M’Girl’s percussive based hand drum songs blends harmonies into a contemporary gospel style, reflecting both their cultural practice and their personal story of home. Led by Renae Morriseau, their music reflects their personal journeys and cultural worldviews held respectfully by each M’Girl living within the urban environment of the lower mainland. Find out more! Tickets … Continue reading M’Girl – LIVE
The 48 Hour Opera Project - Fernweh edition is a speed-creation event designed to reunite you with your far-flung friends to laugh, sweat, and cry for ART. And Lucky Penny Opera is seeking submissions! Gather a team with members from at least two different cities and jump in to write, direct, design, perform, film, and … Continue reading The 48 Hour Opera Project: Call for Artists
Tired of feeling like a talking head? Skills not keeping up with your imagination? This seminar brings together three artists from three different art practices to talk about their work and process, inspiring you to try brave new things, digitally. Each artist will give a short talk on their artist practice and inspirations, and then … Continue reading The 48 Hour Opera Project: Digital Creation Hacks
Led by Nancy Tam, Walking at Night by Myself presents a world of abstraction, distraction, and overlapping patterns through which we slowly examine the plasticity of human perception and open up to questions of how notions of familiarity, difference, and impressions are constructed. Created under the hospice of A Wake of Vultures (Nancy Tam, Daniel … Continue reading Walking at Night By Myself – LIVE
Spirits of the Virtual Space is a VR workshop that teaches emerging artists how to tell stories in the virtual realm. Learn about world building, immersive design, branching narratives and performance through avatars in AltSpace VR. A collaboration between re:Naissance Opera and the Cultch's Ignite! Youth Program, the workshop mentors include Alex Dault, Stephanie Wong, … Continue reading Spirits of the Virtual Space: A VR Workshop
A friendship is tested when Cecilia, a white composer, tries to convince her roommate, Gabriella, a writer of colour – who has just returned home from a #MeToo moment with a TV producer – to enter a new opera competition together. Their debate about the whiteness of opera, the problematic portrayal of racialized women, and … Continue reading Did I Just Say That? – LIVE
On this final day of re:Naissance Opera's collaboration with The Cultch Youth Programs, audiences are invited to attend their newly created VR theatre experience. Honouring All Hallow's Eve, the creators will explore what it means to create ghost stories in virtual reality. This workshop is by invitation only. To register, please email: info@reopera.com
