Hey Winnipeg! Have you made your weekend plans?  Here are some ideas for you in this week's Classic 107 Arts & Entertainment Calendar.

 Let’s start with a book launch from a Winnipeg novelist that’s happening Thursday night (Sept 04) at McNally Robinson Booksellers. We may be lost but we are never alone. That is the message to be found in Brenda Hasiuk's new collection of short stories, Boy Lost in World: Stories. Adrift in unfamiliar surroundings, strangers to the strangers around them, the characters in each story feel lost even though they are inextricably tied to one another. A foreign student, mugged on the streets of Winnipeg befriends his landlord. A young man bursting with rage shares a quiet moment with a sibling. The tears of a child who cannot find his way home are soothed by the voice of an elderly woman. Hasiuk’s stories ring true, cutting through our culture of alienation and lighting the threads that bind us to one another.

Boy Lost in wild launches Thursday night at 7:00 PM at McNally Robinson Booksellers Grant park in the Atrium

 

Over at MAW's Eatery & Bar , Thursday (Sept 04) night is your last opportunity to catch Blues singer Miss Rae & The Midnight Ramblers for an evening of Delta Blues. The former Winnipegger plays her Final show in Canada before moving to Paris! There is no cover charge for tonight. The music starts at 9:30p.m. MAW'S is located at 111 Princess St.

 

Friday night (Sept 05) Gurevich Fine Art in will launch a brand art new exhibit entitled A Celebration of Women's Art.The exhibit is in celebration of a wonderful Winnipeg organization called Mentoring Artists for Women's Art—or MAWA for short who are celebrating their 30th Anniversary. For 3 decades MAWA has worked to build bridges in Winnipeg’s celebrated artistic community. Through their mentorship program and events this organization has created a welcoming environment and learning opportunity for so many women. In fact, many of the artists supported by MAWA have become internationally recognized.

Some of these artists are represented in the Gurevich Fine Art exhibit. Women like Diana Thorneycroft, Aganetha Dyck, Megan Krause, Elise Dawson, Eva Stubbs and Reva Stone as well as thirteen award--‐winning artists represented by Gurevich Fine Art.—including Buffy Sainte- Marie, Carole Freeman and Bette Woodland. The exhibit will feature visual artist Caroline Monnet’s installation AMIK(waa)

A Celebration of Women’s Art opens Friday (Sept 05) night at 7:00 PM and will remain on display until September 27th. Guevich Fine Art is at 62 Albert St.

 

Over at Assiniboine Park Canadian music royalty is at the Lyric Stage Friday night (Sept 05). Blue Rodeo with special guests Spirit of the West are performing as part of the 2014 Sound & Sky Benefit Concert. Tickets are $24.95 and you can get them at assiniboinepark.ca. There is no assigned seating. The Gates open at 5:30 and showtime is 7:00 PM. The concert will take place rain or shine. All proceeds from the concert will go to support the Summer entertainment Series at the Assiniboine Park. So things like Movies in the Park and the Sunday Night Smooth Jazz Series and more.

Here's some classic Jim Cuddy vocals on Blue Rodeo's "Bulletproof"

 

 And speaking of classic . . .some vintage Spirit of the West- If Venice is Sinking

 

Also starting Friday (Sept 05), MANY FEST: All Together Downtown, one weekend of Downtown Winnipeg’s biggest Street Festival. In its second year, Dowtown Biz is anticipated some 40-thousand plus people celebrating on Broadway this weekend. There’s a lot of stuff going on. Friday there will be a Wine & Beer Garden from 4:00 to 11:00 PM, Food Truck Warswhere you pick the winners from 11:00 AM this morning all the way through to 11:00 PM tonight plus a Giant Movie in the Park. In honour of the late Robin Williams, Jumanji is screening at Memorial Park on a giant outdoor screen under the stars. Donations will be taken for the Mood Disorders Association of Manitoba. Tomorrow the food Truck Wars continue as well as the Wine & Beer Garden. Both open at 11:00 AM. There also an  outdoor market, Kids Zone and of course live music! That starts at 4:00 PM. One of the performers is Brazillian artist Marco Castillo. At 9:00 PM Broadway will be transformed with Lights on Broadway. There is so much happening this weekend during the festival you r best bet is to go to their website to see the whole schedule

 Here's a look at the 1995 Robin Williams film Jumanji.

 

If you haven't heard Winnipeg's Marco Castillo, have a listen.

 

 If you have an event we should be talking about, email us at info@classic107.com and tune in to Classic 107 Arts & Entertainment Calendar evrery Thursday, Friday and Saturday twice a day with Claudia Garcia de la Huerta,