All of life balances on a delicate string. While the universe expands and then contracts on a continuum, time is a construct based on our observations as temporary, living beings. On a universal scale, we rarely become aware of...

MINING THE SOURCE: Develop your movement vocabulary and find the dance in the memories and stories inside ourselves.Led by Yvonne Ng, participants will be guided in an improvisational setting using imagery as a tool to weave to...

Featuring music by Ben Grossman and Jeff Bird, The Returned is a new contemporary dance work that seeks to understand the time and place in which we currently live, as well as the time that came before. Portal Dance danc...

Come hang with the staff and board of Open Ears as we celebrate the opening of the festival. Artists will also be in attendance at this social gathering. We are pleased to partner with AOK Arcade and Bar as the official bar for...

LISTENING HEARING SOUNDING: Harpist Lori Gemmell and Percussionist Erin Donovan are both multi-instrumentalists, performers, teachers and show creators. Joined by choreographer Yvonne Ng, in this workshop (for all skill levels ...

longing for _, the debut album of Toronto-based percussionist Yang Chen manages to do the unthinakable: showcase their audacious eclecticism, sharp curatorial sensibility, and exceptional skill all...

–ce qui nous traverse– is a Montreal ensemble seeking to capture the intensive vibrations that compose the surrounding ambiances. The group is performing Le sacre de Sainte-Barbe (Cuchabata Records, 2021), a concept album f...

Medusa is a unique chamber-folk quartet that blends the Western string quartet (violin, viola and cello), with Polish knee fiddles, Greek lira, and Swedish Nyckelharpa. We intertwine the sounds of Middle Eastern, Scandinavian, ...

One of the 20th century’s most important composers, John Cage is renowned as the composer of the piece 4’33”, which consisted only of silence. Cage was a constant explorer and invented such things as the prepared p...

Lithophonica is Improvised music for instruments of stones, strings, and wood, processed and spatialized in real time. Earth Ether Ensemble is a group of friends exploring the sounds of the world and beyond through improvisatio...

THIS TREE LISTENS (WORKSHOP) Erin Donovan creates interdisciplinary site-specific shows through her organization Hear Here Productions (hearhereproductions.ca). In this workshop Erin, along with her creative team for Open Ears,...

Counterstasis is a collaborative improvisation trio formed in 2016, featuring Glen Hall (woodwinds, electroacoustics), Bill Gilliam (piano, prepared piano) and Joe Sorbara (drums, percussi...

This concert will feature live performances from Daniel Ramjattan's debut solo album, Inspirations: New Music for Solo Guitar, which was conceived in 2019 and released in January 2022. All of these solo guitar compositions were...