Located on the second floor of the Pavilion Gallery Museum, The Pooh Gallery houses a new permanent collection of Winnie the Pooh artifacts and memorabilia donated by the MacFarlane family, including pop-up books, toys and figurines and featuring the famous painting ‘Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Pot’ by Ernest H. Shepard, the original illustrator of A. A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh books.

With brightly painted walls of orange, yellow and blue, the new gallery also features Winnie’s Reading Room, where visitors can enjoy a story or two.

You might need a quiet place after the excitement at the Assiniboine Park Zoo. New zoo babies include a lion-tailed macaque on view now, and by the end of May or early June, the zoo's new African lion cub will meet the public. 

Earth Day at FortWhyte is full of fun ways to learn about our environment. Discover what kinds of critters are lurking below the boardwalks. Grab a net, scoop them up and interpreters will help you identify your catch.

Become a voyageur in a 15-passenger canoe as you paddle back to the days of fur trading and adventure (weather permitting). Bake your own bannock over an open flame and take part in a Family Orienteering Challenge adventure. http://www.fortwhyte.org/earthday (photo: Joel Penner)

Nature Manitoba is leading casual walks through a number of city parks. For the first walk April 22, meet at Assiniboine Park at 1 p.m. by the newly-designed duck pond.

On April 29, meet at Kildonan Park on north Main Street at 1 p.m. by the duck pond. Pre-registration not required.

To learn more about Nature Manitoba, visit  www.naturemanitoba.ca

This Earth Day will be a special one at the marsh, with the release of a rehabilitated snowy owl at 10:30 a.m. 

You can also find out how the Oak Hammock Marsh Interpretive Centre is an environmentally sensitive building during their green building tours throughout the day. Discover tips and tricks for making your home a greener building. More Earth Day activities at www.oakhammockmarsh.ca

In other green news, the frogs at Oak Hammock are making themselves heard now. Listen for the differences in the "language" of the eight species known to make the marsh their home.

Get your friends together and see a band that rocks your world, or pull on your urban cowboy boots and cut loose with your favourite country star. Experience an up-close-and-personal show at McPhillips Station Casino.

Coming soon to the 400-seat concert bowl:

• Foghat May 3
• Loverboy May 31, June 1
• Emerson Drive April 24
• Randy Travis June 2

If you want to be the star, then live-band karaoke at Jaguars Restaurant & Lounge of Club Regent Casino is the perfect venue.  Step on stage with the Danny Kramer Band every Wednesday or dance the night away to your favorite tunes every Thursday to Saturday at Jaguars.

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