The GDC Manitoba Chapter is hosting Volume 3 of the PechaKucha Night in the Park Theater in Winnipeg. The cost is free and the list of people is awesome.
If you are not sure of what this is, well in short the rules are so:

Each pecha-kucha participant delivers a PowerPoint presentation.
Each presentation must comprise of 20 [...]

PechaKucha Night was devised in Tokyo in 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network and to show their work in public. But the concept has since turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world, inspiring creatives worldwide.

On Thursday, December 3, 2009, New Media Manitoba is partnering with the Graphic Designers of Canada, the International Game Developer’s Association, On Screen Manitoba, and Flash in the Peg to bring you a holiday “Digital Media Showcase!”
The party starts at 6 pm at the IMAX Portage Place to celebrate a digital media production that has [...]

It’s the time year when many development groups and associations are getting together to display new software, experts in the field to get people pumped up and general networking events around the city and all over globe.
LIV tries to post what we can so we can inform and create more buzz for each group, but [...]

GDC Manitoba has resurrected their hideously infamous “Tales From The Dark Side” event for a spine-tingling and somewhat Halloween-esque evening of design horror stories – Wednesday November 4, 2009.
Bring your best (meaning worst) spooky stories of bloodsucking client requests, maniacal printing boners and frankensteinian school assignments gone torturously hell-bent.