290 McDermot Ave, Winnipeg, R3B 0T2
Brianna Wentz | Warpaint
October 31 – December 14, 2024
Vagina Witchcraft Performance: Thursday, October 31st from 7:00-10:00pm
Opening Reception: Friday, November 1st from 5-9 pm
Artist Talk and Livestream: Saturday, November 2nd from 1-2 pm
A symbol of sex, controversy, and rock n’ roll—excessive, depraved, and worshipped without restraint—the Demon embodies every freedom and whim denied to women and gender-diverse people. Warpaint releases the demon in the metalhead fangirl, who is no longer a passive fan, but a rockstar in their own right. Rather than being possessed by the music, alluding to religious ecstasy and demonic possession, the fan becomes the demon themselves, challenging oppression and normativity in the scene.
This shift speaks to a deeper issue faced by Indigenous, Black, and other racialized people—the constant expectation to be strong and resilient. We are told we are resilient, but why should we always have to be? Centuries of intergenerational trauma, compounded by everyday racism and sexism, demand a space where sorrow, fear, desire, and rage can be unleashed. Enter metal, punk, and rock n’ roll.
These spaces provide an outlet for BIPOC and queer metalheads to build community and reclaim their identities. By honoring punk values, kinship is cultivated, because the mere presence of racialized and gender-diverse people in these scenes—and their very existence in a post-colonial society—is metal as fuck. Warpaint depicts these kin in all their unleashed deadliness.
Yet, racialized women and non-binary people remain underrepresented in metal. Few figures exist in these scenes with whom they can identify. There continues to be undercurrents of white supremacy, sexism, and homophobia in factions of metal and punk. Black Metal, known for its iconic corpse paint, has been shaped by musicians who openly supported white supremacist ideologies and homophobic hate crimes. These works seek to confront and dismantle such ideologies by depicting the power of the bodies and spirits they seek to destroy.
Through this process, the works in Warpaint empower them to ‘be their own heroes.’ As Leila Taylor writes in Darkly, “the process of dehumanization is a process of monster-making. But monsters have power.” Being cast as the outsider has created a strength to confront, reclaim, and reshape metal by by embracing a raw, deadly, and unapologetically defiant spirit—showing that women, non-binary, and BIPOC voices lead the scene.

FIRST FRIDAYS in the EXCHANGE
2024-11-01 17:00 - 21:00 | The Exchange District, The Exchange
5-9pm (and later!)
Art Talks.
Pop-Up Markets.
Exhibition Openings.
Holiday Gift Shopping.
Restaurant Refreshers.
Live & Interactive Performances.
Drop-in Art and Craft Workshops.
Just the usual fabulous roundup of First Friday events!
The website link takes you to a Tour Map and all the fine details for a wonderful evening.
