Our Music Creation & Community Arts Symposium is coming up this Saturday April 16th, and there is still space. Here’s the exciting program:
12:30 to 1:00 – Arrivals, refreshments (be ready to start promptly at 1:00)
1:00 to 1:20 – Intro. by Jumblies & Raucous Caucus members (Ruth Howard, David Anderson & Anne Barber)
1:20 to 1:40 – Juliet Palmer – presentation on her interdisciplinary/musical projects
2:00 to 3:30 – Composer’s panel: Wende Bartley, Chris Wilson, Martin van de Ven & other music creator’s present, followed by discussion.
3:30 to 3:45 – Break
3:45 to 5:00 – Choice of workshops:
1. Earth Sounding Walk in Cedar Ridge grounds & ravine, with Wende Bartley.
2. Explorations of vocal worlds & music for Jumblies Scarborough Winter’s Tale, with Juliet Palmer.
3. Experimental responses to Jumblies’ Evolving Gallery installation with Martin van de Ven and Chris Wilson.
5:00 to 5:30 – Responses from workshops.
5:30 to 7:00 – Dinner & Informal Conversations
7:00 to 9:00 – Performance Showcase
(with brief artist explanations, questions & answers):
- Presentations from afternoon workshops;
- Eric Schwindt & the Parkdale Singers: performing 4 songs from It Happened In My Apartment (lyrics by Arts4All Participants & Liz Rucker) and Exit Pursued by A Bear (from Jumblies 2010, Like An Old Tale);
- Train Song Ballad, by Scarborough Tamil Seniors, Julia Churchill & Beth Helmers & I Love to Dance, verbatim text by Mabelle senior, Jean Field, set to music and sung by Julia Churchill;
- From their Voices, workshop performance of a commissioned piece by Adam Scime, scored for Solo Singer (Julia Churchill), Cello (Sonya Nanos), Community Voices and Tape;
- Audio recording of Being Margolia, commissioned and performed by the Toronto Children’s Chorus in June 2010, score by Martin van de Ven, libretto by Ruth Howard;
- Screening of Winter Comes & Spring Is Here, by Sean Frey, with original musical soundtrack by Martin van de Ven.
To register or for more info please contact: 416 203 8428 or ruth@jumbliestheatre.org or http://raucouscaucusarts.eventbrite.com.
Download Flyer for more info on this event: Jumblies Music Flyer
