918 Bathurst

DESIFEST Presents: Art of Music: Reimagine Classical Music
2021-12-18 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | 918 Bathurst: Culture, Arts, Media & Education, 918 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON, M5R 3G5, Canada
Join us for Art of Music – reIMAGINE: Classical Music!
Produced by: Desifest
Funded by: Factor
The first in its series, this intimate concert event will be a unique, multi-disciplinary experience as we reIMAGINE South Asian classical music through multimedia, live performance and audience participation.
Be part of the musical journey presenting traditional classical compositions, infused and invigorated with experimental influences, and sing along to your favourite classical Bollywood numbers. A talented lineup of artists from around the world come together on stage including Santosh Naidu, Hasheel Lodhia, Pratik Rao, Puja Thaker, Ramona Sylvan, Nathan Khan, Ian De Souza, Anton Apostol and Shivani Patel.
Tickets include a pre-packaged snack and drink.

Proof of Vaccination + Photo ID will be required to enter the premises, and temperature check will be taken at the door.
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Emergents & You In Mind I: Parallel Playground
2021-12-16 18:30 - 22:00
Curated by Unit 2, night three is a collection of experimental performances exploring noise, improvisation and different textures of sound. Featuring performances by Sa.resi, Deidre, and Vixu, Parallel Playfields aims to offer a new perspective on the landscape of contemporary experimental music.

The evening includes a pre-performance discussion, facilitated by Sameen and including all performers, with a focus on the creative process, the present culture of experimental music and the ways in which it can evolve.

This event is a collaboration between Unit 2, Emergents, and You In Mind, a new 5-part series by the Music Gallery dedicated to artists whose projects or organizations are not supported by public funding or otherwise do not have the means to present in venues of our scale.

EMERGENTS I: Skin Tone and Stephanie Castonguay
2021-12-15 19:30 - 22:00
Night two of Possible Worlds is a concert diving into hacking, breaking and reinventing. Stephanie Castonguay opens the night with her self-built light-scanner instruments in a reflective audio/visual set, co-presented with artist-run centre PIX FILM. Followed by a performance by Skin Tone (James Goddard), who uses voice, saxophone, mbira, and electronics to lean into the beauty and clarity of distortion.

Part of the Emergents series, curated by Sara Constant.

Stephanie’s performance was developed as part of PIX FILM’s studio immersion program, with support from The Petman Foundation.

Emergents I: Community Sound featuring Naomi McCarroll-Butler
2021-12-14 18:00 - 21:00
The Music Gallery is pleased to present EMERGENTS I, a 4-part series entitled Possible Worlds December 14-17. The events are dedicated to the notion of musical world-building, participating artists are encouraged to explore and improvise with instruments and experiment with collaborative performances.

Night one is a workshop led by saxophonist, clarinetist, instrument maker, and MG family member Naomi McCarroll-Butler, who will be leading us through a series of guided improvisations using graphic scores and conduction. Aimed at community members and early-career artists interested in exploring collective music-making, this will be a space for people with different artistic interests and backgrounds to meet, speak and create together.

All levels and forms of musical experience are encouraged, and knowledge of musical notation is not required. There will be space to participate or to observe, and sound making objects will be provided onsite. If you play an instrument, bring it!

Amici Chamber Ensemble Presents: Ritorna
2021-12-05 17:00
Amici Ritorna features Amici’s original trio: clarinet, cello and piano. Three outstanding musicians, and three monumental chamber works featuring the inimitable Joaquin Valdepeñas, David Hetherington and Serouj Kradjian. This intimate concert will be presented at Bathurst 918 Centre for a limited audience.
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Program:
Max Bruch – Eight Pieces Op. 83 for clarinet, cello and pinao
Nino Rota – Trio (1973) for clarinet, cello and piano
Ludwig Van Beethoven – Trio in B flat op. 11 for clarinet, cello and piano
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Amici Chamber Ensemble:
Considered one of the most distinguished clarinetists of his generation, Toronto Symphony Orchestra Principal Clarinetist Joaquin Valdepeñas makes appearances as a soloist, chamber musician and conductor, at festivals & concert series throughout the world. A prolific recording artist, he is a two-time Juno award winner and GRAMMY®-award nominee.
David Hetherington, for years the assistant principal cellist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, performs regularly as a chamber musician as well as working frequently with contemporary music ensembles such as New Music Concerts and Soundstreams Canada. Mr. Hetherington plays his 1695 cello made by Giovanni Grancino of Milan “with rare delicacy and clarity”.
Juno-winning and Grammy-nominated pianist and composer Serouj Kradjian is hailed as a “keyboard acrobat” of “crystal virtuosity” by the press. He has established himself as a versatile artist whose readiness to break boundaries and explore different styles has made him an exciting voice on the international music scene. He is regularly invited to appear as soloist and chamber musician in North America and Europe.

