Sound/Song/Story

Seemingly insubstantial yet nonexistent without a medium to give it a way from maker to hearer (even when maker and hearer are one and the same), its material vibrations creating anything from noise and nonsense to harshly or harmonically searching significance, sound has astonishing reach and power. The rumble of thunder is the most obvious example of its resounding non- or extra-human potential, but the resonance of human sound can also shake the world, as well as bridge the immeasurable space between oneself and others, especially when that sounding is shaped through heightened speech into song and story. You are invited to join d’bi.young anitafrika, Wayde Compton, Sonnet L’Abbé, and Paul db Watkins for performances and conversation embodying and enlarging on the wide-ranging power of human sound to make, unmake, and remake the ways in which we might feel, engage with, and know ourselves, others, and the world around us.

Curated by The Malahat Review

Moderated by Iain Higgins

IMPORTANT DETAILS:

1.) Doors open at 1:30. Seating is not assigned.

2 .) For accessibility information please refer to the "accessibility" tab at victoriafestivalofauthors.ca.

3 .) There is no general parking at the theatre. Free parking is available on side streets (Moss Street, Linden Avenue, and Fort Street), as well as the Central Middle School parking lot on Fort Street. Please abide by parking signs; do not park where it is posted Residential Only, as you may be ticketed. Please give yourself plenty of time to find parking before your event.

4.) Contact VFA by September 30 for ASL interpretation or captioninf.

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