Comedy Festival
We’re going Off the Rails!
Are you missing the Winnipeg Comedy Festival as much as we are? Never fear, we’ve decided to create a quarterly show to feed your habit during non-festival season!
Big Daddy Tazz hosts the "Off the Rails" series, and the first one is coming up darn fast - Sunday, June 28th, 7pm at the Gas Station Theatre. This show features the Three Amigos - Big Daddy Tazz, Al Rae & Dean Jenkinson. Tickets are $15, or $10 for Gas Station Theatre members. Call 284-9477 or email us to reserve. All proceeds go towards helping maintain the theatre as a thriving, important performing space.
Raffle tickets for WCF Gold Passes!
Did you know that the Gas Station Theatre is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a FANTASTIC raffle fundraiser? And perhaps of most interest to you all are the 3rd, 4th and 5th prizes: two Gold Passes to the 2010 Winnipeg Comedy Festival – that’s right, free admittance to ALL the shows.
First prize: An original WANDA KOOP painting titled "Promenade" - acrylic on canvas, 30"x40", valued at $12,875.000. Framing donated by Mayberry Fine Art.
Second prize: authentic Winnipeg Jets jersey signed by NHL player Dennis Hull (as seen in last year’s WCF gala "Game on!"). Valued at $450.00
Third, fourth and fifth prizes: A pair of GOLD passes (admittance to all shows) to the 2010 Winnipeg Comedy Festival. Valued at approx. 350.00 EACH.
Call 284-9477 to buy your raffle ticket ASAP. Only 1200 tickets printed. The draw will be held at 8pm on Sunday, June 28, 2009 at the Gas Station Theatre, directly after our inaugural "Off the Rails" show!
ABOUT THE WORK
The painting, Promenade, is part of an ongoing series of work called Interweave, in which Koop, along with other sources of inspiration, incorporates mediated television images to describe our relationship with a rapidly changing technological world. This painting was adapted from a news flash about Mumbai, India.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Wanda Koop is one of Canada’s most distinguished artists. Her painting career spans three decades and includes over 50 solo exhibitions. Her work is included in numerous international private and museum collections including the National Gallery of Canada, which together with the Winnipeg Art Gallery, is currently preparing a major retrospective of Koop’s work. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including Doctors of Letters from the University of Winnipeg and the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. She is a Member of the Order of Canada, and founder of Art City; an inner city art centre in Winnipeg.
Check out our promo video from the Feb. 24 media launch at YouTube.
This year we ran bought ad space on the new giant screen TV at the corner of Portage and Fort/Notre Dame to see our Kong-sized ad! Click here to see it now, in mini.