The Music Gallery Presents AWAKE: featuring Joseph Shabason, Emissive and screening of Lucy Cameron Doc
2021-12-04 19:30
The Music Gallery is pleased to present AWAKE, a night dedicated to the delicate dance between daydreams and insomnia with:
Joseph Shabason (supported by: Thom Gill, Bram Gielen, Hugh Marsh, Phil Melanson and Nicole Rampersaud)
Emissive
Lucy Cameron

AWAKE explores the contrast between the beauty your eyes consume in the day, and the struggle in closing them at night.
The night begins with the documentary short, AWAKE, by Lucy Cameron. Emissive will provide live ambient electronic composition dedicated to insomnia following the screening.

Headlining is Joseph Shabason, Canadian multi-instrumentalist and composer, best known for playing the saxophone and member of bands such as DIANA, Destroyer and The War on Drugs. As a solo project, he has released experimental ambient jazz albums under his own name. For this special performance, he will be accompanied by his composed band of highly acclaimed musicians (Thom Gill, Bram Gielen, Hugh Marsh, Phil Melanson and Nicole Rampersaud) improvising their daydreams.

The Music Gallery Presents: Fusion Point: Sixtrum and Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan, night 1 & 2
2021-11-27 20:00 - 2021-11-28 17:00
A fusion point is the point of equilibrium between two states, liquid and solid. From this point, anything is possible. Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan and Sixtrum join forces for the first time to explore the fusion point between the instruments of Indonesian gamelan and classical percussion instruments, between the sounds of metal, wood and skins. On stage in this spectacular concert, 14 experienced musicians become 14 alchemists in pursuit of an unedited sonic fusion, premiering four new works commissioned for this project by Mark Duggan (orchestration of a work by Alain Thibault), Chris Paul Harman, Melissa Hui and Alithéa Ripoli. As a special feature ECCG will première a collaboration with Wisnu Wicaksono. For the first time in Canada, Javanese dance will be combined on stage with ECCG’s Sundanese gamelan degung. Wisnu is an acclaimed dancer from Central Java, Indonesia known for his adventurous mashups of classical Javanese royal court dance and hip hop styles.

Lou Harrison – Ibu Trish (1987), arr. ECCG with dance by Wisnu Wicaksono (2021)
Melissa Hui – Retak (2021)
Alithéa Ripoll – Kālī (2021)
Chris Paul Harman – When time turns around (2021)
Marc Duggan – La machinerie de l’angoisse (2021), arr. of L’angoisse des machines (1989) by Alain Thibault

SIXTRUM- Kristie Ibrahim, João Catalão, Olivier Tremblay-Noël, Julien Grégoire, Fabrice Marandola
EVERGREEN CLUB CONTEMPORARY GAMELAN- Blair Mackay (artistic director), Bill Parsons, Andrew Timar (suling), Mark Duggan, Chris Hull, Nathan Petitpas, Jonny Smith, Daniel Morphy
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COVID POLICY
All of our events will be reduced capacity. Masks will be required to be worn at all times unless explicitly mentioned otherwise. Following government mandating, we will update information around vaccine passports on September 22. For our full policy, click here.
SAFER SPACE
We expect all attendees and community members to respect one another, and to respect the work that was created for you to explore. We will not tolerate harm or harmful behaviour of any kind. For our full policy, click here. 918 Bathurst is not currently wheelchair accessible due to stairs (two half-flights to enter the performance space, and one flight to access the washrooms).

