Series 32: Jeannie Corsi & Janet Oxley
June 22, Friday, DOOR OPENS 6PM
Just the same: Thirty-seven years of music and friendship
With music and lyrics by JEANNIE CORSI and featuring vocals by JANET OXLEY
Jeannie Corsi comes originally from the Boston area where she began her musical studies at the New England Conservatory, continued at Sarah Lawrence College and eventually got her Master’s degree at Harvard University. She came to Canada at the time of the Vietnam War and has pursued a musical career as a teacher, performer and composer – living first in Montreal, then Prince Edward Island and since 1979 in Vancouver. She has two married children and three granddaughters.
After a 30-year dance career and a Masters degree in Dance, Janet Oxley came to Vancouver in 2005 where she now teaches English while also performing music in various venues. Janet first met Jeannie Corsi on Prince Edward Island in 1975. They worked together on several performances in Charlottetown, and shortly afterward, each went her separate way. Although they kept in touch and visited regularly in Vancouver, they did not work together again until this year. They are preparing a performance for a reunion of the P.E.I. community this August. Janet retired from performing in 2001 to take up teaching English as a Second Language which took her abroad until 2005. She has one daughter who lives in Vancouver. Janet began singing with the dance company she was with in the 1980s, Le Groupe. From there she studied music and voice at night and got a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts,. In 1988, she then began choreographing her own work, which used the dancers’ voices as they danced. She researched and commissioned choral works which she put to movement. This work continued and culminated in her Masters research at UQAM in 2000 – 2001.
Just the same: Thirty-seven years of music and friendship
With music and lyrics by JEANNIE CORSI and featuring vocals by JANET OXLEY
Jeannie Corsi comes originally from the Boston area where she began her musical studies at the New England Conservatory, continued at Sarah Lawrence College and eventually got her Master’s degree at Harvard University. She came to Canada at the time of the Vietnam War and has pursued a musical career as a teacher, performer and composer – living first in Montreal, then Prince Edward Island and since 1979 in Vancouver. She has two married children and three granddaughters.
After a 30-year dance career and a Masters degree in Dance, Janet Oxley came to Vancouver in 2005 where she now teaches English while also performing music in various venues. Janet first met Jeannie Corsi on Prince Edward Island in 1975. They worked together on several performances in Charlottetown, and shortly afterward, each went her separate way. Although they kept in touch and visited regularly in Vancouver, they did not work together again until this year. They are preparing a performance for a reunion of the P.E.I. community this August. Janet retired from performing in 2001 to take up teaching English as a Second Language which took her abroad until 2005. She has one daughter who lives in Vancouver. Janet began singing with the dance company she was with in the 1980s, Le Groupe. From there she studied music and voice at night and got a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts,. In 1988, she then began choreographing her own work, which used the dancers’ voices as they danced. She researched and commissioned choral works which she put to movement. This work continued and culminated in her Masters research at UQAM in 2000 – 2001.
Series 31: John H Spencer
June 8, 2012
The Most Beautiful Experience
Albert Einstein has famously written that “the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
What is beauty? Why does Einstein value the “mysterious”? What role does emotion or feeling play in the sciences? And what does it mean to say that there is “true art” and “true science”? Let us explore together some of the profound implications of these powerful words written by one of the greatest scientists in history.
Bio:
Dr. John H Spencer was awarded his PhD from the University of Liverpool in 2008, specializing in the Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Physics. His new book, The Eternal Law: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Modern Physics, and Ultimate Reality will be released at the end of June, and he will be giving a formal presentation for The Beacon Of Mind Conference at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on July 8, 2012.
TheEternalLaw.com
BeaconOfMind.com
The Most Beautiful Experience
Albert Einstein has famously written that “the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
What is beauty? Why does Einstein value the “mysterious”? What role does emotion or feeling play in the sciences? And what does it mean to say that there is “true art” and “true science”? Let us explore together some of the profound implications of these powerful words written by one of the greatest scientists in history.
Bio:
Dr. John H Spencer was awarded his PhD from the University of Liverpool in 2008, specializing in the Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Physics. His new book, The Eternal Law: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Modern Physics, and Ultimate Reality will be released at the end of June, and he will be giving a formal presentation for The Beacon Of Mind Conference at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on July 8, 2012.
