Arts & Culture

In the over-nine decades since the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity has been in operation, one of its core artistic pillars has been chamber music. That pillar is being maintained this month by new collaborations between faculty and students from the Interplay program on beloved pieces of the Western classical music canon and new commissions that will see their first performances at the Banff Centre. 

Cellist Joanne Yesol Choi awarded $30,000 Virginia Parker Prize for artistic excellence and leadership

Winnipeg, this heatwave has officially crossed the line. The pavement’s sizzling, your steering wheel is trying to brand you, and even your shadows are sweating. So what’s a melting Manitoban to do?

Simple: fight fire with frost—musically. We’ve assembled 10 glacially cool classical pieces that will take you from “overheated human puddle” to “mentally snowshoeing through the Arctic.” No sunscreen required.

The main character in She Falls Again is attempting to survive as an Indigenous woman in Winnipeg – a sadly-complicated task. She talks to the Sky Woman, who challenges her to reclaim her matriarchal power. 

She Falls Again is the latest example of cultural storytelling done by Winnipeg poet, writer and broadcaster Rosanna Deerchild. The unique blend of poetry and prose was recently recognized as one of the winners of the 2025 Indigenous Voices Awards.  

Anastasia St. Amand’s work at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity this month is something of a return to her roots.  

“Some of the first intimacy directing classes I took [were] actually here,” she laughs. 

Prairie Brass Camp and Percussion Workshop Return to U of M: A Summer of Sound, Skill and Success 

“I absolutely thought it was the most boring thing I’d ever heard.” 

There are not many better instruments to signify summer than the guitar, and Classic 107’s Album of the Month for July dives way back into the work of one exceptional composer for the genre from the 19th century. 

A Winnipeg theatre company is offering days of theatre, activities and learning for children impacted by the wildfires that have ravaged parts of Manitoba for the last several weeks.  

Winnipeg’s Shakespeare in the Ruins Delivers a Stunning Double Bill of Macbeth and Waiting for Godot