events


Nov
7
to Nov 10

…And The Lord Hath Taken Away

  • 918 Bathurst Street Toronto, ON, M5R 3G5 Canada (map)
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Join the Toronto-based orchestra The Holy Gasp for "...and the Lord Hath Taken Away" Live in Concert with performances from 7-10 November. Experience The Holy Gasp's newest composition "...and the Lord Hath Taken Away," an orchestral mediation on meaning-making in the face of grief, death, loss, and the Book of Job fully realized with a 45-piece orchestral ensemble, immersive theatrical performers, and live puppetry in the intimate Sanctuary at 918 Bathurst. In keeping with the themes of the performance, funeral dress is encouraged.

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Oct
26

coexisDance

  • Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre (map)
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Coexisdance is a curated evening of short (10-15 minute) improvised duets and small ensembles comprised of sound and movement artists.

​We come together in the spirit of collaborative exploration, investigation and adventure.

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Oct
24

Kamra - Shift Circuit

Kamra’s debut album Shift Circuit is a contemporary take on Chitlin' Circuits for and by Black queer musicians from the 1930s through the 1960s. On the album Kamra sings a gossamer-like version of the kind of gutter blues that would make any audience member blush.

Loosely packed with plucky textures and angelic yet brooding scoring, the goal of this record is to make each fan's spirit turn crimson. An erotic androgynous blizzard of lush noise, Kamra’s album travels to unexpected places met by joy and comfort upon arrival.

Kamra’s album tour includes a performance of their album with a live band at the Tranzac Club.

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Oct
11

Yvern

  • Maison de la Culture - Pointes Aux Trembles (map)
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Alarmé(e)s par la disparition graduelle de l’hiver, due aux changements climatiques, les artistes proposent une oeuvre musicale et théâtrale, entre poésie et humour déjanté, où est sublimée notre appartenance culturelle à l’hiver et à la nature québécoise. Présenté à la suite d’une résidence de création à la maison de la culture de Pointe-aux-Trembles et dans le cadre de la série Éco-Culture.

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Sep
15

Cris Derksen at UpFRONT Festival

The UpFRONT Festival is a weekend-long celebration of Indigenous talent from across Turtle Island and beyond. Featuring three days of extraordinary music, comedy, puppetry, free workshops, and more, right in the heart of Tkaronto. With performances by William Prince, Drezus, Cris Derksen, Shawnee Kish, Semiah, and more.

I’ll be backing up Cris Derksen’s band on drums playing her original compositions!

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Sep
14

Labyrinth Ensemble at Guelph Jazz Festival

The Labyrinth Ensemble is dedicated to experimenting with and promoting modal music traditions of Central, West, and South Asia, and the Mediterranean. Ensemble members are engaged with multiple musical traditions, aiming to explore unlimited possibilities for creation and collaboration. Through Labyrinth, musicians are trained to appreciate the particularities of makam music without compromise. The Ensemble part takes in two residencies a year with various international guest artists, such as Güzin Değişmez and Evgenios Voulgaris.

The Labyrinth Ensemble will feature the following configuration at Guelph Jazz Festial: Yang Chen, Sadaf Amini, Roa Lee, Naomi McCarroll-Butler, Araz Salek, and Sasan Salaseli.

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Mar
8

BIG BANG - Women From Space Festival

Women From Space Big Bang! Plays Björk. 17 piece, all-star improvising band with live visuals by The Liquid Crystal Display

Featuring arrangements by Jessica Ackerley ★ Mingjia Chen ★ Lieke Van Der Voort ★ Madeleine Ertel ★ Nicole Rampersaud ★ Heather Saumer

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Feb
17

Pantayo

Kulintang with a twist at BIG BANG

This performance is part of the BIG BANG Festival, two days “musicolourful” fun. At the NAC, Saturday and Sunday, February 17 and 18, 2024. Performance takes place on the Fourth Stage.

