Trio Pass a great way to see WSO

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Choose any 3 WSO concerts for only $79 (up to $153 value) from the concerts listed below (click concert titles for more information). This is perfect for gift-giving – it’s your best value for 2012.

Benefits of the WSO’s Trio Pass:

  • Save up to 52%
  • Save up to $74 – the equivalent of at least one concert
  • 20% discount on additional tickets for friends and family or yourself for additional WSO concerts this season
  • Free exchanges to another performance of the same concert or into any other TrioPass selection

Concerts:

For Michael – The Music of Michael Jackson
February 10-11, 8 pm
February 12, 2 pm

Dvorak’s New World Symphony
Beyond the Score
February 25, 8 pm

Parker Plays Brahms 2
March 2-3, 8 pm

Broadway Rocks
March 16-17, 8 pm
March 18, 2 pm

WSO Continues 2011-2012 Brandon Season

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The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (WSO) continues its 2011-2012 Brandon season. With an impressive line-up – both in programmes and guest artists – the season provides concert-goers with profound musical experiences until February.

Upcoming Concerts:

American Masters
Sunday, February 19, 3 p.m.

John Estacio: Bootlegger’s Tarantella
Barber: Violin Concerto                                   
Bernstein: On the Town: Three Dance Episodes
Copland: Appalachian Spring

North American composers are featured in this colourful and vividly themed program, welcoming the fast-rising star Augustin Hadelich in his WSO debut, along with Larry Rachleff, a world-renowned conducting teacher, and among America’s most communicative conductors.

Mozart & Stravinsky
Sunday, March 25,  3 p.m.

Mozart: Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major, K. 297b
Debussy: Printemps
Stravinsky: The Firebird: Suite

A Mozart concerto-times-four and a chance to hear the WSO’s fabulous principal wind players in one of his most delightful compositions. Conductor Alexander Mickelthwate rounds out this vivid program with Stravinsky’s classic and exotic The Firebird: Suite.

Tickets are are on sale now at the Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium at (204) 728-9510, online at wmca.ca, or at the Brandon Ticketmaster Keystone Centre at (204) 726-3555.

New family center opens in Assiniboine Park

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Qualico Family Centre at Assiniboine Park 

The new Qualico Family Centre, located at the edge of the Duck Pond in the heart of Assiniboine Park is open. This is the first indoor facility to be added to the Park since the addition to the existing Conservatory was built in the late 1960s.

Nestled in the trees and skirting the Duck Pond, the nearly 10,000-square-foot Qualico Family Centre will be a central hub of activity at Assiniboine Park. The Centre is home to the new park café, the perfect year-round gathering place for Park visitors and offers family-friendly breakfast and lunch menus that are both interesting and affordable. Open daily from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., the park café offers both a dine-in and take-out menu.

The building will also house a wide range of events and activities, including Park educational programs for children, wedding receptions, corporate retreats and other celebrations. The banquet and park café menus were created by the Assiniboine Park Conservancy’s new Executive Chef Heiko Duehrsen, formerly of The Gates on Roblin.

Feast at the WAG

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Feast at the Winnipeg Art Gallery examines the role food and feasting play in our lives. How does one extol the virtues of a fine glass of wine, a bag of greasy French fries from the local chip truck? Feast is a unique and tantalizing exhibition featuring a smorgasbord of approximately 30 works from the Gallery’s permanent collection that explores a variety of fascinating issues and ideas surrounding food and the daily act of eating.

 The works in this exhibition, curated by the WAG’s Art Educators, run the gamut from decorative ceramic plates to drawings and photographs to paintings and cutlery.  

 Since it’s all about food, there’s even a recipe swap! Visitors are invited to bring along their favourite recipe and drop it in the recipe box to share with others. They are then welcome to sit down, check out the other recipes, and copy out some exciting new ones. Recipes will also be shared online on the WAG’s blog.

Feast continues at the WAG until March 25, 2012.

Run away to the circus

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You don’t have to run away from home to join this circus! The Circus! Science Under the Big Top exhibit demystifies the daring and death-defying feats of the greatest show on earth, and puts you in the centre of the action. The exhibit opens at The Manitoba Museum (Alloway Hall) on Friday, October 7th.

Test your talents with tons of interactive exhibits, including:

  • High Wire, an actual steel cable suspended 2.7 metres in the air
  • Elastic Acrobatics, the famous flying trapeze!
  • Circus Sideshow, where you can discover the secrets of the Sword Swallower & the Mighty Atom
  • The Human Cannonball, where you can shoot a projectile out of a cannon to hit a target

You can also…

  • Become a Circus Musician. Match music and sound effects to video footage and explore the effect of sound on the limbic system of the brain.
  • Dress up and make-believe in the Costume Area.
  • Discover the mathematics and physics of juggling-and amaze your friends.
  • Learn about the secret languages of animals in our Animal Communications exhibit.

The Manitoba Museum will present Circus! Science Under the Big Top from October 7th until April 9th.