Flin Flon’s arts and culture scene will be a busy place through next spring. The rest of the Flin Flon Arts Council’s forthcoming events have been revealed, including plays, concerts and acclaimed entertainers.
The council revealed the rest of their 2024-25 event schedule during the group’s Oct. 20 concert at the R.H. Channing Auditorium, featuring the Northern Pikes.
The next event coming on the arts slate is next month, when the Ham Sandwich drama troupe shows their new production - a stage adaptation of the classic board game Clue. The show will run at the R.H. Channing Auditorium Nov. 15-17.
Soon after will be the final planned show of 2024, the Flin Flon Community Choir’s annual holiday concert, taking place Dec. 7. This year’s show will feature accompaniment from Winnipeg-based folk trio Red Moon Road, including multiinstrumentalist Daniel Peloquin-Hopfner, who came to Flin Flon earlier this year through the Home Routes/Chemin Chez Nous concert series.
In the new year, the schedule continues again Jan. 24 with a performance by the Orontes Guitar Quartet, a group of classically-trained musicians originally from Syria who came to Canada after their homeland was ravaged by war.
The auditorium will once again play host to a touring performance by the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre March 7 - a production of the musical comedy Murder for Two. The play is a two-person whodunit featuring police officer Marcus Moscowicz and his partner Lou attempting to solve the murder of famed author Arthur Whitney. The theatre centre is hosting a tour of the show through Manitoba and northern Ontario from late February into mid-March - the same tour will include a show in Snow Lake March 6.
Soon after, Ham Sandwich will produce its annual spring show, a showing of the play When the Rain Stops Falling by Australian playwright Andrew Bovell. That performance will be held March 21-23. Set in both Australia and in London throughout three different eras, the play has surrealist and apocalyptic undertones.
The final touring show of the arts council’s annual slate is a family performance by southern Manitoba-based performer Micah! taking place April 11. The show is a bilingual performance involving song and dance.
This year’s slate will end with the crown jewel - the Flin Flon Community Choir’s performance of the musical Annie May 9-11. That show will be the latest in the choir’s long list of musical performances featuring local acting and talent. Auditions for the show open up in early November.
