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“Inter-generating” the silenced rhythms and forgotten fragments; fostering community care.
Explore the interdimensionality of Japanese Canadian silence with four legacy building scholars and artists: Rachel Iwaasa, Andrea Mariko Grant, Bradley Kurushima, Djuna Nagasaki.

Rachel will be reading from her work in progress, "Chiyo: A Thousand Generations" and performing "Through, In Between Oceans, Part 2" by Camille Georgeson-Usher.

“Piano virtuoso and avant-garde muse” Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa in recital, celebrating the release of her first full length solo album in 15 years, Known and Unknown: Solo piano works by Rodney Sharman. The concert features pieces by Sharman in context with compositional colleagues Cris Derksen, Linda Catlin Smith and Jocelyn Morlock. Known and Unknown is scheduled for release on Redshift Records March 22.

A multidisciplinary meditation on mourning & memory by artist SD Holman, derived from Holman’s walk across Canada following the death of their wife, Catherine White Holman. Using Bach’s Goldberg Variations as an organizing principle, Holman collaborates with pianist Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, who performs at the opening and periodically during the exhibition run.

Beethoven: Sonata in C Major Op. 53 "Waldstein" (excerpts) choreographed by Jennifer Mascall

featuring: a world premiere by Alfredo Santa Ana, Louis Andriessen’s “Workers Union” and more

Rising from the ashes of this summer’s fire ban, Queer Arts Festival and Full Circle: First Nations Performance will reignite our Piano Burning event on Sunday, October 24 at Mountain View Cemetery. Curated by SD Holman and Margo Kane, Annea Lockwood’s infamous work — where acclaimed virtuoso Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa performs a piano as it burns to ashes — is re-envisioned through the lens of historically banned Indigenous fire rituals and contemporary global warming.

Beethoven: Sonata in C Major Op. 53 "Waldstein" (excerpts)