Events
WAF offers a diverse range of activities, featuring notable architecture, landscapes and monuments. Register on WAF’s mailing list to be notified of upcoming events.
Upcoming Events
Ghost Signs walking tour
11 September 2024 at 6:30 pm
The Cube, Old Market Square
Walking Tour with Matt Cohen, Urban Archaeologist Ghost signs are hand-painted, outdoor ads that have been preserved on sides of buildings. They are also known…
Vimy Ridge Memorial Park tour
26 September 2024 at 6:30 pm
Vimy Ridge Memorial Park. Preston Avenue at Home Street
Learn about the park's history from historian Christian Cassidy of the West End Dumplings blog.Trees Winnipeg arborist will lead a walk around the park to iden…
Past Events
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Apartment Living walking tour
28 August 2024
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Lions and their prey – a downtown walking tour
14 August 2024
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Kildonan Park History tour
7 August 2024
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Tour of pico architecture
24 July 2024
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The Highs and Lows of Portage and Main tour
17 July 2024
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Multiple stories, a history of Winnipeg parkades
10 July 2024
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Crescentwood-Enderton Park historic district tour
26 June 2024
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Manitoba Women in Design exhibit
20 June 2024–31 August 2024
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Henry Kalen Photographer Book Launch
11 June 2024
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Skin of Glass
24 March 2024
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György Kepes: Interthinking Art + Science
24 March 2024
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The Mies van der Rohes: A Female Family Saga
24 March 2024
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ArchiShorts Screening
23 March 2024
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The Promise – Architect BV Doshi
23 March 2024
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We Start with the Things We Find
23 March 2024
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Scala!!!
23 March 2024
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Radical Attitudes: the Architecture of Douglas Cardinal
22 March 2024
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Jane Davis Doggett: Wayfinder in the Jet Age Watch
22 March 2024
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Jane Davis Doggett: Wayfinder in the Jet Age
22 March 2024
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More than a Museum
22 March 2024
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“Why Arthur Erickson Matters”
22 March 2024
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Arthur Erickson’s Dyde House
22 March 2024
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Modernism, Inc.
22 March 2024
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Point of Origin: Building a House in Austria
21 March 2024
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The Red Corridor
21 March 2024
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The Power of Utopia: Living with Le Corbusier in Chandigarh
21 March 2024
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The Making of Icons – The Untold Story of Canada’s Largest Theatre & Mural
20 March 2024
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Where We Grow Older
20 March 2024
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Charlotte’s Castle
20 March 2024
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Clodagh
20 March 2024
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Diaspora
19 March 2024
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Manitoba Women in Design Book Launch
15 March 2024
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Film Screening – A Legacy of Mies and King
29 February 2024
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Film Screening – Barry Farm: Community, Land and Justice in Washington DC
22 February 2024
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Research the History of Your House Workshop
17 February 2024
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Manitoba Hydro Place Tour
18 January 2024
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Winnipeg Christmas Traditions: A Talk by Christian Cassidy
21 December 2023
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Gimme Some Truth: Pictures of Ghosts – Architecture+Film Series
14 December 2023
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December Shopping Days
14 December 2023–22 December 2023
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Building Toys Exhibit
14 December 2023–22 December 2023
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First Friday – Building Toys Exhibit
1 December 2023
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Writing on the Wall – Film Screening
23 November 2023
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Places+Spaces: Winnipeg – Film Screening
9 November 2023
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John D. Atchison Architect: An Illustrated Talk
3 November 2023
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Tour of the Arlington Bridge
17 September 2023
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Architecture+Film: Contempt/Le Mepris
16 September 2023
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A History and Tour of the St. Vital Library
28 August 2023
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St. John’s Park Walk
24 August 2023
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Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre architectural tour
21 August 2023
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Kildonan Park History Tour
16 August 2023
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A History and Tour of the West Kildonan Library
14 August 2023
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Central Park Walk with Trees Winnipeg
3 August 2023
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Jacob Penner Park Walk
25 July 2023
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Lions and their Prey – A Downtown Walking Tour
12 July 2023
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Moving Matter: Tyndall Stone in the City Tour
5 July 2023
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Osborne Village Kids Tour
17 June 2023
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The Highs and Lows of Portage & Main Walking Tour
14 June 2023
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Best of A+DFF: Fellinopolis
11 June 2023
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8 1/2
11 June 2023