Wavelength Presents: Marker Starling, Nina Savary, Animatist
2021-11-20 19:00 - 23:00
“Novembre en Wavelength”
Wavelength Monthly Music Series
November 2021
In partnership with Slaight Music
With the support of the French Consulate in Toronto
Featuring Tin Angel Records artists:
Marker Starling (Toronto / Stereolab collaborator)
Nina Savary (virtual set from France)
Animatist (Toronto)
Projections by General Chaos Visuals
Decor by Roxanne Ignatius
Art by Stephanie Avery
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Saturday November 20, 2021
@ 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media & Education
918 Bathurst St., Toronto
Doors 7pm, over by 11pm
$15 advance at ShowClix.com
Ticket Link: https://bit.ly/WLmarkerstarling
All Ages / Licensed
SEATED SHOW!
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COVID Protocols:
Your safety is our primary concern. We will have a maximum of 80 tickets on sale. Seating will be accommodated at separate tables. Audience members aged two and older are required to always wear face coverings while on 918 Bathurst property, except when actively eating and drinking in their seats. Contact tracing forms and COVID questionnaires will be available at the door. Proof of vaccination is required to enter.
Accessibility: 918 Bathurst is not currently wheelchair accessible due to stairs (two half-flights to enter the performance space, and one flight to access the washrooms). For all other accessibility requests, please contact us at info@wavelengthmusic.ca
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Wavelength’s series of intimate, seated concerts at the gorgeous, reverberant 918 Bathurst Centre continues this fall, with a transatlantic link-up between two iconoclastic art-pop singer-songwriters: Toronto’s Marker Starling and France’s Nina Savary. Not only do both artists record for UK indie label Tin Angel Records, but Nina Savary’s 2020 debut single for the imprint, “Second Guessing,” was a Marker Starling cover.
A veteran of the Toronto music scene who performed for years under the name Mantler – and who first played the Wavelength series 20 years ago, during our early days at Ted’s Wrecking Yard (RIP) – Chris Cummings aka Marker Starling has had an increasingly international profile in recent years. Since signing with Tin Angel in 2010, Cummings has released six albums of increasingly joyous yet still introspective soft-rock. His 2020 LP High January saw him collaborate with two veterans of the British music scene: producer Sean O’Hagan of The High Llamas, and vocalist Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab, who guested on two songs. Despite the album’s title, High January has a carefree, summery pure-pop vibe throughout.
Bringing the “hybrid” edge to modern-day performance is French multidisciplinary artist Nina Savary, who will present a virtual set that will be projected digitally at the venue as well as on Wavelength’s YouTube channel. Presented with the support of the French Consulate in Toronto and recorded at a country house in the South of France, this performance will pair magically with the shimmering atmosphere of Savary’s Franco-pop recordings for Tin Angel.
Additional special guests will be announced at a later date, and the evening will also feature the trademark psychedelic projections of Wavelength’s in-house lighting artist, General Chaos Visuals.
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About the artists:
After recording and performing for many years as Mantler, Toronto’s Chris A. Cummings renamed himself Marker Starling in 2012. A solo performer for much of his career, Cummings became known for his signature melancholy style, using a Wurltizer electric piano, with drum machine accompaniment.
After a longtime association with Germany’s Tomlab label, Cummings began working with Tin Angel Records in 2010, when they co-released his fourth album Monody and fifth album Rosy Maze to great acclaim in 2015. Since then, Tin Angel have released four more Marker Starling records: I’m Willing (2016), Anchors and Ampersands (2017), Trust an Amateur (2018), and High January (2020), recorded in the UK and produced by Sean O’Hagan (The High Llamas, Stereolab). Tin Angel will release the upcoming Diamond Violence in 2022.
Cummings has collaborated with the German band Von Spar, contributing vocals and lyrics to their albums Streetlife (2014) and Under Pressure (2019). “Deep Background,” a song he wrote for Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier appeared on Find Me Finding You (2017) and the French-British vocalist guested on his 2020 single, “Waiting for Grace.” His music is also released on 7e.p. Records in Japan, where he also performed the singing voice of the character Desmond in the popular anime Carole and Tuesday (2019).
French multidisciplinary artist Nina Savary was born into the world of entertainment, taking to performing like a duck out of water, brought up backstage, behind the scenes of theatres across Europe. Making her debut to the stage at the mere age of four years old at La Scala in Milan, touring with her parents’ (Jérôme Savary) explosive and free theatre company Grand Magic Circus. Now an adult, Nina is a renowned performer; a singer, dancer and actress, she has been involved in many artistic projects such as musicals, opera as well as collaborating with musicians such as Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier and Julien Gasc, Eddy Crampes, Marker Starling, and her partner Astrobal, aka Emmanuel Mario, a producer, arranger and composer with whom she collaborates for the band Institut and the project Vivre!.
After the single “Second Guessing” composed by the wonderful Marker Starling, Nina’s first solo album Next Level Soap Opera will be released September 24th on Tin Angel Records. The best advice one could give a happy wanderer to pinpoint Nina Savary’s universe on a map would be to proceed by elimination. Look for where she is not rather than where she actually is; for her place of residency is in the exact opposite direction of the current state of emergency. And omitting to indulge in a tired eulogy for idleness, sloth or rest, we can be sure that the French singer, dancer and actress diligently steers clear from the pangs of chaos.
Animatist is a four piece experimental rock band from Toronto, Ontario led by guitarist Brent O’Toole. The rhythm section, comprised of Steve Cook on bass and Ian Hinds on drums, form the driving foundation of the band’s powerful sound. The picture is completed by the angular melodies and ambient textures of saxophonist and synth player, Danielle Fernandes. Together they perform rhythmically deft compositions that evoke equal parts math, post, and progressive rock. Animatist has toured Ontario and Quebec, sharing the stage with artists including Fet.Nat, ART the Band, and Peripheral Vision. They’ve also performed for the Guelph Jazz Festival, Rock the Coliseum, Kazoo! Guelph and Festival Lingua Franca.
Throughout 2019 Animatist debuted new material woven into gapless sets that were equally energetic and mesmerizing. It was through perfecting their mind altering live performances that they developed the concepts and songs that would eventually become their sophomore release, ‘INVERTED’. Releasing on July 3rd, 2020 on Glue Gun Records, this album continues to explore the polyrhythmic textures, dark atmospheres and progressive compositions they’ve come to be known for.

The Solidaridad Strings, with Heyni Solera and Valeria Matzner
2021-11-14 16:00 - 18:00
An afternoon of contemporary tango from Buenos Aires to Toronto, featuring the Solidaridad Strings, with Heyni Solera and Valeria Matzner.

