CURRENT EVENTS

  • Just In
    Removing the Hutterite Kerchief now back in stock [ more ]
  • March 10, 11 and 13/10
    Aqua U. presents
    Writing Your Life Introductory Level

    A workshop with Jake MacDonaldmore ]
  • Friday March 12/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Illusions
    - illusionist Brian Glow and the ghostbusters of Shadows of Manitoba, plus musician Jenny Berkelmore ]
  • Friday March 12/10
    7:30pm

    Stone Soup Storytellers
    - featured teller Jane Enkinmore ]
  • Saturday March 13/10
    EAT!

    Gluten-Free Night
    - reservations recommendedmore ]
  • Tuesday March 16/10
    7pm

    Soapbox Open Mic
    - featuring Joe Wapemoosemore ]
  • Wednesday March 17/10
    7pm

    Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry series
    - poet Deborah Schnitzer with guests Marika Prokosh and Kristian Enrightmore ]
  • Thursday March 18/10
    7pm

    How Many Jewish Mothers?
    A Night of Jewish Humour

    - storytellers Alix Sobler, Moishe Goldenberg, Libby Simon and Nurit Drory, with the easy listening harmonica of Sam Knackermore ]
  • Friday March 19/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! 40
    - Kelly Hughes turns 40, featuring Dr. Bhatnagar, Brian Loewen, Handyman Rod Kozak and actor Kris Bratton, with music by Ben Wytinckmore ]
  • Saturday March 20/10
    7pm

    Manitoba Storytelling Guild and Cabbages and Kings Radio present
    World Storytelling Day

    - storytellers Mary Louise Chown, Jane Enkin, Justin Jaron Lewis, Ron Robinson, Rebecca Hiebert, Wayne Drury and Kay Stone, with music by Patrick Keenanmore ]
  • Wednesday March 24/10
    EAT!

    Gluten-Free Night
    - reservations recommendedmore ]
  • Friday March 26/10
    7pm
    $10
    Telling Tales Spoken Lit Series
    Whale Tales to Balaam's Ass: Bringing Out the Animal in the Old Testament

    - storytellers Anne Morton and Rebecca Hiebert, with the Mennonite Blues of Bush Wiebemore ]
  • Saturday March 27/10
    7pm

    Anthology Reading Series
    - Todd Besant, with Melissa Steele and Brenda Hasiukmore ]
  • Tuesday March 30/10 - Thursday April 1/10
    10am-4pm
    $150
    Aqua U. presents The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies
    Introduction to Horror Film Criticism for Teens

    - a spring break course from Aqua Books Film Writer-in-Residence Kier-La Janissemore ]
  • Tuesday March 30/10
    7-9pm
    $30
    Aqua U. presents How To Sell Yourself Without Selling Out
    - a marketing/life seminar from Bookstore Owner Kelly Hughesmore ]
  • Thursday April 1/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! April Fools
    - comedians Al Rae, Dean Jenkinson and Ryan McMahon, with music by The Eardrumsmore ]
  • Good Friday April 2/10
    CLOSED
  • Tuesday April 6/10
    7pm

    Speaking Crow Open Mic
    - featuring Brenda Sciberrasmore ]
  • Friday April 9/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival
    - comedians Elvira Kurt, Ron Vaudry and George Westerholm, with music by The Paperbacksmore ]
  • Saturday April 10/10
    7:30pm

    ideaExchange
    Foreign Women, The Femme Fatale and Children’s Bibles

    - Cameron McKenziemore ]
  • Tuesday April 13/10
    6pm

    Winnipeg Girl Geek Dinner
    - guest speaker TBAmore ]
  • April 14,15,21 and 22/10
    6-9pm
    price TBA
    Aqua U. presents The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies
    They Came From Within: The History of Canadian Horror Films

    - a workshop with Caelum Vatnsdal
  • Friday April 16/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Road to the Book Awards
    - Freep arts reporter Morley Walker, the 2010 nominees and a five-foot long snake, with music by Matt Wardmore ]
  • Tuesday May 11/10
    7pm

    Through the Window of a Train
    A Railway Anthology

    - editor Barbara Langemore ]
  • Wednesday May 19/10
    7pm

    MayWorks Festival presents
    Bread and Roses Tonight

    - poets Ron Romanowski and John Baillie, with music by Liliana Romanowski and Ferruccio Moscardamore ]
  • July 14-24/10
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
    Psycho Bitch

    - starring Tamara Lynn Robertmore ]
  • July 14-24/10
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
    TJ Dawe's Tired Cliches

    - starring Alex Eddingtonmore ]
  • Meet Aqua Books Film Writer-in-Residence Kier-La Janissemore ]
  • Rosanna Deerchild wins the 2009 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry/Prix Lansdowne de poésie
    more ]

274 Garry St.
(Between Portage
& Graham)

Winnipeg, MB
Canada  R3C 1H3
204-943-7555

OPEN
Tues-Sat 11am-9pm
Sun-Mon Closed

EMAIL
kelly@aquabooks.ca

We accept Interac, Visa and Mastercard too

What people are saying:

Just wanted to say I love getting the newsletter in my e-mail because there's always something ridiculous in it that brightens my day. Aquaman you're awesome! - Your devoted Aquafan, Ashli Roberts, Winnipeg

Print Articles about Aqua Books/EAT! bistro

Winnipeg Free Press 2.6.10 Winnipeg Free Press 2.6.10
Lawyer tries to shut down reading, book. Aqua Books kicks back.

