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Jazz is all about coming up with creative solutions to musical challenges. In 2021, the folks behind Vancouver’s jazz festival have taken that to heart.
After the pandemic led to the cancellation of the 2020 event, this year’s edition will feature more than 100 virtual events. Among them are 52 free performances, six interactive workshops and the annual festival Colloquium, presented in partnership with the Western Front, UBC and the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation.
The free program includes daily concerts running from noon to 4:30 p.m., and will be streamed from Ocean Art Works (noon and 1:30 p.m.), Performance Works on Granville Island (2:30 p.m.) and the Ironworks in Railtown (4:30 p.m.).
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THERE is no doubt that we live in challenging times. But challenges can also lead to opportunities and lessons about how we might live our lives differently. Referencing the life-changing moment in which we are living, author and activist Arundhati Roy writes: “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.”
Music, too, has long been an important catalyst for imagining, and indeed often enacting, new ways of living together in the world. Social theorist Jacques Attali famously wrote in his book
There is no doubt that we live in challenging times. But challenges can also lead to opportunities and lessons about how we might live our lives differently. Referencing the life-changing moment in which we are living, author and activist Arundhati Roy writes: “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.”
Music, too, has long been an important catalyst for imagining, and indeed often enacting, new ways of living together in the world. Social theorist Jacques Attali famously wrote in his book