hum - A 15 min outdoor micro-opera
Schedule
Sat, 02 May, 2026 at 02:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
2517 Sturdies Bay Road , Galiano Island, BC, Canada, British Columbia V0N 1P0 | Galiano Island, BC
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Join us to see what our artists in residency have been working on. Saturday, May 2 @2pm
All Ages / PWYC / By Donation
tickets here: https://www.yellowhouseartcentre.ca/events/hum-performance
hum - A 15 min outdoor micro-opera; a sonic nest built of electronics, vocals and costume
Be still; a soon-to-be Mother is building her nest. An imaginative sound world draws you in as a female “Anna’s Hummingbird,” prepares for new life.
hum is a new pollinator-oriented micro-opera, blending electronics, vocals, and poetry en plein air. Soprano Anna Bigland-Pritchard (Gay4Nature Collective’s Green, Rick Waines’ i am beauty, and looping project rose house) and composer Jami Reimer (Soft Tongues, and Here You Are Singing) are building a sonic & visual nest to nurture & delight.
An initial May 2026 tour is possible thanks to funding from Canada Council for the Arts, a residency at the Yellow House Art Centre, and an invitation to perform at Burnaby Blooms. Performances will take place May 2 (Galiano Island), May 3 (Burnaby), and May 10 (Victoria).
Learn more about hum at www.abpcreative.ca . You can find Anna on Instagram at @itme.abp and Jami @jamisreimer
Anna Bigland-Pritchard (She/they)
Igniting her music and community leadership with a contagious and inspiring passion for social justice, climate justice, mindfulness, and art-making for all, Anna Bigland-Pritchard (she/they) is a creative interdisciplinary vocal artist. Working as a singer, voice teacher, music director, and Expressive Arts Practitioner, Anna is passionate about using any medium available to empower creative, resilient, and resonant communities. Anna grew up in England, Treaty 6 (Saskatchewan), and Treaty 1 (Winnipeg MB). She currently lives on the unceded territories of the lekwungen speaking peoples (Victoria BC). Anna has a Bachelor of Music from Canadian Mennonite University, a Post-bacc in Performance from the University of Manitoba, and will complete a Certificate in Expressive Arts through the WHEAT Institute in 2026. Anna is co-creator of Gay4Nature Collective, an indie opera+ collective that recontextualizes the classical western canon through a queer and ecological lens. Gay4Nature’s Canada Council for the Arts-funded short film Green has won awards internationally. Resourced by studies in Expressive Arts Therapy, in addition to her classical voice and musical theatre training, Anna shares her vulnerable and joyful singing with great generosity. Through performing, producing, directing, teaching, and connecting, Anna seeks to influence and interrupt culture for the benefit of Mother Earth, via the sneaky power of creativity.
Jami Reimer (she/her)
Jami Reimer is a musician, performance maker, composer, and educator originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba on Treaty 1 Territory. From solo singing to choral music to field recording practices, Jami explores voice— human and otherwise. In 2023, Jami was awarded the Robert Fleming Prize for composition from the Canada Council of the Arts for her ongoing project Soft tongues: a bioacoustic opera which explores wetland soundscapes, choir, and amphibian chorusing. Jami’s original work has been performed locally and internationally, including Pavão Cultural (Campinas, Brazil), rEvolver Festival (Upintheair Theatre, Vancouver), and Sweet November Dance Company (The American School in Switzerland). Stay tuned for upcoming 2026 releases of both Soft tongues, as well as her debut EP as a singer-songwriter! Jami currently resides on the stolen traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations known as Vancouver.
Sarah Ens (She/her)
Sarah Ens is a poet and essayist based in Winnipeg, Treaty 1 territory and the homeland of the Red River Metis. The author of two books of poetry, The World Is Mostly Sky (Turnstone Press, 2020) and the award-winning long poem Flyway (Turnstone Press, 2022), Sarah's writing practice is informed and inspired by articulations of home. She holds a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and an MFA in Writing from the University of Saskatchewan and has published poetry and essays in magazines including The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, Arc Poetry Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2, and Room Magazine. Her work has won the ReList Award for Poetry, The New Quarterly's Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest, and Room Magazine's Short Forms Contest, and been shortlisted for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry, and the Margaret McWilliams Award. A freelance editor and copyeditor, Sarah is also a book publicist for University of Manitoba Press. She lives and writes in the Red River Valley with her husband, daughter, and cat.
This performance event is being hosted on the unceded, asserted & shared traditional territories of Penelakut, Lamalcha, Hwlitsum and other Hul’qumi’num and SENĆOŦEN speaking peoples, Coast Salish Peoples of Galiano, as well as the ceded territories of Tsawwassen First Nation, on what is now known as Galiano Island.
Supported by CRD Arts & Culture, BC Arts Council and the Province of British Columbia
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2517 Sturdies Bay Road , Galiano Island, BC, Canada, British Columbia V0N 1P0Event Location & Nearby Stays:
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