Welcome to our Community Billboard featuring news about upcoming events and topics of interest from our non-profit member organizations.
If your organization has news you'd like to share with ACU members, please send your submission to communitybillboard@assiniboine.mb.ca and we'll post your information here. If you want to post news about an upcoming event, please be sure to send your submission at least two weeks prior to the event date. Please also note that we reserve to right to accept or reject submissions and to edit them if necessary. ACU is pleased to support the following upcoming events . . .
• Moving Target Theatre presents Remember the Night (Mar 3 to 14)• Freeze Frame International Film Festival for Kids of All Ages (Mar 4 to 13)• Where the Blood Mixes - at Prairie Theatre Exchange (Mar 11 to 20)• Manitoba Eco-Network reel green film festival (Mar 12 & 13)• Camerata Nova - Medieval Inuit (Mar 13 & 14)• Fundraiser for Chile (Mar 20)• Co-op Youth Leadership Seminar (Apr 29 to May 2)
Moving Target Theatre presents Remember the NightMarch 3 to 14, 2010
Location: 290 McDermot Ave. (4th Flr) mapTimes: 8pm nightly, 2pm & 8pm Saturdays, no show Monday.
Equal parts dark comedy, murder-mystery and bittersweet love song to Winnipeg, Remember the Night features some of the city's most established professional actors alongside some of our most promising up-and-comers: Andrew Cecon, Claire Therese Friesen, Doreen Brownstone, Jeff Strome, Patricia Hunter, Ray Strachan and Toby Hughes.
Director Arne MacPherson stages this genre-defying play in an Exchange District warehouse, using a bare bones set designed by Heather Arabsky, photography by John Paskievich and Leif Norman, accompanied by a live, original score by local singer-songwriters Patrick Keenan and Ian La Rue.
Remember the Night was first presented in the 2008 Winnipeg Fringe, where it sold out its run and was awarded the Harry S. Rintoul Award for best new Manitoba Play in the Fringe, a second for playwright Daniel Thau-Eleff (Three Ring Circus, 2004 Harry Rintoul Award).
Tickets: $15 / $10 students and seniors. To reserve tickets call 221.2023 or email movingtarget.tickets@gmail.com with your name, number of tickets, and date of performance.
For more information, see the Remember the Night website.
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Freeze Frame Annual International Film Festival for Kids of All AgesMarch 4 to 13, 2010
In March of each year Freeze Frame presents an award-winning collection of films made for children and young people from the all over the world. During the Festival audiences both young and old enjoy:
Young people are invited to take an active role in watching and discussing films with their teachers and parents as well as through participation on the Freeze Frame Youth Jury. Jury members award a prize for Best Feature Film and Best Animated Short, meet the visiting guest artists, and participate in workshops.
For information about the festival, see the Freeze Frame website. You can also print a one-page festival schedule for quick reference.
Incorporated in 1996, Freeze Frame is a not-for-profit organization and registered Manitoba charity. They provide opportunities for children and youth to develop media literacy, critical thinking skills, and the ability to express themselves through film and video—essential attributes in a world where communication in all forms is increasingly important and complex.
You can find out more about Freeze Frame at their website at www.freezeframeonline.org or phone 949.9355 (1.866.543.3378 toll-free).
Where the Blood Mixes - at Prairie Theatre ExchangeMarch 11 to 20, 2010
Location: Prairie Theatre Exchange, 3rd Floor, Portage Place
Irreverently funny and brutally honest, Where the Blood Mixes is a story about loss and redemption. Can a person survive their past; can a people survive their history? Caught in a shadowy pool of alcoholic pain and guilt, Floyd is a man who has lost everyone he holds most dear. Now after more than two decades, his daughter Christine, who had been adopted by a white family, returns home to meet and confront her father. Set during the salmon run, Where the Blood Mixes takes us to the bottom of the river, to the heart of a People.
Don’t miss this exceptional piece of theatre by Kevin Loring, Playwright in Residence at the National Arts Centre. Where the Blood Mixes is a production of the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company and The Belfry Theatre Revival in association with The Savage Society.
For more information, view or download the poster.
Tickets: This play is a limited run, so buy your tickets early. Play times listed on www.pte.mb.ca. All tickets $20, available online at www.pte.mb.ca, or call the box office at (1.204) 942.5483, or fax the Order Form on the back of the poster.
Manitoba Eco-Network reel green film festivalFriday, March 12 & Saturday, March 13, 2010
Location: Red River College Princess St. Campus, 160 Princess St. (enter through William Ave. doors - map)
Manitoba Eco-Network is proud to host Winnipeg's first Environmental Film Festival. For more information on show times, discussions and other activities, see their website or download the poster.
Tickets: Full event, $20. Friday $10. Saturday $12. Avaliable for purchase online on the Manitoba Eco-Network website. Tickets also available, while supplies last, at McNally Robinson (1120 Grant Ave) and Mountain Equipment Co-op (303 Portage Ave).
Manitoba Eco-Network is an umbrella for environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) throughout Manitoba. The network welcomes individual, ENGO, and associate members. Manitoba Eco-Network is a registered charitable organization, and a regional affiliate of the Canadian Environmental Network based in Ottawa.
