City news in brief — week of March 25, 2026
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It’s time for another Winnipeg Comedy Showcase
The 42nd show in the Winnipeg Comedy Showcase is set for Friday, March 27 at 7 p.m. at the Park Theatre (698 Osborne St.)
Performer at this edition include:
Benji Rothman, who has performed all over the world, including a recent headlining stint at the Osaka Comedy Club in Japan; Matt Nightingale, a regular host and headliner at Rumor’s Comedy Club; Tim Gray, who has played, on CBC Radio’s The Debaters, and has opened for Nikki Glaser; Karlee Liljegren, host and producer of King of Garbage Hill, a no-holds-barred podcast-style show fearing Winnipeg stand-ups riffing on random topics and roasting each other; Jeff Sinclair, who has opened shows for stand-up comedy legends Kyle Kinane, Todd Barry and Matt Braunger; and Evan Lowes, who killed it on his first Showcase appearance and so was invited back.
The show is hosted and produced by veteran Winnipeg comic Jared Story, whose album, Good Ideas, is currently spinning on SiriusXM.
Tickets are available at ticketweb.ca
Mushroom mania at Park Theatre March 29
Small-scale mushroom cultivation enthusiast Tom Nagy of River City Mushrooms will host a screening of the international Fungi Film Festival on Sunday, March 29th from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Park Theatre (698 Osborne St.). Doors open at 6 p.m., films start at 7.
The Fungi Film Fest is to the beauty, otherworldliness, and human influences of mushrooms, lichens, and micro fungi, with 14 films from eight different countries featured this year.
Visit ticketweb.ca for tickets.
Local students win national French language awards
French for the Future announced the winners of the 2025-2026 National Essay Contest recently.
Students who enter the contest compete for one of 100 scholarships offered by 15 partner post-secondary institutions across Canada, with prizes ranging in value from $1,000 to $28,000, for a total of $388,000, to encourage them to pursue their postsecondary studies entirely or partially in French. This year, a total of 639 essays were submitted by high school students across Canada.
Nine students from Manitoba who entered 750-word essays are among the winners, six of whom are from Winnipeg.
Winnipeg’s Salma Douida, Isabelle Dueck, and Chelsey Lapore each won $3,000 scholarships, while Tasha Karim, Yiling Tan, and Olivia Wilson won $1,000 scholarships.
— Staff