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 MacDonald [ more ]
  • Friday March 12/10
    7pm
    Kelly Hughes Live! Illusions
    - illusionist Brian Glow and the ghostbusters of Shadows of Manitoba, plus musician Jenny Berkel [ more ]
  • Friday March 12/10
    7:30pm
    Stone Soup Storytellers
    - featured teller Jane Enkin [ more ]
  • Saturday March 13/10
    EAT!
    Gluten-Free Night
    - reservations recommended [ more ]
  • Tuesday March 16/10
    7pm
    Soapbox Open Mic
    - featuring Joe Wapemoose [ more ]
  • Wednesday March 17/10
    7pm
    Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry series
    - poet Deborah Schnitzer with guests Marika Prokosh and Kristian Enright [ more ]
  • 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 Knacker [ more ]
  • 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 Wytinck [ more ]
  • 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 Keenan [ more ]
  • Wednesday March 24/10
    EAT!
    Gluten-Free Night
    - reservations recommended [ more ]
  • 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 Wiebe [ more ]
  • Saturday March 27/10
    7pm
    Anthology Reading Series
    - Todd Besant, with Melissa Steele and Brenda Hasiuk [ more ]
  • 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 Janisse [ more ]
  • 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 Hughes [ more ]
  • Thursday April 1/10
    7pm
    Kelly Hughes Live! April Fools
    - comedians Al Rae, Dean Jenkinson and Ryan McMahon, with music by The Eardrums [ more ]
  • Good Friday April 2/10
    CLOSED
  • Tuesday April 6/10
    7pm
    Speaking Crow Open Mic
    - featuring Brenda Sciberras [ more ]
  • Friday April 9/10
    7pm
    Kelly Hughes Live! CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival
    - comedians Elvira Kurt, Ron Vaudry and George Westerholm, with music by The Paperbacks [ more ]
  • Saturday April 10/10
    7:30pm
    ideaExchange
    Foreign Women, The Femme Fatale and Children’s Bibles
    - Cameron McKenzie [ more ]
  • Tuesday April 13/10
    6pm
    Winnipeg Girl Geek Dinner
    - guest speaker TBA [ more ]
  • 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 Ward [ more ]
  • Tuesday May 11/10
    7pm
    Through the Window of a Train
    A Railway Anthology
    - editor Barbara Lange [ more ]
  • 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 Moscarda [ more ]
  • July 14-24/10
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
    Psycho Bitch
    - starring Tamara Lynn Robert [ more ]
  • July 14-24/10
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
    TJ Dawe's Tired Cliches
    - starring Alex Eddington [ more ]
  • Meet Aqua Books Film Writer-in-Residence Kier-La Janisse [ more ]
  • 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
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Sun-Mon Closed

EMAIL
kelly@aquabooks.ca

We accept Interac, Visa and Mastercard too

What people are saying:

Kelly, you were so funny. I peed myself. - Shelagh Rogers, CBC Radio One's The Next Chapter (on Kelly Hughes singing a song at the 2009 Manitoba Book Awards)

OTHER PRODUCTS

We sell more than just books. (Although why open a bookstore if you want to sell a bunch of other stuff?) We've got audiobooks, which are a lot like books, and the Manitoba Writers Guild tote bags, which hold books. We're selling the bags for $10, and all proceeds go directly to the MWG.

We also have thousands of postcards and photos, plus hundreds of in-store-produced fridge magnets. (They're pretty cool, and very popular.) Click on the grey links above for some samples.

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