Cluster Festival lineup features art, music, dance

Advertisement

Advertise with us

Winnipeg has no shortage of eclectic music and art expos, but only the Cluster Festival of New Music and Integrated Arts will feature dancehall music, synth improvisation and aquatic sculptures inspired by the Victorian era.

Read this article for free:


or

Already have an account? Log in here »

To continue reading, please subscribe:

Subscribe and receive a limited-edition Free Press branded hat or tote.

Digital Subscription

One year of digital access for only $205*

  • Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com
  • Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper
  • Access News Break, our award-winning app
  • Play interactive puzzles

*First annual payment billed as $205.00 + GST for one year. This annual subscription will automatically renew at $233.00 + GST every 52 weeks (10% off the regular annual price of $259.35). Offer available to new and qualified returning subscribers only. Cancel any time.

To continue reading, please subscribe:

Add Free Press access to your Brandon Sun subscription for only an additional

$1 for the first 4 weeks*

  • Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com
  • Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper
  • Access News Break, our award-winning app
  • Play interactive puzzles
Start now

*Your next Brandon Sun subscription payment will increase by $1.00 and you will be charged $17.95 plus GST for four weeks. After four weeks, your payment will increase to $24.95 plus GST every four weeks.

Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 07/05/2024 (879 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

Winnipeg has no shortage of eclectic music and art expos, but only the Cluster Festival of New Music and Integrated Arts will feature dancehall music, synth improvisation and aquatic sculptures inspired by the Victorian era.

The festival opens May 31 with Hyperfemme Galactica, by dj Konjo at The Forks in Room 201 on the market’s second floor. Self-described as Black, queer and femme, Konjo reasserts those identities into genres such as house, techno and dancehall.

At Pulse on June 6, three experimental artists unite at the West End Cultural Centre to jointly explore “the meditative, trance-inducing power of sound” through improvisation, setting and environmental response.

Toronto composer and sound researcher Debashis Sinha comes to town for a quadraphonic piece called Rückstreuung. Percussionist and producer Jason Tait (the Weakerthans, Bahamas) will première a new work of structured improvisations for modular and analog synthesizers. Compost, a new project from Julian Beutel, Eric Roberts and Justin Alcock, will debut Decomposed, a multi-movement work.

On June 7 at Video Pool Media Arts Centre, artist Michael Lucenkiw will dive into the Environmental Machine Shop, described as an interactive artwork which encourages the reimagination of our relationship to the Red River.

On June 8 in Room 201, electronic artists Meanspath (Riley Hill of Mulligrub and No Fun Club) and Domo 11 (Domo Lemoine of À La Mode) will collaborate with dance artist Zorya Arrow on Symphony of Self, a four-part structured improvisation. Afterward, Toronto saxophonist Olivia Shortt performs with Jaime Black, a Winnipeg-based Anishinaabe-Finnish artist whose focus is memory, identity and resistance.

On June 9, pianists Madeline Hildebrand and Everett Hopfner, cellist Natanielle Felicitas, and vocalist Sarah Jo Kirsch will visit the WECC for Reframe, an evening of collaborative and solo performances.

Other Cluster events include Play, a graphic scoring workshop for kids (June 8) and Movement + Sound from Weather Parade Dance Theatre (June 8).

Tickets for all events will be available at clusterfestival.com on Friday.

ben.waldman@winnipegfreepress.com

Ben Waldman

Ben Waldman
Reporter

Ben Waldman is a National Newspaper Award-nominated reporter on the Arts & Life desk at the Free Press. Born and raised in Winnipeg, Ben completed three internships with the Free Press while earning his degree at Ryerson University’s (now Toronto Metropolitan University’s) School of Journalism before joining the newsroom full-time in 2019. Read more about Ben.

Every piece of reporting Ben produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the Free Press‘s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press’s history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates.

Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber.

Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.

Report Error Submit a Tip

More Stories

You’re a solid, loyal sister, so worry not

Maureen Scurfield 4 minute read Yesterday at 2:00 AM CDT

DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I ran into my sister’s husband at the bar recently. He was drinking with a bunch of people from his work. I noticed he was sitting close to a young woman, with his arm around her.

