Today, at its regular monthly meeting the Winnipeg Robert Burns Club announced that a committee had been formed to prepare a bid to host the 2011 Annual Conference of the Robert Burns Association of North America (RBANA) Secretary Colin Harris will chair the committee to prepare the bid to be presented to the forthcoming conference in May.
The Club holds six luncheon meetings a year; hosts an annual Burns Supper in January, and holds an annual memorial service in July.
The club meets for lunch, normally, on the third Saturday of October, November, December, February, March and April. During these meetings we share the poetry and music of Robert Burns, and other Scottish cultural activities. These meetings are open to both members and non members.
Our Luncheon meetings will be held at Churchill's at the Marlborough Hotel on Smith Street for the coming year. Please check our calendar page for dates and details for our 2009-2010 year.
The first Burns Supper held under the auspices of the Winnipeg Burns Club was held on Saturday, January 25th, 1908 at Manitoba Hall.
In more recent years the Burns Supper has been held, always on January 25th, unless that day fell on a Sunday, at the Hotel Fort Garry, The Marlborough, the St Regis Hotel, CanadInns Polo Park and the Assiniboine Gordon Inn on the Park.
The 102nd Annual Burns Supper was held on Sunday, January 25th, 2009 at the Marlborough Hotel.
The Memorial Service is held annually, at the Robert Burns Statue, on the Kennedy Street side of the grounds of the Manitoba Legislative Building, on the Sunday afternoon closest to July 21st, the anniversary of the bard's death in 1796.
There is always a reading or two from Burns, usually our piper will play, and in latter years members of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society have joined us in celebration of the life of Scottish National Poet.
The 2009 Memorial Service was held Sunday July 19th at 2:00p.m.