CASSA E-Updates Issue 01

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CASSA NEWSLETTER 
 Issue: 01      January 23, 2012

In this Issue: 

 

 

1.    Message from the Executive Director
2.   Project Updates
3.   Volunteer Opportunities
4.   Membership

 

Message from the Executive Director

 Dear Friends:

 

On behalf of CASSA team, I wish you a very happy and productive 2012. With the start of the new year, our projects have started in full swing and we have a number of activities lined up   in the next few months e.g. workshops for youth, forum for seniors, building capacity report launch, etc. There is immense scope for the volunteers to gain valuable skills by getting involved in our projects and we encourage all individuals to contact us if they wish to be part of our projects. Our Racism -free Ontario Campaign has already completed 40 days and we hope that many more organizations and individuals will be able to join us in our fight against racism. We will continue to inform you of our significant events and developments through regular e-updates and thank you for your continued support and participation in working with us on social justice issues.

 

 In Solidarity,

 

Neethan Shan

 

Executive Director – CASSA

 

NAfro Dance In Toronto

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There is Room for one more dance

Winnipeg’s only African Contemporary Dance Company NAfro Dance will be showcasing its latest dance piece “There is room for one more dance” at the 24th Annual International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) Conference and Festival in Toronto, Canada on January 26th 2012. NAfro Dance will be sharing the stage with nine Canadian dance companies as well as dance companies from the US, UK, Germany, France, Grenada and Jamaica. Choreographed by NAfro’s Artistic Director Casimiro Nhussi, “There is room for one more dance” will feature nine talented Winnipeg artists; Casimiro Nhussi, Paula Blair, Helene Le Moullec Mancini, Nicole Coppens, Paige Lewis, Robyn Thomson Kacki, Jay Stoller, Cam MacLean and Ewingi B. Kiki. This is second time NAfro Dance performing at this international event. For more information of this festival visit www.danceimmersion.ca

Mitchell Akiyama at Gendai Workstation opens January 20 Friday

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Ur-sound
Or, the noise no writing can store
Mitchell Akiyama

January 20 – February 21, 2012
Regular hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11am-6pm

Join us for the opening on Friday, January 20 from 8pm to 12am.

Rainer Maria Rilke imagines running the needle of a phonograph along the coronal suture of a skull, an act he believes might release a primal sound, a phonographic inscription scrawled across the bones that had, until then, remained hidden and mute. The eighteenth century German physicist, Ernst Chladni discovers that acoustic vibrations cause patterns to form in the sand strewn across a metal plate, the delicate arabesques suggesting sound has a misunderstood materiality. Thomas Edison, slightly hard of hearing despite his young age, sits at his desk and bites down on the wooden mount supporting his prototype for a machine that can both record and play back sound. The bone structure of his teeth, jaw, and cranial cavities amplify the vibrations and restore some of the hearing that his ears no longer provide. Similarly, Ludwig van Beethoven, now all but deaf, bites into a wooden rod attached to the soundboard of his piano, accessing the tactile sonority of the instrument. Twentieth century seismologists convert the raw data of the movement of tectonic plates into sound in order to better understand the power of earthquakes. The quiet shivering of the earth occasionally displays a jagged spike on a computer screen, an event that sounds like a bomb. Continue reading →