Arts & Culture

Last week the Music and Mavens Concert and Lecture Series at The Rady JCC launched their 27th season of outstanding programming. 

Coming up this Tuesday, January 14th at 2pm at the Rady JCC’s Bernie Theatre, the Music and Maven’s concert and lecture series will take a deep dive into the wonderful world of woodwinds, and the overachieving minds of woodwind doublers. Those who are masters at more than one of the members of the woodwind family. 

This Sunday, January 12th at 2:30pm at St. Andrews River Heights United Church, Virtuosi Concerts will be presenting their 4th concert of the 2024-25 season. 

It’s one thing for Winnipeggers to have an opportunity to hear Hugo Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch performed in its 46-song entirety. It’s a whole other thing to have the chance to explore them through original visual art creations in an immersive concert experience.  

Classic 107’s first Album of the Month for 2025 comes courtesy of an ambitious local ensemble eager to break the boundaries of the oboe-piano repertoire.  

For the Honourable Patricia Bovey, women artists have been breaking glass ceilings in Canada for decades.  

“I believe that women artists have always been fearless in how they put their message forward,” she says. 

She’s acted alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ke Huy Quan and Ariana DuBose. She’s appeared on stages across North America and has charmed her hometown audiences here in Winnipeg for years.  

And yet, Stephanie Sy’s next project is the one that she holds most dear. 

“If there was one thing I could do for the rest of my life, it would be this musical.” 

January is here. The weather is cold. The days are short, but one of the true bright spots about January is that the Rady Jewish Community Centre is about to kick off another fantastic Music ‘N’ Maven’s Concert and Lecture Series. 

It’s a common New Year’s Resolution: "I want to read more." 

If that’s the case, McNally Robinson Booksellers has you covered with a fresh slate of books to start the new year. Co-owner Chris Hall joined Nolan Kehler on Morning Light to share more about them for the show’s “What to Read” segment, which airs on the first Friday of every month. 

Vancouver's Joe Average was an artist, advocate and activist whose bright, multicoloured images were as multi-faceted as his existence.

But his sister Karin Carson says she used to giggle about his fame and always called him by Brock, his given name. 

Carson, who lives in Falkland, B.C., outside Vernon, said her brother died peacefully in his home on Christmas Eve, frail from the medications he needed to manage his HIV-positive status, a condition he lived with for four decades.