Camerata Nova - Medieval InuitSaturday, March 13 & Sunday, March 14, 2010
Location: Précieux-Sang Church (200 Kenny Street, in St. Boniface)Time: Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 3pm. Pre-concert stories of the North start 45 minutes before each concert.
Camerata Nova's Artistic Director, Andrew Balfour, has partnered with Inuk singer and songwriter Madeleine Allakariallak to celebrate a fascinating range of music. Medieval Inuit offers traditional Inuit songs and throat singing from Madeleine and her partner for this event, Sylvia Cloutier; songs passed down from generation to generation shared by elders Elisapie Ootova and the late Minnie Allakariallak, Madeleine's grandmother; medieval music coinciding with the time when Europeans and the Inuit first met; early Scandinavian and Icelandic folksongs and arrangements of Inuit folk songs by Balfour.
Medieval Inuit is also the name of a major new choral work from Artistic Director Andrew Balfour and will feature Inuit singing, viola and percussion. This premiere is based on the theme of the early encounters between the two cultures, their sounds and rhythms, and incorporates experiments in combining throat singing with rhythmic medieval chant.
The musical experience of Medieval Inuit will be enhanced by the projection of powerful Arctic images from the early 1900s. Fred Ford's grandfather was a fur trader and began a three-generation legacy of photographing the Inuit and their art, as well as life in the Canadian North. The image archives of the Ford family are rare and early witnesses of northern culture.
Individual ticket prices: Adults $22, Seniors $20, Students $10. Available online through PayPal at www.cameratanova.com/08/store.php
Camerata Nova was founded in Winnipeg in 1996 as a choral ensemble dedicated to the exploration and performance of a cappella Renaissance music. As the group has evolved, it has branched out well beyond this period to medieval and early Baroque works as well as 20th-century repertoire, including compositions by Andrew Balfour, the group’s Artistic Director. Camerata Nova is taking an increasingly innovative approach to performance, experimenting with unusual venues and exploring the use of unconventional sounds, including throat and overtone singing, and instruments such as crystal bowls, sackbut, and didgeridoo, in contemporary compositions and in arrangements of traditional works.
Fundraiser for ChileSaturday, March 20, 2010
Location: University Centre, 2nd Floor. University of Manitoba (University map)Time: 7:00pm
Everyone is invited to this fundraiser to bring some relief to the people of Chile who have been affected by the February 27th earthquake. There will be musical bands and artists, and typical Chilean food will be sold.
Tickets: On sale for $15.00. Call J.P. at (1.204) 990.1497 for availability.
If you are able to help by volunteering, selling tickets, donating prizes for silent auction, and so on, please contact J.P. at 990.1497.
This fundraiser is being put on by the Manitoba Chilean Association Cultural Centre.
Co-op Youth Leadership Seminar April 29 to May 2, 2010
Location: Riding Mountain Conference Centre
The Manitoba Co-operative Association will hold its semi-annual Co-op Youth Leadership Seminar for young adults between the ages of 15 and 18 years. Emphasizing learning through participation, the seminars encourage participants to play an active role in their leadership development process. Educational topics covered include: communication and public speaking skills, values discussions, working effectively in a group setting, diversity, global development, co-operation and cooperatives and leadership skills.
Participants are sponsored primarily by their local Credit Unions and cooperative businesses, but they can also be sponsored by local band councils, student councils, parents, or other local businesses. Cost for sponsors is $275. ACU will be sponsoring a small number of participants.
To participate, please print and complete the following: Registration Form Parent/Guardian Consent Form
Forms should be mailed or faxed to: Cooperative Youth Leadership Program Manitoba Cooperative Association Inc. Unit C, 3059 Portage Ave Winnipeg, MB R3K 0W4 Fax: (204) 885-8519
Cooperative Youth Leadership Seminar offers a chance for Manitoba youth to learn more about the world around them, their peers and most importantly, themselves. In a beautiful camp setting near Clear Lake, Manitoba, you’ll develop leadership skills, and learn about cross cultural issues and values affecting society, global development and the co-operative movement. You’ll meet with youth from across the province and learn more about yourself and others at the Co-op Youth Leadership Seminar.
You can look forward to 3 ½ days of unique group activities, leadership exercises and outdoor fun. You’ll be able to socialize and make lasting friendships with others from across the province. The Co-op Youth Leadership seminars are held at the Riding Mountain Conference Centre, Clear Lake. Leadership for the seminar is provided by past participants, elected officials, members and staff of Manitoba co-ops and credit unions.
Co-ops and Credit Unions throughout the province, including Assiniboine Credit Union, sponsor youth to attend the seminars. Once the registration has been completed and returned, participants will be sent more detailed sponsor information and they can then approach local co-ops and credit unions for sponsorship. If the participant has trouble finding a sponsor, the Manitoba Cooperative Association will assist them to find a sponsor. Once a sponsor is confirmed, the sponsor will pay the $275 registration fee on behalf of the participant, and all that the participant is responsible for is making their way up to the conference centre. More details on the sponsorship process will be sent out with confirmation of your registration.
For more information, please phone (1.204) 989.5930 or email info@manitoba.coop.