Uptown 1.28.10 Uptown 1.28.10
Preview of Not Half performance at Kelly Hughes Live! on 1.29.10

Uniter 1.14.10 The Uniter 1.14.10
Article on the effect of the near-death of McNally Robinson on the Winnipeg bookselling community

Winnipeg Free Press 12.9.09 Winnipeg Free Press 12.9.09
Kelly Hughes quoted in article on arts industry impact in Winnipeg

Travel Manitoba 9.18.09 Travel Manitoba 9.18.09
Get Closer with Ghosts, featuring EAT! bistro

Uptown 9.3.09 Uptown 9.3.09
Winnipeg expat Aaron Merke gets set to tape his first comedy DVD at Aqua Books

Winnipeg Free Press 8.19.09 Winnipeg Free Press 8.19.09
Bookstore Owner Kelly Hughes barely escapes jail time in The Great Parking Sticker Snafu

Winnipeg Free Press 7.29.09 Winnipeg Free Press 7.29.09
EAT! bistro's Red Seal Chef Candace Hughes featured in an ad for Red River College's Culinary Arts program

Uniter June/July 2009 Uniter June/July 2009
Uniter article on Kelly Hughes and Winnipeg's Cultural City Hall

Winnipeg Free Press 6.20.09 Winnipeg Free Press 6.20.09
Kelly Hughes quoted in Freep article on the 60th anniversary of Harlequin Books

Uptown 6.4.09 Uptown 6.4.09
EAT! bistro chosen as Winnipeg's Best New Restaurant in Uptown's 2009 Readers' Choice Awards

Uptown 6.4.09 Uptown 6.4.09
Aqua Books makes top three again, and Kelly Hughes is Winnipeg's third-Most Outrageous Winnipegger in Uptown's 2009 Readers' Choice Awards

CTV.ca 4.18.09 CTV.ca 4.18.09
A lazy "how is the recession treating you" interview that mentions every other store name but mine

The Filipino Journal 4.5.09 The Filipino Journal 4.5.09
A Filipino Journal article that seems to be mostly a reworking of our own BookWalk

Winnipeg Free Press 3.20.09 Winnipeg Free Press 3.20.09
A tepid review of EAT! in the Freep by a tired Marion Warhaft

Warming up to Winter-peg The Toronto Star 3.05.09
Noah Richler anoints Aqua Books "one of the craziest, most amusing and well-ordered second-hand bookstores I have ever frequented."

The Winnipeg Free Press 20 Under $20 Winnipeg Free Press 1.03.09
20 Under $20

Prairie Fire Writer-in-Residence Katherine Bitney at Aqua Books January - October 2009 Prairie Fire PR 12.15.08
Announcement for Prairie Fire's new Writer-in-Residence Katherine Bitney. As part of The Boreality Project, Kate will be at Aqua Books January - October 2009

Ciao! Magazine Best New Restaurants of 2008 Ciao! Magazine 12.1.08
Reviews of Winnipeg's Best New Restaurants of 2008, including EAT!

The Uniter 9.25.08 The Uniter 9.25.08
How to Have More Fun for Less Money in Winnipeg

Globe and Mail 8.28.08 Globe and Mail 8.28.08
Second-hand book sellers (including Aqua Books) learn to adapt

Winnipeg Free Press 8.28.08 Winnipeg Free Press 8.28.08
The lineup for the 2008 Winnipeg International Writers Festival includes, of course, Aqua Books

Quill and Quire 8.22.08 Quill and Quire 8.22.08
Aqua Books W-i-R Anita Daher named new teen fiction editor at Great Plains

Prime Times 8.21.08 Prime Times 8.21.08
Books meet bistro

Poe's Deadly Daughters 7.19.08 Poe's Deadly Daughters 7.19.08
An interview with our lovely (and first) writer-in-residence, Anita Daher

National Post 7.18.08 National Post 7.18.08
Be a hometown tourist

Winnipeg Free Press 7.12.08 Winnipeg Free Press 7.12.08
The Best Deals in Winnipeg (according to the Freep)

Christian Week Christian Week 6.08
Kelly Hughes exposed as ex-fundy

The Urbanite The Urbanite Spring.Summer.08
Aqua Books Opens

Word Wrap Spring.08 Word Wrap Spring.08
The birth of the Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry

The Uniter 4/3/08 The Uniter 4.3.08
Renovated bookstore (that's us) seeks to inspire Downtown Winnipeg

Winnipeg Free Press 3/29/08 Winnipeg Free Press 3.29.08
Aqua Books mentioned in the same breath as McNally Robinson. Pinch me, I must be dreaming.

Winnipeg Free Press 12/5/07 Winnipeg Free Press 12.5.07
Aqua Books Announces New Location

Winnipeg Free Press 10/23/07 Winnipeg Free Press 10.23.07
Aqua Books to endow Manitoba poetry prize

Winnipeg Women Fall 2007 Winnipeg Women Fall 2007
Aqua Books makes Joanne Kelly's must-do list

Winnipeg Free Press 8/1/07 Winnipeg Free Press 8.1.07
Aqua Books is moving. But where?

Winnipeg Sun 7.21.06 Winnipeg Sun 7.21.06
Kelly Hughes waxes economic on Winnipeg Fringe Festival

Uptown Uptown's 2006 Best of Winnipeg Readers' Choice Awards
We're Number 2. We're Number 2.

Winnipeg Free Press 11/16/05 Winnipeg Free Press 11.16.05
Aqua Books wins an award, but all they care about is Brad Pitt

Christian Current 8.05 Christian Current 8.05
Article on ideaExchange

Manitoban 1.15.03 U of M Manitoban 1.15.03
Article on Winnipeg's used bookstores

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