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It’s hard not be drawn to Robert Archambeau’s ceramic works. In their varied scale, form, and surface treatment, they offer a remarkable palette of colours, textures, and glazes. Archambeau moved to Winnipeg in 1968. The professor emeritus at the University of Manitoba School of Art became a leading figure in Canadian ceramic art, winning the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2003. His wood-fired stoneware bowls, vases, teapots, and other vessels exhibit a quiet, masterful command of…

Ocean + Outport / Until  May 26, 2019 Ocean + Outport is the WAG’s first solo exhibition of work by celebrated printmaker and painter David Blackwood. Born on Newfoundland’s eastern coast, the artist renders the region’s outport architecture and tools, important historical events and figures, and strange but enduring social practices. Blackwood is a master of hot and cold. Often setting his scenes at night, he routinely offsets the cool greys of the North Atlantic with a lantern’s glowing flame. Blackwood’s imagery…

A bilingual partnership with Théâtre Cercle Molière Albert, eighty-something and a teller of tall tales, loves to amuse and entertain with his stories. His daughter, though increasingly exasperated by her father’s story-telling prowess, wants only the best for him after the loss of her mother. When she suggests that he move to a retirement home for seniors, he sets off on an adventure instead – a pilgrimage with his beloved wife Simone’s ashes, to visit all the places they’d shared…

Randall is a free-thinking, commitment-averse dreamer who might be cheating on her banker boyfriend with the local handyman. Middle-aged Bennet longs for his teenage years, and it shows. Matty won a bit of money, quit his job and has been riding the freedom highway ever since. One thing these siblings have in common is their love for the family cottage. Their ailing mother has given them the weekend to decide what to do with the cottage after she’s gone, and…

The Downtown Winnipeg BIZ’s popular Farmers’ Market offers fresh and local vegetables and fruits, baking, preserves, meat, fish, cheese,  crafts, jewellery, and other food and artisan items.

Experience an intro to wine tasting with The Common’s sommelier, Veronique Rivest. Brush up on your wine vocabulary, and notice some of the defining characteristics that make a gamay different from a pinot. $40 | Three whites + three reds For more information and to purchase your tickets, click HERE.

CATHERINE BELKNAP and NATALIE TELFER have been friends since they were teens, and now their video series “#MOMTRUTHS” which shares everything from toddler tantrums to sex, has turned them into viral sensations and…wait for it….authors! With seven kids between them and millions of fans on social media, they get real about the parts of parenting that somehow don’t make the Instagram feed.

The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular 1970s group ABBA. —IMDb editor FOR MORE DETAIL (also from IMDb): Set on a colourful Greek island, the plot serves as a background for a wealth of ABBA songs. A young woman about to be married discovers that any one of three men could be her father. She invites all three to the wedding without telling her mother, Donna, who was once…

Join The Common’s sommelier Veronique Rivest for a guided tasting of some fresh new options from the brand-new Spring wine list. A short + casual yet informative tasting of a few samplings from The Common’s new Spring wine list, curated by sommelier Veronique Rivest. Includes three samples* (6 oz total) and guided tasting. *6PM tasting selections will be different than 5PM tasting – join us for another round! For more information and to purchase your tickets, please click HERE.

The remarkable Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero comes to perform Tchaikovsky’s beloved first Piano Concerto. Don’t leave early as Montero’s fabulous improvised encores are her real calling card. For more information, please click here.