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Breaking the Silence Gallery: Photo courtesy of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
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Winnipeg Itineraries
Just down the street from the Concert Hall is where you'll find
the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre (MTC) — in fact, the
whole Exchange is considered our theatre district, with venues
including the Rachel Browne Theatre — where you can
catch intimate and often edgy indie plays, and the Tom Hendry
Warehouse, MTC's second stage which features four shows a
year. The 2016–17 MTC season opens with The Curious Incident
of the Dog in the Night-Time (October 20–November 12).
Theatre lovers will also relish the performances and atmosphere
at Prairie Theatre Exchange, which is located downtown
right at the top of Portage Place Mall.
For visual arts, there are numerous galleries located throughout
the Exchange District, The Forks and Winnipeg's more central
neighbourhoods, the majority of which showcase local works.
Our main artistic institution of course is the Winnipeg Art
Gallery (WAG), which is Canada's oldest civic art gallery
and home to the largest public collection of Inuit art in the
world. This year you can check out homegrown star Karel Funk
(whose ultra-realist exhibit ends October 2), The Man Who
Made Time Stand Still: The Photographs of Harold Edgerton
(October 16–April 30), and Our Land: Contemporary Art from
the Arctic (October 1–April 9).
Finally, this would not be an Arts & Culture guide without
Winnipeg's most eye-catching attraction, that being the
Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR). Simply put,
the CMHR is one of the most stunning buildings in Canada, a
setting so extraordinary that there is a tour dedicated solely
to its architecture. An exploration of its interactive galleries —
which utilize a combination of new media displays and artifacts
— will have you climbing from the cavernous ground floor up to
the illuminating Tower of Hope, which provides panoramic views
of the surrounding landscape.