About this event

Join the Solidaridad Strings for a special afternoon of tango for string orchestra featuring new music by contemporary Argentinian and Canadian composers. We will feature special performances by the renowned bandoneonist, Heyni Solera, and Toronto’s own Latin Jazz star, Valeria Matzner.
Solidaridad Tango is the only all-woman, diversity-affirming tango ensemble in North America. We invite you to be part of a journey that celebrates the talents of women, and fosters diversity and equity in the arts.
Seating is on a first-come-first-served basis. This event adheres to Ontario COVID 19 regulations. Proof of vaccination, physical distancing, and masks required. Please arrive 30 minutes early to complete COVID 19 Health Screening.

AMICI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE PRESENTS AMERICAN BERSERK
2021-10-26 16:00
American Berserk celebrates the composers who changed the face of American music: the “American Original” Charles Ives, TJ Anderson and Pulitzer prize-winners John Adams and John Corigliano. Featuring guest artists Jonathan Crow, Katya Poplyansky and Alejandro Valdepeñas. This intimate concert will be presented at Bathurst 918 Centre for a limited audience.
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Program:
John Adams – Gnarly Buttons for clarinet & piano
TJ Anderson – Spirit Songs for cello and piano
John Adams – John’s Alleged Book of Dances for String Quartet
John Corigliano – Soliloquy for clarinet and strings
Charles Ives – Largo
John Corigliano – The Red Violin
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Special Guests:
Jonathan Crow
Katya Poplyansky
Alejandro Valdepeñas
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Amici Chamber Ensemble:
Considered one of the most distinguished clarinetists of his generation, Toronto Symphony Orchestra Principal Clarinetist Joaquin Valdepeñas makes appearances as a soloist, chamber musician and conductor, at festivals & concert series throughout the world. A prolific recording artist, he is a two-time Juno award winner and GRAMMY®-award nominee.
David Hetherington, for years the assistant principal cellist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, performs regularly as a chamber musician as well as working frequently with contemporary music ensembles such as New Music Concerts and Soundstreams Canada. Mr. Hetherington plays his 1695 cello made by Giovanni Grancino of Milan “with rare delicacy and clarity”.
Juno-winning and Grammy-nominated pianist and composer Serouj Kradjian is hailed as a “keyboard acrobat” of “crystal virtuosity” by the press. He has established himself as a versatile artist whose readiness to break boundaries and explore different styles has made him an exciting voice on the international music scene. He is regularly invited to appear as soloist and chamber musician in North America and Europe.

Wavelength Presents: Bodywash + Polite Society
2021-10-23 19:00 - 23:00
“Welcome Back, Shows!”
Wavelength Monthly Music Series – October 2021
In partnership with Slaight Music
Featuring:
Bodywash (Montreal)
Polite Society (fka Hollow Earth)
Projections by General Chaos Visuals
Decor by Roxanne Ignatius
Art by Stephanie Avery
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Saturday October 23, 2021
@ 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media & Education
918 Bathurst St., Toronto
Doors 7pm, over by 11pm
$15 advance at ShowClix.com
Ticket Link: https://bit.ly/WLbodywash
All Ages / Licensed
SEATED SHOW!
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COVID Protocols:
Your safety is our primary concern. We will have a maximum of 80 tickets on sale. Seating will be accommodated at separate tables. Audience members aged two and older are required to always wear face coverings while on 918 Bathurst property, except when actively eating and drinking in their seats. Proof of full vaccination minimum 2 weeks prior to event is required to enter.

Accessibility: 918 Bathurst is not currently wheelchair accessible due to stairs (two half-flights to enter the performance space, and one flight to access the washrooms). For all other accessibility requests, please contact us at info@wavelengthmusic.ca
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“Welcome Back, Shows!” – Wavelength’s first monthly concert of fall 2021 marks our series’ return to in-person, indoor shows. The first of two intimate, seated concerts at the gorgeous, reverberant 918 Bathurst Centre will also see the series return to the sounds of its early years, with a lineup spanning genres like shoegaze, psych-rock and dream-pop.
Fresh off an appearance at this fall’s POP Montreal festival, Montreal neo-shoegaze duo Bodywash return to Toronto for their first in-person show since the pandemic shut down all live performances, just a few months after the release of their critically acclaimed debut album, 2019’s Comforter. Like fellow Montrealers Braids, who contributed mixing-board wisdom to Comforter, Bodywash bring a fresh 21st century perspective to the edgy ambience of the 1990s.
With a lineup including some Toronto indie/psych scene veterans, Polite Society also make their return to the stage for the band’s first concert since the release of their self-titled debut album, on vinyl via UK label Spiral Void.
And a Wavelength show wouldn’t be the same without the trippy visuals of the series’ long-time in-house projection artist, General Chaos Visuals, whose colourful visuals will fill the former Buddhist temple that houses the 918 Bathurst Centre.
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About the artists:
Bodywash was formed in 2014 when Chris Steward and Rosie Long Decter began jamming in a basement rehearsal room at McGill University in Montreal. Bonding over a shared affection for shoegaze and dream-pop, the two found an immediate chemistry. When it came time to make a full-length album, Bodywash enlisted Nigel Ward to record the LP. The album Comforter was mixed by Taylor Smith and Austin Tufts of the band Braids, and was mastered by Evan Tighe. The result is the perfect insomniac’s record, a late-night album of emotional extremes, from the enveloping warmth of shoegaze to the stark electronics of ‘90s trip-hop and IDM. Guitars blur in and out, melodies vanish and appear, synths blinking like lights in a fog. It’s an album of obsessive detail buried in a blur of reverb. It draws you in and pushes you away in equal measure.
Polite Society is a Canadian foursome comprised of psych and avant-rock devotees whose collaborations likely yield the expected and unexpected (but always polite) results. Their name is purely coincidental to the present utopian state of the world.
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Poster design by Juliana Carlevaris

