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Food & Drink: Winnipeg offers opportunities to experience cuisine of the many and diverse cultures that typify the city. Rural Manitoba also offers a wide choice of restaurants from the very expensive to the moderately priced with good home cooking. It is customary to tip waiters 15 per cent of the bill. The minimum age for drinking is 18, but those under 18 can drink with a meal if it is purchased by a parent or guardian. Off-licence alcohol is available only from government outlets. Opening hours are generally 1100-2100.
Nightlife: Winnipeg’s nightlife is vibrant. The National Film Board of Canada screens top films once a month in the Planetarium Auditorium; admittance is free. Many other cinemas, theatres, clubs, restaurants and bars also provide entertainment. Winnipeg is home to a mixture of performing arts: the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Manitoba Opera and several theatre, dance and music companies. The city also offers dining and moonlit dancing cruises aboard riverboats on its scenic Red and Assiniboine rivers. The main stages at Club Regent and McPhillips Street Station casinos also feature entertainment.
Shopping: There are several nationally known department stores in Winnipeg, with branches throughout Manitoba. City and provincial centres have a variety of unusual shops and boutiques. North of The Pas is a Native American handicraft shop where visitors can watch Native American women making moccasins, mukluks, jackets and jewellery. At the Rock Shop in Souris, costume jewellery made from rock from a local quarry can be bought, and the visitor may obtain a permit to collect his own rock. Shopping hours: Mon-Fri 0930-2130, Sat 0930-1800, Sun 1200-1800.
Special Events: For a complete list of special events, contact Travel Manitoba (see Contact Addresses section). Listed below are a Feb 12-16 Northern Manitoba Trapper’s Festival. selection of special events celebrated in Manitoba during 2003:
Feb 14-23 Festival du Voyageur, Winnipeg. Mar 31-Apr 5 Royal Manitoba Winter Fair. Jun 5-8 Winnipeg International Children’s Festival. Jun 7-8 Winnipeg International Airshow. Jun 11-15 Manitoba Summer Fair. Jun 13-21 Jazz Winnipeg Festival. Jun 19-28 Red River Exhibition, Winnipeg. Jun 27-Jul 1 Flin Flon Trout Festival. Jun 28 Manitoba Highland Gathering, Selkirk. Jul 3-6 Dauphin Countryfest (country music festival). Jul 9-12 A Taste of Manitoba, Winnipeg. Jul 10-13 Winnipeg Folk Festival. Jul 17-20 Manitoba Stampede and Exhibition, Morris (rodeo). Jul 17-27 Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival. Jul 20-27 World Lily Festival. Jul 23-27 Manitoba Threshermen’s Reunion and Stampede, Austin. Jul 25-27 Manitoba Sunflower Festival, Altona. Jul 31-Aug 2 St Pierre Frog Follies, St Pierre-Jolys (Canadian frog jumping championships). Aug 1-3 Canada’s National Ukrainian Festival, Dauphin. Aug 1-4 Steinbach Pioneer Days. Aug 1-4 Islendingadagurinn, Gimli (Icelandic Festival of Manitoba). Aug 3-16 Folklorama, Winnipeg (Canada’s Cultural Celebration). Aug 17-23 Opaskwayak Indian Days, The Pas. Aug 22-24 Morden Corn and Apple Festival. Sep 12-13 Pembina’s Threshermen’s Reunion, Winkler. Sep 18-27 Oktoberfest, Winnipeg. Oct 10-12 Miami Fun and Fiddle Festival. Nov 13-15 Manitoba Livestock Expo, Brandon. Nov 19-23 Signatures Craft Show, Winnipeg.
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