The Cosmos – A Complex & Orderly Universe

Thu, March 12, 2026 — 7:00 PM

Tickets

Early Bird Member - IN-PERSON

CA$

Pay-what-you-can ticket. Suggested price $10.
All funds raised by the Winter Speaker Series go to help the Friends support conservation and education at the Living Prairie Museum.

Please select this ticket for IN-PERSON attendance for this talk. If you wish to join online, please select the ONLINE ticket instead.

Early Bird Member - ONLINE

CA$

Pay-what-you-can ticket. Suggested price $10.
All funds raised by the Winter Speaker Series go to help the Friends support conservation and education at the Living Prairie Museum.

If you select this ONLINE ticket, you will receive information by email for how to join this talk by ZOOM.
If you wish to attend in person, please select the IN-PERSON ticket.

ASL Interpretation

CA$

ASL Interpretation is available for this event. Please select this option in addition to your ticket if you would like to request ASL Interpretation. Request must be made at least 5 days prior to the event.

DONATION - Optional

CA$

Option: add a donation to support Friends of the Living Prairie Museum
Your donation helps us preserve the endangered tall grass prairie by funding summer students and prairie management, and supporting special projects.

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Location

2795 Ness Ave

2795 Ness Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3J 3S4

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About this event

Join members from the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Winnipeg Centre for a presentation about the amazing universe that we live in. Discover the moon and planets, star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies like never before. Learn about solar and lunar eclipses, lightyears and parsecs, constellations and occultations, and Manitoba's own Dark Sky Preserve. A showcase of different telescopes and binoculars that amateur astronomers use to observe and image the sky will be on display. If weather permits, we will host some outdoor observing.

This talk can be attended in-person or online.

This event is a fundraiser for The Friends of the Living Prairie Museum. Proceeds from all tickets and donations will support education and conservation work at Living Prairie Museum.

The Speaker

James Fast is an amateur astronomer and member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada who enjoys not only observing and learning about the night sky but sharing that experience with everyone. James volunteers as treasurer of the RASC Winnipeg Centre and is currently moderator of the RASC Winnipeg Centre’s Binocular Observers Group. Together with other members of the RASC, James helps to organize public outreach events throughout Winnipeg and southern Manitoba.