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SUMMARY:Keyboard Fantasies: Celebrating the Works of Beverly Glenn-Copeland
DESCRIPTION:Throughout a fifty year recording career\, Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s music has defied categorisation and genre\, its only consistency being the fusion of vision\, technology\, spirituality and place. A Black\, trans artist\, he is a strong advocate on behalf of Black\, Indigenous\, and LGBTQ2S+ communities in Canada and abroad\, and has influenced new generations of artists. \nYou are invited to a celebration of the extraordinary work of this visionary artist and University of Toronto Honorary Degree Recipient with a screening of Keyboard Fantasies\, followed by a panel discussion (details below). \nEvent Information & Registration \nTuesday\, June 13th from 3pm to 5pm \nInnis Town Hall (2 Sussex Ave\, Toronto\, ON M5S 1J5). \nDoors open at 2:30pm; light refreshments will be served \nRegistration required: https://uoft.me/keyboardfantasies \nParticipants/audience members are requested to wear masks for the indoor portion of the event. \nAbout the panel: \nModerator:\nDr. Ellie M. Hisama is Dean of the Faculty of Music and Professor of Music at the University of Toronto and is Professor Emerita of Music at Columbia University. Her research and teaching have addressed issues of race\, ethnicity\, gender\, sexuality\, the social and political dimensions of music\, and public engagement. She is the author of Gendering Musical Modernism and editor of the volumes Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Worlds and Critical Minded: New Approaches to Hip Hop Studies. In 2022\, she founded Future Sound 6ix\, a program in partnership with the YWCA with funding from the Nick Nurse Foundation\, for female-identifying and gender-nonconforming youth to engage with sound at the U of T’s Electronic Music Studio. \nPanelists:\nThroughout a fifty year recording career\, Beverly Glenn-Copeland‘s music has defied categorisation and genre\, its only consistency being the fusion of vision\, technology\, spirituality and place. A Black\, trans artist\, he is a strong advocate on behalf of Black\, Indigenous\, and LGBTQ2S+ communities in Canada and abroad\, and has influenced new generations of artists. Beverly Glenn-Copeland is releasing an album of ground-breaking new music\, The One’s Ahead\, scheduled for launch on July 28. \nDr. Eliot Britton\, a proud member of the Manitoba Metis Federation\, integrates electronic and instrumental music though an energetic and colourful personal language. His creative output expresses an eclectic musical experience from gramophones to videogames\, drum machines\, orchestras and electronic chamber music. Rhythmic gadgetry\, artistry\, personal history and the colours of technology permeate his works. By drawing on these sound worlds and others\, Dr. Britton’s compositions tap the newly available resources of the twenty-first century. He is the recipient of numerous prizes\, including the SSHRC Bombardier Graduate Scholarship\, Louis Riel Scholarship\, The Royal Winnipeg Ballet Aspirant Program’s Emerging Composer Collaboration and\, more recently\, the Hugh Le Caine and Serge Garant SOCAN awards. Dr. Britton is co-director of Manitoba’s Cluster New Music and Integrated Arts Festival. His projects include a commission from the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra titled “Heirloom Bison Culture” as well as a collaboration with Red Sky Dance Company and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. \nNikkei Canadian settler Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野 (they/them) is a queer\, trans non-binary\, opera singer and theatre maker based in Tkarón:to/Treaty 13\, and was recently featured in a CBC short-doc OPERA TRANS*FORMED. Heralded as “an artist with extraordinary things to say” (The Globe and Mail)\, Teiya comes from a background of over a decade and a half of singing both traditional and contemporary operatic roles across North America and Europe. They explore the intersections of identity through their original works such as the 5-time Dora nominated THE QUEEN IN ME (heading to the NAC in September 2023)\, and THE BUTTERFLY PROJECT (Toronto Summer Music July 2023)\, among others. Teiya is a co-founder of Amplified Opera\, and is the 2022 recipient of the Joseph S. Stauffer Prize in Music from the Canada Council for the Arts. For more information\, visit www.teiyakasahara.com. \nIsaac Jean-François is a doctoral candidate in the joint degree program with African-American Studies and American Studies. Jean-François’s research interests include black studies\, phenomenology\, psychoanalysis\, and sound studies. His research on composer and performer Julius Eastman is featured in an issue of Current Musicology in an essay titled\, “Julius Eastman: The Sonority of Blackness Otherwise” (July 2020). Jean-François is committed to the intersection between academia and advocacy work and serves as the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Stonewall Community Foundation based in New York City. Jean-François earned his B.A. from Columbia University in Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\, Cum Laude. He holds a Certificate of Study from the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee\, Switzerland. \nThis event is presented by the University of Toronto Faculty of Music\, Sexual & Gender Diversity Office\, Anti-Racism & Cultural Diversity Office\, Women & Gender Studies Institute\, and Mark H. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies. \nBeverly Glenn-Copeland is releasing an album of groundbreaking new music called\, ‘The One’s Ahead’\, scheduled for launch on July 28. \nMore about Beverly Glenn-Copeland \nMore about the Keyboard Fantasies film \n\nBeverly Glenn-Copeland on social media: \nInstagram | Facebook | YouTube
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LOCATION:Innis Town Hall\, 2 Sussex Avenue\, Toronto\, ON\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Indo-Caribbean Women Past and Present: A Panel Presentation and Moderated Discussion
DESCRIPTION:This panel will address the broad scope of Indo-Caribbean women’s lived experiences in the social\, political\, and cultural realms from the time of indentureship\, through times of resistance in the 1960s to present day. Each panelist will respond to the exhibition\, Reclaimed: Indo-Caribbean HerStories. Ramabai Espinet will reflect on the jahaji legacies of “Coolie Belles” in Caribbean nation states and their expanding diasporas. Nalini Mohabir will trace the trajectory of the role of Indo-Caribbean women’s role in politics shaped by labour movements in the sugar industry. Joy Mahabir will discuss the literal and symbolic meanings of Indo-Caribbean women’s jewelry. \nPanelists: \nRamabai Espinet\, Caribbean Studies\, University of Toronto.\nShort bio: Dr. Ramabai Espinet is a writer of poetry\, prose\, and essays\, and a retired academic\, continuing her teaching at the University of Toronto in the Caribbean Studies Program. Her publications include The Swinging Bridge\, a novel\, and Nuclear Seasons\, poetry. She is the editor of CreationFire\, an anthology of Caribbean women’s poetry in several languages. Coming Home is a documentary film (Leda Serene) on her work. \nNalini Mohabir\, Concordia University\nShort bio: Dr. Nalini Mohabir is an associate professor in the department of Geography\, Planning\, and Environment at Concordia University. She teaches in the fields of feminist and postcolonial migration geographies\, and her research is primarily in the field of Caribbean studies\, with a focus on indentureship. \nJoy Mahabir : Suffolk County Community College of the State University of New York\nShort Bio: Dr. Joy Mahabir is a Professor in the department of English and Humanities. Her published work include essays on Caribbean literature\, visual arts\, calypso and chutney music\, and Indo-Caribbean jewelry. \nModerator: Alissa Trotz\, Women in Gender Studies\, University of Toronto\nShort Bio: Dr. Alissa Trotz is a Professor of Caribbean Studies at New College and the Director of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. She is also Affiliate Faculty at the University of the West Indies\, Cave Hill\, Barbados. \nPanel Presenting Partners: Women in Gender Studies at the University of Toronto\nCaribbean Studies\, at the University of Toronto \nPresented by Gardiner Museum
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LOCATION:Gardiner Museum\, 111 Queen's Park\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S2C7
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