Lecture / Seminar Health / Wellness Wheelchair Accessible Family Friendly Outdoor
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Rae Spoon will talk about their experiences as a disabled artist booking and playing an all immunocompromised accessible (COVID careful) tour with access discussions across Canada this year. They will also talk about their career as an under-represented artist and supporting under-represented artists through mentoring and their record label Coax Records. There will be a Q and A/community discussion at the end.
Free and open to all to attend. The recreation centre has an open-air room with garage doors on three sides which will be open. The site is accessible but parking is across the field, or on the street. If you need assistance getting to the building please contact us at info@musicincommunities.com and we will assist.
Rae Spoon is a musician, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and author with over twenty-five years of experience in the arts industry. They have released twelve solo albums (Coax Records) spanning folk, country, indie rock, and electronic genres and published three books (Arsenal Pulp Press). Rae has been nominated for two Polaris Prizes, a Lambda Literary Award, and a Western Canadian Music Award. They have toured internationally (Canada, Europe, the USA, Australia, China). Rae is a non-binary, trans artist who lives with multiple disabilities. Their most recent album, Not Dead Yet (2023), was written about their lived experience of cancer diagnosis, treatment, and complications. Rae has a passion for supporting access for under-represented artists through industry through advocacy, workshops, mentoring, grant writing, project management and music production. In 2015, Rae founded Coax Records in the hopes of using their experiences to create more space in the music industry. Coax Records has released over fourty-five albums, many of which have received a lot of media attention, charted on national college radio, won Juno Awards, and been nominated for Polaris Prizes.
Rae Spoon is an uninvited guest and settler with European ancestry on stolen land. They were born and grew up on Treaty 7 territory in Mohkínsstsisi/Calgary (the traditional and ancestral territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy: Kainai, Piikani and Siksika as well as the Tsuu T'ina Nation and Stoney Nakoda First Nation). Rae currently lives between Tkoronto/Toronto (the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples) and Tiohtià:ke/Montréal (the unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka/Mohawk Nation).
info@musicincommunities.com
Rae Spoon will talk about their experiences as a disabled artist booking and playing an all immunocompromised accessible (COVID careful) tour with access discussions across Canada this year. They will also talk about their career as an under-represented artist and supporting under-represented artists through mentoring and their record label Coax Records. There will be a Q and A/community discussion at the end.
Free and open to all to attend. The recreation centre has an open-air room with garage doors on three sides which will be open. The site is accessible but parking is across the field, or on the street. If you need assistance getting to the building please contact us at info@musicincommunities.com and we will assist.
Rae Spoon is a musician, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and author with over twenty-five years of experience in the arts industry. They have released twelve solo albums (Coax Records) spanning folk, country, indie rock, and electronic genres and published three books (Arsenal Pulp Press). Rae has been nominated for two Polaris Prizes, a Lambda Literary Award, and a Western Canadian Music Award. They have toured internationally (Canada, Europe, the USA, Australia, China). Rae is a non-binary, trans artist who lives with multiple disabilities. Their most recent album, Not Dead Yet (2023), was written about their lived experience of cancer diagnosis, treatment, and complications. Rae has a passion for supporting access for under-represented artists through industry through advocacy, workshops, mentoring, grant writing, project management and music production. In 2015, Rae founded Coax Records in the hopes of using their experiences to create more space in the music industry. Coax Records has released over fourty-five albums, many of which have received a lot of media attention, charted on national college radio, won Juno Awards, and been nominated for Polaris Prizes.
Rae Spoon is an uninvited guest and settler with European ancestry on stolen land. They were born and grew up on Treaty 7 territory in Mohkínsstsisi/Calgary (the traditional and ancestral territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy: Kainai, Piikani and Siksika as well as the Tsuu T'ina Nation and Stoney Nakoda First Nation). Rae currently lives between Tkoronto/Toronto (the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples) and Tiohtià:ke/Montréal (the unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka/Mohawk Nation).
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