Talking by Andy Horvath from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)
This event is organized by Dr. Freya Zinovieff and Vancouver New Music, and is endorsed by the Collaborative + Experimental Ethnography Lab.
LISTENING AS ACTIVISM
ROundtable DISCUSSION with Renae Morriseau (Cree/Anishinaabe), HARSHA WALIA (VANCOUVER), ildegard Westerkamp (Vancouver), and Freya Zinovieff (UBCO)
Date: Saturday, April 11, 2026 @ 6:30 PST.
Location: Annex (823 Seymour Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 3L4)
OVERVIEW
Listening as Activism explores how deep listening can be a form of resistance and social engagement in our noise-saturated world. In what ways might our individual and collective listening be aimed towards activism, and what might this look, sound and feel like? The evening opens with a roundtable discussion with Renae Morriseau, Harsha Walia, Hildegard Westerkamp and Freya Zinovieff, followed by performances by M’Girl Music and Kiki Connelly & the Understory. Throughout the event, the moving-image works of Métis/Cree filmmaker Gregory Coyes will feature his concept of Slow Media, a decolonized media and exploration of the Indigenous sense of cinematic time.
Roundtable contributors:
Renae Morriseau (Cree/Anishinaabe)
Harsha Walia (Vancouver)
Hildegard Westerkamp (Vancouver)
On Curation Mentorship Project
This event is part of On Curation, a two-year mentorship project led by Vancouver New Music that supports experimental and forward-thinking approaches to sound and music curation. Mentors have been paired with emerging Canadian curators with a focus on deep, one-on-one exchanges that explore new models of curatorial practice to generate accessible and socially engaged programming.
