EVENTS LISTINGS

Contact Aaron Levere tobanevents@umanitoba.ca / 474.6770

Campus events

The Graduate Students’ Association is STILL hiring an editor/ production manager for the Gradzette. For information contact Meghan Gallant at 474-9181. Someone apply please!

The 6th Annual Graduate Student Orientation. Meet your Dean and Associate Dean (Yay! Senior Bureaucrats!) Marshall McLuhan Hall, 204 U Centre. Thur. Sept. 22, 11 - 1. FREE PIZZA. Info: 474-8086.

Free Dance Lesson: Umswing Open House. No partner/experience required. Thurs. Sept. 22,  6 p.m. MPR, 2nd Floor University Centre.

Maria Campbell, Aboriginal writer, playwright, theatre producer, filmmaker, and activist: “The year of the Indigenous Woman,” Sept. 23, 9:30 - 10:20 a.m. Room 343 Drake Building. Everyone is Welcome!

Virtuosi Concerts presents: “Learning to Love Lieder, “Vancouver’s Song Circle troupe led by Rena Sharon, piano, Sat. Sept 24. 8 p.m., Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall, U of W. Info: 786-9000 · www.virtuosi.mb.ca · music@uwinnipeg.ca $28 adults / $26 seniors / $16 students.

Native Studies Colloquium Series, Wednesdays 12:30 – 1:20, Rm. 307 Tier; Sept. 28 - David Hultin “Reflecting on Aboriginal nursing students distance technology learning experiences in northern Manitoba.” Oct. 5 - Ramona Neckoway “Dam(n) it all! Hydroelectric development in northern Manitoba” Everyone welcome!

Live and learn

TAKE BACK THE NIGHT 2005: Breaking through darkness. Thurs. Sept. 22, 7p.m. Start – North End Women’s Centre (394 Selkirk Ave.) End – Graffiti Gallery (109 Higgins Ave.) All are welcome. For more info contact UMSU.

Financial fitness group for women: money management, budgeting, spending plans, emotional and spiritual aspects of money. FREE. 8 sessions, Tues. mornings. Register/ Info: Fort Garry Women’s Resource Centre 477-1123.

Positive Coping Group: coping with trauma, pain and stress. 8 week group to empower women to cope positively. Fort Garry Women’s Resource Centre. FREE. Info/ Registration 477-1123.

My mother, my childhood & me. A women’s group focused on grieving, how we were mothered and learning to mother ourselves. Thursdays 6:30 - 9, Starting Oct. 9. FREE. Register: 477-1123.

The SPANISH INSTITUTE is holding the following events: LA TERTULIA: Current issues and debates in Spanish, 1st Friday of the month 6 -8. SPANISH BOOK CLUB: 2nd Friday of the month 6 -8. SPANISH MOVIE CLUB: 3rd Friday of the month 6 -8. Info: 832-9893 or www.spanishinstitute.ca.

Hostelling International Fall Travel Seminar: trip planning, budgeting, hostelling. Wed. Sept. 21, 5:30 - 9:30. Sport Manitoba Building, 200 Main St. Free for H.I. members, $15 public.Info: 784-1131.

U.S. Out of Iraq: Day of Action; Sat. Sept. 24 1p.m. Bring a sign or a banner to the U.S. consulate on the corner of Portage and Notre Dame. Info: www.unitedforpeace.org.

CAR FREE DAY: information on Car Free Day events in Winnipeg, please contact: Serge LaRochelle 925-3772 or serge@resourceconservation.mb.ca.

12th Annual Fall Tea at the Kildonan Personal Care Centre – Refreshments, prizes, crafts, and monster trucks. Oct. 1 – 4. Everyone welcome! 1970 Henderson Hwy. Info: 334-4633.

Bike tour to Clearwater, MB for the Harvest Moon Festival. A group is getting together to bicycle from Winnipeg to Clearwater. Sept. 22. Info: Tim or David 452-0594 or info@bike-dump.ca.

Harvest Moon Festival: Volunteers needed. Contact: 475-9175 or andrea.sauve@gmail.com Info: www.clearwatermb.ca.

Endless opportunities

ST. NORBERT FARMERS MARKET - Local produce, baked goods, and crafts. Square dancers, traditional music. Saturdays 8 -3 (starting June 25 ) 3514 Pembina Hwy. Call Pat at 256-6411 for more info.

EXCHANGE DISTRICT FARMERS MARKET - Every Saturday in Sept, Old Market Square; Manitoba-grown produce, arts & crafts, home baking and more. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Info: 942-6716 or email info@exchangedistrict.org.