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You Are in Bear Country: The Governmental Films of Matthew Rankin
10 June 2023
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First Friday Open House
2 June 2023
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Best of A+DFF – Jacques Tati: Tombe de la Lune
21 May 2023
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Arlington Bridge Tour
7 May 2023
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The Proof of the Pudding-Herman Hertzberger
30 April 2023
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Only in theatres
30 April 2023
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The Balcony Movie
30 April 2023
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Eric Ravilious,Drawn to War
29 April 2023
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Archishorts award screenings
29 April 2023
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The Lost City of Melbourne
29 April 2023
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Unexpected Modernism, the architecture of the Weiner Brothers
29 April 2023
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Albert Frey, the Architectural Interpreter
29 April 2023
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Ghost Signs Walking Tour
29 April 2023
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Places and Spaces: Winnipeg
28 April 2023
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Jacques Tati, tombé de la lune
28 April 2023
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Bawa’s Garden
28 April 2023
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Outside In
28 April 2023
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Best in the World
28 April 2023
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Light without sun
27 April 2023
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Open Sky, Portrait of a Pavilion in Venice
27 April 2023
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The Chief Government Architect – The Power of Imagination
27 April 2023
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Fellinopolis
27 April 2023
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The View
27 April 2023
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Richard Henriquez Building Stories
26 April 2023
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Soviet Bus Stops
26 April 2023
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Life,Assembled
26 April 2023
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Robin Hood Gardens
26 April 2023
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Holy Trinity Anglican Church tour
18 March 2023
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Queen Elizabeth II & Winnipeg: A Modern Elizabethan Era Exhibit at The Mint
15 March 2023–30 June 2023
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Skywalk tour in downtown Winnipeg
25 February 2023
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Skywalk tour of downtown Winnipeg
11 February 2023
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Queen Elizabeth II & Winnipeg: A Modern Elizabethan Era / La reine Elizabeth II et Winnipeg: Une ère élisabéthaine moderne
4 February 2023–1 June 2023
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The Architecture of Max Blankstein exhibit
30 January 2023–30 July 2023
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Queen Elizabeth II & Winnipeg: A Modern Elizabethan Era Exhibit
19 December 2022–8 January 2023
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Architecture+Film Series: Soviet Bus Stops
2 December 2022
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Ghost Signs in the Exchange – Exhibit and Book Sale
2 December 2022
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Max Blankstein Architect Book Launch
29 November 2022
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Max Blankstein Architect lecture
29 November 2022
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Inside the Uffizi
15 October 2022
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The Architecture of Max Blankstein
3 October 2022–23 December 2022
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Kildonan Park History Tour
14 September 2022
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Unstacking the Deck: A Game of Change
2 September 2022–1 November 2022
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Multiple Stories: A History of Winnipeg Parkades
31 August 2022
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Niakwa Park Tour
24 August 2022
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Tour of the Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Trinity
18 August 2022
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Winnipeg in the 1960s: An Architectural Tour
10 August 2022
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Kildonan Park History tour
3 August 2022
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Bike Tour of Brent Bellamy’s Favourite Buildings
27 July 2022
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Terra cotta architecture tour
29 June 2022
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Ghost Signs Exchange District Walking Tour
8 May 2022
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Ghost Signs of the Exchange District Walking Tour
8 May 2022
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Winnipeg Downtown Skywalk Tour
7 May 2022
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Hidden Winnipeg an architectural scavenger hunt
30 April 2022
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Multiple Stories,A History of Winnipeg Parkades
30 April 2022
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Painted in Light-POSTPONED
23 April 2022
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Transcona Trails Story Walk
16 April 2022
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Postcard time machine tour-Exchange District
10 April 2022
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Multiple storeys: A History tour of Winnipeg’s Parkades
9 April 2022
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Architecture+Design Film Festival
6 April 2022–10 April 2022
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Postcard time machine tour – Downtown
3 April 2022
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From our windows. Photographer David Firman
1 April 2022–29 May 2022
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Havana,from on high
24 September 2021
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Bike tour of 5468796 architecture projects
15 September 2021
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Terra Cotta Architecture Tour
8 September 2021
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Central Park architecture+landscape tour
1 September 2021
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Winnipeg in the 1960s,an architecture tour
