📚 The Winnipeg Archives is returning to its historic Carnegie Library home in 2027, restoring a vital space for preserving and sharing the city’s stories. 🏛️ This renovation honours a legacy of public access to knowledge and community connection.
https://u-channel.ca/archives-return-to-carnegie-library-after-a-decade-away/
📱💭 Social media can connect us, but it can also fuel anxiety, addiction, and loneliness. Finding balance, setting boundaries, and reconnecting with real-life community are key to keeping our mental health strong. 💚✨
Take a Mental Health Break with U Radio and the Mood Disorders Association of Manitoba.
🎬 The lights are back on in Saint Boniface as Cinémental 2025 kicks off its 34th year, celebrating the strength and beauty of French culture through film. 🇫🇷✨ From Menteuse to Les Barbares, Winnipeg’s francophone community continues to keep its language and stories alive on the big screen.
https://u-channel.ca/how-cinemental-became-a-cornerstone-of-french-culture-in-winnipeg/
🎭✨ Kids in the RETLife Drama Explorers and Playful Performance programs are learning confidence, teamwork, and creativity, all while having a blast pretending to be mummies, aliens, and British characters! 🚀💬 Through laughter and imagination, they’re proving that #LearningNeverEnds and #CreativityConnectsCommunities.
📸 Over 100 newcomers, job seekers, and aspiring professionals in Winnipeg received free headshots to boost their confidence and career opportunities. 🌟 Thanks to photographer Mark Eadie’s community initiative, participants left feeling seen, empowered, and ready to shine.
Thousands gathered at The Forks on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 🧡, honouring survivors and calling for urgent action on housing, food security, and mental health. ✊🏽 Change is happening, slowly, but advocates stress reconciliation must be a collective journey, walking together for justice. 🌎
Nonprofits in Manitoba are stepping up their digital game 🎯, with Volunteer Manitoba launching workshops on tech, social media, and AI to help organizations thrive online. 💻✨ The focus is to empower people, not replace them, and finding balance in the human–AI–human cycle. 🤝🤖
https://u-channel.ca/volunteer-manitoba-embracing-technology-to-strengthen-the-nonprofit-sector/
Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park Conservancy 🌿 is the first in Manitoba to join PaRx, Canada’s nature prescription program helping patients improve health through time outdoors. With discounts on memberships at The Leaf and Zoo 🦋🦁, the partnership makes wellness in nature more accessible for all.
Winnipeg’s Nuit Blanche lit up the city with glowing art, powerful storytelling, and high-energy performances, drawing thousands to celebrate culture and community. 🎨✨ From beadwork that honours ancestors to neon “Plant Parties,” the night showed how art strengthens connection and fuels downtown vibrancy.
https://u-channel.ca/nuit-blanche-brings-thousands-to-winnipeg-streets/
🎬🌈 Winnipeg’s Reel Pride Film Festival kicked off its 40th year with record-breaking ticket sales, bold storytelling, and a powerful message of visibility. ✨🙌 As Canada’s longest-running 2SLGBTQIA+ film festival, organizers say the celebration is about joy, resilience, and ensuring queer stories continue to shine.
https://u-channel.ca/canadas-oldest-2slgbtqia-film-festival-marks-40-years-in-winnipeg/
🌿 Tending the Wild, a new exhibit at Galerie Buhler Gallery, invites visitors into a living garden of art, history, and hidden perspectives, blending Métis and Indigenous artifacts with contemporary works by Winnipeg artists. 🎨 Through themes of healing, playfulness, and community, curator Hannah_g hopes each visitor discovers their own story in the collection.
https://u-channel.ca/new-exhibit-explores-healing-history-and-hidden-perspectives/
🧶🇨🇦 At Winnipeg’s 14th annual Fibre Festival, farmers and makers raised concerns over U.S. tariffs, rising costs, and Canada’s shrinking wool infrastructure. 🌾 Yet amid challenges, the event highlighted community, creativity, and efforts to rebuild a sustainable local fibre industry.
🏘️ The City of Winnipeg is moving forward with plans to build supportive housing at five sites, holding public sessions last week to provide information and gain community input. 🤝 These projects aim to provide stability, dignity, and on-site supports for residents facing housing insecurity.
https://u-channel.ca/winnipeg-hosts-public-discussions-on-supportive-housing-at-five-proposed-sites/
🏛️✨ Dalnavert Museum marked its 130th anniversary over the September long weekend with Dalnavert Days, a free community festival featuring tours, crafts, and games. 🎉 The celebration brought Winnipeg’s history to life, connecting families, first-time visitors, and longtime residents with one of the city’s most iconic heritage homes.
https://u-channel.ca/dalnavert-museum-marks-130-years-of-history-in-downtown-winnipeg/
✂️💇🏳️⚧️ Free haircuts at Vq Salon gave trans and non-binary youth a safe space to explore their identities. 🌈✨ Stylists Darla, Ava, and Tyler created a space that inspired confidence, community, and celebration.
https://u-channel.ca/local-salon-hosts-free-haircuts-for-trans-and-non-binary-youth/
🎮🦬 The Manitoba Museum launched a free game, Anishinaabemowin with the Amik, teaching 21 animal names in Ojibwe through fun levels for learners of all ages. 🌿✨ This initiative supports Indigenous language preservation and community engagement, aligning with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action.
🚍⚡ Winnipeg has become the first city in Canada to put 60-foot zero-emission buses on the road, giving riders 30 days to test out the new fleet. 🌱🔋 The trial will help transit officials refine performance before expanding to 90 ZEBs, marking a major step toward greener public transportation.
https://u-channel.ca/30-day-trial-of-60-foot-electric-buses-paves-the-way-for-expansion/
🌾🦬 Manitoba’s Living Prairie Museum is uniting community, art, and Indigenous teachings through a bison sculpture that will help plant native seeds and inspire prairie conservation. 🎨🌱 This interactive project celebrates cultural respect, biodiversity, and hope for restoring the vanishing tallgrass prairie.
https://u-channel.ca/bison-sculpture-carries-hope-for-manitobas-tallgrass-prairies/
🎟️✨ This summer, the Canada Strong Pass is opening doors for youth with FREE entry (17 and under) big discounts for ages 18–24, making museums, parks, & cultural sites more accessible than ever! 🏞️🏛️ It's also an opportunity for greater insights into how these experiences can be improved for youth and young adults.🍁💡
https://u-channel.ca/summer-pass-sparks-new-insights-into-youth-engagement-at-museums/
🚴♂️ Thirty years after moving into a Habitat for Humanity home, brothers José and Carlos Castro are biking 400 km to give back to the organization that helped their family start a new life in Canada. 💙 Their ride is a full-circle moment of hope, community, and family legacy.