Arts & Culture

This Sunday night, February 2nd at 7pm at the

The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra is recruiting members of the public to sit among its ranks this week – and that’s everything that audience members have to do! 

When it comes to moments of upheaval in our lives, the best we can hope for is to survive the moment and process it later. For Cory Wojcik, that processing looked a little bit different than for most people: creating a theatre piece. 

“This is what we do as artists: to process things, we make art,” Wojcik explained in a conversation on Morning Light.  

“We want to hear your stories, your poems, whatever you have to tell us.” 

That invitation from Jules Stevenson is a sincere one; the audiences and poets that make up the Winnipeg Poetry Slam are genuinely excited to welcome anyone and everyone to their first open mic night of 2025 on January 28 at the Handsome Daughter, regardless of what they have to say. 

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. Today, January 27th marks 80 years exactly since the liberation of the Auschwitz Concentration camp.  

As time passes and there are fewer and fewer survivors left to tell their stories, it is increasingly crucial that the day is used to remember and commemorate the atrocities committed by the Nazi's during the second World War and learn from that history, so humanity does not repeat it. 

Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet opened a new chapter in its storied history when it announced its new artistic director.  

On the Piano Nobile at the Centennial Concert Hall, RWB board chair John Osler together with outgoing artistic director Andre Lewis introduced Christopher Stowell as the new creative head of the 85-year-old Winnipeg institution.  

It’s the weekend Winnipeg movie fans have been waiting for.  

February is Black History Month. since its early beginnings at Kent State University in 1970, and the eventual adoption of the month by the American Government in 1976, the month has been used to remember and celebrate the achievements of African Americans and later black citizens throughout the diaspora. 

Inspiration can strike at any moment. If you’re a composer, you have to be ready to capture that inspiration at the drop of a hat. 

That’s something that Dauphin’s Nic Bray found out a couple of summers ago. Lying in a hammock with his partner in Riding Mountain National Park, inspiration struck.