Engaging with Arts: November 2024
November brings a fresh wave of artistic expression, inviting audiences to engage with the city’s rich creative landscape. From captivating performances to immersive exhibitions, this month’s events are sure to inspire and ignite the senses. Join us as we explore the vibrant artistic pulse of the city through these unmissable November highlights!
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Nov 7-9
Assembly Hall
Rakeem Hardy and Tanveer Alam will culminate their residencies by presenting new choreographic works on an exhilarating shared programme. Two new compelling dance works in one exhilarating programme: running from and towards by Rakeem Hardy, and Muhandis by Tanveer Alam.
courtesy TOES FOR DANCE
Nov 8 - 9
Harbourfront Centre Theatre
The program features dance works by acclaimed dance artists Lina Cruz, Olga Barrios and Jose Angel Carret with Johanna Bergfelt; a new dance created by Nicola Pantin for this year’s Community Performance Project, featuring 21 mature dance enthusiasts; and a premiere initiative - Crossing the Streams, a collaboration between artists of diverging disciplines, blind writer and theatre artist, Alex Bulmer with renowned interpreter Danielle Baskerville.
Nov 15 - 16
The Citadel
Featuring works by MC²; B. Solomon; and Meryem Alaoui and Gita Hashem with wind in the leaves collective member charles c. smith. Presenter-in-residence, wind in the leaves collective, returns with part one of their three-part performance series allies and friends. Themed “tongues entwined”, this season the series features Black and diverse artists working in multi-and-inter-arts forms involving poetry/dance/music for an evening of intimate and insightful performances.Nov 27 - 30
The Citadel
Set to Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for The End of Time and performed live by the musicians of Echo Chamber, Contes pour la fin du temps (Tales for the End of Time) explores the concept of artistic expression amidst isolation, inviting audiences to ponder the interconnectedness of circumstance and the act of creation.
Image by Jeremy Mimnagh
Nov 29
Fleck Dance Theatre
A culmination of generations of artistic and cultural work, Raven Mother is a tangible remembrance of a woman’s spirit that interweaves movement, song, regalia, sculpture, and design with the embodied narrative. Raven Mother illuminates the profound leadership of mothers, their essential contribution in this resurgence, and the force and transformation of this awakening.
Image by Chris Randle