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Public Workshop: Intersections of Choral Music and Muslim World
October 22, 2017 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
In this workshop, Hussein Janmohamed and Shireen Abu-Khader, University of Toronto PhD candidates in the School of Music, will share their research, expertise and passion for using music as a narrative for cultural identity. This workshop will explore the musical intersections amongst diverse peoples, and how choral music’s innate ability to bring people together can be a medium for mediating the encounters with difference. Questions to be explored include: How can we find similarities in other cultures, and in turn strengthen our own identity? How do we add to the richness of a tapestry?
This workshop will present and draw on Arabic Choral music from the Levant and new Canadian choral music emerging through a conversation with the Muslim world. The workshop leaders will demonstrate approaches for getting to know the music through a spirit of openness, willingness to discover the unknown, quest for social justice and an ethic of musical hospitality.
A free will offering will help support the travel costs for our guest speakers.
At 7:00pm Saturday, and 2:30pm on the Sunday, the AVHC will present their concert “Shall We Dream” with these two special guests, Hussam Al Assaf (a Syrian musician, newly arrived to Nova Scotia), and new families to the valley! Please join us for the concert as well!!! Event details here: