Local Arts

A school year with no concerts, many missed rehearsals and general upheaval – including a weather cancellation the evening before – ended on a high note for R.D.

Can you hold an art awards show online and have people actually show up to look at the art? That’s the question this year’s Northern Juried Art Show (NJAS) organizing committee asked themselves, fingers crossed, for months as they planned this year’s

“Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

The show must go on so youth and adults in the north and throughout Manitoba will have plenty of opportunities to hone their performing arts skills thanks to virtual workshops by two theatre companies.

Matthew Monias, also known as Mattmac, has recently released his debut single called “Paradise,” a melodic rap and trap song about summer love.

There will something old and something new about the Manitoba Rural Northern Juried Art Show this year. Just as it has in previous years, the show will feature the works of artists from all over Manitoba outside of Winnipeg.

University College of the North (UCN) assistant professor Dr. Gilbert McInnis has published a book examining author Kurt Vonnegut’s treatment of the theory of evolution as a widely accepted myth used to explain the world we live in.

The sounds of live outdoor music graced Thompson for the first time this summer on Aug.

With the traditional R.D. Parker Collegiate music program cabaret not possible under current public health rules, graduating music students were recognized at the first Cabbie Awards in the Letkemann Theatre June 16.

The 54th-annual Thompson Festival of the Arts is kicking off March 13-14, with two days of dance competition at the Letkemann Theatre. “This is a community festival dedicated to promoting the arts,” festival organizer Jolene Brow said.