Arts & Culture

For more than thirty years, Winnipeg’s GroundSwell has both delighted and challenged audiences with an adventurous mix of everything that makes new music compelling.  With its boundry pushing sounds and immersive concert experiences, the organization has earned a reputation as one of Canada’s premier new music presenters.

Achim Schulz to succeed Paul Van Nevel as artistic director of Huelgas Ensemble

After more than five decades at the helm of one of Europe’s most renowned early music ensembles, Belgian conductor and musicologist Paul Van Nevel is preparing to pass the torch.

Taste of Manitoba Returns in 2025 with Food, Music and Family Fun

One of the most timeless works in the art song repertoire will be shared this week in one of the most timeless communities in rural Manitoba. 

John Williams says he ‘never liked film music very much’ despite legendary career

John Williams may be the most decorated film composer alive, with more than 100 scores to his name and a record 54 Academy Award nominations, but the 93-year-old has revealed a surprising truth: he doesn’t think much of film music.

The Winnipeg Architecture Foundation will be presenting a lecture this week on a distinctive figure in the city’s architectural history.  

A Taste of Manitoba: When Composers Meet Cuisine 

Students across Manitoba will be entering new learning environments of all kinds in the coming weeks. This includes new classrooms and new extracurricular activities, one of which is music lessons. Long accepted as a valuable part of children’s development, it can be an adjustment period for families to get into music lessons, especially if they are doing so for the very first time. 

Large-scale paintings combine with bullet casings, shoes and other objects at the 226 Gallery on Main Street for an artist’s response to a crisis continuing to unfold in his home country.  

Kennedy Center dance programming team terminated amid sweeping staff upheaval

The Kennedy Center has dismissed its dance programming team, the latest in a series of layoffs and resignations since former U.S. president Donald Trump assumed leadership of the cultural institution earlier this year.