Dennis Kwok Jazz Orchestra "Windward Bound" CD Release
2020-03-29 20:00 - 23:00
A TD Discovery Series Project
(thanks Toronto Jazz Festival!)
Join the Dennis Kwok Jazz Orchestra in celebrating the release of their debut album, “Windward Bound”, as well as the world premiere performance of the “Vija Celmins Suite” for chamber orchestra and jazz ensemble by Toronto-based saxophonist and composer Brenden Varty.
$20 general
$15 students/seniors/arts workers
Advanced tickets include a CD
https://dkjo.brownpapertickets.com
Doors 7:30pm, Music starts 8pm
The Dennis Kwok Jazz Orchestra (DKJO) is a Toronto-based contemporary big band committed to the creation, performance, and showcase of new works composed by the next generation of artists. The group is led by and comprises of 19 of the finest performers, composers and arrangers under 35 in Southern Ontario. Formed in early 2017, DKJO has since developed a repertoire of over 20 original works from within the band and has performed in many of Toronto’s iconic venues including Lula Lounge, Gallery 345 and Burdock. They have also made appearances at the Toronto Undergraduate Jazz Festival as well as had collaborations with JUNO award winners, Allison Au, and Alex Dean.
www.denniskwok.ca
DKJO is:
Dennis Kwok – compositions, woodwind soloist
-Caity Gyorgy – vocals
Reeds:
-Naomi McCarroll-Butler
-Sophia Smith
-Brenden Varty
-Kyle Tarder-Stoll
-Jonathan Lau
Trumpets:
-Megan Jutting – Trumpet
-Alexei Ozerov
-Paul Callander
-Marie Goudy
Trombones:
-Nick Marshall
-Andrew Gormley
-Charlotte McAfee-Brunner
-Inayat Kassam
Rhythm:
-Jay Yoo
-Augustine Yates
-Jonathan Wielebnowski
-Jacob Wutzke

The evening will be opened by the world premiere performance of a new original work for chamber orchestra and jazz rhythm by Toronto-based saxophonist and composer Brenden Varty.
Brenden Varty is a Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist and composer originally from Oshawa, Ontario. He graduated from Humber College with a Bachelor of Music (Honours) in 2016 and is currently in the Master of Music Performance program at the University of Toronto. His arrangements and compositions, drawing heavily from both Western art music as well as jazz, have been performed publicly at such venues as the Canadian Opera Centre, The Rex, The Burdock, Lula Lounge, and Humber College.
Brenden has released an EP including his original compositions and arrangements entitled Cloudstream, and is currently working on a second EP of his compositions. In addition to these, he can be found on numerous releases headed by his peers that span genres from jazz to funk to spiritual.

Collage Workshop with Danielle Cole
2020-03-26 19:00 - 21:00
This is a hands-on workshop where you will be shown strategies for creating collages that are seamlessly built. We will go beyond the glue stick, learning techniques for gluing fine and large pieces of collage without causing the material to bubble or tear. Danielle Cole will help you work towards creating a unique piece of art to take home at the end of the evening made from original vintage magazines and books from the 1940s to 1990s.
RSVP Here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/collage-workshop-with-danielle-cole-tickets-90474807585

The Music Gallery Presents: Phth + xLq
2020-03-14 19:30 - 23:00
The Music Gallery presents
Phth + xLq
$18 Regular / $13 Advance / $10 Member/Students
Doors 7:30PM / Concert 8PM
Adventurous new Montreal-based vocal collective Phth (Sarah Albu, David Cronkite, Gabriel Dharmoo, Kathy Kennedy, Elizabeth Lima, Vahram Sarkissian and Andrea Young) brings its mind-bending fusion of improvisation, co-composition and new music interpretation to The Music Gallery. The ensemble features some of the most adventurous vocalists in Canadian contemporary music with practices spanning from extended voice to noise, early music and experimental theatre. The group will present their daring interpretation of Claude Vivier’s “Love Songs” and other works.
For this performance, they invite local emerging pop-art duo xLq as a guest performer.

meta.ksi Presents: Muted Blast (.2)
2020-03-12 19:00 - 23:00
meta.ksi, a collective of composer, artist, and design-curators based between the United States and Greece, presents “Muted Blast (.2)”, for 4 musicians and live electronics. Compositions and sound installations by meta.ksi and affiliated composers are performed in dialogue with poetry responding to austerity measures, and post-crisis Greece. The program explores elements of prepared acoustic instruments, video, and machine learning. Pre and post concert, there is an experimental score exhibition, alongside fixed electronic pieces.

