Folklorama & Rainbow Stage

I'm a travel agent (and a real estate agent!) and sometimes host short tours for work - this Thursday to Saturday I took a little group to Winnipeg for Folklorama and Rainbow Stage. For those who don't know, here's a little info!

Folklorama is a cultural festival in Winnipeg Manitoba featuring pavilions around the city focusing on different countries and areas around the world! The festival runs for 2 weeks in the summer and each week features different pavilions. Each has set up a cultural display with art work and information from their country as well as performing amazing shows and home cooked meals (and drinks of course!). We take our group on a VIP tour to 3 pavilions in the evening (no lines, prime seating, show and food and drink at each pavilion!). All performers, cooks, servers, hosts, guides are volunteers - over 20,000 of them over the 2 weeks to put on this amazing festival!!

Caribbean pavilion - we had an appetizer of jerk chicken and Jamaican beef patties with a choice of piña colada or rum punch then an upbeat show featuring steel drums, limbo dancers, a braided may pole performance and lots more!!
Indian pavilion - dinner featuring butter chicken, rice, naan bread, chickpeas, a few other things with cultural beer then an amazingly colourful show with belly dancers, Bollywood and lots of beautiful costumes full of sequins!
Serbian pavilion - dessert was some sort of jam filled shortbread!! And performances with folk dancing, violins and singing!
(Apparently Brent and Devlan made "carrot hot dogs" this night while I was away! No joke... I'll post the recipe later!)

Friday night we went to Rainbow Stage for their production of Shrek the Musical which was awesome! Rainbow Stage is a beautiful partially outdoor theatre that I've been going to since I was born basically, and never disappoints! Great singing, dancing and acting with perfect sets and costumes!! You must check it out in the summer when you're in Winnipeg :) Shrek runs until August 31 and next summer they we be performing Little Shop of Horrors and Mama Mia!!
But since this is a food blog... Let's back up a bit haha before the show our group went to the Old Spaghetti Factory at The Forks! They give us an awesome group menu to choose from - lasagna, spaghetti, ribs, chicken, and so on! All served with bread, salad, ice cream for dessert and drinks!!

https://www.folklorama.ca

http://www.rainbowstage.ca