TheEternalLaw.com
BeaconOfMind.com
Series 30: Daniel Conrad
May 18, 2012
A FIlm Screening
Accident by Design: Creating and Discovering Beauty (1998)
One of the deepest, most universal of all human responses is the experience of beauty. What is it? Beauty is found in painting, music, literature and dance; but also in natural wilderness, mathematical equations, the structure of biological organisms, physics, and the cosmos. "Accident by Design" looks for common principles. The film intercuts painting,sculpture, and dance with images from science and nature, and provocative interview clips. When forms of beauty from very diverse sources are brought together, the shared principles become visible.
Daniel Conrad, a filmmaker and writer, has Masters degrees in cinema and molecular immunology. He makes dance films and documentaries. His dance films look at the human organism confronting the alienated modern city and the natural wilderness. His documentary films focus on the aesthetic response, one of the most universal human traits. What awakens our sense of beauty? My personal response: Everything that makes life "beautiful" involves movement. The seasons, the tides, growth, development, aging, change. This coming Fall at the Kerrisdale Community Centre, we will screen some of his dance films, followed by a discussion. So come and meet the director and stay tuned for the film screening! ~ Editor-in-Chief
To watch movie trailers: http://www.rhodopsin.ca/films_en.html
A FIlm Screening
Accident by Design: Creating and Discovering Beauty (1998)
One of the deepest, most universal of all human responses is the experience of beauty. What is it? Beauty is found in painting, music, literature and dance; but also in natural wilderness, mathematical equations, the structure of biological organisms, physics, and the cosmos. "Accident by Design" looks for common principles. The film intercuts painting,sculpture, and dance with images from science and nature, and provocative interview clips. When forms of beauty from very diverse sources are brought together, the shared principles become visible.
Daniel Conrad, a filmmaker and writer, has Masters degrees in cinema and molecular immunology. He makes dance films and documentaries. His dance films look at the human organism confronting the alienated modern city and the natural wilderness. His documentary films focus on the aesthetic response, one of the most universal human traits. What awakens our sense of beauty? My personal response: Everything that makes life "beautiful" involves movement. The seasons, the tides, growth, development, aging, change. This coming Fall at the Kerrisdale Community Centre, we will screen some of his dance films, followed by a discussion. So come and meet the director and stay tuned for the film screening! ~ Editor-in-Chief
To watch movie trailers: http://www.rhodopsin.ca/films_en.html
Series 29: Linda Naiman, creativity and innovation expert
April 27, 2012
Art and Power
Where there is power, there is art. Where there is art, there is power. Explore the relationship between art and power from the Renaissance to present day. Linda Naiman presents a tapestry of art, images and ideas designed to inform and inspire, interspersed with thought provoking questions and dialogue.
We?ll discuss themes of power that have occurred in visual art from Michelangelo to Graffiti, how artists have changed our world view, and examine ways Popes, Kings, Queens, Emperors and corporate titans have used art to forward their agendas.
Creativity at Work
www.creativityatwork.com
Art and Power
Where there is power, there is art. Where there is art, there is power. Explore the relationship between art and power from the Renaissance to present day. Linda Naiman presents a tapestry of art, images and ideas designed to inform and inspire, interspersed with thought provoking questions and dialogue.
We?ll discuss themes of power that have occurred in visual art from Michelangelo to Graffiti, how artists have changed our world view, and examine ways Popes, Kings, Queens, Emperors and corporate titans have used art to forward their agendas.