I just nodded without a smile as I slowly passed them. I kept on going, but he knew I saw them together. A few minutes later he came over — obviously drunk — and said, “You’re a good girl! You won’t say anything to your sister, will you?” Ha! I looked at him and said, “Of course I’m going to say something!”

My loyalty will always be to my sister. I phoned my sis in my car and blabbed. She tried to laugh it off, but she’s gone silent since — not answering my calls or messages. So apparently now I’m the troublemaker? That’d be just her style! What should I do?

— Worried About Us, North Kildonan

Sisters relieved hospital takes accountability after mother’s death

Scott Billeck 5 minute read Preview

Sisters relieved hospital takes accountability after mother’s death

Scott Billeck 5 minute read Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026

Eight months after losing their mother, two Winnipeg sisters say an internal hospital review has finally given them something they had been seeking since her death: accountability.

Chelsea Mann and Samantha Burns said St. Boniface Hospital officials acknowledged mistakes were made in the care of their mother, Judy Burns, during a recent meeting to discuss the findings of a critical incident review into her death.

The acknowledgement marked a significant departure from an earlier meeting with hospital officials, when they felt their concerns were largely dismissed.

Burns, 68, died on Jan. 21, three days after being admitted, after experiencing rectal bleeding.

Read
Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026

International flavour: Canadian investors may want to make like Ottawa, diversify beyond U.S.

Joel Schlesinger 6 minute read Preview

International flavour: Canadian investors may want to make like Ottawa, diversify beyond U.S.

Joel Schlesinger 6 minute read 2:01 AM CDT

Canada is learning the hard way about the dangers of putting too many eggs in its U.S. economic basket.

Much has been made about the need to diversify our economy away from the United States.

Diversification is understandably beneficial. The more varied streams of revenue a nation has, the less affected the economy will be when one of those sources is interrupted.

The same can be said about investment portfolios.

Read
2:01 AM CDT

Six high school hockey programs ceased operations following new Hockey Manitoba policy

Joshua Frey-Sam 7 minute read Preview

Six high school hockey programs ceased operations following new Hockey Manitoba policy

Joshua Frey-Sam 7 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 8:19 PM CDT

She lived the best of both worlds.

For the last three years, the 17-year-old wore a sweater for two different hockey programs — her high school team and AAA club in the Manitoba Female Hockey League — and was preparing to flourish in both colours again this winter.

Recently, however, the blue-liner was disappointed to learn she is no longer eligible to play her Grade 12 season with her school owing to a new policy imposed by Hockey Manitoba that bans players from participating in the Manitoba Women’s High School Hockey League if they are rostered on a U18 AAA team.

The rule applies to all athletes who play for both Winnipeg-based and rural AAA teams.

Read
Updated: Yesterday at 8:19 PM CDT

A 22-year-old man is dead and an 18-year-old is in hospital in critical condition after a two-vehicle crash on Highway 8 on Thursday evening.

A Gimli RCMP officer was driving north on the highway, near Riverton, when he witnessed the collision at about 6:45 p.m.

A vehicle headed north had passed the Mountie at a high speed before colliding with an SUV that was turning west onto Provincial Road 329 from Highway 8.

The driver of the first vehicle, an 18-year-old man from Arborg, was rushed to hospital by a helicopter ambulance with injuries RCMP describe as serious and life-threatening.

Nearly four in 10 Manitobans hope Canada restarts trade talks after U.S. midterm elections, poll reveals

Gabrielle Piché 4 minute read Preview

Nearly four in 10 Manitobans hope Canada restarts trade talks after U.S. midterm elections, poll reveals

Gabrielle Piché 4 minute read Yesterday at 7:00 AM CDT

Disorganized — that’s what Marcus Langlois calls recent United States tariffs.

He expects suppliers’ prices to increase — on mugs, pens, hoodies — for his employer, Dreamcatcher Promotions, if the United States–Canada trade war persists.

Still, he’s not pining for a quick trade deal.

“I think it should wait,” said Langlois, Dreamcatcher Promotions’ vice-president. “Let’s hope that it’s later on with proper negotiations happening.”

Read
Yesterday at 7:00 AM CDT