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June 22, 2023 June 29, 2023
With a formal education in creative writing, Bruce began wood carving in the early 1990s, working in the forest industry, and later entering a career in public service. Now retired, Bruce's passion for wood carving has flourished.
View Bruce's sculptures on The Avenue Gallery's website: https://theavenuegallery.com/artists/sculptors/edmundson-bruce/
The Avenue Gallery, 2184 Oak Bay Avenue, Victoria, BC V8R 1G3
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June 29, 2023 02:00 AM
https://jazzvictoria.ca/will-bonness-quintet/
$39 (service charges may apply)
Winner of the 2022 Juno Award for “Jazz Album of the Year (solo)”, and “Jazz Artist of the Year” at the 2022 Western Canada Music Awards, Winnipeg-based Will Bonness has been active on the international jazz scene for two decades. He has performed at many of the major jazz festivals in North America, as well as in the world’s most prestigious venues, with such luminaries as Avishai Cohen, Quincy Davis, and Jimmy Greene, among others. His performance career has led him to spend substantial time in New York City, where he has played at the Blue Note, Smalls, and Dizzy’s. With three releases to his credit: Subtle Fire (2009), Halcyon (2016), and Change of Plans (2020), Bonness has also appeared as an accompanist on almost 30 albums, many of which have been nominated for or won Juno and Western Canada Music Awards. Change of Plans has received international critical acclaim, and nearly a million streams on Spotify. Catch Will Bonness and his quintet live at TD JazzFest 2023! Virginia MacDonald clarinet, Jocelyn Gould vocals/guitar, Jonathan Chapman bass, Curtis Nowosad drums
Thanks to Canada Council for the Arts
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June 29, 2023 02:30 AM
TD Victoria International JazzFest Presents: BADBADNOTGOOD
Wednesday, June 28| Royal Theatre | 7:30pm
$85/$69/$53.50
https://jazzvictoria.ca/badbadnotgood/
“No group has embraced the median zone between hip-hop and jazz as prolifically as Toronto four-piece BADBADNOTGOOD.” – NPR
Toronto-based Grammy award-winning jazz ensemble BADBADNOTGOOD makes expansive music that straddles the line between ’70s soul-jazz, alternative hip-hop, and experimental electronica. Since gaining attention for hip hop covers in the early 2010s, they have balanced working on their own original songs, as on 2016’s album, IV. The group combines jazz musicianship with a hip hop production perspective and have collaborated with such artists as Tyler, The Creator, Daniel Caesar, Kendrick Lamar, and more. They been nominated for four Grammy Awards, winning two for “Best Rap Album” 2018 and “Best Progressive R&B Album” 2021, as a producer. Their latest, fifth solo album, Talk Memory, is a mostly improvisational work, produced and written by the band with contributions from featured American instrumentalists Laraaji, Karriem Riggins, Terrace Martin, and Brandee Younger.
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June 29, 2023 04:15 AM
https://jazzvictoria.ca/brandee-younger-trio/
$42 (service charges may apply)
“No harpist thus far has been more capable of combining all of the modern harp traditions — from Salzedo, through Dorothy Ashby, through Alice Coltrane — with such strength, grace and commitment.” - Ravi Coltrane, The New York Times
A leading voice of the harp, Brandee Younger has performed and recorded across countless genres with artists including John Legend, The Roots, Lauryn Hill, Common, Pharoah Sanders, Ravi Coltrane, Ron Carter, and Charlie Haden. She recently made history at the 2022 Grammy Awards as the first Black female solo artist nominated in the “Best Instrumental Composition” category for her song “Beautiful Is Black." The mesmerizing track is from her 2021 critically well-received major label debut album, Somewhere Different, that also received a 2022 NAACP Image Award nomination for “Outstanding Jazz Album – Instrumental.” Additionally, her original composition “Hortense” was featured in the Netflix Concert-Documentary, Beyoncé: Homecoming, and in 2019, the tireless musician was selected to perform her original music as a featured performer for Quincy Jones and Steve McQueens’ “Soundtrack of America.” Her ability to seamlessly inject the harp into arrangements and venues where it has historically been overlooked is a testament to her deep love for and exemplary command of the instrument. Her latest 2023 album, Brand New Life, includes features by Makaya McCraven, Meshell N’degeocello and Mumu Fresh, and she’ll play songs from that record and more with her trio, Allan Mednard drums and Rahsaan Carter bass.
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April 29, 2023 05:00 PM October 23, 2023 12:00 AM
Curated by Charles Campbell, Michelle Jacques & Denise Ryner
While Black: a forum for speculation on what the gallery can’t hold is a multi-year series of forums, talks, and public presentations developed and organized by Black curators from across Canada in conversation with artists to consider both the limits and possibilities of the relationship between contemporary art spaces in Canada and Black art, artists, arts workers, and audiences. This project is a collaboration between Or Gallery, the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, and the AGGV, and is organized by Charles Campbell, Michelle Jacques and Denise Ryner in consultation with Pamela Edmonds, Alyssa Fearon, Dominique Fontaine, Sally Frater, Bushra Junaid, Crystal Mowry, Allison Yearwood.
In 2021, the curators asked each artist to produce a document of their relationship to the art gallery and its systems of representation as Black artists working in Canada, including consideration of the project query what the gallery can’t hold? Through multimodal and multimedia responses, these ten artists offered questions, imperatives, proposals and insight into their own experiences within contemporary art institutions. Since While Black was intended to initiate conversation and exchange between artists, curators and audiences, space to talk, respond and introduce new questions and ideas into the project is an important element within the presentation space. Artists in the iteration at the AGGV present questions, imperatives, narratives, and proposals to initiate exchange on the space for Black art in public culture with local respondents, collaborating curators and gallery visitors. As well as three exhibitions of these projects at Or Gallery (Vancouver), Confederation Centre Art Gallery (Charlottetown), and now the AGGV, While Black has also included two discursive gatherings in Montreal and Saskatoon.
Artists include: Lucie Chan (Vancouver, BC), Karma Clarke-Davis (Toronto, ON/Berlin, Germany), Kemi Craig (Victoria, BC), Spatial Esk (Toronto, ON), Stanley Février (Montréal, QC), Iyunade Judah (Winnipeg, MB), Anna Jane McIntyre (Montreal, QC), Chukwudubem Ukaigwe (Winnipeg, MB), Jan Wade (Vancouver, BC), Valérie D. Walker (Vancouver, BC).
Exhibition runs April 29, 2023 - October 22, 2023
Image Credit: Iyunade Judah, Bond, 2019, digital print
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