25 August 2021
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Architecture+Design Film Festival
16 September 2020–20 September 2020
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Free Cartoon Maps at First Fridays in the Exchange
4 September 2020
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Hidden Winnipeg
2 May 2020
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John D. Atchison architect
11 February 2020
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Building Toys exhibit
6 December 2019–25 January 2020
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Writing on the Wall film and talk
22 November 2019
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Architecture of Infinity, Architecture+Film series
16 November 2019
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Walk to the airport-an architectural tour
20 October 2019
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The Price of everything
16 October 2019
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Dark Days
4 October 2019–31 October 2019
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Children’s Architecture Tour of Broadway
22 September 2019
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PUSH
20 September 2019
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Moving Matter: Tyndall stone in the city
11 September 2019
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WHAK/STACKHOUSE exhibit
6 September 2019–30 September 2019
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Gault Building (Artspace) architectural tour
4 September 2019
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Skilled Trades and Technology Centre,RRC architectural tour
28 August 2019
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Children’s Architecture+Landscape Tour of Central Park
18 August 2019
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Fortune Block tour
31 July 2019
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Children’s Architecture Tour of The Forks
21 July 2019
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Central Park Landscape and architecture tour
17 July 2019
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Broadway Modern Architecture Tour
10 July 2019
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Tour of the Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Trinity
3 July 2019
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Terra Cotta Architecture Tour
26 June 2019
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Architecture+Landscape Tour of the Forks
12 June 2019
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City Dreamers – Morley Blankstein Architecture+Film Series
30 May 2019
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Architecture+Comics: Canadian Cartoonists and the City
3 May 2019–30 July 2019
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Architecture+Design Film Festival
1 May 2019–5 May 2019
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Hidden Winnipeg-an architectural scavenger hunt
27 April 2019
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Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre Exhibit
2 April 2019–26 April 2019
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Yoga+Architecture
10 March 2019
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Terra cotta architecture
8 February 2019
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The Price of everything
31 January 2019
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Architecture On Ice Tour
26 January 2019
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More Abandoned Manitoba – Talk and book signing
7 December 2018
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RAMS film screening
28 November 2018
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Architectural Tour of St. George’s Anglican Church
18 November 2018
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Highs and Lows: a tour around Portage and Main
11 October 2018
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The Radiant Sun Film Screening
9 October 2018
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Where Architects Play
4 October 2018–31 October 2018
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Container Architecture Exhibit
29 September 2018
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Walking Styxx – a month of psychogeographic walks with a greyhound. Photographs by David Firman
28 September 2018–15 November 2018
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The Human Scale film screening
14 September 2018
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Highs and Lows: a tour around Portage and Main
10 September 2018
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Design Canada Film Screening
8 September 2018
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Niakwa Park Exhibit
7 September 2018–21 September 2018
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James Avenue Pumping Station tour
5 September 2018
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Moving matter: Tyndall stone in the city
29 August 2018
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Bike tour-Number Ten Architectural Group projects
26 August 2018
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Niakwa Park Tour
22 August 2018
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Victor Street Tour
8 August 2018
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Central Park Architecture and Landscape tour
1 August 2018
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Tour of Republic Architecture offices
25 July 2018
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Architectural tour of Shaarey Zedek Synagogue
11 July 2018
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Cover Girls: Women, Advertising, and Architecture
6 July 2018–31 August 2018
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St. John Brebeuf Church Architectural tour
4 July 2018
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University of Manitoba Architecture Tour
27 June 2018
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Architecture+Landscape Tour of the Forks
20 June 2018
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University of Winnipeg tour
13 June 2018
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Ghost Signs
22 April 2018
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Portrait of a Gallery
22 April 2018
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Concrete Soldiers
22 April 2018
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A Legacy of Mies and King
22 April 2018
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Short Films
21 April 2018
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ArchiShorts Competition
21 April 2018
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Building Hope: The Maggie’s Centres
