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and institutions that have been granted the royal prefix. So, you could say that it's no trouble to find some entertainment that is fit for the Queen. One particular group that always brings a bit of majesty is Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet, who have been sweeping audiences away for nearly 80 years. The theme for their 2017/18 season is "Once Upon a Time…" and we guarantee it will transport audiences to another world through productions that include The Princess and the Goblin (September 27–October 1), Nutcracker (December 21–30), Anastasia (February 2) and The Sleeping Beauty (February 28–March 4). It's also easy to lose yourself during plays by the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre (MTC), who stage works at both the John Hirsch Mainstage and the Tom Hendry Warehouse (where you can catch edgier, smaller productions). This season Royal MTC will be like a Time Lord, bringing audiences to places like Elizabethan and Dickensian England (Shakespeare in Love, October 18–November 11 and A Christmas Carol, November 22– December 16), Gander, Newfoundland, (with the Tony award-winning Come From Away, January 4–February 3), along with 1920s Hong Kong (Nine Dragons, October 25–November 11). More excellent theatre productions can be found at Prairie Theatre Exchange (PTE), a theatre in Portage Place Shopping Centre that is so intimate that some seats are literally on the stage. This season, PTE will be staging Gracie (October 12–29), Ubuntu (November 9–26), Salt-Water Moon (January 25–February 11) and How the Heavens Go (March 1–18). Canada's oldest continuously running theatre company can also be found in Winnipeg. Le Cercle Molière has been staging plays en français for 92 years, and the new season will feature five productions, with English subtitles available on select dates. Rounding out our performance groups is Manitoba Opera, who will be taking audiences to early 20th century Japan for the heartbreaking Madama Butterfly (November 18, 21, and 24) and early 20th century France with La Taviata (April 14, 17, and 20). Winnipeg is also home to numerous galleries that are guaranteed to provide a feast for the eyes. For starters, there is the Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG), which is both Canada's oldest civic gallery and the home of the world's largest collection of contemporary Inuit art — featuring over 13,000 objects, including some 7,500 sculptures all catalogued to represent each town and region of the Arctic. To ensure that most of this collection can be put on permanent display, the WAG is in the midst of creating the Inuit Art Centre which is planned to be a four-storey, $65-million space whose architecture and exhibit space will be indicative of Canada's North. The WAG also has countless exceptional works from Canada's Group of Seven, excellent paintings from the late Gothic and early Renaissance periods, along with works of photography and more. Other notable galleries in the city include the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art — where you'll be confronted by thought-provoking works in a variety of mediums, numerous galleries in the Exchange District like Mayberry Fine Art and Gurevich Fine Art, while Assiniboine Park is home to the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden and WAG@ThePark, both of which have outstanding works by two the city's most celebrated artists, Leo Mol and Ivan Eyre, whose works (particularly in the medium of sculpture) you can find all over the downtown core. Of course, new visitors to the city will naturally be drawn to our most spectacular building, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), where a lengthy 40 2017 FALL/WINTER EVENTS & ITINERARIES GUIDE WINNIPEG Canadian Museum for Human Rights: Aaron Cohen The Princess & The Goblin: courtesy of RWB Archives

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