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Prairie Wind Music Festival
This is a list of festivals in the province of Manitoba, Canada. This list includes festivals of diverse types, such as regional festivals, commerce festivals, fairs, food festivals, arts festivals, religious festivals, folk festivals, and recurring festivals on holidays. The province hosts several large festivals each year including Winnipeg Folk Festival, Winnipeg Jazz Festival, and Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival. Arts festivals Art festivals * Manitoba Fibre Festival * Nuit Blanche Winnipeg * Wall-to-Wall Mural & Culture Festival * Winnipeg Design Festival Comedy festivals *Winnipeg Comedy Festival *Winnipeg Improv Festival Film festivals * African Movie Festival in Manitoba * Architecture+Design Film Festival * Canadian International Comedy Film Festival * Cinémental * FascinAsian Film Festival * Freeze Frame International Film Festival * L'Alliance Française French Film Festival * Gimme Some Truth Documentary Festival * Reel Pride * Winnipeg Aborigina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Festivals In Canada
This is an incomplete list of festivals in Canada. This list includes festivals of diverse types, among them regional festivals, commerce festivals, fairs, food festivals, arts festivals, and recurring festivals on holidays. Sublists by locale Province or territory *List of festivals in Alberta ( Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge) * List of festivals in British Columbia (Vancouver) * List of festivals in Manitoba (Winnipeg) * List of festivals in Ontario ( Ottawa, Toronto) *List of festivals in Prince Edward Island * List of festivals in Quebec (Montreal) * List of festivals in Saskatchewan Atlantic Canada Territories City * List of festivals in Calgary *List of festivals in Edmonton * List of festivals in Lethbridge * List of entertainment events in Greater Moncton * List of festivals and parades in Montreal *List of festivals in Ottawa * List of festivals in Toronto * List of festivals in Vancouver * List of festivals in Winnipeg Sublists by type * List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festival
A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern. Festivals often serve to fulfill specific communal purposes, especially in regard to commemoration or thanking to the gods, goddesses or saints: they are called patronal festivals. They may also provide entertainment, which was particularly important to local communities before the advent of mass-produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winnipeg International Writers Festival
The Winnipeg International Writers Festival is a Winnipeg, Manitoba based organization that puts together an annual literary festival known as THIN AIR. The festival program runs for a week each fall, and there are also several off-season events regularly occurring throughout the year. Programming is available in both English and French. While most of the events occur in Winnipeg, there are also some at Brandon University and throughout the province. History The Winnipeg International Writers Festival was founded by Andris Taskans, Mark Steven Morton, and Robyn Maharaj in 1996, with the first festival running from October 14 to 19 of the following year. The festival hosted approximately 50 writers from across Canada and around the world. The creation of the festival was explained as follows: "It grew out of the determination to see that the writing, reading and publishing community was being served the way other innipegcultural communities were being served. "You have music aficio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manitoba Book Awards
Manitoba Books Awards/Les Prix du livre du Manitoba is the premiere annual book awards for Manitoba, Canada. Originating in 1988, an award gala is usually held in April in Winnipeg, Manitoba, celebrating the best of Manitoba writing and publishing from the previous year. Depending on the year, there are several awards conferred, as some of the awards are only bestowed biannually. The awards are co-produced by the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers and the Manitoba Writers' Guild. Awards include the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book, the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, the Carol Shields Award for best Winnipeg book, the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher, the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award and others. Past winners include Miriam Toews, David Bergen, Joan Thomas, W.P. Kinsella, Carol Shields Carol Ann Shields, (née Warner; June 2, 1935 – July 16, 2003) was an American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reel Pride
Reel Pride is an annual gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and two-spirit film and video festival produced by the Winnipeg Gay and Lesbian Film Society in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.Randall King"Reel Pride film fest set to celebrate 35 years" ''Winnipeg Free Press'', October 13, 2020. The Winnipeg Gay and Lesbian Film Society, Inc. was registered as a non-profit incorporation under Manitoba statutes on September 20, 1985. Between 1985 and 1989 the group organized monthly film series, bringing to Manitoba audiences gay and lesbian films otherwise not seen in Winnipeg. These were advertised to Winnipeg's gay & lesbian community by mailouts. The first film festival was produced in 1987 as a joint project of the Winnipeg Gay and Lesbian Film Society and Plug In, Inc. and named Counterparts. All of the festivals that followed have been produced by the Society. Since 2000, the festivals have been known by the name "Reel Pride". As of 2013 there have been twenty festivals: *''Counterpa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gimme Some Truth Documentary Festival
The Gimme Some Truth Documentary Festival is an annual documentary film festival in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Organized by the Winnipeg Film Group since 2008, the event is staged annually at the Cinematheque theatre. The event is a qualifying festival for the Canadian Screen Awards. Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television is a Canadian non-profit organization created in 1979 to recognize the achievements of the over 4,000 Canadian cinema of Canada, film industry and television in Canad ...
