Arts & Culture

This Sunday, December 15th at 1:30pm at All Saint’s Anglican Church, the Rupertsland Brass Band will be presenting their holiday concert. 

December has been a busy month at Westwood Collegiate, from candlelight concerts to a performance of Chicago. However, the school’s jazz choir and members of the concert choir still found time to join Nolan Kehler in the Classic 107 studios for a live performance of some winter tunes guaranteed to shake off the cold!  

This Thursday, December 12th, at 7:30 PM at the Centennial Concert Hall there will be an unforgettable evening filled with the timeless music of John Denver. 

While it may not be a part of everyone’s holiday playlist, opera can capture the spirit of the season just as well as most other genres can. Flipside Opera and Art Song Collective are out to prove that theory with their latest, festive instalment of the Opera by the Pint series that the group presents at Little Brown Jug Brewing Company in The Exchange.  

This Sunday, December 15th at 2pm at Chapel Lawn at 4000 Portage Avenue, the sounds of bells will be heard, playing a variety of Christmas music from such places, as Ukraine, England, France, and Austria to name just a few places. 

After being shuttered for over three years, the City of Selkirk is sharing plans to restore and reopen the Garry Theatre in the downtown with a revitalized purpose to be a cultural hub for its residents. 

First opened in 1940, the theatre, which was owned by Landmark Cinemas, closed permanently in 2021. The City of Selkirk purchased the building with an eye towards hopefully maintaining its role as a gathering place for its citizens. 

The halls of one of the world’s most iconic buildings resounded with music once again this weekend as Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral reopened to the public five years after being devastated by fire. 

The quality that separates a Proximus 5 holiday show from the myriad others taking place this month is the intimacy. 

“The immediacy of five individual voices, there’s a close connection that you can make with people,” says alto Karla Ferguson. “The fact that we’re singing fairly traditional or familiar songs, I just think that we’re going to hit people in all the feels.” 

A unique recital takes the stage at the Carol Shields Auditorium at the Millennium Library this weekend as Indigenous musicians share music from the intersection of opera and Indigenous culture.  

The holidays are a perfect time to snuggle up with a good book. If your reading list isn’t quite as long as Santa’s list, McNally Robinson Booksellers is a great place to start. Chris Hall and Kathleen Friesen joined Nolan Kehler in the Classic 107 studios for the December edition of ‘What to Read’, which included a couple of gift ideas for adults and children alike.