Arts & Culture

🎭 The Winnipeg Fringe is back—and it’s bolder, weirder, and more wonderful than ever.

Running July 17–28, the 2025 Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival takes over the Exchange District with more than 150 productions, including local favourites, touring troupes, comedy acts, one-person epics, dance, drag, improv, musicals, puppetry—and probably at least one Shakespeare adaptation with sock puppets. That’s the joy of the Fringe: anything goes!

The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity is one of the best places in Canada to explore new artistic expression and to add to one’s creative arsenal. This can be true even for one of the most celebrated masterworks in western classical music.  

2025 marks a quarter-century since the Midwifery Act was passed in Manitoba, allowing mothers and families to access informed prenatal, birth and post-partum care. Now, a new exhibit called Mother Care at the 210 Gallery in the Exchange District is celebrating that anniversary with a multi-disciplinary reflection on the work that has been done to acknowledge the work of midwives across the province that stretched back two decades before passing of the act. 

Jazz, Sunshine, and Sculpture: Danny Carroll Brings Heart and Humour to Assiniboine Park 

Environment is just as key a factor in any creative process as the collaborators an artist works with or the medium they use. Le Patio 340 at the Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain is a great example of this as its unique outdoor setting in the heart of St. Boniface inspires artists as they present a wide array of performances this summer.  

Artists from a wide variety of mediums descend on the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity to gain new skills in their chosen field. Those skills extend far beyond the spotlight to the backstage roles, including lighting, sound, and, in the case of Steinbach's Lauren Peters, wardrobe. 

Face of a Nation: Statue of Liberty Mural Sparks Debate Over Immigration, Identity, and American Ideals

Michael Blais Appointed Executive Director of Manitoba Opera, Effective August 1

Manitoba Opera is turning the page to a new chapter of leadership with the appointment of Michael Blais as its next Executive Director, effective August 1, 2025.

It’s one of classical music’s most iconic moments: the first bow strokes of Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto. Exposed, simultaneously joyful and tragic, history’s greatest cellists from Jacqueline du Pré to Yo-Yo Ma to Pablo Casals have put their stamp on one of the most beloved pieces in the cello repertoire. 

Now, it’s Sung-Won Yang’s turn. 

Performers of all varieties will be descending on the West End on July 9 for a unique blend of performance art that is the beginning of a new wave of projects and collaborations.