Arts & Culture

Winnipeg was well represented on the award stage at the Canadian Screen Awards in Toronto over the weekend, with one project putting Winnipeg in the spotlight.

Montreal is once again alive with song as the Concours musical international de Montréal (CMIM) hosts its much-anticipated Voice 2025 edition. Running from May 25 to June 6, the competition is dedicated entirely to the art of singing—Aria and Art Song—and continues to cement its reputation as one of the world’s most prestigious platforms for young classical vocalists.

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Brush Up Your Shakespeare: A Week of Bard-Inspired Music on Classic 107

All week long at 1 p.m., Classic 107 is diving headfirst into the world of iambic pentameter, mistaken identities, star-crossed lovers, and dramatic monologues… through music!

For artist Tim Schouten, the journey to document the places in Manitoba where the treaties between Indigenous and settler peoples were signed began over two decades ago when he first arrived in Winnipeg. 

“I was at a sort of transitional place in my work,” he explains. “I was shifting from the figure to the landscape as a thematic... and I started exploring the landscape around here.” 

Amidst final preparations for their spring concert Dream a World, the Rainbow Harmony Project is putting out the call to welcome new members to its youth choir, one of the only such groups that exists in the country. 

MTYP unveils dynamic 2025–26 season: from snowstorms to Greek gods to powerful truths. 

One of the most beloved oratorios in the Western classical music canon will be on full display at First Mennonite Church on Notre Dame Avenue this weekend.  

If music be the food of love... we say turn up the volume! This Saturday, May 31 at 9 a.m., Classic 107 is dishing up a Shakespeare-inspired playlist to celebrate the return of Shakespeare in the Ruins (SIR), Manitoba’s acclaimed outdoor theatre company. Their 2025 season kicks off June 5 with Macbeth, followed by a production of Waiting for Godot (yes, that one), beginning June 13. 

When you walk into the Urban Shaman Gallery in the Exchange District in the next couple of weeks, you’ll be greeted by a wide array of pieces made from an even wider range of materials. Each of these materials has significance for its healing properties in the communities of the Metis artists who contributed to the gallery’s latest exhibit, aptly titled I’ll Share My Medicines.  

A music education crisis is unfolding in Saskatchewan, as the Regina Public School Division moves forward with drastic cuts to its elementary band program — a nationally recognized initiative that has enriched the lives of thousands of students for decades. These cuts, driven by years of provincial underfunding, threaten not only the future of music in schools, but the quality and equity of education itself.