Portage Place Shopping Centre and ChrisD.ca want to send you to a free screening of “Mamma Mia” at the Globe Cinema. The mall hosts semi-monthly ‘Family Fun Days’ and this month it’s all about celebrating the famous musical based on the songs of ABBA. Included in the prize is a family pack of four (4) [...]

Winnipeg may have been eliminated from the latest version of Monopoly Canada, but you can still enjoy the game and help out charity at an upcoming tournament at Portage Place Shopping Centre. The mall will host Passing Go, a Monopoly tournament in support of Siloam Mission on Saturday, July 17 from 11 a.m. until 5 [...]

After a successful run in Winnipeg during the fall of 2009, the British Artiques Roadshow is returning to the city next week. The team of internationally renowned expert antique appraisers are returning for a tour stop at Portage Place Shopping Centre. Fine art expert David Freeman and Canada’s doyen of antiques Maureen Wickham will be [...]

Posted by Sarah Klein Beginning today, buskers will provide free entertainment to passersby in front of Portage Place Shopping Centre as part of “Out on the Avenue.” The new initiative is put on by the Downtown Winnipeg BIZ and will run five days a week from Monday to Friday. Buskers will be located at the [...]

Posted by Tyler Sutherland Just in time for the weekend, “Avatar” will be showing beginning tonight at IMAX. Already in 3D format, the film boasts the greatest special effects in recent history from director James Cameron. The first showing today is at 2:20 p.m., followed by an evening show at 7:20 p.m. Tickets and showtime [...]

Posted by Tyler Sutherland There’s never a shortage of things to do downtown, especially with the Winnipeg International Children’s Festival set to start this week. From March 25 to 27, and again from June 7 to 9, the children’s festival will launch free downtown performances at Portage Place Shopping Centre. Downtown Clown Around — the [...]

Posted by Sarah Klein Aspiring models looking to break into the modelling industry will have the chance at an open call at Portage Place Shopping Centre next month. Panache Management will host the Panache International Model & Talent Search on Saturday, April 17. Females aged 12 to 22 and males aged 16 to 25 are [...]

Freeze Frame 2010 is holding an “Acting for Animators” workshop on Wednesday with animator Marieke Von Middlekoop. The evening session will focus on the differences between stage acting and acting for animators. The connections between thought, emotion, action, scene construction, characters and story telling will also be examined. The workshop runs from 6:30 p.m. to [...]

Posted by Brian Schultz Over 100 pieces of art is on display at Portage Place Shopping Centre until March 31 created by Winnipeg top graphic artists. The Downtown Winnipeg BIZ organized the display, which included holding two banner competitions to solicit the masterpieces. The winners were chosen to create new art for Main Street and [...]

Posted by Brian Schultz Since Portage Place Shopping Centre put out the call for new and used book donations in January, about 425 have been dropped off so far. “We’ve set a goal of collecting 1000. Getting even more would show that Winnipeggers live up to our reputation as giving, caring people,” said Brittany Leschasin, [...]

Posted by Tyler Sutherland A local Winnipeg shopping mall has partnered with LiteracyWORKS to provide adults and youth with valuable reading material. Portage Place Shopping Centre and the non-profit organization are accepting new or used books now until February 19. For every donation made, a free movie pass for four to the classic family film [...]

You have five more days to enter to win a chance to step inside Portage Place’s Holiday Blizzard Cash Cube. The contest has been running in partnership with ChrisD.ca since November 13 and has awarded four tokens so far. On Friday, a fifth and final token will be drawn for, giving the winner a chance [...]