Women From Space Festival 2020 at 918 Bathurst
2020-03-08 19:00 - 23:30
Women From Space Festival is back this March 2020 with another fantastic line-up featuring both local, national, and international artists!
Sunday March 8, 2020 @ 918 Bathurst St.
8pm: Elizabeth Lima & Meghan Cheng
8:20pm: Sahara Morimoto & Raphael Roter
8:45pm: Heather Saumer featuring Felicity Williams, Alex Samaras, Thom Gill & Robin Dann
9:45pm: Bea Labikova, William Parker & Germaine Liu
10:30pm: Kris Davis & Ingrid Laubrock
For information regarding the festival, including artists bios, pricing, and venue details, please visit their new beautiful website: womenfromspace.com
Festival pass – 4 nights: $32 (advance) $35 (door) $32 (students/seniors)
One-night pass: $12 (advance) $15 (door) $12 (students/seniors)
For advance ticket sales, please visit:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-from-space-festival-2020-tickets-85316553107

BAM - Books , Art , Music - collective Presents: Climate Change and Art
2020-03-07 17:00 - 19:00
The world needs leadership on Climate Change and the Youth are stepping up to connect, perform and take actions for social change. Secure your seat at this unique event.
March 7th, 2020 is your day to share your thoughts on Climate change, to propose your solutions while participating in a Mosaic workshop led by an art educator, to enjoy live performances by young talented musicians, poets, and photographers. This event was organized for you to meet and support artists from different backgrounds, to connect with climate change leaders to grow your network, to have fun and lead.
Event Agenda:
5:00 – 5:10 PM Opening introduction
5:10- 5:30 PM Mosaic workshop
5:30- 6:00 PM Live performances
6:00 – 6:15 PM Silent Auction
6:15 – 7:00 PM Artists’ booths / Networking
Snacks will be provided if you have any questions or concerns feel free to email bamcollective2018@gmail.com.

R.I.S.E. Thursdays - March 2020 Edition
2020-03-05 18:00 - 23:00
From their weekly open mic showcases in Scarborough to a newly curated monthly showcases in the Annex. Please join RISE in their new cornerstone to Reaching Intelligent Souls Everywhere (RISE).
In partnership with 918 Bathurst Centre, RISE Thursdays is hosting a monthly series every first Thursday of the month, with an open mic and featuring the next generation of Toronto artists!

The Music Gallery presents Emergents II: Bakarlari
2020-03-01 19:30 - 23:00
The Music Gallery presents
Emergents II: Bakarlari
part of the Emergents Series
Curated by Sarah Constant
Sunday March 1
$12 Regular / Advanced $8 Member/Student
Doors 7:30PM / Concert 8PM
In this concert, Montreal-based soloists collective Bakarlari plays in Toronto for the first time.
Active across Canada and internationally as improvisers and performers of experimental music, the members of Bakarlari—trumpeter Émilie Fortin, tubist Michael Mansourati, and clarinetist Charlotte Layec—have come together with a focus on new solo music: performances of rarely-heard pieces for their instruments, the development of new single-instrument projects, and the creation of concerts that bring together their three distinct sonic vocabularies.
At the Music Gallery, Bakarlari will present their latest project, pairing contemporary solo works for trumpet, tuba, and clarinet with new pieces developed with early-career and Toronto-based composers. Between them, the collective will play solo compositions by Olga Neuwirth, Cort Lippe, and Elliott Carter alongside new collaborations with composers Alexandre David, Quinn Jacobs, and Olivia Shortt—as well as a first-ever ensemble appearance for the premiere of a new trio by Toronto/Hamilton-based composer Christina Volpini.

The Freesound Series and the Music Gallery present: Freesound 02
2020-02-28 19:30 - 23:00
$20 Regular / $17 Advance / $15 Members, Students, Arts Workers, Seniors
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From text scores and improvisation, to calm, stable chords, Freesound kicks off its second season by exploring the experimental music of America and Europe. With works by Pauline Oliveros, Laurence Crane, Maya Verlaak, and Paolo Griffin, Freesound 02 presents an ensemble of 13 musicians, navigating the ins and outs of music that makes you think.

GOOD BEAUTIFUL MORNING: A Multidisciplinary Arts and Performance Endeavour
2020-02-22 20:00 - 23:30
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Experience an immersive, edgy journey evoking a diverse range of emotions based on the original works and performance of Artist/Writer/Activist/Performer Mello Ayo in collaboration with a community of like-minded burgeoning performing artists.
February 22, 2020
VIP Soiree by Invitation Only 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Doors open for general admission 8:00 p.m.
Exploration – Art Installation Viewing: 8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Performance: 9:30 p.m. – 10:30 pm
After Party Fete: 10:30 p.m. – 11:30 p.m.

