wednesday april 25 to saturday april 28
Various times and locations [see below]
free
Sounding Rituals
presented by Open Ears and InterArts Matrix
Hush
Wednesday April 25 | 8:15ish pm
The Registry Theatre Lobby, 122 Frederick Street
Prayer
Thursday April 26 | 6:00 pm
King Street between Frederick and Queen
Eruption
Saturday April 28 | 9:30 am
Kitchener Farmers' Market
Procession
Saturday April 28 | 10 to 11 am
King Street from Market Square to City Hall
Sounding Rituals is a series of creative disturbances to take place throughout downtown Kitchener as part of the Open Ears Festival. These primarily vocal “liberations” are created to gently interrupt and disrupt social convention with a view to expanding its borders. They (happenings-acts-subversions-soundings) question unwritten norms, resisting compliance and reterritorializing urban space. They do this either by offering an exaggerated reflection of those norms or by suggesting something other. They do not adhere to widely held aesthetic standards of artistic excellence and beauty. The community performers include a Jungean therapist, a tuba player, a physicist, a marriage councellor, a magazine editor, a painter, a high school student, a cellist, an accountant, an actor and a dental assistant.
Anne-Marie Donovan has had a long association with the Open Ears Festival. At the festival’s inception, she was artistic director of NUMUS, and over the years she has performed and directed many festival productions: Stockhausen’s Stimmung, Windeyer’s Soniferous Garden, Vivier’s Lovesongs, Zender’s Schubert’s Winterreise, Brady & Sobol’s The Salome Dancer, Hatch’s Guerilla Sound Events, Windeyer’s adaptation of Bryar’s The Sinking of the Titanic. Anne-Marie has just founded InterArts Matrix (matrix: birthing place) to develop and produce interdisciplinary work. She is a lecturer in the Faculty of Music at Wilfrid Laurier University and in the Drama Department at the University of Waterloo, where she was a recipient of the 2003 Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award.