WJO education

PRE-CONCERT JAZZ BAND PERFORMANCES

We plan to resume pre-concert school performances in the 2023-2024 season.

A mandate of the WJO is to make direct and meaningful connections with many eager young jazz students, driving their passion for music by giving them valuable tools, skills and inspiration to help them succeed in jazz band and beyond. The WJO Education Program includes inviting school and community ensembles to play before WJO concerts.

Pre-concert Bands
If you would like your school or community jazz band to perform before a WJO season concert please contact Richard Gillis at ad@winnipegjazzorchestra.com. We are pleased to offer the performing students each a complimentary ticket to see the show, and their parents discounted tickets to the show.
Discounted tickets for parents of pre-concert performers have to be purchased at least 24 hours before their child's performance - not available at the door.

Invest in our Students
If you would like to support these students and their school or community jazz bands please contact manager@winnipegjazzorchestra.com. Pre-pandemic, we supplied from 18 to 35 complimentary tickets to various student groups for each performance. If you wish to support this or our other educational opportunities; jazz band workshops, school concerts, three honour jazz bands and a series of educational videos for jazz students, you can contact manager@winnipegjazzorchestra.com to become an education sponsor or donate online at https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?donation=wjo.
We greatly appreciate the community-minded organizations and individuals who invest in these programs.

Corporate Education support information

Individual support toward WJO Education Programs

Education Sponsors

The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra is Generously Funded by:

Funding assistance provided by the Manitoba government. Aide financière accordée par le gouvernement du Manitoba.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Education Sponsors:

The Play-Along App project is supported by the Government of Canada’s Healthy Communities Initiative.

Concert Sponsors:

Radio Sponsors

Special Event Supporters

Supporters

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.

Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra / Box 68114, RPO Osborne Village, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3L 2V9
Main: 204-421-9398 / manager@winnipegjazzorchestra.com Box Office: 204-632-5299 / tickets@winnipegjazzorchestra.com

PRE-CONCERT JAZZ BAND PERFORMANCES

Education Sponsors

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The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra is Generously Funded by:

Education Sponsors: