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=== Festivals === {{See also|Category:Festivals in Manitoba|List of music festivals in Canada#Manitoba}} [[File:Apple and Corn Festival Morden Manitoba Canada (4).JPG|thumb|upright|The [[Morden, Manitoba|Morden]] Corn and Apple Festival]] [[File:Assiniboine Park Pavilion.jpg|thumb|Assiniboine Park Pavilion]] Festivals take place throughout the province, with the largest centred in Winnipeg. The [[Winnipeg Folk Festival]] has an annual attendance of over 70,000.<ref>{{vcite news|url=https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/music/folk-fest-hit-record-attendance-512769812.html|newspaper=Winnipeg Free Press|date=16 July 2019|title=Folk Fest hit record attendance|archivedate=8 October 2020|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20201008044858/https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/music/folk-fest-hit-record-attendance-512769812.html}}</ref> The [[Festival du Voyageur]] is an annual ten-day event held in Winnipeg's French Quarter, and is Western Canada's largest winter festival.<ref name="food"/> It celebrates Canada's fur-trading past and French-Canadian heritage and culture. [[Folklorama]], a multicultural festival run by the Folk Arts Council, receives around 400,000 pavilion visits each year, of which about thirty percent are from non-Winnipeg residents.<ref name="food">{{vcite book|author=Selwood, John|title=Food Tourism Around The World: Development, Management and Markets|editor=Hall, C Michael; Sharples, Liz; Mitchell, Richard; Macionis, Niki; Cambourne, Brock|publisher=Butterworth-Heinemann|year=2003|pages=180β182|chapter=The lure of food: food as an attraction in destination marketing in Manitoba, Canada|isbn=978-0-7506-5503-3}}</ref><ref>{{vcite web|url=http://www.folklorama.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55&Itemid=53 |title=FAQs |publisher=Folklorama |accessdate=11 November 2009 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100811070804/http://www.folklorama.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55&Itemid=53 |archivedate=11 August 2010 }}</ref> The [[Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival]] is an annual [[Fringe theatre|alternative theatre festival]], the second-largest festival of its kind in North America (after the [[Edmonton International Fringe Festival]]).<ref>{{vcite journal|author=Woosnam, Kyle M; McElroy, Kerry E; Van Winkle, Christine M|date=July 2009|title=The Role of Personal Values in Determining Tourist Motivations: An Application to the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival, a Cultural Special Event |journal=Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management|publisher=Routledge|volume=18|issue=5|pages=500β502|doi=10.1080/19368620902950071}}</ref>
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