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
    - 2010 nominees Michael Nathanson and Lise Gaboury-Diallo, Freep arts reporter Morley Walker and a five-foot long snake, with music by Matt Wardmore ]
  • Friday April 23/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Road to the Book Awards
    - 2010 nominees and music TBA
  • 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 ]
  • Saturday May 22/10
    2pm

    PTE's Carol Shields Festival of New Works presents
    Short Shots

    - premieres of new ten-minute plays
  • 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

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What people are saying:

You are hard-pressed in these days and times to find as comfortable and beautiful a place such as this - Rhae Lynne Redekop, Winnipeg

Blogs

This is a list of nice things that nice people out in the world have said about us on their blogs. (Click on the speech bubble to read.) If you're looking for my blog, I don't write one. I write a weekly email called This Week at Aqua Books. There are a few tidbits of that over here.

BLOG The Official Aqua Books Tumblelog
Words/images found at Aqua Books (tumblelog)

BLOG Dining Delights and Disasters
The lovely Yvonne Raymond says EAT! bistro is "one of the most impressive Winnipeg restaurants" 2.26.10 (blog)

BLOG Nick DiChario
Hugo-nominated SF writer Nick DiChario writes about his appearance on Kelly Hughes Live! 2.7.10 (blog)

BLOG Brent Toderash
Writers Collective website launch 2.4.10 (blog)

BLOG Handmade in Manitoba
EAT! bistro review 2.3.10 (blog)

BLOG Celebrate with Champagne
Couple gets engaged at EAT! 1.31.10 (blog)

BLOG Winnipeg van Bruggens
Mini-review of EAT! 1.31.10 (blog)

BLOG Gabriele Goldstone
Review of How to Sell Yourself Without Selling Out 1.15.10 (blog)

BLOG Winnipeg is Better than Chocolate
Goodbye McNally Robinson, Hello Aqua Books 1.12.10 (blog)

BLOG The Orange Kid
Review of EAT! bistro, with pics 1.8.10 (blog)

BLOG Half Pints Blog
Half Pints' Brewmaster Dave reviews EAT! bistro 9.18.09 (blog)

BLOG Bubs Blurbs
A review (and comparison to Jay Leno) of Kelly Hughes Live! 9.18.09 (blog)

BLOG The Observationalist
Writer and broadcaster Dan Kern reviews Kelly Hughes Live! 9.12.09 (blog)

BLOG The Rise and Sprawl
I'd've used a stickers pun, but none were a-peeling 8.19.09 (blog)

BLOG Prairie Chicken
Vandalism WIN! Winnipeg Parking Authority FAIL! 8.19.09 (blog)

BLOG ChrisD.ca
Local Bookstore Saving Motorists Money on Parking 8.19.09 (blog)

BLOG Sean's Blog
A review of IdeaExchange: Images and the Selling of Charity from March 2007 7.2.09 (blog)

BLOG Greylashes
Mini-review of EAT! 6.5.09 (blog)

BLOG Rise and Sprawl
Winnipeggers Who Are Doing Things 6.2.09 (blog)

BLOG Illustrator Jane Heinrichs
A review of the 2009 Manitoba Book Awards from a first-timer 4.29.09 (blog)

BLOG Former Aqua Books W-i-R Anita Daher
A review of the 2009 Manitoba Book Awards featuring Kelly Hughes 4.26.09 (blog)

BLOG Poet Maurice Mierau
A synopsis of the 4.9.09 Aqua Books Lansdowne Poetry Prize nominee readings 4.24.09 (blog)

BLOG GG Winner Jacobb Scheier
Jake liked his lunch at EAT! 4.21.09 (blog)

BLOG Urban Thinker via Downtown BIZ
101 Reasons why Manitoba Hydro Employees will LOVE Downtown
(we're #68, apparently) 1.8.09 (forum post)

BLOG Painting Over Silence - A Winnipeg Music Blog
A review of the Mr. Pine show at Aqua 1.2.09 (blog)

BLOG paperandglue
Garry Street Button Remix Necklace 11.18.08 (merch)

BLOG Winnipeg Love and Hate
Bryan Scott 9.30.08 (blog)

BLOG Mellaina's Musings
9.1.08 (blog)

BLOG Flickr
Bryan Scott 9.1.08 (PhotoBlog)

BLOG Career Limiting Moves
Zachariah Wells 8.28.08 (blog)

BLOG CanCult.ca
8.28.08 (blog)

BLOG The Life and Times of Annemarie
Peripatetic 'pegger returns 8.27.08 (blog)

BLOG Anita Daher
Aqua Books Writer-in-Residence (blog)

BLOG Ariel Gordon
Aqua Books events coordinator (blog)

BLOG Bionic Perry's Hideout
Perry Grosshans 7.14.08 (blog)

BLOG Spew
Dave Burrows again. I finally just gave up and hired him. 6.18.08 (blog)

BLOG Spew
Dave Burrows 5.22.08 (blog)

BLOG Alone on a Boreal Stage
Brenda Schmidt 5.12.08 (blog)

BLOG Brother Maynard
Is Aqua Books a Third Space? 5.5.08 (blog)

BLOG Thoroughly Confused...Spelled Wrong
Somebody gets me 12.19.07 (blog)

BLOG Janeday Reader
Pics and blow-by-blow on Snaring the NeWest Tour's stop at Aqua Books 11.13.07 (blog)

BLOG Brother Maynard
A commentary on ideaExchange (blog)

BLOG Claw of the Conciliator
Another commentary on ideaExchange (blog)

BLOG My favourite used book store…
Heather the Librarian blogs books (blog)

BLOG A Miracle at Aqua Books
Ian Stewart loves books [and Aqua Books] (blog)

BLOG Janeday Reader
Pics from Free Your Mind: Thriller 2.21.07 (blog)

BLOG A Magician Named Gob
You like me. You really like me (blog)

BLOG eLf ideas
Another happy customer (blog)

BLOG Doctrine, Theology and All That Jazz
Why Aqua Books is better than that other place down the street (blog)

BLOG Janeday Reader
Pics from Free Your Mind: Poetry 4.15.06 (blog)

BLOG of mediocre movies and the exchange
Tim Penner Speaks (blog)

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