THE CANVAS OF LIGHT AND SOUND
SATURday, 22 FEBRUARY 2025 | DOORS AT 19:00, IMMERSION FROM 19:30
This is a Ticketed event
Multidisciplinary artists Ahmed Maher, Tami Murray, Stuart Retallack, and Jessica Charter create an immersive experience combining live music, live painting, digital projections, tea, and conversation. They promise a deeply communal journey, exploring themes of identity, loss, the bridges between past and present, community, tradition, and transformation.
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MICHAEL AVERILL
THURSday, 27 FEBRUARY 2025 | DOORS AT 18:30, Music FROM 19:00
This is a GIFT ECONOMY EVENT.
Michael Averill is a gifted songwriter, buttery multi-instrumentalist, and enthralling storyteller. He is both peripatetic and deeply rooted, touring four continents and every centimetre of Canada over the past 20 years (okay, not every centimetre, but a lot of them!) and serving as a mentor, producer, cheerleader, and inspiration to singer songwriters in the communities where he has lived. Michael will be joined by Vancouver’s Diane Barbarash.
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THE LOSTALGIA SHOW: Film Screening
SATURday, 1 March 2025 | DOORS AT 19:30, Film FROM 20:00
This is a gift economy event
Maybe you were lucky enough to experience Adewolf’s “The Lostalgia Show” in June 2024 at Fortune Sound Club. If not — or if you want to relive the magic — this film brings it to the screen for you, capturing the magic of Adewolf’s unique blend of Afrobeats, R&B, and hip-hop, and immersive storytelling. Featuring special appearances by Bo Henrik, Mar Emanuel, Fionn, Yvonne Kushe, Shelalai, Rudy Ray, The Super Trib3 Band, and Higher Grounds Dance Collective.
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SCOTT COOK & PAMELA MAE
SUNday, 2 March 2025 | DOORS AT 19:00, MUSIC FROM 19:30
This is a gift economy event
We love all the artists who play at Notional Space equally, as one does — except for the ones we love more than anything. We’re not saying Scott and Pamela fall into that latter group, nor are we denying it; we leave it to you to wonder why we mention this. The fact that they are vastly lovely people who, in 2023, gave one of the great live folk performances we’ve ever witnessed may or may not be relevant information for you to consider. Scott describes his songs as “equal part introspection and insurrection”; but we’d add that the songs are tightly, smartly written and performed with a spare, intimate beauty. Are these Albertans touring Scott’s seventh album, Tangle of Souls, or pre-touring their forthcoming work, Troubadourly Yours? That is also for you to decide.
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ÉPICO: Pilgrimage to Belém, a fun(d)raiser
SUNDAY, 9 MARCH 2025 | FUN AND FUNDRAISING FROM 15:00 to 19:00
This is a BENEFIT
Vancouver’s Emilie Teresa Smith — environmental activist, Anglican priest, and goodnik– will be making a very long trip to attend this year’s COP30 in Belém, Brasil, gateway to the critically imperilled Amazonia region. It will also be arduous: a three month flightless, carless pilgrimage to share the message of environmental responsibility and climate justice, and participate in climate activism at the conference. This fundraiser will help to get her there.
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TSUNAGARI TAIKO
FRIDAY, 11 APRIL 2025 | DOORS at 19:30, Music at 20:00
This is a gift economy event
Tsunagari Taiko features two superbly powerful, balletic drummers, Koji Hada of Aichi-based Wadaiko Unit KOH and Keita Kanazashi of the Tokyo-based HA•YA•TO. You may recall Keita’s thrilling performance here last spring, alongside tsugaru shamisen shredder Hanawa Chie. This will be absolute thunder!
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