Arts & Culture

As the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival gets set to take over the Exchange District from July 16 to 27, we’re getting into the theatrical spirit here at Classic 107—with a Scandinavian twist.

🎹 Beethoven x 32: One Sonata a Day on Classic 107! 

Set your clocks and tune your radios—Classic 107 is diving deep into one of the greatest achievements in piano literature: all 32 of Beethoven’s piano sonatas. Beginning Monday, May 14, and running every weekday (Monday to Friday) for 32 workdays, we’ll be playing one sonata a day, each in a different time slot, performed by none other than Alfred Brendel, one of the most acclaimed interpreters of Beethoven’s music. 

Greek myth and Japanese folklore. Vibrant colours and a vague sense of foreboding. These are the elements that collide in the Joe Kalturnyk and Takashi Iwasaki’s vision of the idyllical peaceful in Halcyon/Kawasemi, currently on display at the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Winnipeg. 

The longtime leader of the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq has announced that he is stepping aside. 

“After 17 inspiring years leading the WAG and Qaumajuq, I’m stepping into a new chapter,” said Stephen Borys in a statement shared to social media. 

🎭 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.