Women-Led Jazz Symposium 2026 | Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra

Women-Led Jazz Symposium, March 8, 2026

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

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

Thank-you to the Manitoba Band Association and The SOCAN Foundation for making possible the commission of “Butterfly Language” composed by Monica Jones and performed by the Young Women in Jazz ensemble.

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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:

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

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

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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, March 8, 2026

Thank you to our symposium supporters:​Assiniboine Credit Union, 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, March 8, 2026

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

The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra is generously funded by: