Cluster: New Music + Integrated Arts Festival

Cluster: New Music + Integrated Arts Festival Winnipeg's most dynamic take on contemporary art and sound. Cluster XI Digital Edition will take plac

Cluster is a festival dedicating to showcasing new artistic work in Winnipeg's frozen climate. Hailed as one of Winnipeg's "most dynamic arts events" (Winnipeg Free Press 2015), Cluster delivers adventurous sound and art for those looking for something a little bit different.

What a whirlwind night at  for the world premiere of Corporate Retreat, performed by  and , created by  with additional ...
06/16/2025

What a whirlwind night at for the world premiere of Corporate Retreat, performed by and , created by with additional staging support by Marie Joseé Chartier. ❤️‍🔥

A night of incredible feats of sound, mandatory compliance training, passive aggressive facilities access requests and a sonic homage to relentless, soul-crushing GROWTH in a sunset environment. Quigital loves Cluster and we love them right back.

What an incredible end to our 2025 festival.

This festival wouldn’t be possible without the support of .council

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Flashback to Sunday’s magic at  with , ,  and  ✨ 🌱A beautiful sold out house for a first time duo performance by  and —a...
06/15/2025

Flashback to Sunday’s magic at with , , and ✨ 🌱

A beautiful sold out house for a first time duo performance by and —an incredible and moving collaborative performance that left audiences entranced. This evening also premiered The River Between, performed and composed by Olivier Macharia and Eamon Sheil.

This concert was made possible with the support of our festival partner, who provided critical workshopping space during the development phases of The River Between as well as technical support.

A big thank you to at for supporting Olivier in the development of The River Between through the Precursor Residency.

Cluster wouldn’t be possible without the support of our funders, .council .

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A lovely rainy afternoon at  yesterday with .negash +  and friends of the fest 💫💫💫
06/08/2025

A lovely rainy afternoon at yesterday with .negash + and friends of the fest 💫💫💫

✨Winnipeg really knows how to turn out! ✨ Another beautiful sold out show last night at , featuring  performing Soft Ton...
06/07/2025

✨Winnipeg really knows how to turn out! ✨ Another beautiful sold out show last night at , featuring performing Soft Tongues 🐸 and , , and premiering DIRGE 🌀

This wouldn’t have been possible without the support of our presenting partners, and as well as our funders, .council and and of course, all you curious listeners out there. ❤️‍🔥

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Thursday night was pure magic! ✨bingenTV’s soft opening,  and  taking us on a sonic journey, and all of you beautiful ar...
06/07/2025

Thursday night was pure magic! ✨

bingenTV’s soft opening, and taking us on a sonic journey, and all of you beautiful art lovers made the night unforgettable. ❤️‍🔥

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🌸 Lineup Update! 🌸We’re thrilled to announce that Los Días Floreadas will be joining SlowPitchSound on the Above the Clo...
05/14/2025

🌸 Lineup Update! 🌸

We’re thrilled to announce that Los Días Floreadas will be joining SlowPitchSound on the Above the Clouds bill at Cluster!

Los Días Floreados is the alias of Chilean musician and producer Paulo Díaz-Flores, whose work spans experimental sound, psych-rock, and immersive composition. A founding member of La Julia Smith, he has toured across Chile and Canada since 2009. As a cultural ambassador for Concepción, he’s composed for documentaries, produced festivals, and led artist residencies.

All kid composers are invited to explore the possibilities of graphic notation! Participants will discover this notation...
05/13/2025

All kid composers are invited to explore the possibilities of graphic notation! Participants will discover this notation method by creating your own unique symbols for existing sounds. Then, they will have opportunity craft an original motif or sound using graphic notation and watch as musicians bring your musical creations to life. Join us for this FREE workshop and discover the composer within you!

Presented with support of our friends at

All kid composers are invited to explore the possibilities of graphic notation! Participants will discover this notation...
05/13/2025

All kid composers are invited to explore the possibilities of graphic notation! Participants will discover this notation method by creating your own unique symbols for existing sounds. Then, they will have opportunity craft an original motif or sound using graphic notation and watch as musicians bring your musical creations to life. Join us for this FREE workshop and discover the composer within you!

