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Winnipeg 150 The City of Winnipeg was incorporated on November 8, 1973, with a population of around 2,000 people spread out over five square kilometers (just over three miles). As the first election and first meeting of City Council happened in 1874, 2024 is the official 150 th anniversary of the city. Throughout the year, expect to see a series of community events and celebrations, making 2024 a banner year to visit. Many existing festivals, events and museums will incorporate the Winnipeg 150 theme: Our shared stories. Our shared future. into this year's programming. Top attraction turns ten! Opened in 2014, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights is the first – and only – museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebration and future of human rights. To mark its ten-year anniversary, Canada's newest national museum is presenting two fascinating and thought-provoking exhibitions. Opening early in 2024, Beyond the Beat: Music of Resistance and Change features materials on loan from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, USA; The Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle, USA; Canada's National Music Centre in Calgary and others. Visitors are invited into key moments in history when music played a pivotal role in social transformation and political change. A threat to their country?, which opens in late 2024, tells the story of the period from the 1950s to the 1990s, when thousands of people in the Canadian military, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and federal civil service saw their careers impeded or terminated because their sexual orientation or gender identity was seen as a threat to national security. The exhibition explores how members of the community resisted this "purge" through legal challenges and political activism that helped to expand legal rights protections for all Canadians. 70 years of Rainbow Stage Canada's largest and longest-running outdoor theatre, Rainbow Stage, turns 70 in 2024! To celebrate, Rainbow Stage is presenting its first original musical ever, along with a beloved classic. MA BUHAY! A NEW MUSICAL June 27 through July 14, 2024 Ma Buhay! is the very first original musical to ever grace Rainbow Stage, plus it's also Manitoba's first all-Filipino musical. (Fun fact - Winnipeg boasts the largest Filipino community, per capita, of any other city in Canada!) Set in a reality singing competition, Ma Buhay! has been in development for five years, including sold-out public workshop readings at last year's Winnipeg Fringe Festival. MARY POPPINS: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL August 15 through September 1, 2024 Supercalifragilisticexpialidociousness abounds in this adaptation of the classic 1963 Disney movie and the books by P.L. Travers about everyone's favourite nanny. Mike Peters Salvador Maniquiz Kristhine Guerrero 5 Legends + Tales • Volume 11 • 2024