Seven Oaks General Hospital seeks daytime volunteers for the gift shop, lobby, visiting and clerical work. Interested? Call: 632-3179 or www.sogh.mb.ca.

Volunteer for Jewish Child and Family Service: You don’t have to be jewish to volunteer at JCFS. Come and visit us at University Centre on Wednesday, September 28. 

Youth Drop-In Program, Keewatin Community Resource Centre - Connect to the Internet, play pool and more. 1880 Alexander Ave. Mon., Wed. and Fri.: 4 - 8:30 Sat: Noon - 5 Info: 632-4660.

DREAM KEEPERS: Confidential support for female and transgender youth 12 - 20. Klinic Community Health Centre, 870 Portage Avenue, 4 – 5:30. Every Thursday. Info: Angie at 784-4029 or Carie at 931-0981.

Catching Our Breath: Smoking Cessation Group - Women’s Health Clinic, 419 Graham Ave. Thurs. 6:30 – 8:30 (Actual start date is subject to registrations) Fee includes resource material. Info & registration: 947-1517.

The Stone Soup Storytellers Circle: Aqua Books on Saturday nights beginning Sept. 10. All sessions start at 7:30 p.m. All are welcome. Info: Kelly Hughes 943- 7555 or www.aquabooks.ca.

The BIKE DUMP - Now open: Fix your bike, build a bike, use the tools, parts, space and expertise provided by volunteers. Every Sunday 12 - 6. Donations welcome. 594 Main St.

Art for the people

THIN AIR - Winnipeg International Writers Festival featuring Dave Streit: On until Sept. 25. Info: www.winnipegwords.com.

Winnipeg Short Film Massacre; a nonprofit festival showcasing shorter-length horror films. Currently accepting entries for 2005. There is a $5 submission fee. Entry deadline is Oct 1. VHS or DVD only. 29 Shoreline Dr. Winnipeg, R3P 2J7 Info:winnipegshortfilmmassacre@hotmail.com.

“A day in the life of an artist/ librarian” Join Cam Bush each Sunday afternoon as he goes shopping for groceries and runs errands. $4.

“My Beautiful War” an exhibition by Paul Robles, paper-cuts based on the idea of conflict. Quiet Room Gallery, Rm. 111 St. John’s College. Runs until Oct. 20. Info: alward@cc.umanitoba.ca.

LA GALERIE - presents “indicible non illisible.” An international symposium on the literary work of St. Boniface poet, J.R. Léveillé. Sept. 19 - Oct. 2. Cultural Centre Franco-Manitobain. Info:http://colloqueleveille.cusb.ca/lesoeuvres.htm.

Shake it

Greg Macpherson at the Gas Station Theatre. 8 p.m., Fri. Sept. 23. $12 at the Gas Station, U of M Answers, and U of W info booth.

Art City fundraising Social with Moses Mayes, DJ Co-op, and DJ Hunnicutt. Prizes! Support community art in the inner-city. The Local, 112 Market Ave. $10 Tickets: Mondragon, Into the Music, Art City, Out of the Blue.

Corb Lund Band with guest Alana Levandoski at the West End Cultural Centre. 8 p.m. Sat. Sept. 24. $15 advance (WECC, Ticketmaster) $18 door.

Matt Epp at Jon Parks’ moving away party 10 p.m. Oct. 6 Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club.

Outta town

4th Annual Harvest Moon Festival: “Manitoba’s Perennial Farm Festival.” Clearwater, MB. Sept 23-25. Local music, food, folks, farm tours, more. www.clearwatermb.ca. *See Doug’s Week Out

Doug’s Week Out

At this time of year, it’s good to remember this simple equation: Moon + Donkey = Music. Multiply this by a tent, a bike, and a home-cooked meal and you’ve got yourself a weekend of farmy fun at the 4th Annual Harvest Moon Festival. The Harvest Moon Festival started back in ‘02 as a way of educating people of the urban persuasion about the issues facing local Manitoba farmers. The festival involves the usual mix of great music, great food, camping, dancing, and umm . . . experimental recreation, all the while making connections between farm folk and city folk. Clearwater is a picturesque sort of town that can remind even the most disgruntled Winnipegger that she does indeed love the prairies afterall. The perfect place to start your autumn! There is even a bunch of keeners biking their way from summer city to fall farm fun. (Contact 452-0594) Yes, it all adds up nicely.