Presented with support of the fine folks at

Opening June 6, 2025 The Poolside Gallery,  100 Arthur Street, 2nd FloorWorking with video, textile, autofiction, and va...
05/06/2025

Opening June 6, 2025
The Poolside Gallery, 100 Arthur Street, 2nd Floor

Working with video, textile, autofiction, and various installation processes, Sophie Seita’s and Naomi Woo’s exhibition pulls out and reroots the speculative potential of archives and q***r history. Developed in conversation with The Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions, a q***r-feminist collective originally founded by the German mediaeval mystic and musician Hildegard von Bingen in the 12th century and ‘propagated’ by the artists in 2020—the exhibition centres on a q***r gardening talk show, bingenTV, supposedly shot in 1987 and never aired, until now. Playful and flirty, this genre-bending talk show features a cast of q***r characters real and fictional, past and present, in a whirlwind jaunt through space and time.

Co-presented with Video Pool Media Arts Centre

JUNE 3—“Tributaries: A Wet Ritual for Witnessing” is a ritual about water, about time, about absence, about q***r ancest...
05/06/2025

JUNE 3—“Tributaries: A Wet Ritual for Witnessing” is a ritual about water, about time, about absence, about q***r ancestors who have been lost and who we commit to remember. It is a ritual of blessing and complicity, of coming together, of mixing. The performance invites you to remember, reflect, and repeat this ritual, always concluding in tight embrace. Created by Victoria Perrie, Jehan Roberson, Sophie Seita, and Naomi Woo in Xochimilco, Mexico City, it’s now been reconceived as a nomadic performance-workshop that incorporates post-ritual art therapy, offered by Dani Minuskin

The ritual was conceived under the auspices of The Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions, a project initiated in 2020 by Sophie Seita and Naomi Woo that transplants, reroots, and propagates a q***r, feminist gardening society founded by 12th century mystic and musician Hildegard von Bingen.

JUNE 10—Congratulations Employee 501111! You’ve been selected for voluntary compliance training. In this theatrical perc...
05/06/2025

JUNE 10—Congratulations Employee 501111! You’ve been selected for voluntary compliance training. In this theatrical percussion performance, Quigital, Architek Percussion (Montreal), and Cluster Festival (Winnipeg) invite you to experience the future of work: faster, louder, and playfully soul crushing.

Powered by relentlessly enthusiastic algorithms, vocalist Sara Albu will guide you through product launches, loyalty tests, and passive-aggressive e-mail lounge ballads. Stay alert: compliance training is mandatory, termination is inevitable, and your cell phone can be used for real-time audience metrics.

Business casual encouraged.

If you’re on time, you’re late.

Tickets now available!

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Presented in partnership with the West End Cultural Centre

Montreal’s Architek Percussion’s raw, visceral performances reshape the rules of percussion. They’re joined by powerhouse vocalist and Interdisciplinary artist Sarah Albu. Members: Noam Bierstone, Ben Duinker, Alexander Haupt, Alessandro Valiante.

Quigital is an artist collective that explores the absurdity of corporate aesthetics and culture through interactive art—putting forth a thoughtful critique of the capitalist relationship between corporations and their consumers. Quigital is a collaboration between Eliot Britton, in Montreal; Dave Arbez, in Winnipeg; Patrick Hart, in Los Angeles; and Kevin McPhillips, in Ottawa.

JUNE 8—A space to sit in the turbulence and let it wash over you. Weaving landscapes of ostinato timeshifts, delicate so...
05/06/2025

JUNE 8—A space to sit in the turbulence and let it wash over you. Weaving landscapes of ostinato timeshifts, delicate sonic textures, and wave after wave of fading memory revived, this concert invites listeners to embrace the dissonance and harmony.

Saxophonists Eamon Sheil and Olivier Macharia reunite in The River Between, a new work shaped by breath, electronics, and layered motifs. The River Between, composed by Macharia, traces open landscapes of collective improvisation and textural interplay, interrogating the tension between tradition and modernity. Through looping, live processing, and expansive sound design, Sheil and Macharia open a space for sound to resist, rupture, and rebuild in the cracks of a crumbling world.

Experience a transcendent evening with visionary musician Laraaji, whose groundbreaking collaboration with Brian Eno on Ambient 3: Day of Radiance revolutionized ambient music. Known for his mystical, zither-based soundscapes, Laraaji will guide audiences through cosmic vibrations and meditative textures, drawing on decades of pioneering work. Joining him is Zoon, the project of Daniel Monkman, whose mix of shoegaze, ambient, and experimental sounds has captured listeners globally.

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