Women-Led Jazz Symposium 2026 | Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra

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Women-Led Jazz Symposium and Women's Day Concert 5.0
- GIVE TO GAIN
March 8, 2026, Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre
School groups welcome.

Picture of Jocelyn Gould with her guitar in a concert.

Keynote speaker Rachel Therrien (virtual)

Women-Led Jazz Symposium & Women’s Day Concert 5.0
GIVE TO GAIN
1:00 Keynote

Rachel Therrien, Pauline Boutal Hall, virtual

2:10 You Can Do It! Breakout Sessions

Saxes: Lauren Teterenko, Room 142
Brass: Alyssa Alambra, Room 242
Rhythm: Joanna Miller, Pauiline Boutal Hall
Vocal: Heitha Forsyth, Room 241

3:10 Living Giants Herstory Session

Jeni Taylor, Pauline Boutal Hall

4:10 Intersectional Feminism in Music

Nora Wilson, Pauline Boutal Hall

5:00 Closing Remarks

Monica Jones, Pauline Boutal Hall

5:15 Free Time, Rehearsals, Leave

Time for a snack or supper - bag lunches recommended
(6:00 W2JO soundcheck, Pauline Boutal Hall) &
(6:00 Young Women in Jazz warm-up, Room 142)

Symposium Registration Adult (all afternoon sessions and rehearsals) $55
Symposium Registration Student (all afternoon sessions and rehearsals) $40 *
School Group Pricing (minimum 10 students), (all afternoon sessions and rehearsals) $20/student

* A limited number of full bursaries are available. Get your teacher to email [email protected] to apply for you.

Buy Tickets for the Women's Day Concert Here

Thank you to Alexis Silver, Rachel Therrien and all the clinicians and professional musicians who make these events a success!

Get a PDF of the Symposium Schedule

Thank you to our symposium supporters:
Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre, Cathy and David Connor, and Jane Hook!

Women-Led Jazz project support by:

With the generous support of the Winnipeg Arts Council with funding from the City of Winnipeg

With the generous support of the Manitoba Arts Council

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.

We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada.
Nous reconnaissons l'appui financier du gouvernement du Canada.

Concert Sponsors:

Hotel Sponsor:

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.

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​Women-Led Jazz Symposium and Women's Day Concert 5.0 ​- GIVE TO GAINMarch 8, 2026, Franco-Manitoban Cultural CentreSchool groups welcome.

Thank you to our symposium supporters:​Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre, Cathy and David Connor, and Jane Hook!

Women-Led Jazz project support by:

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The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra is Generously Funded by:

Education Sponsors:

Women-Led Jazz Symposium and Women's Day Concert 5.0
- GIVE TO GAIN
March 8, 2026, Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre
School groups welcome.

Thank you to our symposium supporters:
Franco-Manitoban Cultural Centre, Cathy and David Connor, and Jane Hook!