Festivals & Events
January
Jan 1-7 Winnipeg – Canad Inns Winter Wonderland
Jan 1-31 Winnipeg – “Curse of the Pharoah” (exhibit at the Manitoba Museum)
Jan 1-Feb 28 Winnipeg – “In the Blink of an Eye” (exhibit at the Winnipeg Art Gallery)
Jan 4-27 Winnipeg – “Rocky Horror Picture Show” (Manitoba Theatre Centre)
Jan 11-21 Winnipeg – Comedy 4 Kids
Jan 12 Winnipeg – A Manitoba Songbook
Jan 13-Mar 17 Winnipeg – “Granny Ghost Whisperer” (Celebrations Dinner Theatre)
Jan 14 Winnipeg – Winnepeg Symphony Orchestra: Austria and Beyond
Jan 15-21 Asessippi Ski Area & Winter Park – Samsung National Ski & Board Week
Jan 18-Feb 4 Winnipeg – Stoppardfest
Jan 19-21 Winnipeg – The Wonderful Wedding Show
Jan 20 Asessippi Ski Area & Winter Park – Rail Wars
Jan 20 Binscarth – Binscarth Park & Pool Fundraiser
Jan 20 Winnipeg – Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra: French Festival
Jan 21 Portage la Prairie – Glesby Rocks Youth Concert Series
Jan 21 Winnipeg – Fred Penner & the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Jan 24-28 Winnipeg – Canadian Open Curling
Jan 24-Feb 11 Winnipeg – MacGregor’s Hard Ice Cream & Gas
Jan 30-Feb 8 Winnipeg – Dine Out Winnipeg
February
Feb 2-3 Winnipeg – Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra: Sounds Latin
Feb 3-5 Asessippi Ski Area & Winter Park – Half Pipe Competition
Feb 9-24 Asessippi Ski Area & Winter Park – Extra Night Skiing Hours
Feb 9-11 Portage la Prairie – Western Canadian Pond Hockey Championship
Feb 9-18 Winnipeg – Festival du Voyageur – French Canadian Fur Trade and Voyageur Event
Feb 10 Neepawa – Winter Wonderland at Park Lake
Feb 10-11 Oak Hammock Marsh (Intrepretive Centre) – Valentine’s Day Weekend
Feb 10 Portage la Prairie – Winterfest
Feb 10-11 Shoal Lake – Thunder & Ice Festival
Feb 10-17 Winnipeg – Centara Corporation International New Music Festival
Feb 11 Beausejour – BMO Provincial Skating Championships
Feb 12-16 Winnipeg – Optimist Band Festival
Feb 18 Asessippi Ski Area & Winter Park – Nancy Greene Races
Feb 18 Portage la Prairie – Glesby Family Series featuring Just Kiddin’
Feb 23-25 Beausejour – Spring Craft & Trade Show
Feb 24 Winnipeg – Scottish Festival
Feb 26 Beausejour – Carnival Queen Pageant
Feb 28-Mar 3 Winnipeg – NSI Film Exchange Festival
March
Mar 2-4 St. Laurent – The Manipogo Festival
Mar 3-4 Beausejour – 45th Annual Canadian Power Toboggan Championships
Mar 10 Asessippi Ski Area & Winter Park – Slope Style
Mar 15 Oak Hammock Marsh – Astronomy Night – Spring Constellations
Mar 18-26 Winnipeg – Freeze Frame International Film Festival
Mar 25-31 Asessippi Ski Area & Winter Park – Beach Party
Mar 25 Portage la Prairie – Glesby Family Series featuring Just Kiddin’
Mar 24-31 Winnipeg – Festival of Fools
Mar 28-Apr 1 Winnipeg – CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival
Mar 29-Apr 1 Westbourne – Mixed Bonspiel
Mar 31 Asessippi Ski Area & Winter Park – Big Rock Big Air
April
Apr 17-18 Neepawa – Fine Arts Festival
Apr 21 St. Ambroise – Métis Festival
Apr 21-22 Oak Hammock Marsh (Intrepretive Centre) – Earth Day Celebration
Apr 22 Neepawa – Windfall Dinner & Dance
May
May 6-12 Winnipeg – Wine Festival
May 11-13 Portage la Prairie – Delta Marsh Birding Festival
May 12 Oak Hammock Marsh (Intrepretive Centre) – Manitoba Day Celebration
May 12-13 Winnipeg – Doors Open
