Music
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Arts Briefs
Lights on the Exchange returns // Gabs Sings Babs // Agrarian After Dark // RMTC and TPM present among men // Celebrating the work of Alvin // Royal Winnipeg Ballet hosting auditions Pauls
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Winnipeg needs a Winterruption
Despite being an accredited “winter city” in the World Winter Cities Association for Mayors roster, Winnipeg has taken its time getting cold this year. However, with the recent arrival of the familiar bitter chill and thick blankets of snow, cabin fever will inevitably follow suit.
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Arts Briefs
To Create Context @ aceartinc. // Film training for newcomers to Canada // Making art spaces accessible // Music ‘N’ Mavens returns // gastropoetics @ PLATFORM // Royal MTC honours Carole King
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Eulogy for a ‘Shy Guy’
In music, there are many people who leave an indelible mark on the culture but, due to various circumstances, do not become household names. The Canadian music industry lost one such person when Chad Allan died on Nov. 21, 2023 at the age of 80.
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Ma-Buhay! places Filipino excellence centre stage
A “gut feeling” kicked off one of Rainbow Stage’s most ambitious projects to date. “It is exhilarating to witness the creation of something this big and wonder how our city will respond to it,” Carson Nattrass, artistic director at Rainbow Stage, says about Ma-Buhay!.
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A farewell to the Good Will
Nearly a decade after nine guys decided to open the Good Will Social Club, the beloved venue will take a final bow on Feb. 1.
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Favourite local music venue/Favourite local restaurant
Favourite local music venue
1. The Good Will Social Club
2. The Handsome Daughter
3. The Park Theatre
Favourite local restaurant
1. The Handsome Daughter
2. Bonnie Day
3. Shorty’s Pizza
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Favourite local album/Favourite local performance
Favourite local album
1. Virgo Rising - Vampyre Year
2. Amos the Kid - Enough as it Was
3. Neighbour Andy - Wild Ones
Favourite local performance
1. Virgo Rising EP release show, Oct. 13 @ Good Will
2. i am your spaniel by We Quit Theatre
3. Neighbour Andy, Aug. 24 @ The Beer Can
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Arts briefs
Django Festival All Stars @ the Rady JCC // Music in the Parlour // Winter classes open at Forum Art Centre // Get curious @ cre8ery // To Broadcast is to Scatter // A Day With(out) Art
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Devin Latimer, chemistry instructor
Devin Latimer, a chemistry instructor at the University of Winnipeg, hails from the northern Manitoba towns of Lynn Lake and Leaf Rapids.
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Arts briefs
Rachmaninoff’s 150th birthday celebration // A movie you can dance to // Theatrical connections // Sound of Music @ Royal MTC // On the future of Black art in Canada // Celebrating labour and the arts
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Weaving Métis stories through song
Six years ago, during a 10,000-kilometre research trip across the M.tis homeland, Dr. Suzanne Steele, a M.tis librettist, poet and scholar, came across a historical love affair that would define her artistic life for the next several years.
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Serena Ryder reimagines the holidays
Few occasions trigger a barrage of complicated feelings like the holidays. Canadian singer-songwriter Serena Ryder knows this all too well.
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They made Believers out of Manitoba
Ten years after the release of their sophomore album, Today We’re Believers, Royal Canoe will reunite at the Park Theatre to bring their lineup of euphoric, groovy fan favourites back to the local stage.
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Cranking decorum up to 11
Cufflinks? Check. Pre-rehearsed acceptance speech? Check. Ear plugs? Perhaps the most essential of all.
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Arts Briefs
Have your say downtown // Garrett Neiles EP show // Get Hyper // WJT’s comedic opening // The Sound of Unity 2.0 // Li Keur: Riel’s Heart of the North
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Arts Briefs
Peaceful reflections @ cre8ery // MAWA reading group // Talking architecture // Celebrating Manitoba country // they tried to bury us // Coup de Coeur Francophone
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Critipeg: Vampyre Year
Released Oct. 13 on House of Wonders Records
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Ska in the spotlight
When Greg Crowe co-founded ska group Whole Lotta Milka in 1992, the band members “didn’t even own an amplifier.”
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Celebrating Jewish Brill-iance
If Neil Diamond, Carole King, Paul Simon and Phil Spector were all in one building for an evening, the event would almost certainly be standing-room only. That is, if the building were a concert venue. But the illustrious artists listed above did coexist in the same space for years with each other.
