The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra stands in solidarity with people of colour to recognize our failings as a society to address and extinguish the inequality experienced by African-Americans and other marginalized minorities including, in Manitoba, our indigenous population. We denounce systemic racism and violence. We took the day on June 2, Blackout Tuesday, with other music and arts organizations to listen to the voices telling of horrific injustices and systemic issues. We will continue to listen to these communities and we will find opportunities to support them.
Jazz music originated in the African–American experience of oppression and has evolved through the contributions of mostly African-American musicians. Now enjoyed by (and performed by) people of all ethnicities and backgrounds throughout the world, we recognize and acknowledge those who developed jazz and big band jazz music.
Further, we urge jazz lovers to support local, Canadian, and International jazz artists of colour by purchasing their music.
The musicians, staff, volunteers, and Board of Directors of the WJO all understand that silence is not an option. We welcome information about other organizations that we can partner with. Our society has to correct the systems that endanger health and safety of minorities, systems that hold people from achieving and keeping wealth and status, and to correct individuals biased preconceptions.
The WJO supports the dignity and value of people of colour as we continue to bring you this music we all love.
The WJO
Jazz music originated in the African–American experience of oppression and has evolved through the contributions of mostly African-American musicians. Now enjoyed by (and performed by) people of all ethnicities and backgrounds throughout the world, we recognize and acknowledge those who developed jazz and big band jazz music.
Further, we urge jazz lovers to support local, Canadian, and International jazz artists of colour by purchasing their music.
The musicians, staff, volunteers, and Board of Directors of the WJO all understand that silence is not an option. We welcome information about other organizations that we can partner with. Our society has to correct the systems that endanger health and safety of minorities, systems that hold people from achieving and keeping wealth and status, and to correct individuals biased preconceptions.
The WJO supports the dignity and value of people of colour as we continue to bring you this music we all love.
The WJO
The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra is Generously Funded by:
Funding assistance provided by the Manitoba government. Aide financière accordée par le gouvernement du Manitoba.
Concert Sponsors:
The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra welcomes and shares its performance and creation of music - a universal language to all people irrespective of culture, race, sexuality, ability, language and gender.
Music is an agent of hope. A dynamic and valuable device that helps us to heal and to bring us together. The First Peoples of Canada understood this and used music to reunite, resolve and reconcile. In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge that WJO activities take place on Treaty Territory – land that was maintained and earnestly cared for by Indigenous peoples before European settlement. Manitoba is the original lands of Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and is the homeland of the Métis Nation. We acknowledge that Winnipeg benefits daily from Treaty 3 water that comes from Shoal Lake 40. It is with sincere sentiment that we recognize the mistakes of our recent and distant past. In working towards a Canada that benefits us all, we commit to seeking a greater understanding of Canada’s diverse cultural relationships through continued work with Indigenous communities; we commit to live in ways that honour and respect the treaties that were made on these territories; and we commit to stewarding the land in harmony for all who will come after us.
- Please refrain from wearing any fragrances or scented products as other patrons are allergic to them.
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- Please do not attend if you do not feel well. Call the box office at 204-632-5299 to arrange to go to another concert.
- Your likeness may be captured at this event. Attending this event implies your permission for your image to be used in marketing or promotional purposes.
- Please do not attend if you do not feel well. Call the box office at 204-632-5299 to arrange to go to another concert.
Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra / Box 68114, RPO Osborne Village, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3L 2V9
Main: 204-421-9398 / [email protected] Box Office: 204-632-5299 / [email protected]
Main: 204-421-9398 / [email protected] Box Office: 204-632-5299 / [email protected]