Celebrating the Art of Listening, Open Ears aims to go beyond the fixed thinking of fixed seats and represent a diversity of sonic experiences.

Open Ears presents a biennial festival in the Waterloo Region, and targeting programming in between festival years. Active since 1998, it has become one of North America’s premier festivals of creative music and sound. Past guests have included DJ Spooky, Diamanda Galas, Shary Boyle, Frederic Rzewski, Colin Stetson and Ikue Mori.

This is the second festival that has been run in partnership with CAFKA – Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area , which celebrates art in public
spaces.

Musagetes, Silence, and IICSI present Roger Dean’s MultiPiano solo and computer-interactive piano improvisation with interactive video show at Silence.

Douglas R. Ewart is hosting an instrument building workshop at Musagetes. It is a chance to experience Douglas’ approach to instrument building and construct something to play at the event, if you’d like to and meet other interested participants.

The workshop is free, family friendly and the venue is wheelchair accessible.

Composer, sculptor, maker of masks and IICSI’s 2015-16 Improviser-In-Residence Douglas R. Ewart will be hosting an instrument building workshop at The Button Factory. Participants will have the opportunity to make their own percussion instruments and make music together. The workshop is free and family friendly.

The artistic collective Medea Electronique is seeking applications from: dancers, performers, video artists, installation artists, sound artists and composers of electronic music for their annual 10-day experimental artist residency Koumaria.

Epistrophy, a jazz journal published by The International Association for the Study of Popular Music UK and Ireland Branch is soliciting submissions for a new issue: no 2: Playing (at) jazz. Authors are invited to reflect upon: Jazz’s game rules: what attitude does the jazz musician adopt when faced with his/her own rules? How does…

Organizing Equality is an international conference hosted by members of the Faculty of Information and Media Studies and the Initiative for the Study of Social and Economic Inequality at the University of Western Ontario, planned for 24 – 26 March 2017. Its goal is to bring organizers, scholars, public educators, artists, media producers and advocates…