21 April 2018
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Brasilia: Life After Design
21 April 2018
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Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect
21 April 2018
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Short Films
21 April 2018
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Designing Life: The Modernist Architecture of Albert C. Ledner
20 April 2018
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REM
20 April 2018
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Relics of the Future
20 April 2018
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A Workshop for Peace
19 April 2018
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Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf
19 April 2018
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Mies on Scene: Barcelona in Two Acts
19 April 2018
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Films & Cocktails
19 April 2018
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The Radiant Sun
18 April 2018
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Integral Man
18 April 2018
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Die Neue Nationalgalerie
18 April 2018
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BIG Time
18 April 2018
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Glenn Murcutt – Spirit of Place
18 April 2018
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Architecture+Design Film Festival 2018
18 April 2018–22 April 2018
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Architecture+Film Pub Quiz
16 April 2018
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Architecture+Film series: Moishe Safdie:The Power of Architecture
19 January 2018
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Green Blankstein Russell and Associates: An Architectural Heritage-Book Launch
7 December 2017
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Green Blankstein Russell and Associates: An Architectural Legacy exhibit
5 December 2017–15 February 2018
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Columbus
17 November 2017
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A.J. Donahue: Experiments in Design
3 November 2017–15 January 2018
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Morley Blankstein Architecture Film Series: Harry Seidler,Modernist
28 September 2017
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Architecture+Film series: The Integral Man
22 September 2017
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Architecture+Film series: The Art of Recovery
15 September 2017
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Moving Matter: Tyndall Stone in the City
14 September 2017
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EXPO67: Mission Impossible film
13 September 2017
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Architectural tour of Artspace (Gault Building) including roof visit
6 September 2017
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Where Architects Live exhibit
1 September 2017–27 October 2017
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Film @ Forth: Traffic
30 August 2017
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Bike tour of 5468796 architecture projects
23 August 2017
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Broadway Modern Architectural Tour
16 August 2017
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University of Manitoba Architecture Tour
9 August 2017
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Trend House Tour
2 August 2017
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Film @ Forth: Playtime
26 July 2017
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Millennium Library-architectural and landscape tour
12 July 2017
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Trend House Exhibit
10 July 2017–29 August 2017
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Health Sciences Centre and U of Manitoba Bannatyne Campus-History and Architecture Tour
5 July 2017
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Film @ Forth: Mon Oncle
28 June 2017
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Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
24 June 2017
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Terra cotta architecture tour
14 June 2017
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Architecture+Landscape tour of The Forks
7 June 2017
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Morley Blankstein Architecture Film Series – Mendelsohn’s Incessant Visions
5 June 2017
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Architecture+Design Film Festival 2017
3 May 2017–7 May 2017
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First Friday Design Film
7 April 2017
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Zaha Hadid: She Who Dares Win
22 March 2017
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Architecture+Film Series: A Little Chaos
10 March 2017
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Wiki Edit-a-thon Women in Art and Design
4 March 2017
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Women in Architecture and Design
3 March 2017–31 March 2017
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Green Blankstein Russell (GBR) and Associates-an architectural legacy talk
7 February 2017
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Green Blankstein Russell (GBR) – An Architectural Legacy
28 January 2017–31 March 2017
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Architecture+Film Series – Where Architects Live
20 January 2017
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Green Blankstein Russell (GBR)- An Architectural Legacy
17 January 2017–28 February 2017
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A history of the architecture of Victoria Beach
6 December 2016
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Architecture+Film Series: The Art of Recovery
3 December 2016
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Abandoned Manitoba-Gordon Goldsborough
2 December 2016
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The Great Northwest (part of the Gimmie Some Truth Film Festival)
5 November 2016
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Winnipeg,Loved
7 October 2016–31 October 2016
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Architectural tour of St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba
5 October 2016
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Moving Matter: Tyndall Stone in the City
2 October 2016
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Architecture+Film Series
16 September 2016
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Terra cotta architecture tour
14 September 2016
