Local Arts

The Juniper Centre will time warp back to the 1950s for a fundraiser June 12, as the Thompson Playhouse presents Trouble at the Tropicabana , an I Love Lucy spoof and murder mystery based on the beloved 1950s sitcom.

Long-time Thompson piano teacher Sheila Fountain was remembered by family, friends and former students during the Thompson Festival of the Arts highlights concert at R.D. Parker Collegiate’s Letkemann Theatre May 19.

The Thompson Aurora Borealis Enthusiasts (TABE) first photo contest was a great success with Elder Doug Burkman winning first place in the paneled judging, Mike Parsons winning the People’s Choice Favourite Photographer by receiving over 25 per cent

Four music groups from R.D. Parker Collegiate – the jazz combo, the intermediate jazz ensemble, the senior jazz ensemble adrenal jazz, and the local jazz ensemble – attended the non-competitive educational music festival in Brandon from March 19-22.

Jaron Freeman-Fox, a violinist originally from British Columbia, will be making a stop in Thompson during the final Home Routes concert of the season.

Brenda Fontaine, a recently retired teacher who taught in The Pas, Cross Lake, and Norway House Cree Nation, who is now a writer, released her newest book Tyranny in our Times at the Thompson Public Library on March. 20.

The Nickel Days Corporation, which runs Thompson’s annual summer fair, announced on its Facebook page March 14 that Lynn Lake-born Canadian rocker Tom Cochrane would be the marquee performer for the Saturday night social of this year’s edition, which

The next Home Routes concert will be at Paint Lake and hosted by Debbie Doucet and Kelly Davis. The usual hosts Tim and Jean Cameron are enjoying a holiday and asked someone to take over the March concert for them.

A national award-winning book by an author with ties to Thompson is now the subject of a petition to revoke its recognition because of what petition creators call its “offensive and graphic nature.

Matthew Byrne from St. John’s, Newfoundland is on the Borealis Trail Home Routes concert tour stopping in Thompson on Feb. 6. Normally the folk singer plays with a folk rock band named The Dardenelles, but for this tour he’s going solo.