Posts Tagged ‘Music’

Songs of the False Creek Flats


Date: November 23, 2011, 8pm
Location: SFU Woodwards, World Art Centre
Website: www.theatrereplacement.org; www.vedahille.com

SFU and Theatre Replacement are pleased to present a performance of a new song cycle by Veda Hille, accompanied by a visual narrative by Annabel Vaughan. In honour of the City’s 125th birthday, the work will animate a vast area of the city that currently lies dormant – the False Creek Flats.

Annabel Vaughan is an intern architect and city thinker. Veda Hille is a musician and city singer. Together they turn their attention to the False Creek Flats, to create an evening of song, stories, and thought. Looking at both the history and mythology of the Flats, Annabel and Veda will present a view of the area. The audience will be given an artist-drawn map of False Creek at the end of the night, so that they can take themselves on a self-directed walk and see this part of the city from a new perspective.

$20 – tickets on-line and at the door: https://www.2mevents.com/index.php/event/songs-of-the-false-creek-flats/store
SFU students by donation

With support from the City of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary Grants Program and the participation of the Government of Canada.

Shadow Catch

Date: December 2 – 4, 2011
Location: Firehall Centre for the Arts
Website: www.vancouverpromusica.ca and www.tomoearts.org

Shadow Catch is a Japanese Noh-influenced, brand new chamber opera that weaves together four stories from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Rich with local history and haunting characters, this riveting tale features an original libretto by celebrated Vancouver poet Daphne Marlatt, an evocative score by four Vancouver composers – Dorothy Chang, Jennifer Butler, Farshid Samandari, and Benton Roark, music direction by Marguerite Witvoet, and stage direction by Asian theatre specialist Colleen Lanki. Shadow Catch tells the story of a young runaway newly arrived in Vancouver who spends the night in Oppenheimer Park—and the four spirits who appear to him in his dreams to recount aspects of the dynamic pre-war history of the Powell Street neighbourhood.

Shadow Catch Promotional Video from Benton Roark on Vimeo.

With support from the City of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary Grants Program and the participation of the Government of Canada.

Vertical Orchestra 2011

Vertical Orchestra

Date: November 5, 2011
Location: Downtown Vancouver Public Library Atrium
Website: www.redshiftmusic.org

As part of the City of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary Celebration, and in partnership with the Vancouver Public Library, Redshift presents Vertical Orchestra 2011 with the Vancouver Bach Choir. This is a free public event.

In keeping with the city’s anniversary celebrations, the theme for this year’s event is UTOPIA. Five Vancouver composers – Kristopher Fulton, Christopher Kovarik, Jacqueline Leggatt, Jordan Nobles and Jeffrey Ryan – will explore texts that reflect on our potential as a civilization to embrace cultural diversity and to better understand our environment. With this spirit in mind, the combined forces of the Vancouver Bach Choir, the Negative Zed Ensemble and the Vancouver Public Library are a manifestation of civic cultural fraternity: a multi-ethnic and multi-generational living tapestry comprised of nearly 200 musicians — the largest forces ever to be employed for a Vertical Orchestra event.

With support from the City of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary Grants Program and the participation of the Government of Canada.