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Concrete Loved/Unloved
14 September 2016–16 September 2016
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The Forks: A Meeting Place Transformed Book Launch
1 September 2016
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Health Sciences Centre Architectural Tour
31 August 2016
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Modernist Precinct tour
17 August 2016
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Main Street Tour
10 August 2016
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Broadway Modern architectural tour
27 July 2016
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Architectural tour of Gault Building (Artspace), 100 Arthur Street
6 July 2016
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Arlington Bridge Tour
29 June 2016
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Terra Cotta Architecture Tour
22 June 2016
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Architecture+Landscape tour of The Forks
14 June 2016
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Moving Matter: Horizon below the drift
3 June 2016–17 June 2016
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Building Toys
6 May 2016
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Architecture+Design Film Festival 2016
17 April 2016
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Wish You Were Here – Architectural Souvenirs
4 March 2016
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Architecture+Film series
26 February 2016
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Colour Your City – First Friday in the Exchange District
4 December 2015
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Architecture+Film series
27 November 2015
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Architecture+Film Series
18 September 2015
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Architectural tour of Gault Building (Artspace), 100 Arthur Street
17 September 2015
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Night Atlas – Photographs by David Firman
17 September 2015–31 October 2015
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Terra cotta architecture tour
9 September 2015
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Exchange District, Old and New Architecture
2 September 2015
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Architectural tour of Red River College campus (downtown)
26 August 2015
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Broadway Modern tour
19 August 2015
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Modernist precinct walking tour
12 August 2015
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Architectural tour of 311 Portage (Stantec Offices) and ALT@Centrepointe Hotel
5 August 2015
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Arlington Bridge tour
29 July 2015
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Terra cotta architecture tour
8 July 2015
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Colour your city – First Friday in the Exchange District
3 July 2015
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City Views – Viewmasters exhibit
5 June 2015
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The Artist as Mad Scientist
31 May 2015
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Art Deco, Art Moderne Manitoba exhibit
1 May 2015
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Architecture+Design Film Festival 2015
15 April 2015–19 April 2015
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ArchiShorts Film Competition
6 March 2015–6 April 2015
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Concours de courts métrages Archishorts
6 March 2015–6 April 2015
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The Competition
26 February 2015
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Architecture+Film Series
18 February 2015
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EXPO67: Architectural Souvenirs Exhibit and Film Screening at 7 p.m.
6 February 2015
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Civic Modern, Winnipeg’s Civic and Centennial Centre: An Architectural Exploration
16 January 2015–11 February 2015
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Architecture + Film Series
5 November 2014
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Architecture+Film Series
21 September 2014
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Architecture+Film Series
20 September 2014
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Come Play with Us
17 September 2014–20 September 2014
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Bike tour of 5468796 architecture projects
15 September 2014
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Terra Cotta Architecture Tour
21 August 2014
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Winnipeg Civic Centre – 1964 to 2014
15 May 2014–31 May 2014
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University of Manitoba Modern Architecture
6 May 2014–31 July 2014
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Architecture+Design Film Festival 2014
30 April 2014–4 May 2014
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Architecture+Film Series
21 February 2014–27 February 2014
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Architecture+Film Series
5 December 2013
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Film Screening: ARCHICULTURE
22 November 2013
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Brutalist Architecture Bus Tour
21 September 2013
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Architecture+Film Series
19 September 2013–20 September 2013
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Architectural Tour of the Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG)
18 September 2013
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Qualico Family Centre Architectural Tour
21 August 2013
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Broadway Modern
11 August 2013
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Building Toys exhibit
1 August 2013–31 August 2013
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The evolution of resort architecture at Victoria Beach
21 July 2013
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University of Manitoba Bike Tour
2 June 2013
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Architecture+Design Film Festival 2013
8 May 2013–11 May 2013
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Architecture+Film Series
7 December 2012–9 December 2012
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Architectural Tour of the Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG)
4 November 2012
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Brutalist Bus Tour
24 June 2012
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JANE’S WALK: SELKIRK AVENUE FOR KIDS!
7 May 2022