Matt Foster performs live in collaboration with painter Kyle Scheurmann, director and visual artist Connie Oreamuno, and contemporary dancer Sophie Dow. Join these four artists as they simultaneously create and explore new spaces at the intersection of movement, sound, and visual arts. With a reverent attention to time and space, each artist brings their creative practice into this workshop to discover realms hidden in the liminal places between mediums. These paintings come to life and become a forest. These are songs you can walk right into.
This performance will be livestreamed from Nusqool on Friday November 5 from 7-8pm. Performance starting at 7:15pm. Join us, free of charge!
Biographies
Matt Foster
Never quite what you’d expect, Matt Foster is truly unplaceable. Matt moves the room, stirring something in the crowd, without drawing any attention. The music grinds, pops and surprises. At turns soft and lilting, at turns careening out of lane.
Each song is a snapshot, a short scene in a novel. A glimpse in on a moment, or a feeling, a character. Each song is a spell ready to draw magic out, around, and up close. Matt is deliberate and takes great care carving out the shape and contours of a thing, be it song, performance, or conversation, but invites you in yourself, to feel around, to find the lightswitch maybe. The words call you back for second listens.
Queer love. Love in cars and fields! Dying somewhere you’d want to die.
Listening and hearing a lover and seeing them truly.
The end of frustration! Saying it out loud. Pissing in the wind. NBD.
Kyle Scheurmann
Kylescheurmann.com
@kylescheurmann on Instagram
Kyle Scheurmann is a painter and canoeist living on Treaty 3. He is also a two-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation painting award and the 2018 Emily Carr University graduate studies valedictorian. Recently, Scheurmann has had solo exhibitions at Angell Gallery in Toronto and Elissa Cristall Gallery in Vancouver. His work has been featured in group exhibitions around the world, notably in Germany, Norway and New York. Scheurmann’s practice is contingent on extensive travel, relying on experiential research of the earth’s diverse ecosystems and interdisciplinary collaborations with musicians and poets.
Connie Oreamuno
Connie Oreamuno is a Toronto-based visual artist intrigued by fusion style choreography and multi-media arts practices involving digital art, photography and film. She is a graduate of York University's BFA in Dance program. She has merged her choreographic practices with projection design and dance film. She looks forward to continuing interdisciplinary collaboration across artistic communities.
Sophie Dow
Winnipeg-born Sophie Dow is a multidisciplinary creative, inspired by dance, music, collaboration and Métis-Assiniboine + settler roots. An avid adventurer, Sophie has a passion for busking, yoga and traveling on top of holding a degree in Dance Performance and Choreography. With a unique list of credits deeply impacting personal process and vocabulary, Sophie’s had the great fortune of working with some of Turtle Island’s wonderful dance innovators, including Chimera Dance Theatre, Kaeja d'Dance & O.Dela Arts. Presently Sophie is a creative director of Prince Edward County’s Flight Festival of Contemporary Dance, choreographer for Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto, in residence with Dance West & Raven Spirit Dance, writes music with The Honeycomb Flyers and is a licensed practitioner of Traditional Thai Massage.
Residency at Dance West