SURVIVAL STORYTELLING LIVE ACTION GAME w/GMB Chomichuk
A Rules light afternoon (or evening) of an amazing roleplaying game written, illustrated & narrated by award winning storyteller & illustrator GMB Chomichuk!
Automatic Age
World War Weird
Fairy Tale Ending
The Tower of the Wasteland Wizard
A Rules light afternoon (or evening) of an amazing roleplaying game written, illustrated & narrated by award winning storyteller & illustrator GMB Chomichuk!
Part roleplaying game and part campfire story, GMB Chomichuk will lead a story game in which you pick the characters and the pathways, face the perils and hope to prevail. Escape danger with combat or cleverness in a rules-light interactive story, using illustrations, clues, maps, co-operation and a bit of good humor in which the audience are both author and participant.
Pick from four scenarios:
Automatic Age : Survive the horrors of an automatic future utopia that wants to rid the world of troublesome humans. Polite killer robots stalk on your last desperate attempt to reach the The Last Train and safety. The Walking Dead meets I, Robot.
World War Weird- Choose one of fifty weird heroes to save Monument City from the Martian Invasion. But wait, one of you might be a shape-shifting reptile and not know it. The Avengers meets War of the Worlds
Fairy Tale Ending: Every season the Wolves come to Strawtown and take a few more Little Pigs. Not this time. Red Riding Hood has gathered a group of grim and gritty fairy tale characters to save the Pigs of Little from the werewolves. Little Red Riding Hood meets The Lord of the Rings.
The Tower of the Wasteland Wizard : Can a group of intrepid adventurers ( you!) sneak into the tower of a mad warlock and steal the sacred treasure that will return peace to the land? Can you survive the monsters, traps and treachery to survive to the end? Dungeons and Dragons meets The House on Haunted Hill
1 - 1/2 hours 4-6 participants
+$50/additional persons + time
GMB Chomichuk is an award-winning writer and illustrator whose work has appeared in film, television, theatre, books, comics and graphic novels. His work ranges from the heart warming to the blood curdling with graphic novel like Cassie and Tonk, Midnight City, Will I See? and the forthcoming Automatic Age, Arena City, and Good Boys. He is the host of Super Pulp Science a podcast about how genre gets made. His newest full length graphic novel Apocrypha: The Legend of Babymetal was featured on The Hollywood Reporter, The Nerdist and Billboard Magazine.
twitter & instagram @gmbchomichuk
facebook: GMB Chomichuk
To book email: eventmanager@fetejockey.com
PAINT NIGHT w/ James Culleton
Have a paint party in your backyard! Inspired by the group of Seven, join painting expert James Culleton in creating your own landscape painting! Great way to celebrate an occasion.
Join James Culleton in creating your own painting! Inspired by the group of Seven, create your own landscape painting using provided materials and guidance from a painting expert. Great way to spend an evening with friends, or to celebrate an occasion!
60 mins, supplies included (acrylic paint, canvas)
4 participants, +$50/additional persons
Culleton is multifaceted and he’s a designer who uses his skills as a painter, sculptor, and musician to feed his passion for creativity. Known for his use of blind contour drawing, his work can be seen all over Winnipeg. His public art graces the façade of the West End Cultural Centre. He has published three books of his drawings and teaches design at Red River College in Winnipeg.
www.jamesculleton.com | Instagram: @jamesculletondesigns
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JamesCulletonDesigns
Twitter: @lyricalines
To book email: eventmanager@fetejockey.com
MEXICAN HEAT - Son del Norte
Bring the sound of a traditional Mexican fandango to your backyard! Join in, following the team in call & response and dancing!
Mexican Heat: Bring the sound of a traditional Mexican fandango to your backyard! The regional songs and instruments of Vera Cruz will spice up any party. And you get to play too: our team guides you through easy call-and-response patterns leading into some rhythmic foot-stomping - Led by Son del Norte!