Creativity at Work
www.creativityatwork.com
Series 28: Kevin Olafsson
March 30, 2012
Come listen Koto and Shamisen Performance and Talk
Come listen Koto and Shamisen Performance and Talk
About Kevin
In 1988, Kevin left Canada for Japan and began koto and shamisen lessons as a member of the Souchiku Kai, a school under the direction of Takemura Aiyako. In 2000, he left Tokyo for Honolulu to begin graduate studies in ethnomusicology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His research focused on the Iemoto Seido. He was a Graduate Assistant in the University of Hawaii Music Department and taught the shamisen portion of the Koto Ensemble class. He has been heard on Hawaii radio as a guest on Barbi Wong World Notes, and the late Glen Grant Japanese Ghost Stories as well as on TV KHON morning show. He regularly taught and performed both koto and shamisen and guest lectured at the UH music department. Kevin is especially proud of the University Laboratory School Japanese music ensemble, which he founded in co-operation with the Kimono Culture Class. Most recently he has performed in Vancouver for the Japan Canada Relief Fund and conducted a lecture workshop at Quest University.
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Series 27: Oliver Samonte
Feb 24, 2012
Oliver Samonte, aka Dr Recycle is coming back.!!
He will share his other passion, to set a world record, using one of his inventions. Oliver wishes to show how a memory game can be used to adapt to various interest of life. Please come for a brainstorming salon.
Oliver Samonte, aka Dr Recycle is coming back.!!
He will share his other passion, to set a world record, using one of his inventions. Oliver wishes to show how a memory game can be used to adapt to various interest of life. Please come for a brainstorming salon.
Series 26: Silvana Goldemberg
Feb 10, 2012
PLAYING WITH WORDS!
A hands-on workshop lead by Silvana Goldemberg Faifman, an award-winning Argentine-Canadian author of books and magazines published throughout Latin America and Canada.
Do you have great tales inside, but struggle writing them out?
Come and discover the pleasure of self expression by letting Silvana provide you with writing tips and help you get new ideas using music, pictures and games to create all forms of writing, in new and exciting ways.
PLAYING WITH WORDS!
A hands-on workshop lead by Silvana Goldemberg Faifman, an award-winning Argentine-Canadian author of books and magazines published throughout Latin America and Canada.
Do you have great tales inside, but struggle writing them out?
Come and discover the pleasure of self expression by letting Silvana provide you with writing tips and help you get new ideas using music, pictures and games to create all forms of writing, in new and exciting ways.
Series 25: Paul Toolan
Jan 27, 2012
Message from Paul
I first got bitten by the acting bug when I was in secondary school in England. The school put on a yearly production of a Shakespeare play and of course at first I was cast in supporting roles which gradually grew in size until I was cast as hylock in The Merchant of Venice. I attended university where I became a very active member of the dramatic society. The society put on at leastone production a year and took a play and a late night revue to the Edinburgh Festival fringe. I particularly enjoyed one year at the fringe when I played a sizeable cameo in the play Antigone by Jean Anouilh and then took part in the late night revue which had been written by a very talented graduate who was trying to make his way in the show business scene in London. For a while after I graduated I combined teaching and acting at The Mountview theatre club in north London which put on amateur theatre of a high quality. After I emigrated to Canada I continued to teach and took part in the amateur theatre scene in Winnipeg. Then I married and had a family and decided to commit myself fully to teaching. Only recently since I came to Vancouver as a retired teacher have I revisited my theatrical self. I¹ve taken part in several productions over the last few years and finally decided to put together a one person show which explores Shakespeare¹s life and times and how they are reflected in his plays.
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Message from Paul
I first got bitten by the acting bug when I was in secondary school in England. The school put on a yearly production of a Shakespeare play and of course at first I was cast in supporting roles which gradually grew in size until I was cast as hylock in The Merchant of Venice. I attended university where I became a very active member of the dramatic society. The society put on at leastone production a year and took a play and a late night revue to the Edinburgh Festival fringe. I particularly enjoyed one year at the fringe when I played a sizeable cameo in the play Antigone by Jean Anouilh and then took part in the late night revue which had been written by a very talented graduate who was trying to make his way in the show business scene in London. For a while after I graduated I combined teaching and acting at The Mountview theatre club in north London which put on amateur theatre of a high quality. After I emigrated to Canada I continued to teach and took part in the amateur theatre scene in Winnipeg. Then I married and had a family and decided to commit myself fully to teaching. Only recently since I came to Vancouver as a retired teacher have I revisited my theatrical self. I¹ve taken part in several productions over the last few years and finally decided to put together a one person show which explores Shakespeare¹s life and times and how they are reflected in his plays.
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