Manitoba Cuba Solidarity 
Saturday, May 17
7:00 pm
Ukrainian Labour Temple

Join us at the Ukrainian Labour Temple, 491 Pritchard Avenue (corner of McGregor) at 7 p.m. for displays, performances and music celebrating Cuba’s phenomenal culture. Short presentations about the development of the unions in Cuba, the women’s movement, the youth movement and the organizations representing all branches of the Arts. 

Organized by Manitoba-Cuba Solidarity Committee. 

For more information, check us out on Facebook or Instagram, or email manitobacubasolidarity@gmail.com 
Phone 204 894-9381

Canadian Palestinian Association of Manitoba
Saturday May 17
Gather at Noon
Legislative Building

The Nakba, which means “catastrophe” in Arabic, refers to the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The result of the war was the permanent displacement of more than 750,000 Palestinians, more than half of the Palestinian population at that time.  The Nakba commemoration is a reminder not only of those tragic events of 1948, but of the ongoing injustice suffered by the Palestinians. The Nakba had a profound impact on the Palestinian people, who lost their homes, their land, and their way of life. It remains a deeply traumatic event in their collective memory and continues to shape their struggle for justice and for their right to return to their homes. The Nakba is not just a day or date, but an ongoing process of ethnic cleansing that continues to this day. It is the genocide in Gaza, it is the violence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

@cpam1948 

Saturday, May 10
7:30 pm
Tickets from Eventbrite: $20 plus fees or at the Door: $25
Ukrainian Labour Temple – Wheelchair Accessible

In its 104th year, the WMO is pleased to present its Annual Concert, Saturday May 10th, 7:30 PM, at the historic Ukrainian Labour Temple, 591 Pritchard Avenue.
The orchestra will play a variety of music including Ukrainian Suite by Zenon Dashak, who was a professor of viola and the long-time rector of the Lviv National Academy of Music and taught the celebrated violist Yuri Bashmet.  Other music from Ukraine includes the Concerto for Accordion - 2nd Movement by Nikolai Chaikin, and Arkan, a traditional Ukrainian dance arranged by Slava Prysiazhniuk, a violist and assistant conductor with the orchestra.

A new piece for us this year is Zorba the Greek. The music from this 1964 award-winning film is well suited to mandolins as the mandolin and Greek bouzouki are closely related. 

Compositions by Anthony Hopkins, Kuwahara, Piazzolla and Mosolov are present. We add a taste of Americana with Minneapolis musician, Peter Ostroushko's Heart of the heartland.

Our guest this year is the Sam Baardman Trio. Sam, a musician and photographer,
is also an orchestra member.

The Winnipeg Mandolin Orchestra is conducted by Annis Kozub.

Website: https://ult-wpg.ca/2025/04/08/winnipeg-mandolin-orchestra-annual-concert/

United Jewish People's Order Winnipeg
Sunday, May 4
10:30 am on Zoom
To register, etransfer $25 to hdshorr@shaw.ca

The last lecture in a series. The topic is Jews and Christians in Post War Poland, and will be centered around the film Ida, which was made in Poland in 2013. 

The cost is $25. 

For further information, contact: united.jpo.canada@gmail.com.
ujpowinnipeg.com

By David Camfield 
Saturday, May 3
7:00 pm
McNally Robinson Booksellers and Livestreamed on Youtube

David Camfield (who teaches Labour Studies and Sociology at the University of Manitoba, is on the editorial board of Midnight Sun and hosts the podcast Victor’s Children) will be discussing his new book Red Flags with Tami Gadir (a researcher from Australia who’s been involved in union, climate and anti-war activity) and Andrew Loewen (a former editor of Briarpatch Magazine and longtime activist on the radical left who now works for a public sector union). 
Red Flags is an anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian introduction to the history of the USSR, China, and Cuba that asks: Were they actually on the road to communism? Red Flags argues that they were not in fact moving towards communism because social relations remained fixed in class exploitation.

The event will be held in the Atrium of McNally Robinson and also livestreamed on YouTube. This is a mask-friendly event.

David Camfield Book Launch - McNally Robinson Booksellers
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/events/view/red-flags-book-launch