Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 21, 2024, Winnipeg, Manitoba C2 ● WINNIPEGFREEPRESS.COMTHURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2024 what’s up FREE PRESS STAFF RECOMMENDS THINGS TO DO THIS WEEK. TOP 5 PICKS Spring into markets Pitâw Mino Muskîki Indigenous Handmade Market Friday, 5-9 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Via Rail Union Station, 123 Main Street THE second annual Spring Indigenous Hand- made Market brings together more than 85 Indigenous talents, including writers, artists, designers, musicians and photographers, as well as food and baking vendors. There will be live music by DJ Kaptain, chil- dren’s art activities led by Kisa MacIssac, a book reading with Métis author Marika Schalla and a photo booth by Snap Fox. Pitâw Mino Muskîki is founded by Shauna Fontaine of Anishinaabe Girl Designs, Brittany Grisdale of Black Wolf Dog and Dana Connolly of Mashkiki Garden Creations. These Indigenous women artists and communi- ty advocates have come together to address gaps in supporting Indigenous handmade entrepre- neurship and increase Indigenous economy and artistry appreciation. —AV Kitching Carmen and intimate partner violence Saturday, 1 p.m. Millennium Library, Carol Shields Auditorium Free A spoiler: Carmen doesn’t have a happy ending. The classic Bizet opera tells the tragic story of a woman caught in the violent path of a spurned lover, built around a lavish score that’s made the opera the most popular of all time, according to Manitoba Opera, which will stage the show in April. Ahead of that run, starring Ginger Costa-Jack- son, David Pomeroy and Daniel Okulitch and di- rected by Brian Deedrick, the company is hosting a panel discussion about the themes of intimate partner violence prevalent in Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy’s libretto. On hand to add context to the classic will be Dr. Tracey Bone from the University of Manitoba’s faculty of social work; Lydia Hamel, a registered social worker and certified sex therapist; Britta- ny Krahn, a registered social worker and clinical therapist; and Hailey Bird-Matheson, a counsellor at the North End Women’s Centre. Kara Neus- taedter, the manager of counselling services at Klinic Community Health, will moderate. Those interested in attending can register online on the Manitoba Opera website, at 204-942- 7470, or by emailing smiller@mbopera.ca. — Ben Waldman SUPPLIED Douglas Sanderson (left) and Andrew Stobo Sniderman AARON IVES PHOTO Leaf Rapids plays the West End Cultural Centre Saturday. WECC Fun-Raiser Show Country star Zeiders rides TikTok wave Saturday, 8 p.m. West End Cultural Centre Tickets: $20 plus fees at wecc.eventbrite.ca HAVE some fun and raise some funds for one of Winnipeg’s most treasured music venues. This year’s annual Fun-Raiser Show features a stellar local lineup composed of avant-Americana act Leaf Rapids (led by singer-song- writer/thereminist Keri Latimer), Sheena & Daniel (two-thirds of folk trio Red Moon Road), electro-pop outfit French Class and power poppers Bloc Parents (fronted by members of Novillero and the Sorels). This evening will also include a 50/50 draw and a variety of door prizes from Prairie Sky Books, Lit- tle Brown Jug, the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra, Manitoba Opera and Winnipeg Pro Wrestling will be up for grabs. Doors open at 7 p.m. — Jen Zoratti Warren Zeiders Monday, 8 p.m. Burton Cummings Theatre Tickets: $100-$737 at Ticketmaster WHILE the United States Congress debates the future of TikTok in that nation, a country artist who owes his fame to the Chinese-owned social-media site will play to a packed house in Winnipeg. Warren Zeiders, 24, was attending Frostburg State University in Maryland in 2021 when he began writing and covering songs, which he’d post on TikTok. He garnered more than 500 million views, and one of his originals, Ride the Lightning, earned him a record contract with Warner Music. Pretty Little Poison, the title track to his 2023 debut album, reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Coun- try Airplay chart. He’s performed live steadily for the past year, from the 2023 Stagecoach Festival in California — Coachella for country music — to gigs in Australia and Monday night at the Burt. Zeiders is so popular that the concert is sold out, but verified tickets are available on Ticket- master’s website, some at highly inflated prices. — Alan Small SUPPLIED Aaron Zeiders got famous via social media. Book club welcomes award-winning duo Tuesday, 7 p.m. Free — see wfp.to/bookclub for details THE Free Press Book Club and McNally Rob- inson Booksellers welcome authors Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii) to March’s virtual meeting on Tuesday at 7 p.m. to read from and discuss their 2022 book Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation. Valley of the Birdtail explores the relationship between the town of Rossburn and the neighbour- ing Waywayseecappo First Nation — the dispar- ity in income, access to education, racism and more — as it follows generations of two families, one from each community. The book has won a number of prizes, including the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize, the Quebec Writers’ Federation Mavis Gal- lant Prize for Non-Fiction, the Concordia Univer- sity First Book Prize and the Manitoba Historical Society’s Margaret McWilliams Award. Sniderman and Sanderson will be joined by Free Press Arts & Life editor Jill Wilson, Adam Araujo of McNally Robinson Booksellers and Free Press multimedia producer Nadya Pankiw; copies of Valley of the Birdtail are available to purchase at McNally Robinson. There’s no cost to join the book club or virtual discussion and if you can’t make it, the meeting will be available to replay after the event on the Free Press YouTube channel. For more informa- tion on how to join, and current and future book club picks, visit wfp.to/bookclub. — Ben Sigurdson ARTS ● LIFE I ENTERTAINMENT ;