Son del Norte is a multilingual Winnipeg-based band/music workshop devoted to sharing the traditional Mexican music of Son Jarocho!
https://www.facebook.com/sondelnortewinnipeg/
To book email: eventmanager@fetejockey.com
YOGA & LIVE MUSIC - Kris Garner & Jess Rae
Invite your neighbours over for a special outdoor yoga class, Kris Garner guides a blend of Hatha, Yin, & Kundalini Yoga, while Jess Rae will accompany to create a sonic & restorative experience.
Kris Garner will guide a 60 minute yoga class that blends Hatha, Yin, and Kundalini style Yoga. Jess Rae will accompany Kris while she’s teaching to create a sonic experience. This class is appropriate for those with all levels Of yoga experience. Whether it’s your first yoga class, or you’ve been practising for years, it will be a journey into connecting to your breath and body, paired with gentle music to guide you along the way.
The class aims to help individuals tune in to their physical experience, And help to understand the root of any tension, So they can lead a happier, comfortable, fulfilled life.
* 60 mins, Please bring your own yoga mat.
Kris Garner and Jess Rae have been collaborating and hosting live music yoga classes for the past few years. Their most recent event was the sold out Winter awakening in February 2020. Kris and Jess strongly believe that having a movement and mindfulness practice can lead to building healthy communities.
Kris: https://instagram.com/nanihonuaholistic?igshid=1thwyzmdilhja
Jess: https://www.jessrae.ca/
https://www.instagram.com/jessraeayre/
https://m.facebook.com/jessraemusic5/?ref=bookmarks
To book email: eventmanager@fetejockey.com
JD AND THE SUNSHINE BAND
Enjoy a backyard concert from JD and the Sunshine Band - a musical collaboration between musicians & street-involved individuals singing the chorus of the streets of Winnipeg.
Enjoy a backyard concert from Winnipeg’s JD and the Sunshine Band - a musical collaboration between musicians & street-involved individuals singing the chorus of the streets of Winnipeg.
What started in 2013 as a project to promote literacy and social inclusion has evolved into a lasting vessel for creativity and fun. The band has released 2 albums and toured extensively, from the humblest of community events to the big stage. With upwards of 12 members at any given time, the band puts the "try" in country, charming young and old out of their strollers and walkers to shake a leg and cut a rug.
Get your shades on. The future is sunny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJAaoAMVrTU
https://www.transistor66.com/sunshineband
https://www.facebook.com/thesunshineposse/
To book email: eventmanager@fetejockey.com
HUNKS
Look, HUNKS is a sketch comedy group from Winnipeg, got it? A comedy show in your own backyard! Invite your friends! We all need a laugh…
Look, HUNKS is a sketch comedy group from Winnipeg, got it? They are Rory Fallis, Tim Gray, Matt Nightingale, and Dana Smith.
HUNKS' videos have been routinely featured on Funny Or Die, they've performed in festivals you've heard of (Just For Laughs Northwest, San Francisco Sketchfest, Chicago Sketchfest, Toronto Sketchfest), and they've opened for legends like Bruce McCulloch (Kids in the Hall).
They've also released over 130 episodes of The HUNKS Podcast with guests including Jackie Kashian, Mark Forward, Mark Little, Aisha Alfa, Graham Clark, etc.
"Funnier than most good episodes of Saturday Night Live."
- Jen Zoratti, Winnipeg Free Press
@hunkscomedy on Twitter, Instagram and Linkedin
www.youtube.com/hunkscomedy
http://www.hunkscomedy.com/press
To book email: eventmanager@fetejockey.com
AFRICAN DRUM & DANCE - Drum Café
Drum Cafe brings the beats with djembes, bass drums, percussion, while our dancers present accompanying dances and lead you in moving yourselves to the music!
Take the opportunity to clap, dance, and sing along to traditional Ghanaian rhythms. Drum Café brings the beats with djembes, bass drums, and percussion, while our dancers present accompanying dances and lead your guests in moving THEMSELVES to the music.
Drum Café specializes in West African drumming and dance. Their specialty is interactive team building events for companies and organizations, where everyone in attendance gets to play a drum.
https://www.facebook.com/drumcafewinnipeg/
45 min performance
To book email: eventmanager@fetejockey.com