Music Lecture / Seminar Community
Presented by Music In Communities
info@musicincommunities.com
(902)-698-9611
Music In Communities Presents: A Round-Table Discussion with Meredith Bates, Parmela Attariwala, Sahara Nasr, Dr. Nicole Jordan, and Lukas Pearse
Being a 21st Century Arts JEDl: Conscientiously considering how and for whom we are performing, curating, and teaching in the music sector.
What does social justice mean for the music sector? Social Justice is defined as the fair distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society. Canadian arts systems have been pinpointed as particularly inequitable sites in current conversations about social justice. Meredith Bates, Parmela Attariwala. Sahara Jane Nasr. Dr. Nicole Jordan, and Lukas Pearse discuss the systemic inequities built into publicly-funded music-making in Canada with a focus on Justice. Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in performance, curation, education and governance.
This event is Free and Open to the public.
About the speakers: Vancouver’s Meredith Bates is an award-winning violinist, known for her elegant and virtuosic sound. She is a versatile fiddler versed in acoustic and processed sounds, and improvised, classical, and traditional folk repertoire. Bates has been recording and touring around the world for 20 years in ensembles such as Pugs & Crows, Gentle Party, Dyad, Josh Zubot Strings, Tony Wilson’s Burn Down the Cornfield, Ford Pier’s Strength of Materials, Annie Lou, and Peggy Lee’s Echo Painting. Meredith is now also leading her own projects including Like the Mind, Listen Listen, and the Vancouver Improvised Arts Society.
Calgary-born violinist Parmela Attariwala interweaves life as a performer-creator, academic, and music educator. Parmela trained formally in violin performance at Indiana University and in Bern, Switzerland, and studied ethnomusicology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (UK) and the University of Toronto (Ph.D.). Her creative work explores the liminal space between musical genres, artistic disciplines, and identities.
Sahara Jane Nasr has graced stages from Beijing to Bombay, from the Fundy shore to the south of France. She is a songwriter and performer from Nova Scotia with an onstage presence which audiences find both disarming and spellbinding. Learning in India for over a decade, Sahara has returned to Canadian stages with her long-time musical collaborator (and now husband!), Ken Shorley. Along with the guitar, she plays the sarangi, a haunting string instrument that was once popular in South Asia, but is now played by few.
Dr. Nicole Jordan is an artist of the world: A Canadian born in Trinidad and Tobago, educated in England, she is a vocalist, creator, academic, and advisor in diversity in the arts, based between Canada, Tobago, and The Netherlands. Trained as a classical singer, she has performed internationally in opera and chamber music and has created and directed new music theatre productions. Nicole has been called a “singer-scholar” and holds a Ph.D. in Music Psychology/Performance Studies from the University of Sheffield, UK.
Lukas Pearse is a Bassist/ Media Artist/ Composer / Sound Editor in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Since 2015, Lukas Pearse has served as the Artistic Director of the Upstream Music Association, founded in 1990, committed to the presentation of new compositions for improvising musicians, with a focus on large ensembles, as well as presenting the annual Open Waters Festival of New and Improvised Music.
This event is made possible with support from Arts Nova Scotia.
Presented by Music In Communities
info@musicincommunities.com
(902)-698-9611
Music In Communities Presents: A Round-Table Discussion with Meredith Bates, Parmela Attariwala, Sahara Nasr, Dr. Nicole Jordan, and Lukas Pearse
Being a 21st Century Arts JEDl: Conscientiously considering how and for whom we are performing, curating, and teaching in the music sector.
What does social justice mean for the music sector? Social Justice is defined as the fair distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society. Canadian arts systems have been pinpointed as particularly inequitable sites in current conversations about social justice. Meredith Bates, Parmela Attariwala. Sahara Jane Nasr. Dr. Nicole Jordan, and Lukas Pearse discuss the systemic inequities built into publicly-funded music-making in Canada with a focus on Justice. Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in performance, curation, education and governance.
This event is Free and Open to the public.
About the speakers: Vancouver’s Meredith Bates is an award-winning violinist, known for her elegant and virtuosic sound. She is a versatile fiddler versed in acoustic and processed sounds, and improvised, classical, and traditional folk repertoire. Bates has been recording and touring around the world for 20 years in ensembles such as Pugs & Crows, Gentle Party, Dyad, Josh Zubot Strings, Tony Wilson’s Burn Down the Cornfield, Ford Pier’s Strength of Materials, Annie Lou, and Peggy Lee’s Echo Painting. Meredith is now also leading her own projects including Like the Mind, Listen Listen, and the Vancouver Improvised Arts Society.
Calgary-born violinist Parmela Attariwala interweaves life as a performer-creator, academic, and music educator. Parmela trained formally in violin performance at Indiana University and in Bern, Switzerland, and studied ethnomusicology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (UK) and the University of Toronto (Ph.D.). Her creative work explores the liminal space between musical genres, artistic disciplines, and identities.
Sahara Jane Nasr has graced stages from Beijing to Bombay, from the Fundy shore to the south of France. She is a songwriter and performer from Nova Scotia with an onstage presence which audiences find both disarming and spellbinding. Learning in India for over a decade, Sahara has returned to Canadian stages with her long-time musical collaborator (and now husband!), Ken Shorley. Along with the guitar, she plays the sarangi, a haunting string instrument that was once popular in South Asia, but is now played by few.
Dr. Nicole Jordan is an artist of the world: A Canadian born in Trinidad and Tobago, educated in England, she is a vocalist, creator, academic, and advisor in diversity in the arts, based between Canada, Tobago, and The Netherlands. Trained as a classical singer, she has performed internationally in opera and chamber music and has created and directed new music theatre productions. Nicole has been called a “singer-scholar” and holds a Ph.D. in Music Psychology/Performance Studies from the University of Sheffield, UK.
Lukas Pearse is a Bassist/ Media Artist/ Composer / Sound Editor in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Since 2015, Lukas Pearse has served as the Artistic Director of the Upstream Music Association, founded in 1990, committed to the presentation of new compositions for improvising musicians, with a focus on large ensembles, as well as presenting the annual Open Waters Festival of New and Improvised Music.
This event is made possible with support from Arts Nova Scotia.
Pricing & Tickets
Pricing: Free
Festival Theatre
Acadia University
504 Main Street
Wolfville, Nova Scotia
nicholas.sharpe@acadiau.ca
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504 Main Street
Wolfville, Nova Scotia
nicholas.sharpe@acadiau.ca
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