Join us all weekend at the spacious RBC Convention Center, conveniently located downtown Winnipeg. May 12th, 13th and 14th, 2023.

Weekend highlights include:

• Live tattooing by local, Canadian, and international tattoo artists
• 50+ vendors for shopping
• Beer & food concessions
• Tattoo awards
• Fantasy Hair and Makeup competition
• Peg City Pinup Pageant
• Auzzy Blood (Freak Show Performer)
• Contortionists
• Local entertainment
• Kids Corner
• Industry suppliers and a wide variety of local vendors including jewellery, apparel, artwork, piercing, airbrushing, custom painters, and more.

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For Tattooers

Tattooing for 22 years and started her craft making her own needles every day, Abby from Living Canvas Tattoo will focus on some of the female tattoo artists and legends in the industry.

Kids Corner

We’ll have an entire section dedicated to kids (admission to the Winnipeg Tattoo Show is free for kids 12 and under!). Join us at “Aunties Tattoo Corner” for a tattoo flash colouring contest and awards for “future tattoo artist”. Prizes and medals awarded each day!

Kids will be able to colour, play games and get “tattooed”. We’ll have face painting, balloon making, and temp tattoos. Kids can even get their very own tattoo design by artists at the show!

Tattoo Awards

Only tattoos done (worked on) at the Winnipeg Tattoo Show, May 10-12, 2024 by attending artists are eligible for awards. Exception to healed or fresh funny/awesome by artists at the show in memory of Rich Ledbetter.

Friday, May 10

6:00pm – 6:10pm

• Future Tattoo Artist (3)

9:00pm – 10:30pm

• Traditional
• Realism
• Small Colour
• Small Black & Grey
• Tattoo of the Day

Saturday, May 11

5:25pm – 5:30pm

• Future Tattoo Artist (3)

8:00pm – 9:00pm

• Medium Colour
• Medium Black & Grey
• Best Sleeve

9:30pm – 10:30pm

• Best Back
• Best Chest
• Tattoo of the Day

Sunday, May 12

4:50pm – 5:00pm

• Future Tattoo Artist (3)

5:00pm – 7:00pm

• Large Colour
• Large Black & Grey
• Best Portrait
• Pointillism
• Funny/Awesome – In Loving Memory of Rich Ledbetter
  (healed or fresh)
• Tattoo of the Day
• Tattoo of the Show

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