Arts & Culture

A poem without words might seem like something of an oxymoron, but to the artists of the University of Manitoba Symphony Orchestra, it makes all the sense in the world when it comes to their music.  

The orchestra’s first concert of the year is entitled Poèmes sans paroles (Poems Without Words), and it features two students of the Desautels Faculty of Music speaking prominently into the concept in their own unique ways.

The 67th Grammy Awards were handed out last night at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The evening was filled with highlights from across genres, from Beyoncé capturing her first-ever Album of the Year honours for Cowboy Carter, to Canadian superstar The Weeknd ending his Grammys holdout with a live performance. The evening was also dedicated to the city of Los Angeles and its people who are still dealing with the aftermath of last month’s devastating wildfires.  

This Sunday, February 2nd at 2pm at the University of Manitoba’s Desautels Concert Hall sopranos, Monica Huisman, and Tracy Dahl, cellist Minna Rose Chung and pianist Lau

Classical music fans in Winnipeg will have the chance to learn about a seminal 20th century composer at the start of Black History Month. McNally Robinson’s Community Classroom is set to host two lectures about the life and music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. 

“2025 is the 150th anniversary of Coleridge-Taylor’s birth, so this is the time to celebrate his achievements,” explains lecturer Larry Strachan, the leader of the Chamber Orchestra Without Borders.

The John Howard Society of Manitoba is inviting Winnipeggers to the relaunch of a publication dedicated to sharing the works of incarcerated men and women across Canada. 

The Inside Scoop works with people who have had encounters with the legal system for them to have a creative outlet to share everything from poetry to drawings to recipes.  

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.