WINNIPEG – From family-friendly movies to jazz and classic rock shows to the annual ballet performance, Assiniboine Park’s annual free outdoor entertainment series is back.
It kicks off with a Winnipeg Pops Orchestra performance at the Lyric Theatre on June 25 and ends Aug. 30 with the Klowak/Cummings Group closing the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden Sunday afternoon jazz shows.
In between, people will be able to see Juno Award-winner Liona Boyd, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, jazz guitarist Marc Antoine and the world-renowned Royal Winnipeg Ballet at the Lyric Theatre, listen to Winnipeg jazz every Sunday afternoon in the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden, watch movies from Big Hero 6 to The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part I outdoors on Friday nights in August or check out art exhibits at the Pavilion Gallery Museum.
The Lyric Theatre schedule for the summer is:
- June 25 – Winnipeg Pops Orchestra, 7-8:30 p.m.
- June 28 – Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, 2-3:30 p.m.
- July 3 – Streetheart, 8:30-10 p.m.
- July 10 – Ultimate Escape (Journey tribute band), 8:30-10 p.m.
- July 12 – The Walle Larsson Band, 7-8:30 p.m.
- July 16 – Ron Paley Big Band, 7-8:30 p.m.
- July 17 – Liona Boyd, 8:30-10 p.m.
- July 19 – Soren Reiff, 7-8:30 p.m.
- July 26 – Will Donato, 7-8:30 p.m.
- July 29-31 – Royal Winnipeg Ballet, 7-9:30 p.m.
- Aug. 2 – Marc Antoine, 7-8:30 p.m.
- Aug. 7 – Movies: Big Hero 6, 7 p.m.; Theory of Everything, 9:15 p.m.
- Aug. 9 – Richard Elliot, 7-8:30 p.m.
- Aug. 14 – Movies: Finding Nemo, 7 p.m.; Tomorrowland, 9:15 p.m.
- Aug. 16 – Steve Oliver with Mae Losa, 7-8:30 p.m.
- Aug. 13 – Ron Paley Big Band, 7-8:30 p.m.
- Aug. 21 – Movies: Cinderella, 7 p.m.; Avengers: Age of Ultron, 9:15 p.m.
- Aug. 28 – Movies: Home, 7 p.m.; The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part I, 9:15 p.m.
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The Leo Mol Sculpture Garden jazz series schedule, where shows run 3-4 p.m. Sundays, is:
- July 5 – Dr. Dave
- July 12 – Dave Lawton
- July 19 – Jay Harrison
- July 26 – Janice Finlay
- Aug. 9 – Connor Derraugh
- Aug. 16 – Shannon Kristjanson
- Aug. 23 – Bill McMahon
- Aug. 30 – Klowak/Cummings Group
The Pavilion Gallery Museum will feature:
- May 12-29 – Emerging Canadian Artists, featuring work from the Glenlawn Collegiate visual arts program.
- June 1-20 – A Walk in the Park, featuring Winnipeg-based landscape and travel photographer David Lauder.
- July 8-28 – 13th Annual Rural and Northern Art Show, featuring award-winning art in a variety of media by artists from rural and northern Manitoba.
- The pavilion will also exhibit watercolours, drawings and prints by Walter J. Phillips in the John P. Crabb Gallery.
The movie schedule is:
- Aug. 7 – Big Hero 6, 7 p.m.; Theory of Everything, 9:15 p.m.
- Aug. 14 – Finding Nemo, 7 p.m.; Tomorrowland, 9:15 p.m.
- Aug. 21 – Cinderella, 7 p.m.; Avengers: Age of Ultron, 9:15 p.m.
- Aug. 28 – Home, 7 p.m.; The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part I, 9:15 p.m.
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