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Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating this weeke

Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating this weekend. 🍁🍂

On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation,

On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we reflect on those whose lives were lost and those who survived residential schools, and we honour the lasting impact on the families and communities who are so deeply impacted by this period in Canada‘s history 🧡

#NDTR
#EveryChildMatters
#OrangeShirtDay

Can we share some good news with you today? Open

Can we share some good news with you today?

Open Ears is excited to announce we have received Registered Charitable Status from Canada Revenue Agency.

The new charitable status now allows us to recognize financial contributions to Open Ears with tax receipts, and is a long-awaited step in our work to develop greater, stronger relationships with our donors, audiences, corporate partners and funders.

We want to offer our most sincere thanks to local organizations, including NUMUS Concerts, CAFKA and Createscape Waterloo Region for their partnership over many years.

To our loyal past and present supporters … thank you for always being there for us. To any future contributors, we look forward to earning your support and to understanding what we can do to engage with you in a meaningful way.

Thank you!
Open Ears Team

3pm today, join us for the premiere of Cloud Chamb

3pm today, join us for the premiere of Cloud Chamber, a new video EP from members of Arkora!

After years growing from chamber group to full fledged electric vocal consort, Arkora brings it full circle with Cloud Chamber, a compact collaboration among five composer/performers who are central to the group’s unique sound: Tova Kardonne (viola/voice/piano), Dan Morphy (percussion), Brendon Randall-Myers (electric guitar), Sharon Lee (electric violin), and Benton Roark (microtonal keyboards/fretless bass/pedal steel). Designed to roll with the challenges of our times, Cloud Chamber is an EP’s worth of new work written and recorded completely via remote collaboration using layering, cellular development, improvisation, and telephone-chain methods, as works go round the circle with each creator making their mark and passing it along. Among many goals of the project is to deepen the artistic connection among the group and to nurture a trust when handing off an idea to another creator, an action which Kardonne calls “an exciting risk” and Randall-Myers describes as “liberating” (Musicworks, Fall 2020). Cloud Chamber will be released in June 2021 via Redshift Records. As a visual element, Toronto animator, artist, and filmmaker Karly McCloskey offers an experimental film using analogue techniques inspired by the creative process to accompany the album’s release.

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