May 13 Winnipeg – Red River Swap Meet & Old Car Festival
May 18-19 Rossburn – Community Wide Yard Sale
May 26-27 Oak Hammock Marsh (Intrepretive Centre) – Sounds of Wildlife Weekend
May TBA Russell – Yachminka Ukrainian Dance Festival
June
Jun 1-9 Winnipeg – Winnipeg International Film Festival
Jun 2-3 Portage la Prairie – Manitoba Air Show
Jun 7-10 Winnipeg – International Children’s Festival
Jun 9-17 Russell – 2nd Annual Wings Over Russell Birdfest and Art Exhibition
Jun 10 Portage la Prairie – 4th Annual Rick Hansen Wheels in Motion
Jun 14 Oak Hammock Marsh (Intrepretive Centre) – Astronomy Night – The Summer’s Constellations
Jun 14-23 Winnipeg – Jazz Festival
Jun 15-24 Winnipeg – Red River Exhibition
Jun 16-17 Shoal Lake – Just 4 U Daze
Jun 17 Wynyard (Quill Lakes) – Carnival Days
Jun 21 Riding Mountain – National Aboriginal Day
July
Jul 1 Canada Day Celebrations – held in communities across the nation
Jul 1 Birtle – Downhill Derby
Jul 5-8 Winnipeg – Folk Festival
Jul 7-9 Portage la Prairie – Portage EX
Jul 13-17 St. Ambroise – Saskatoon Berry Festival
Jul 14 Ste. Rita – Annual Picnic
Jul 18-29 Winnipeg – Fringe Theatre Festival
Jul 20-22 Neepawa – World Lily Festival
Jul 20-22 Peguis – Treaty Days and Powwow
Jul 27-29 Portage la Prairie – Long Plain First Nation Powwow
Jul-Aug Fridays Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site – Who’s Who: People of Red River
Jul TBA Ashern – Country Trade Fair 2006
August
Aug 1-6 Norway House – Treaty and York Boat Days
Aug 3-4 Birtle – Agricultural Fair
Aug 3-5 Gladstone – Agricultural Fair & Rodeo
Aug 3-5 Minnedosa – Rockin’ the Fields of Minnedosa
Aug 4-5 Neepawa – Yellowhead Roadrunners Runway Drags
Aug 5-18 Winnipeg – Folklorama: Canada’s Cultural Celebration
Aug 8-10 Lake Metigoshe (near Boissevain) – Métisville 2007
Aug 10-12 Boissevain – Turtle Island Festival
Aug 11 Portage la Prairie – Potato Festival
Aug 11 Viscount – Annual Street Dance
Aug 17-19 Ste. Rose du Lac – Parkland Horsemen Chuckwagon & Chariot Race
Aug 25-26 St. Pierre-Jolys – Chantecler Festival
September
Sep 1-3 Ashern – Ashern Rodeo
Sep 1-3 Oak Hammock Marsh (Intrepretive Centre) – Labour Day Weekend Adventure
Sep 1-3 Ste. Anne – Dawson Trail Days
Sep 16 Lake Manitoba – Lake Manitoba Narrows Game & Fish Annual Walleye Derby
Sep 20 Oak Hammock Marsh (Intrepretive Centre) – Astronomy Night – Fall Constellations
Sep 22 Beausejour – Country Market Day
Sep 22-30 Oak Hammock Marsh (Intrepretive Centre) – Migration Festival
Sep 23-30 Winnipeg – Winnipeg International Writer’s Festival
October
Oct 5-7 Ste. Rose du Lac – Hoof ‘n’ Holler Days
Oct 13 Oak Hammock Marsh (Intrepretive Centre) – Catching Catfish
Oct 13-14 Oak Hammock Marsh (Intrepretive Centre) – Fall Family Fun Days
Oct 20-21 Oak Hammock Marsh (Intrepretive Centre) – Migration Magic Farewell Weekend
Oct 28 Oak Hammock Marsh (Intrepretive Centre) – Halloween Party
November
Nov 17 Shoal Lake – Beta Sigma Phi Sorority Christmas Craft Mart
Nov 17 Winnipeg – Santa Claus Parade
December
Dec 1-31 Winnipeg – Winter Wonderland
Dec 13 Oak Hammock Marsh (Intrepretive Centre) – Astronomy Night – WInter Constellations and Meteor Shower
Dec 15 Oak Hammock Marsh (Intrepretive Centre) – Christmas Bird Count
Dec 26 Oak Hammock Marsh (Intrepretive Centre) – Marshland Wonderland
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