What nourishes you? Us? Our planet? What happens when life necessities are absent? Food and water, song and play, community and solitude – get off the grid for a few hours and explore SUSTENANCE at its source. With support from Canada’s Council for the Arts Create and Explore program and SOCAN, violinist and guest curator Elation Pauls brings this banquet of [...]

1 / LAMENT 7.30pm, Wednesday, September 25 (Desautels Concert Hall, UM) Anne Manson, conductor; Jonathon Adams, baritone; Jessica McMann, flute-composer; Tyson Houseman, video artist THE VISIONARY CREE-MÉTIS BARITONE sings baroque and urgent new musical lamentations. Guiding you through stirring discoveries, disruptions, and landscapes, this concert will leave you changed.

Our season opens with a breath of fresh air from the interdisciplinary Looking Glass Ensemble. Founded by clarinetist Christine Carter and dancer.choreographer Shannon Litzenberger in collaboration with trailblazing pianist Gregory Oh and acclaimed Winnipeg-born cellist Vernon Regehr, this innovative performance collective from St. John's and Toronto melds music and movement, presenting classical chamber music for [...]