ANNOUNCEMENTS
July 4 - 27, times tba: New Adventures in Sound Art. Sound
Travels Festival
of Sound Art: Resonating Bodies: Bumble Domicile (Pollinator Series).
Mixed
media installation & community outreach project by Sarah Peebles,
which
focuses on biodiversity of pollinators in the natural & urban
ecosystems of
the GTA. New Gallery, 906 Queen St. West. 416-516-7413, www.soundtravels.ca
Free.
July 5 10am-2pm: Organ Festival of
the Grand. Organs
Exposed! See
what’s behind all the whistles & groans in a pipe organ as you get
to
explore their amazing innards. Two locations: St. Andrew’s Presbyterian
Church,
Queen & Weber, Kitchener and St. John the Evangelist
Church, Duke
& Water, Kitchener. 416-743-4362. Free.
July 27 - August 30, Sundays only
(except Saturday
August 30), 2-6pm: New
Adventures in Sound Art. Sound Travels Installations. Sonic portraits of cities
from around the world playing on a multi-channel system; interactive
sound art
greeting cards by Jennifer Schmidt, Colin Asquith & Terry Nauheim;
10th anniversary interactive
edition of the Sound Travels Documents by Stefan & Laura Rose. St.
Andrew
by-the-Lake Church, Toronto Island. 416-516-7413. Recommended admission
$5.
August 6 - 10: Shelburne Rotary
Club. 58th Annual
Canadian Open
Old Time Fiddle Championship. Features top fiddlers in competition,
fiddle workshops,
giant Fiddle Parade featuring the Metropolitan Toronto Police Winged
Wheels,
fiddle jam session, open-air market & more. Centre Dufferin
Recreation
Complex (Shelburne Arena), Shelburne. 519-925-2600 x230, www.shelburnefiddlecontest.on.ca
Event package: $40, $20(12
years
& under); individual prices for single events.
August 8 & 9, 1-6pm: New Adventures in Sound Art. Soundportraits.
Spend one hour with Danish sound artist Jorgen Teller & he will
generate a
sound art piece that is about you. (The best three soundportraits will
be heard
on August 9 in a concert at St. Andrew-by-the-Lake Church.) Toronto
Island,
location TBA. 416-516-7413. Free.
August 8 & 9 at 7:00; August
10 at 1:00: New
Adventures in Sound Art/Canadian Association for Sound Ecology. Sound
Travels Festival of Sound Art:
Improvising Space with Ellen Waterman. Go on a guided SOUNDwalk and
encounter music emanating from unusual locations by Waterman,
Zurawinski, Liu
& Rothschild, Toronto Island along the SOUNDwalk route.
416-516-7413. Free.
August 10 2:00: New Adventures in Sound Art.
Sound
Travels Festival of
Sound Art: Ariadne Calling.
Walk a labyrinthian trail while immersed in an extended
vocal universe composed by Wende Bartley. St. Andrew by-the-Lake
Church,
Toronto Island. 416-516-7413. $5.
August 22 7:00: Toronto
International Film Festival
Group/Royal Academy of Dance. The Turning Point in a Dance Career.
Screening of
Herbert Ross’s The Turning Point, featuring Dame Antoinette Sibley DBE
and
Mikhail Baryshnikov, followed by discussion with Veronica Tennant and
questions
from the audience. Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St.
West. www.cinemathequeontario.ca
$11.56 (non-member); $7.08
(member/st/sr/child).
To
September
1, dates & times tba: New
Adventures in Sound Art. Sound Travels Festival
of Sound Art: SOUNDwalks. The listening “audience” moves through a
place
and the environment “performs”, creating a unique piece that can only
occur
during the time of the walk. Begins at the clock tower near the ferry
docks on
Centre Island. 416-516-7413, www.soundtravels.ca
Free.
To
September
24, Wednesdays at 11am: Toronto
Music Garden. Guided Tours. Explore
seasonal blooms while learning about the garden’s unique design and
history.
45-minute walking tours led by Toronto Botanical garden volunteer
guides. 475
Queens Quay West. Self-guided 70-minute audio tours hosted by Yo-Yo Ma
and
Julie Messervy are also available for a rental fee of $5 at the Marina
Quay
West office, 539 Queens Quay West (daily from 10am to 8pm).
416-973-4000, www.harbourfrontcentre.com
To October 1: New Adventures in Sound Art. Sound
Travels Festival
of Sound Art: Sonic Boardwalk. Outdoor interactive sound sculpture
by
Allik/Mulder which generates a microsound landscape activated by the
kinetic
imprint of passing visitors. Ward Island boardwalk, west end.
416-516-7413, www.soundtravels.ca
Free.
To October 1: New Adventures in Sound Art. Sound
Travels Festival
of Sound Art: Synthecycletron. Outdoor interactive sound sculpture.
Anyone
can generate power for the sculpture by pedaling, which activates
synthesizers
& generates sounds controlled by the participant. Centre Island,
south side
between the Pier & the boardwalk. 416-516-7413, www.soundtravels.ca Free.
LECTURES/SYMPOSIA
August 7 & 8 9am-5pm: Canadian
Electroacoustic
Community/UofT Faculty of Music/New Adventures in Sound Art. 2nd annual Toronto
Electroacoustic Symposium.
Selection of refereed papers & presentations; keynote
lectures by Sound Travels’ composers-in-residence Robert Normandeau,
Jorgen
Teller & Ellen Waterman. Edward Johnson Bldg, 80 Queen’s Park.
416-516-7413. Prices tba.
WORKSHOPS
July 16 7:30: Toronto Shapenote
Singing from Sacred Harp.
Beginners
welcome. Music Room, Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor St. W. (at
Huron).
416- 922-7997 or pleasancecrawford@rogers.com
July 29 8:00: Toronto Folk
Singers’ Club. An informal
group meeting
to perform & exchange songs. Audiences are welcome. Tranzac Club,
292
Brunswick Ave. 416-532-0900.
August 11 -16: CONTACT
contemporary music/University
Settlement Music & Arts School. Music From Scratch. Workshop for
youth 7-25
years. St. George the Martyr Church, 197 John St. 416-598-3444 x243.
Free.
August 20 7:30: Toronto Shapenote
Singing from Sacred Harp.
Beginners
welcome. Music Room, Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor St. W. (at
Huron).
416- 922-7997 or pleasancecrawford@rogers.com
August 26 8:00:
Toronto Folk Singers’ Club. An informal group
meeting to perform & exchange
songs. Audiences welcome. Tranzac Club,
292 Brunswick Ave. 416-532-0900.
