As John Lennon said…….” So this is Christmas”…….Plenty to Enjoy starting this weekend!
It’s Christmas Break and Christmas weekend! COLD never dissuades Winnipeggers and there’s plenty to do outdoors. The CITY offers Holiday Fun in City Parks with skating ponds, neighbourhood pleasure rinks, toboggan slides and Trails:
TOBOGGANING- Head to Kildonan Park /Waterfront Drive /Bunns Creek / St. Vital Park / Crescent Drive Park /Fraser’s Grove: Check out the New Tree Top Look-out and brand new slide for St. Vital Park
SKATING- http://www.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/parksOpenSpace/ThingsToDo/PleasureRinks.stm
Trails- http://www.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/parksOpenSpace/ThingsToDo/RecreationalActivities.stm
Cross Country Ski Trails: http://www.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/parksOpenSpace/ThingsToDo/XCountrySki.stm
The FORKS- Arctic Glacier Winter Trail , on ground , is all lit up and ready for skaters and walkers.
Enjoy The Holidays by treating yourself to Canad Inns Winter Wonderland at Red River Ex Park.
On Now at the Manitoba Electrical Museum on Harrow- The annual holiday lighting exhibit.
The whole family will enjoy the Traditional Eaton’s Fairytale Vignettes on now at the Forks Chilren’s Museum behind the Johnstone Terminal.
********For Children hoping to track Santa’s Sleigh Christmas eve , here is the SPECIAL NORAD SITE ! https://www.noradsanta.org
CHRISTMAS / Holiday Theatre:
On Now- Manitoba Theatre for Children- The Forks- A Charlie Brown Christmas.
Concert Hall for the RWB’s Magnificent The NUTCRACKER.
Dalnavert Museum- Dickens’ a Christmas Carol- See Christmas from the 1800’s
PTE- Portage Place – The Good, the Bad & the Munsch- On Now.
PRO Hockey!
JETS vs Oilers this Wednesday/ Jets and Islanders Friday the 29th/ BellMTS Place:
MOOSE and Rampage-Friday(tonight) Vs Rampage/ Sunday and Monday dec. 30-31st Sab jose are Here- 2pm.
ON NOW and thru next week- The Cannes International Festival of Creativity- The World’s best TV commercials- Worth the price-always packed theatre at the Wag/December 22/27th/29th .
CELEBRATIONS Dinner Theatre-on now- Bewitching ELVIS!
NEW MOVIES Starting Friday!
DARKEST HOUR-Gary Oldman stars as Winston Churchill-Grant Park and McGillivray- 4 and a half stars
DOWNSIZING-Matt Damon stars in this Science Fiction story-Polo Park – Towne and St. Vital theatre show this –highly rated at 4 stars.
FATHER FIGURES- Owen Wilson and Ed Helms go looking for their real father-shows at K.P./McGillivray/Polo Park/St. Vital and Towne.
PITCH PERFECT 3-K.P./McGillivray/Polo Park/St. Vital and Towne- This is the Final Farewell in the trilogy! 3 stars.
THE SHAPE of WATER-a Very rare 5 Stars from the critics-called a reimaging of Beauty and the Beast, as it were-set in the sixties about the industrial military complex! Again 5 stars for this.
ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD- Starts December 25th– Christopher Plummer took over from disgraced Kevin Spacey for this-also stars Michelle Williams and Mark Wahlberg-Only plays at Polo Park.
MOLLY’s Game-Starts Christmas Day-Olympic Skier who ran the most exclusive high stakes poker game before being arrested by the FBI.
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LET me leave you with one of the most beautiful yet true videos I have every received……the Perfect Christmas Gift from a retired State Trooper….Have the Kleenex ready! Have a Safe and Blessed Christmas…. Now turn up the sound!!
