Friends of Mackenzie Hall

Looking forward to this event

We are pleased to announce the full line up of entertainment for our Old Towns Jazz Day! Market vendors, you still have time ti apply too! details for everything here:
https://www.facebook.com/share/QZNtFLhcxyCkAQuA/

Funding for this initiative has been provided in part by the Gordie Howe International Bridge Community Benefits Plan, Mackenzie Hall Jazz, Sandwich Town BIA, Walkerville Brewery and our wonderful sponsors!

Concert is tonight!!

Dixon's Violin live at the beautiful Mackenzie Hall this Saturday, May 11. Violinist, Dixon's life mission is to inspire people – and he has done so at over 1,000 concerts across North America, including giving four TED talks/performances, over ten years at Burning Man and Electric Forest, plus radio, TV and film appearances. Doors, for the only Canadian date on this tour, open at 7:30pm Tickets: $30, and available online at www.dixonsviolin.com/tour-schedule. Tickets will be sold at the door if they are still available.

Tickets are still available!!

"A Salute to Sidney Bechet, Jazz Giant" The first great saxophonist of jazz: a program of his original compositions and classic jazz masterpieces from the 1920's to the 1950's.

CHRIS TABACZYNSKI, saxophone and clarinet

ERIK McINTYRE, acoustic guitar

SHANNON WADE, string bass

MIKE KARLOFF, piano

May 26, 2024 at 2:30pm
Tickets are on sale now!

The City of Windsor’s Poets Laureate and Storytellers have unveiled an online zine/collection of “Windsor’s Voices” for . Learn more and check out the collection here: https://ow.ly/6Lgs50RnxS3

The Duff-Bâby House will be open this Saturday, April 13, 2024, from noon to 4:00 p.m. Admission is free but donations are welcome. Built in 1798, the mansion is recognized among the most significant late eighteenth-century landmarks in Upper Canada. To learn more, visit https://www.citywindsor.ca/residents/Culture/Windsors-Community-Museum/Pages/Duff-Baby-House-and-Interpretation-Centre.aspx

City of Windsor will host a public information centre to gather feedback on the future of the historic Thursday, April 25, 2024, from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. at Optimist Community Centre, 1075 Ypres Avenue. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/uSBe50RcAnn

NEW PIANO SPOTLIGHT: Yamaha Grand-in-The-Round

Limited seating with the piano in the centre of the Court Auditorium. All seats up close to Mackenzie Hall's superb piano.

3:45pm show with very limited seating available- 60 seats each show. Boogie-woogie, blues and vocals with MR. B (aka Mark Braun).

TICKETS: $25. ($20. US) advance for a 1 hour show. A confirming email from us will finalize your reservation.

Full house!!

Nil A Nova 2024 Nil-A-Nova plays BIG BAND classics at Mackenzie Hall

Don't miss this St. Patrick's Day show

Nil A Nova 2024 Nil-A-Nova plays BIG BAND classics at Mackenzie Hall

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/828864755797?aff=oddtdtcreator

Nil A Nova 2024 Nil-A-Nova plays BIG BAND classics at Mackenzie Hall

🗓 Join us for Public Information Meetings at our Southwest Detroit Community Office on March 19 and at Mackenzie Hall in Windsor on March 21. Hear the latest updates on Community Benefits and construction progress on Canadian and US project components. 🇨🇦 🇺🇸

Happening today at 1pm! To join https://ow.ly/ILyt50QvxeA

Congratulations to The Artists of Colour on their recent art exhibit opening 'The Never-Ending Quest For Inclusion' at Mackenzie Hall in Windsor which is on display until February 24th.

Starting off our 2024 Season on March 3, 2024 at 2:30pm with
Kansas City 1935: The riffs, blues and swing of the Count Basie Sound. feat. Kasan Belgrave, Chris Tabaczynski, Randy Napoleon, Mike Palazzolo, Mike Karloff 🎉

TICKETS: $30.00 advance-- Email [email protected] to reserve your tickets, then pay Kathy at the door on concert day with cash or cheque (to Windsor Jazz Concert Series).

Join us on St. Patrick's day for a Big Band concert and fundraiser.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/nil-a-nova-2024-tickets-828864755797?aff=oddtdtcreator

Nil A Nova 2024 Nil-A-Nova plays BIG BAND classics at Mackenzie Hall

On February 17th, The Amherstburg Freedom Museum is excited to host, in partnership with River Bookshop a panel discussion "A Conversation About Women's Empowerment and Community Engagement." The event will happen at the Amherstburg Freedom Museum at 2pm. To register, please go to https://fb.me/e/1xdV40F6k

We are thrilled to have as panelists Executive Director of Women's Enterprise Skills Training of Windsor Inc. Rose Anguiano Hurst, Award Winning educator and Curriculum Developer Shantelle Browning-Morgan, Black Student Support Co-Ordinator University of Windsor Kaitlyn Ellsworth, Actor, Playwright, Choreographer and President of The Black Council of Windsor-Essex Leslie McCurdy and Author, Educator, Historian and President of Essex County Black Historical Research Society Irene Moore Davis. The panel will also be moderated by Global Launch Process, Planning, and Strategy Manager at Ford, and Amherstburg Freedom Musuem Board Director, Cari-Lynn Ristic. We hope you will join us!

Opening next Saturday

The Never-Ending Quest for Inclusion
February 17-24, 2024

The Never-Ending Quest for Inclusion is the second portion of The Artists of Colour “Journeys” Project. This special presentation is a fine arts-based project featuring original paintings accompanied by historical fact filled information panels that lead visitors on their quest to learn more. QR codes on each sectional panels will engage and increase the learning experience of attendees. This informative exhibit will educate visitors to the strength, determination, and fortitude Blacks exemplified to overcome obstacles, progress toward equity and inclusion, and establish their culture and livelihood into the fabric of Canadian society.

Mackenzie Hall Cultural Centre
3277 Sandwich St. W, Windsor,

​ No admission charge.
Donations are welcome
Exhibit Hours 11 – 4:30pm

For the third year in a row, $118,000 will be awarded to individuals and organizations through the City of Windsor - Municipal Government's ACHF program, helping us to build on Windsor’s proud history of investment in our creative community. The results of the program speak for themselves, with $950,000 in funding awarded to over four hundred and thirty innovative projects since the program launched. The ACHF program is one of many components of Council’s overall significant investment in arts, culture and heritage in Windsor. I look forward to seeing which creators and projects are chosen this time around to help build our City up through creative works and initiatives. To learn more, visit www.ACHFWindsor.ca and https://www.citywindsor.ca/Newsroom/Pages/Arts-Culture-and-Heritage-Fund-ACHF-Grant-Program-Sets-Dates-for-2024-Funding-Rounds.aspx

Blue Rodeo returns in one week! Who's going?

Stop by Mackenzie Hall for your COVID vaccine

Pop Up Vaccination Locations Open At 9:00am Monday The locations of two pop up COVID-19 vaccination clinics were revealed by the Windsor Essex County Health Unit on Monday morning. The clinics are for individuals 18 years of age or older who live or...