Winnipeg Mandolin Orchestra Annual Concert with Guest Performers: The Sam Baardman Trio

Posted April 20th, 2025

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/

Jews and Gentiles in Film and Literature

Posted April 20th, 2025

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

Launch of Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left

Posted April 20th, 2025

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

International Workers Day: Rally and March

Posted April 20th, 2025

For Workers' rights!
For Sovereignty!
For Palestine!
Workers of all countries, unite!

unitedinactionwpg@gmail.com
@unitedinactionwpg


National Day of Mourning

Posted April 20th, 2025

Manitoba Federation of Labour and Safe Workers of Tomorrow
Monday, April 28
Gather at 11:30
Union Centre



The Leaders’ Walk will begin at 11:30 am, leaving from the Union Centre and proceeding down Broadway to the Workers Memorial at Memorial Park (across from the Legislature).

A Day of Mourning Ceremony will be held at the Workers Memorial beginning at Noon and concluding with a Vigil for Fallen Workers.

WEBSITE: MFL Events