SymphRONica and The Music of Louis Simão
2020-02-15 19:00 - 23:00
FEBRUARY 15 – 07:30 PM
TICKETS: $20 advance/ $25 door; students/seniors $10 (All prices HST included.)
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Ron Davis’ Symphronica is all about the collaborations between Ron Davis and many great musicians, in Toronto and beyond. One of those musicians is the multi-talented, multi-faceted Portuguese-Canadian Louis Simão. Bassist, guitarist, accordeonist, composer, arranger, vocalist – it seems as though there’s nothing Louis cannot do. And he does them all with profound musicality.
Louis has been working with SymphRONica for several years. This includes stints on bass, contributions as an arranger, and one stellar contribution as a composer/arranger with his gorgeous tune A Luz (da Partida), which appears on the 2019 release SymphRONica UpfRONt.
This show is a celebration of SymphRONica‘s work with Louis, featuring his playing and arrangements. Come hear the energy and beauty of the music via SymphRONica‘s rewiring of jazz, in the words of what one U.K. reviewer “jazz like you’ve never heard it before“.
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Raise The Spirit Tour 2020 - With Chicago’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
2020-02-14 19:30 - 23:00
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Kahil El Zabar – Percussions
Corey Wilkes – Trumpet
Alex Harding – Baritone Saxophone
The legendary Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, has toured internationally, as well as recorded numerable celebrated projects over the last 45 years. The current line up, featuring Corey Wilkes (trumpet), Alex Harding (baritone sax) and the band’s founder, Dr. Kahil El’Zabar (multi-percussion/ composition), is guaranteed to inspire audiences.
Friday February 14, 2020
Doors: 7:30pm
Show: 8:30pm
$30 – Early Bird Tickets (available until Sunday January 26 at 5pm); $40 – Advance (available until show date, 5pm)

Continuum Contemporary Music and The Music Gallery present: Inside Us
2020-02-09 19:00 - 23:00
Doors: 7:30PM,
The 4th Toronto Teen Composer Award: 7:45PM
Concert: 8PM
Door: students/arts workers/seniors/members $15, general $20
Online: students/arts workers/seniors/members $12, general $18
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Inside Us charts the delicate and dramatic convergence between technology and the human body. The concert features the premiere of Juliet Palmer’s The Choreography of Trauma, Palmer’s personal response to the Trauma Bay, oscillating between technical virtuosity and the emotional and physical stress of this life-and-death area of medicine.

We feature The Element Choir under the direction of Christine Duncan, and Jazz Soprano Laura Swankey with video and audio. Martijn Voorvelt‘s Frederick’s doctor, for tenor Christopher Mayell and ensemble, rounds out this exploration of music and health sciences.
Continuum is delighted to participate in this interdisciplinary engagement with collaborators at Sunnybrook Research Institute.
Composers:
Juliet Palmer* (CA)
Martijn Voorvelt† (NL)
* World premiere
† Commissioned by Continuum

Kyra Millan Presents: Piano Recital
2020-02-06 18:30 - 20:30
More information TBA

The Music Gallery Presents: When Did Transparency Become So Opaque?
2020-02-02 19:00 - 23:00
When Did Transparency Become So Opaque?
Panel Discussion and Performance
Curated by Olivia Shortt
PWYW ($10 suggested)
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The Music Gallery presents a panel on transparency in music and arts programming in Tkarón:to. There is a deep need in this city and beyond to speak honestly about programming, curation and producing in a way that organizations can both benefit and learn from the discussions. This panel will explore questions around what programmers and curators (ie. people with power) from multiple artistic disciplines are doing (as well as not doing) in their organizations to program, hire and work in a more inclusive and intersectional manner. The evening also features a performance by Carly Gordon and friends’ work which combines ASL and opera.
Curatorial statement:
“Personally, I am both frustrated and incredibly hopeful for the future of the arts in Toronto. There is a beautiful community in this city so willing to make changes and contribute to the artists who live here. We are so afraid to have both our errors become public. Failure is not allowed
Let’s make mistakes and be honest about it. Hindsight is 2020 as they say.
This is a period of time where equity-seeking folks are struggling to be heard without fear of pushback from the art forms that they exist and create within, which are often white-led organizations. Can we as the audience, the granting bodies, the foundation funding arts, the donors funding art, ask for art that reflects not only the people in our communities but also the voices and opinions of those art-makers? We are in a period of time where any questions that arise around what the intention of an organizations’ programming can become heavily scrutinized. Where is the transparency? Who are the voices leading these organizations? How are they supporting artists in their programming? When arts programmers look inward and criticize ourselves, do they end up patting ourselves on the back because of checked-off boxes, or do they realize that there is more hard work to be done?
Making mistakes in the arts feels difficult but is a very necessary part of growth. Let’s take space to discuss the successes of art-makers and organizations who are making the necessary efforts to do better, grow and what success looks like after making mistakes. This is an opportunity to hear and discuss examples of positive success in working to be more transparent in our efforts to develop arts programming.”
Moderator: Cole Alvis
Panelists: Ian Cusson, Menon Dwarka, Teiya Kasahara, Asad Raza
Performance: Carly Gordon and ASL + Opera Project

