Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? $50 plus taxes at Supplied Sunny skies and temps in the mid-20s on Saturday should make for ideal conditions for sipping all manner of brews and more at the seventh annual Winnipeg Beer Festival. (That forecast will be a relief to organizers, who had to postpone the fest back in June, owing to inclement weather.) Saturday’s fest takes place at Fort Gibraltar, and will feature a great many Manitoba brewers (as well as producers of cider, wine and more) pouring more than 70 products in total.
Among local brewers slinging lagers and ales are One Great City, Kilter, Trans Canada, Nonsuch, Brazen Hall, Good Neighbour and Brandon’s Black Wheat, as well as cider from Winkler’s Dead Horse, wine and more from Shrugging Doctor, spirits from Capital K and non-alcoholic options from the Sobr Market. Tickets for each of the two time slots at the Winnipeg Beer Festival (5-7 p.m.
and 7:30-9:30 p.m.) are $50 plus taxes and include all samples.
Food trucks will be on hand with grub available for purchase, while DJs keep the party hopping with some fun tunes. For more information and to buy tickets, see . — Supplied Costumed interpreters Yasmine Ochoa (left) and Esther Gacheru at the Lower Fort Garry historic site.
Explore the history of transportation at Lower Fort Garry with Transpo-Expo. From 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m., visitors can enjoy demonstrations and hands-on workshops showcasing the evolution of transportation in Western Canada.
Workshops include canoe- and paddle-making by historian Mark Blieske, Red River cart construction with Jerome Armand, and moccasin-making with Indigenous storyteller Gloria Beckman (Niska). A classic car show presented by the Mid-Canada Mini Group will be on display, along with 1920s-themed activities like mini golf, a concession stand, and live jazz performances by the Ian Cherry Jazz Band from noon to 3 p.m.
Kids can enjoy face-painting, a plush horse racetrack and the Ultimate Voyageur Obstacle Course. The Lower Fort Garry restaurant will be open for breakfast and lunch inside the visitor reception centre. Workshops and the concession stand will run from 11 a.
m. to 3 p.m.
No advance tickets are required. — $52.75 to $71.
50 at Ticketmaster He’s a singer-songwriter, an author and an actor. But first and foremost, Steve Earle is a storyteller, telling tales of moonshine runners, down-on-their-luck wanderers and San Antonio girls. Amy Harris/Invision Steve Earle performs at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival; the singer-songwriter will play the Burt on Aug.
18. The Texas-raised troubadour has left an indelible mark on Americana music with his particular brand of outlaw country; his 1988 hit was made Tennessee’s official state song in 2023, and the likes of Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris and the Pretenders have all recorded his songs. And at 69, he’s still hitting the road.
Last month, Earle released , a live album featuring stripped-down versions of 15 crowd-pleasing classics — including , and, of course, — recorded during the 2023 legs of his solo acoustic Alone Again tour. Note: tickets for this show are limited, and seats are mostly in the balconies. — $10.
50 general, $8 students and seniors, $6.50 members Before director Agnieszka Holland’s won international acclaim last fall, the black-and-white drama about a family of Syrian refugees making their way into Europe earned rebukes from hard-right politicians in her home country of Poland. Kino Świat photo Green Border is playing at Cinematheque to Aug.
21. The called the film — set along the Poland-Belarus border — a devastating dramatic triumph. Meanwhile, former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro called Holland — best known for directing 1990’s Holocaust drama — a Stalinist, and compared to “Nazi propaganda,” leading the Oscar-nominated director to file a still-pending defamation suit.
As various refugee crises continue around the world, Holland’s timely, affective film is screening this week at the Dave Barber Cinematheque (to Aug. 21). Another wartime picture, George Roy Hill’s 1972 adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s , is running for one night only Aug.
15 at 7 p.m. as part of comedian Kevin McDonald’s McDonald at the Movies series.
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