Arts & Culture

On Wednesday, August 17th, 2022, the Rosamunde Summer String Academy and Festival started. Students from around the country and around the world have amassed at Winnipeg’s Canadian Mennonite University (CMU), to study and learn from some of Canadas’s foremost string players.

It sounds like a caper from a movie: a thief seems to have swapped out the famous portrait of a scowling Sir Winston Churchill, photographed by Yousuf Karsh in 1941, with a signed copy.

A staff member at Ottawa's Château Laurier noticed on Friday that the frame in the Reading Lounge wasn't hanging properly and didn't look the same as the others in the collection. An inspection revealed the photo in the frame was not the original, but it is not clear how long the copy has been hanging.

Olena Kayinska was forced to put down her paintbrush at the end of February.

The Ukrainian artist was in the middle of a project when Russian troops invaded her country, prompting her to leave her studio and stay with her mother.

Thoughts of returning to art seemed like a luxury amid all the death and destruction, but the events also provided material for the project she had to unexpectedly abandon six months ago. 

Now, some of her pieces are among those featured in a global online auction co-organized by a former Winnipegger.

Winnipeg Arts Council is postponing the bike tour to August 25, next week Thursday due to the extreme downpour in the city.

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The Winnipeg Art Council is preparing for an art and architecture bike tour that will lead participants all around the city to see the beauty of local libraries.

Bows at the ready! 

String players of all skill levels and ages will return to the campus at Canadian Mennonite University to take part in one of Canada’s premier training grounds.

Manitoba Underground Opera (MUO) presents weird and wonderful ways of telling old stories with new perspectives.

This year, “Canada’s tiny, perfect chamber orchestra” (Toronto Star) turns 50! 

Established in 1972 and boasting some of the finest orchestral musicians in Canada, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra has — for a half century — performed, collaborated, toured, commissioned, and celebrated an impressive and diverse range of repertoire.

And they plan on continuing to do more of the same in this milestone year. 

“We’re really excited to be able to celebrate,” says MCO Managing Director Vicki Young. “(To) look both backwards and forwards at the same time.” 

Summer certainly flies by, doesn't it? 

Between summer vacations and goings-on at the station, a belated edition of What to Read with McNally Robinson Booksellers this month of August. 

Looking for some last minute summer reads? A few more titles to work through during the lazy days of summer. Find all the latest picks below! 

This Sunday, August 14th at 2:00pm, Jazz Winnipeg, in partnership with the Dalnavert Museum, will be presenting “A Jazz Winnipeg Garden Party” that will feature The Andrew Littleford Quintet.

A summer sing in the city!