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Monday, May 29, 2023
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Tuesday, May 30, 2023
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023
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Thursday, June 1, 2023
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June 1, 2023 –PORTAL DANCE PRESENTS: THE RETURNED
PORTAL DANCE PRESENTS: THE RETURNED
Part of the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound Featuring music by Ben Grossman and Jeff Bird, The Returned is a new contemporary dance work that seeks to understand the time and place in which we currently live, as well as the time that came before. Portal Dance dancers uncover these “fossil memories” by […]
Friday, June 2, 2023
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June 2, 2023 –YANG CHEN AND GUESTS PRESENTS
YANG CHEN AND GUESTS PRESENTS
Part of the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound longing for _, the debut album of Toronto-based percussionist Yang Chen manages to do the unthinakable: showcase their audacious eclecticism, sharp curatorial sensibility, and exceptional skill all at the same time. As such, Chen is right at home on the celebrated cross-border imprint People Places […]
Saturday, June 3, 2023
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June 3, 2023 –MEDUSA
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June 3, 2023 –MELODY MCKIVER
MEDUSA
Part of the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound Medusa is a unique chamber-folk quartet that blends the Western string quartet (violin, viola and cello), with Polish knee fiddles, Greek lira, and Swedish Nyckelharpa. We intertwine the sounds of Middle Eastern, Scandinavian, Celtic, and Eastern European music to create something entirely new. The instruments […]
MELODY MCKIVER
Part of the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound Melody McKiver is a electro-violist and composer based in Treaty #1, Winnipeg Manitoba. They are an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Music in the Desaultels Faculty of Music at the University of Manitoba, and a member of Obishikokaang First Nation in neighbouring Treaty #3. Quoted by […]
Sunday, June 4, 2023
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June 4, 2023 –COUNTERSTASIS TRIO WITH SPECIAL GUEST KATHRYN LADANO
COUNTERSTASIS TRIO WITH SPECIAL GUEST KATHRYN LADANO
Part of the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound Counterstasis is a collaborative improvisation trio formed in 2016, featuring Glen Hall (woodwinds, electroacoustics), Bill Gilliam (piano, prepared piano) and Joe Sorbara (drums, percussion). We work to counter stasis, to foster change, to create a music in which our individual voices can be refracted through […]