The Music & Culture Performance Speaker Series at the University of Toronto Scarborough showcases the breadth and depth of a variety of professional relationships to music. Invited speakers are asked to both speak to and perform their relationship to music-making, composition, and/or performance. Our goal is to provide students in the program and members of the wider community with an accessible experience by which they can explore the varied relationships scholars and artists create with, and to, music.
Winter 2024 Program:
Engaging in Community Music, Foundational Principles and Lessons for the Classroom
By Dr. Lee Willingham
February 13, 2024 | 1-3:30pm | AA303
Join us for an inspiring presentation on the foundational principles of community music and its connection to the classroom, presented by Dr. Willingham, a Professor in the Music Faculty at Wilfrid Laurier University.
Dr. Willingham coordinates the music education and graduate programs in community music. His co-authored book (Lee Higgins), Engaging in Community Music, An Introduction (Routledge Publishers) was released in 2017, and the edited volume, Community Music at the Boundaries in April of 2021.
A contributor of chapters, papers, and articles to a number of publications, Willingham was for ten years the editor of the Canadian Music Education/Musicien éducator au Canada and co-edited the book, Creativity and Music Education. He is a past president and Honourary Life Member of the Ontario Music Educators' Association.
Willingham has guest conducted many choirs throughout Canada, USA and parts of Europe and has presented at a number of international conferences. The most recent chapter of his career has been innovative approaches to music education and the development and implementation of community music programs at Laurier, where students may now receive BMus, MA, and PhD degrees.
Kaleidoscopic: living, music and art making
By Adrian Berry
March 14, 2024 | 2-3pm | AA303
An interactive multimedia exploration of Adrian's intuitive and kaleidoscopic approach to music and art making and their multifaceted adventure as a touring musician, organizer, educator, and creative researcher.
Adrian Berry is a musician, digital media artist, educator and creative researcher whose practice is a synergistic creature born from almost a decade as a composer, saxophonist and vocalist in American punk bands. Nurtured by intuitive investigations into audiovisual technology, collaborative music making, and live performance, Adrian's new multimedia project Gold Cove explores themes of desire, trauma, and the unheroic reality of resilience through an extra-disciplinary lens. Adrian's work has been featured by The New Yorker and Rolling Stone and recently through their 2022 solo exhibition as artist-in-residence at Video Pool Media Arts Centre and 2023 SIM Artist Residency in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Fall 2023 Program:
Rap Cubano in the Archive
By Pablo D. Herrera Veitia
November 2, 2023 | 12-2pm | AA303.
How do rap cubano archives accommodate the immaterial properties of Havana’s local knowledge production ferment, Afro-Cuban anti-racism, and post-socialist subjectivities? This vista of rap cubano archives situates their origins in Havana’s early bedroom studios and interrogates their connections as DIY institutions with institutions within and beyond Cuba. About the speaker: Pablo D. Herrera Veitia is an Afro-Cuban anthropologist conducting post-doctoral research at the Afrosonic Innovation Lab, ACM, UTSC. He is a poet, pioneering rap cubano producer, and a 2018-2019 Nasir Jones Fellow of the Hiphop Archive, Harvard University working through the assemblage of Africana religions, hip-hop studies and multimodality. About the series: The Music & Culture Performance Speaker Series showcases the breadth and depth of a variety of professional relationships to music. Invited speakers are asked to both speak to and perform their relationship to music-making, composition, and/or performance. Our goal is to provide students in the program with an accessible experience by which one can explore the varied relationships scholars and artists create with and to music.
Join us by registering on CLNx.
Steps to sign up: Log in to https://clnx.utoronto.ca > Events and Workshops > UTSC Scarborough > Arts, Culture and Media > Event on calendar