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Sip and Paint at the London Art Bar
Fun and creative painting experience will give you professional step-by-step guidance as you let your inner artist run wild.
Various Locations
In-person
from £45 pp
2hrs 30min
Beginner
Next available date: 10th November 2023
Booking options Gift this class
Booking options Gift this class
£45 pp
What happens in this class?
This fun and creative painting experience will give you a chance to unleash your creativity! Professional step-by-step guidance is provided, however, we encourage you to let your inner artist run wild.
Wine glass in one hand, paintbrush in the other! No experience needed.
Now you can
- Express yourself
- Add a new skill to the repertoire
- Guidance from a practising artist
- Take your painting home with you
- Themed playlist to immerse you in your experience
- PopUp Painting is aimed at people who have never painted before – you might discover a new passion!
Things to remember
PopUp Painting provides all equipment for your experience and there is plenty of wine and artistic-inspired cocktails to purchase at the venue. There will also be a themed playlist to get you in the mood as you paint your masterpiece.
Themes include the works of Van Gogh, Monet, and…
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Latest Reviews
Perine – 21 June 2023
Thanks for a very fun afternoon! The hosts were entertaining and helpful and showed us skills that I won’t ever use again but I’m happy with my art and it is now displayed in my daughter’s room!!
Hala – 11 June 2023
I wholeheartedly recommend this painting course to anyone seeking a truly enjoyable and enriching artistic experience. The instructors’ passion, kindness, and expertise created an atmosphere that fostered growth and self-expression. Thanks to their guidance and unwavering support, I discovered a newfound joy in the creative process. I am immensely grateful for this exceptional course and the incredible instructors who made it all possible.
Zahra – 20 January 2023
We had a blast! The paintings turned out great. Our instructor, Willance, was engaging and encouraging. Definitely returning to the London Art Bar
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Donovan Bailey book launch
Wednesday, Nov. 15, 7 p.m.
McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park location
There was a time when nobody could catch Donovan Bailey.
The Jamaican-born, Canadian-raised world record-setting sprinter dazzled the world with his performances in the 100-metre and 4×100 metre relay in the 1990s, earning two gold medals at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Ga., as well as three world championship titles. He was the first Canadian to run 100 metres in under 10 seconds (after Ben Johnson’s drug-related disqualification in 1988), and still holds the indoor 50-metre sprinting world record.
Twice inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame — as a solo sprinter and as a relay team member — the 55-year-old Bailey has since worked as a commentator, public speaker, entrepreneur, philanthropist and board adviser.
His most recent role, however, has been as an author. His memoir Undisputed: A Champion’s Life, was published in late October by Random House Canada. Winnipeggers can catch Bailey when he dashes in to McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location on Wednesday at 7 p.m. to launch Undisputed, where he’ll be joined in conversation with Ace Burpee of 103.1 Virgin Radio.
In his book Bailey chronicles his formative years as a child in Jamaica, his family’s move to Canada when he was 12, the determination he had to put into developing as an athlete — particularly as an outsider — the heyday of his sprinting career and life after the track.
Following his chat with Burpee and an audience Q&A session, Bailey will stick around and sign copies of Undisputed. Those who can’t make the launch can watch it live or afterwards on McNally Robinson’s YouTube channel.
NFB streams doc on wartime brothers from Manitoba
The Pacifist Who Went to War
Film by David Neufeld
The story of two Mennonite brothers who grew up in Altona and took different paths at the outbreak of the Second World War gets a timely retelling from the National Film Board.
The 2002 documentary The Pacifist Who Went to War by David Neufeld has been recently restored and digitized, just in time for Remembrance Day, to help those seeking to learn about how a war thousands of miles away affected people in Manitoba, and how it created a rift in Mennonite villages and towns such as Winkler, Morden and Altona, among others.
The story centres on Ted and John Friesen and their fateful decisions. Ted chose to follow the pacifist tenets of the Mennonite church and became a conscientious objector, while John enlisted in the air force and served aboard Lancaster bombers, becoming one of many Mennonite-Canadians to join the war effort.
The 52-minute film also focuses on the postwar reaction by Mennonite churches, which demanded servicemen to repent in order to be welcomed back into congregations, and the reaction to Winkler erecting its first war memorial.
Neilfest celebrates Young turning one year older
Friday, Nov. 10, and Saturday, Nov. 11
Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club
Saturday night will mark the 78th birthday of Neil Young, the iconic Canadian singer-songwriter who spent a few fruitful years living in Winnipeg, where he formed his first bands in between classes at Kelvin High School.
Before mounting a legendary solo career and becoming a member of influential groups such as Buffalo Springfield, CSNY and Crazy Horse, Young played the city’s folk circuit and dance halls with groups including the Jades and the Squires, experiences which set in motion six decades as a risk-taking, defiant performer, hailed as a godfather of grunge and a hero of modern folk music.
Had the club been around in 1960, there’s a pretty solid chance a teenage Young would have snuck into the Times Change(d) High & Lonesome Club, the vaunted honkytonk at the corner of Main Street and St. Mary Avenue. For 18 years, the Times has celebrated Young’s birthday with Neilfest, now a two-night showcase of Young’s endless trove of musical gold.
On Friday night, the Scotty Malcolmson Band will take the stage, playing through some of Young’s best known tunes, including 1972’s Harvest. On Saturday night, the Times hosts a double bill of Neil, with the Stanley County Cutups bringing their energy to a bluegrass-heavy set, and the Honeysliders playing through some cuts from 1975’s Tonight’s the Night.