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Feb
16

Tiger Balme - ROM After Dark

Celebrate the Lunar New Year and Valentine’s Day at RAD: Lunar Love—a night of dragon dances, floor-shaking DJ sets, Instagram-worthy photo ops, and so much more.

Tiger Balme: Rich with honeyed harmonies and shimmering harps, Tiger Balme makes sumptuous bedroom pop for the soundtrack of your life.  

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Jan
18
to Jan 25

Fawn Opera: Belladonna

This opera-in-concert will be the culmination of a week of collective creation when FAWN and a team of artists will come together to co-compose a graphic score for Belladonna, a queer techno-opera by librettist Gareth Mattey. During this week, FAWN and the Belladonna team will explore group composition techniques for opera, and document it as a graphic score. We expect the piece to be 45-60 minutes in length and a process discussion will follow to share the discoveries made by the team about how they approached working in this way as well as the piece itself.

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Dec
8

RAW Taiko: h o m e

h o m e is RAW Taiko's fourth theatre production and celebrates our 25th anniversary of drumming as a transformative arts practice. Featuring traditional taiko, original compositions by RAW Taiko members, and the premiere of a new collaboration with Kyoko Ogoda (KingsDon Taiko)

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Oct
13

Tiger Balme x RAW: Composition Showcase

Tiger Balme is wrapping up their artist residency at Studio RAW! Their goal for this residency was to write an EP’s worth of new music. Join us on October 13th to hear them perform four songs in progress and share about how each song came to life. RAW members will also share some new pieces and reflections on the composition process.

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Oct
6

Songwriting: A Tigers’ Process

Members of Tiger Balme will each present their individual songwriting process as developed during their residency period at Studio RAW. Participants will be led through songwriting exercises generated from each band member's personal writing process. The purpose of this workshop is to offer multiple entryways into songwriting with an emphasis on exploration and wordplay. No prior songwriting experience is necessary, only curiosity and a sense of play :)

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Oct
3
to Nov 7

RAW Taiko: Beta-Style Taiko Intermediate Course

Beta style taiko drumming involves playing the drum flat and upright, with the head of the drum parallel to the ground.

This course series builds on the skills and knowledge from Beginner Taiko - Beta Style. It is recommended to have taken at least one class previously. We will be building on the skills and knowledge developed in Beta Fundamentals to learn a longer song with many different parts.

Space is limited to 13 participants. Workshops open to all (all genders, non-Asian) unless otherwise stated. Bachi are available for purchase for $25.

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Sep
29

Tiger Balme at Highlands Festival

Founded by its 9-person Co-Creator-Team, Highlands is a three- night Folk Music getaway celebrating the musical talent of many youthful Folk (and Folk’ish!) performances on its 3 stage setup at Camp Walden this September 28 - October 1.

“The times are changin’ again, and we think young people are worth listening to. Won’t you join us?”

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Jul
19

The Black Fish Project

Composed in 2019 by JUNO-nominated composer, Keyan Emami, The Black Fish Project is a three-movement composition scored for narrator, chamber ensemble, and electronics. While the music loosely corresponds to the Persian children’s book, The Little Black Fish, this musical adaptation interweaves the personal life experiences of the composer into the story of the black fish to create a highly personal account of the scaly protagonist’s journey from the little pond to the open sea.

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Jul
14
to Jul 23

Theatre out of the Shadows - Shadowpath Theatre

Theatre Out Of The Shadows

The Plays: Sappho Fragmented by Sappho, directed by Alex Karolyi, Okuni Through The Misty Clouds by Mei Miyazawa and Airi Okamoto (based on Izumo no Okuni’s Kabuki), Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters, by Gertrude Stein, directed by Maissa Bessada

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Jul
4
to Jul 20

Intermediate Beta Taiko Class

Faster paced taiko lessons with less focus on form. It is recommended to have taken at least one beta class previously. We will be building on the skills and knowledge developed in Beta Fundamentals to learn a longer song with many different parts.

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