Fit for the Stage: With Leigh Graham
2020-01-26 14:30 - 19:30
Elevated Performance for Singers

A Comprehensive Mind and Body Workshop
Date: Sunday, January 26, 2020
Time: 2:30pm – 7:30pm

This 5-hour workshop delivers a step-by-step guide to stage preparation. It focuses on managing your mindset and state using various tools including original meditations and NLP (Neurolinguisic Programming).

You will also hone your body awareness and gain physical fitness through singer-specific exercises and take-home materials. Finally, you will have the chance to put it into practice singing!
To learn more and register, click here: https://fitforthestage.com/workshops/?fbclid=IwAR04tPjOdXh7nwvpHppoGyo5nHhQXPAPuJS6PGA21IF4B0iXyo7SkDTl74g

The Music Gallery Presents: Ziibiwan “Giizis” Album Release with Phedre and Melody McKiver
2020-01-25 19:00 - 23:00
$15 Regular/$13 Advance/$10 Students, Members
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Purchase tickets here: https://www.showclix.com/event/ziibiwan/listing?fbclid=IwAR0JE4h7SMCZamvUAuH7ClV3VdHA-DoycEUJPSwXC2T6E2XmAkGBXHPtp0Y
Anishinaabe experimental-electronic producer Ziibiwan has travelled a long road in just a few short years. Whether in their own music or in DJ sets, their spacious rhythmscapes evoke tranquility, the natural world and wisdom from elder generations within modern contexts. For their much-anticipated debut album release Giizis, Ziibiwan has gathered a few of their close allies to celebrate the occasion.
Some of Toronto’s most brilliantly experimental pop comes from Phedre. Their richly-textured compositions have grown into instrumental sets of high-bpm rhythmic soundscapes, performed live using sequencers and synthesizers. The ever-changing bass-heavy sets pay tribute to club, breakbeat, jungle and techno, while maintaining Phèdre’s own unique sense of musical beat exploration.
Melody McKiver has worked with Ziibiwan for a number of years and is no stranger to the MG, having last appeared on our stage alongside Lido Pimienta six years ago. Melody’s musical work integrates electronics with Western classical music to shape a new genre of Anishinaabe compositions. Their debut EP Reckoning was nominated for an Indigenous Music Award, and they were a participant in the Banff Centre for the Arts’ inaugural Indigenous Classical Music Gathering. Melody is involved in their community as a mentor with the Indigenous Music Mentorship Program, and is employed as a youth worker in Sioux Lookout, providing mental health and cultural supports to First Nations students.

New Music Concerts and the Music Gallery present The Mouths That Roar: Gabriel Dharmoo + Janice Jackson
2020-01-10 19:00 - 23:00
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$35 Regular
$25 MG Members, Seniors, Arts Workers
$10 Students
An outrageous double bill of vocal pyrotechnics featuring Gabriel Dharmoo and Janice Jackson. Montreal composer/performer Gabriel Dharmoo’s Anthropologies imaginaires (Imaginary Anthropologies) is a solo vocal performance that interacts with a video mockumentary. Various odd or isolated vocal expressions from around the world are woven together and revisited through imaginary folklore and experimental voice techniques, showcasing the virtuosity, versatility, and strangeness of the human voice. The result is a humorous and disturbing exploration of post-colonialism, post-exoticism, cultural extinction, globalization, normalized racism and cultural appropriation. Halifax-based soprano Jackson’s Voice Dance is a program of solo vocal compositions, many written especially for her. Over the past 30 years Jackson has performed and perfected a large body of solo voice pieces from composers around the world. From pure extended vocal techniques (Marie Pelletier) to theatre without words (Alice Ping Yee Ho) to solo mini opera (James Rolfe) these pieces are guaranteed to excite, stimulate, and amuse.

Lemon Bucket Orkestra Presents: Oy Holy Night
2020-01-05 18:30 - 21:30
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A Slavic-Balkan-Klezmer-Party-Punk-Super-Christmas Special
Toronto’s favourite guerrilla-folk party-punks settle into a selection of carols and seasonal songs from across the Slavic world and beyond. Inspired by their travels across Eastern Europe and yearly caroling through the Ukrainian community in their home “village”, expect a wide array of traditional polyphony and original arrangements by the award-winning globetrotters plus some recognizable classics from the western canon.
This is the pilot, with new video design by Roman Lubiy and projection mapping by David Mesiha in the beautiful 918 Bathurst.
Only 200 tickets available! $40 advance, $50 door
