TREMOLO: Tremors Festival Launch Party

About Tremolo Launch Party

Come hang out with the Rumbler’s on May 25th for our Tremors Launch Party!

Get to know the artists in this year’s Tremors Festival, and share some bevvies with friends and community members, while munching on delicious tacos.

Lineup:

4:00 pm – Part 1: Reading of excerpts from a new experimental work by Elio Zarrillo (If We Be Friends)

BREAK – FREE TACOS and a cash bar!

7:00 pm – Part 2: A special cross-disciplinary presentation with Little Chamber Music of “Fantasy Vignettes” by Erin James.

Ticketing

Part 1 – If We Be Friends (PWYD tickets here)

Part 2 – Fantasy Vignettes (PWYD tickets here)

Please note: Folks can attend both events, but must book tickets separately.

About the Shows

If We Be Friends – By Elio Zarrillo

This showing of If We Be Friends (a play about queer teenhood, zines, Shakespeare and unquestionable resistance), will offer a look into the work’s set and projections design exploration process. The team has been in workshop melding and performing text and image in highly imaginative ways through live analog projection, continuing the play’s translation and transformation of play-text to zine to live theatrical performance.

Elio Zarrillo – Playwright
Stefanie Infantino – Projection Designer
Ashley Aron, Dale MacDonald, Nora Vision, Anais West – Performers

About the Artist

Elio Zarrillo spends their days making plays and poems with and for their loved ones. Originally from Treaty 1 territory, they are currently based on the unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing & Theatre at the University of British Columbia. Recent produced works include The Outside Inn (co-written with Sharon Bajer – Prairie Theatre Exchange, Festival Antigonish), Volare (Prairie Theatre Exchange) and The Show (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre). Other works-in-progress include PEACHES (National Queer & Trans Playwriting Unit, Theatre Projects Manitoba), LIAM and If We Be Friends.

Fantasy Vignettes by Erin James, presented by Little Chamber Music

Fantasy Vignettes is a time-traveling journey through 400 years of violin fantasias, brought to life with evocative costumes constructed specifically for each composition. From the earliest notated violin fantasia by Étienne Nau to works by Telemann, Schumann, Price, Schoenberg, and a new commission by Mari Alice Conrad that employs sewing machines and accessories as instruments, each piece explores improvisation, identity, and freedom. Erin James’ dual artistry as violinist and textile designer is woven throughout the program, culminating in an original composition and costume that stitches together and reimagines concert material to create something entirely new. Fantasy Vignettes is both a sonic and visual exploration of history, imagination, and the power of reinvention.

Erin James –  violin, concept, composition, costumes
Todd Yaniw – piano
Mari Alice Conrad – composition, narration, sewing machine + accessories

About the Artist

Erin James is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice lives at the intersection between music, visual art and text. Her musical interests range from baroque to contemporary and she thoroughly enjoys any piece that is singable or danceable. Erin is equally at home as a chamber musician, soloist, theatre artist and orchestral player and her career has taken her across Asia, Europe and North America. If all goes well, by the time you read this, Erin will have successfully obtained her Doctorate in Music. This will round out her list of qualifications including a Masters degree from the Royal College of Music in London, a Bachelor’s degree from UBC and a Diploma in Fashion Design from George Brown College.