INSTITUT 011 | concert | TOLEDANO (NS)

Moroccan-Sephardic cello-looping with intimate voice notes tracking a woman's journey through confusion, lust, grief, birth and death
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Moroccan-Sephardic cello-looping with intimate voice notes tracking a woman's journey through confusion, lust, grief, birth and death.

Vol 11: TOLEDANO traces how expectations, care, desire, and survival are passed down — and where they get interrupted. Moving between intimacy and inheritance, Blanche Israël draws on voices from her family, including her 105-year-old grandmother and her young daughter.

This is the heart of VOLUME 11 of the INSTITUT experiment. Every week, a different hypothesis. Underground at 620 Spadina Ave - around the back, through the lot to the steel doors, down the stairs, past the mechanical room, through the swinging wood laminate door...

Come early for the panel TANGO, FEVER, PAINT with NATALKA HUSAR x OKSANA HAWRYLAK at 5PM. Stay for PAJAROS KILTROS at 9PM and JUANA GO-GÓ on vinyl at 11PM. But RSVP even though it's PWYC so we know who to expect.

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5:30 PM | PANEL | TANGO, FEVER, PAINT — NATALKA HUSAR x OKSANA HAWRYLAK

7:30 PM | CONCERT | TOLEDANO (NS)

9:30 PM | CONCERT | PAJAROS KILTROS (CL)

11:00 PM | VINTAGE VINYL | JUANA GO-GÓ

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TOLEDANO is the immersive solo project of Moroccan-Canadian composer and multi-instrumentalist Blanche Israël, known for her award-winning collaborations with Jeremy Dutcher (JUNO Award, NPR Tiny Desk Concert, Polaris Prize). Rooted in Judeo-Spanish languages and songs, the project reimagines ancestral melodies through cello, electronics, and archival voice recordings. Drawing on deeply personal recordings alongside voices from her family — including her 105-year-old grandmother and her young daughter — TOLEDANO unfolds as a meditation on love, autonomy, motherhood, and the quiet labour of breaking cycles without severing lineage.