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Conceived in disparate locations during desperate times, we welcome multiple voices into our creative process through audio diaries and dance videos. Seven days, seven entries, seven drastically different lived experiences.

Bubble Life coalesces in a participatory performance installation September 23 & 24 mixing song, movement, bubble play, video, sound collage and live music. Lead artists: Juliet Palmer & Julia Aplin. Guest artists include: vocalist Andrea Kuzmich and dancer Meryem Alaoui.

Together, we ask, what just happened? How we can move forward with grace and generosity?

Video Installation Credits
Choreographer: Julia Aplin
Composer: Juliet Palmer
Diary artists: Cal Burgess, Toni & Ruth Howard, Tuka Yousef, Sarah Kim, Marie Kraynz, DM LaFortune, Akosua Amo-Adem


Performance/Exhibition Schedule During The Geary Artist Crawl - Sept 23 and Sept 24!

Saturday, Sept 23rd

12-11 PM  Bubble Life Video/Audio Exhibition in CSV gallery
2 & 3 PM  Meryem Alaoui dances between the fragility of bubbles, earth & sky
4-6 PM     Bubble play
6:00 PM   Bubbly moves led by choreographer Julia Aplin
7:00 PM   Bubble choir led by composer Juliet Palmer
8:00 PM   Bubbly moves
9:00 PM   Bubble choir
10:00 PM Ephemeral bubble songs with vocalist Andrea Kuzmich

Sunday, Sept 24th

12-8pm Bubble Life Video/Audio Exhibition in CSV gallery
3 & 4 PM Brodie Stevenson dances between the fragility of bubbles, earth & sky


Bios:
Juliet Palmer's music has come to life under a highway off-ramp, in a swimming pool, in the plastic flotsam of a remote beach and in concert halls across North America, Europe and Oceania. Originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, Juliet makes her home in Toronto where she is artistic director of Urbanvessel, a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration.

Recent works: fire break, (Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra) a song for forests past and future; Choreography of Trauma (for The Element Choir, Continuum ensemble and video) celebrates the thousands of small gestures that save a life; Oil & Water (for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra) chronicles the ecological and political watershed; and Ukiyo, floating world (Urbanvessel and Thin Edge New Music) follows the drift of ideas and plastic across oceans. Recordings include: small excesses (Atoll ); rivers, (Barnyard Records); and Sweat, a feature film of her a cappella opera with libretto by Anna Chatterton, directed by Jennifer Nichols with cinematographer Ash Tailor (Bicycle Opera).

Juliet was composer-in-residence at the New Zealand School of Music and Orchestra Wellington (2011/12), and an OAC Artist-in-Residence at Sunnybrook Research Institute (2018). She is a Chalmers Arts Fellow (2018-19), and finalist for the Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize (2019 and 2021). Juliet holds a PhD in composition from Princeton University and an M.Mus in performance, composition and time-based art from Auckland University.

Julia Aplin is a collaborative interdisciplinary artist with a foundation in movement and dance. She has created work for rivers, boxing rings, theatres and cyberspace. Her synchro duet for kiddie pools won her the Dusk Dances Audience choice Award. She has created performance work with the poetry of Lorna Crozier, the story telling of Tom Allen and verbatim text with #7Love. From string quartets to brass bands, Julia creates new work with musicians and continues to teach and mentor collaboration across Canada. She was a resident artist at the LIVElab exploring the intersection of art, science and technology with Double Pendulum Collective and McMaster University scientists.

www.juliaaplin.com
www.urbanvessel.com
www.julietpalmer.ca