Arts & Culture

After thirty years of teaching in Winnipeg, and forty years of teaching in total, one local music teacher is saying farewell to the studio.  

Earlier this month, Laurel Howard, a string instructor and Suzuki music teacher in the Wolseley area, hosted her final studio recital at St. Margaret’s Anglican Church, closing out a career that has touched countless musicians and lives.  

2025 has already been a huge year for Zilla Jones. The Winnipeg author released her debut novel The World So Wide last month, which tells the story of a mixed-race opera star chasing down validation and love. The release comes as Jones was named one of the five recipients of the 2025 Writers’ Trust Rising Stars, a program launched back in 2019 that supports the next wave of Canadian literary talent with mentorship and financial support.  

The choral music of Filipino composers will take centre stage this weekend at the Lutheran Church of the Cross in Winnipeg’s West End. The Musica Singers and Polycoro, alongside choirs from Garden City Collegiate and Maples Collegiate, present a concert called Paraiso with pieces by Nilo Alcala, Saunder Choi, and Ruben Federizon, among others. 

The stories of communities across the Asian diaspora will be represented in the fifth annual FascinAsian Film Festival, which officially gets underway on May 22. Five feature-length productions, dozens of shorts and a wide variety of programming will be presented in conjunction with Asian Heritage Month.  

It’s one thing to be presenting your first-ever photography exhibit to the public, but it is something else entirely for that exhibit to a personal expression of gender and body.  

The latest concert from DreamPlay features what can only be described as musical treasures.  

For one thing, there’s the instrument that will be featured most prominently: the button accordion, which has played a key role in musical cultures from France to New Orleans to Ukraine. The music of all of these places and more will be on full display in Spirit Reel: The Musical Worlds of Jim Hiscott, which is the other treasured element of DreamPlay’s concert. 

The Village Conservatory is providing an opportunity for the next wave of musical theatre artists in Winnipeg to showcase their talents. 

Young Manitoba composers take centre stage at inaugural CMI concerts. 

It takes courage, creativity and a whole lot of hustle to build a life in music. For performers, that often means collaborating with others to bring existing works to life. For composers, it’s about creating something entirely new—and hoping it gets heard more than once. But for a new generation of artists in Manitoba, it also means championing each other’s work. 

This week, Classic 107 is proud to present a special 1 PM feature showcasing the artistry of two remarkable musicians—cellist Jacqueline du Pré and pianist Alice Sara Ott—both of whom have faced the challenges of multiple sclerosis (MS). As Winnipeg prepares for the M

Heritage Winnipeg is preparing to showcase the hidden mysteries and stories of Winnipeg’s historic streets and buildings with its annual Doors Open Winnipeg in the coming days. The event provides an avenue for Winnipeggers to get in touch with the city that was and provide a new perspective on the infrastructure that still plays a vital part of Winnipeg’s infrastructure. 

“It really is a way to discover the entire city,” says Cindy Tugwell, executive director of Heritage Winnipeg.