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Freeze Frame International Film Festival
The Freeze Frame International Film Festival is an annual film festival, which takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The festival presents an annual program of children's films, in both English and French, at the Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre. The festival was launched in 1996 by filmmaker Pascal Boutroy, soon after he moved to Winnipeg from Montreal. Boutroy remains the festival's artistic director as of 2020. In addition to film screenings, the festival includes a program of amateur filmmaking workshops for children."Kids get to tell the bear facts in park videos". ''Winnipeg Free Press The ''Winnipeg Free Press'' (or WFP; founded as the ''Manitoba Free Press'') is a daily (excluding Sunday) broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It provides coverage of local, provincial, national, and international news, as well as ...'', July 29, 2006. References External links * Film festivals in Winnipeg Children's film festivals in Canada Film festivals establis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinémental
Cinémental is a film festival, staged annually in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The event, which presents an annual program of Canadian and international French language films for the Franco-Manitoban community, takes place primarily at the Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre in the city's Saint Boniface district, although some screenings and events are also sometimes held at other venues in the city. In order to ensure that non-francophones are also welcome and able to attend, the festival presents the majority of its films in subtitled form. Launched in 1991, the event is staged partially in collaboration with Tournée Québec Cinéma. In 2016, the festival was given a special tribute in honour of its 25th anniversary at the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma festival in Montreal. The 2020 festival proceeded normally despite the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, although social distancing restrictions were maintained for audience safety. Earlier in the summer, the festival also collaborated with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian International Comedy Film Festival
The Canadian International Comedy Film Festival (CICFF), formerly the Shärt International Comedy Film Festival (SICFF), is a comedy film festival that takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, each February. The 10th festival took place on 8 October 2022, at the Cinematheque theatre and the Park Theatre. History The festival was established by Andrew Wall and David Rabsch in 2013 as the Shärt International Comedy Film Festival (SICFF), funded through a grant by a Winnipeg family via the Shärt Foundation. The festival acrimoniously parted ways with the Foundation in 2018 and, following legal proceedings during that year's festival, it was revived in 2019 as the ''Canadian International Comedy Film Festival''. The 8th festival was scheduled for 29 February 2020, to take place at the Park Theatre, Winnipeg.Randall King"Lots of ways to get the giggles at funny-film fest" ''Winnipeg Free Press'', February 25, 2020. Awards The awards offered () are: *Best Canadian Comedy Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winnipeg Comedy Festival
The Winnipeg Comedy Festival is an annual comedy festival, held in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Created by the Osborne Village Cultural Centre in collaboration with CBC Radio, performances from the festival are also broadcast as a radio series on CBC Radio One and as a television series on The Comedy Network and CBC Television CBC Television (also known as CBC TV) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French- .... External linksCBC info page ComedyNightLife.com [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuit Blanche
Nuit Blanche () (White Night) is an annual all-night or night-time arts festival of a city. A Nuit Blanche typically has museums, private and public art galleries, and other cultural institutions open and free of charge, with the centre of the city itself being turned into a ''de facto'' art gallery, providing space for art installations, performances (music, film, dance, performance art), themed social gatherings, and other activities. History In 1989, the Helsinki Festival established its Night of the Arts, "when every gallery, museum and bookshop is open until midnight or later and the whole city becomes one giant performance and carnival venue". A year later, the mayor of Nantes, Jean-Marc Ayrault's program included renovating the central city and establishing a "contemporary patrimony", which led arts programmer Jean Blaise to create a late-night cultural festival, "Les Allumées" ("Things Alight"). His concept was to have an arts festival in Nantes, from 6 pm to 6& ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
