Upcoming Performances/Exhibitions 2022
Two drum and guitar duos: Adrian Avendaño and Matthew Ariaratnam // Alfred Jarry – Vancouver, BC – December 11, 2022
Ambr Aria – Natalie Brett Quartet Release Show at 8EAST – Vancouver, BC – December 9, 2022
NOW Society Improvisation Workshop with Matthew Ariaratnam – Vancouver, BC – December 3, 2022
Performances/Exhibitions 2022
Sound Palace at VCC – Vancouver, BC – November 19, 2022
AmbrAria Release Show at Hadden Park Presented by Publik Secrets – Vancouver, BC October 2, 2022
Agnas | Ramani | Ariaratnam | Miller | Strauss at 8EAST – Vancouver, BC August 26, 2022
Hall Ariaratnam/ Devil Loops/ Miller Strauss at 8EAST – Vancouver, BC August 24, 2022
4 (trio) Release Show with Lucy Strauss & Adrian Avendaño – Vancouver, BC July 2022
CANABRAVA NOW at Vancouver International Jazz Fest – Vancouver, BC – June 2022
Littles at Vancouver International Jazz Festival – Vancouver, BC – June 2022
Music for Spirits at Oppenheimer Park with Lief Hall – Vancouver, BC – June 2022
Music for Spirits with Natasha Zrno, Lucy Strauss, Adrian Avendaño, Feven Kidane, Andromeda Monk – Vancouver, BC – June 2022
Moving Resting Nesting Premiere Surrey Spark Stages – Surrey, BC – May 2022
TV8E Season 4 with Lucy Strauss and Elisa Thron – Vancouver, BC – May 2022
Dusk Meridian at Vancouver Gallery Offsite – Vancouver, BC – April 2022
The View from Here at the Legion Branch 405 – Almaguin Highlands, ON – March 2022
Performances/Exhibitions 2021
The View from Here choreography by Sasha Ivanochko and performed by Jillian Peever – Toronto, ON – December 2021
kiitos, äiti performed by Thin Edge New Music Collective – Toronto, ON (LIVE STREAM) – November 2021
NOW Society Creative Music Series #10 – Vancouver, BC (LIVE STREAM) – TBD Fall 2021
Plastic Me by Naishi Wang presented by ProArte – Toronto, ON (LIVE STREAM) – October 2021
Live at 8EAST: Ariaratnam | Zrno | Strauss – Vancouver, BC – October 2021
TV8E S3E3 Rumble Itch – Vancouver, BC – October 2021
Moving Resting Nesting – Port Coquitlam, BC – October 2021
Hindsight 2020 – Julie Hammond – Portland, OR – August 2021
Cycles performed by Marina Hasselberg – Music in the Garden 2021 – August 2021
Body Tuning – Vines Art Festival – Vancouver, BC – August, 2021
Moving Resting Nesting at Bear Creek Park – Surrey, BC – August 2021
Plastic Me – Festival of Dance Annapolis Royal – Annapolis Royal, NS – August 2021
Awkward Hug performed by Cory Thibert (O Albatross) – Kaymeek Art Centre (LIVE STREAM) July 2021
ACCELERATION 2021 w/ Sasha Ivanochko, Linnea Swan, and Lyla-Jean Bowman – Toronto, ON (LIVE STREAM) April 2021
Vancouver New Music One Page Score – Vancouver, BC (LIVE STREAM) – March 2021
TV8E Season 1 Episode 1: Greetings – Vancouver, BC (LIVE STREAM) – March 2021
Performances/Exhibitions 2020
Music Outdoors 8East Plaza: Tung & Carter/Hasselberg & Ariaratnam – Vancouver, BC – October 2020
NOW Society Creative Music Series #9 – 8East Plaza – Vancouver, BC – October 2020
Isolation Commission – Little Chamber Music Society – Vancouver, BC (YOUTUBE) – May 2020
Postponed kiitos, äiti performed by Thin Edge New Music Collective at Premieres IX – Toronto, ON –
March 2020
Performances/Exhibitions 2019
CoexisDance: Western Edition #2 – Vancouver, BC – December 19th, 2019
North Vancouver Recreation & Culture’s Artist Residency – How Long Will These Sounds Sound?: Soundwalks: Oct 27th, Nov 10th, Nov 24th, Dec 8th – North Vancouver, BC
Harley Small on CiTR – Vancouver, BC – September 2019
In Several Times II – Vancouver, BC – September 2019
Soundwalk Sunday Soundwalk: Playing the Burrard Street Bridge – Vancouver, BC September 2019
Harley Small, Apartments (Single) – August 2019
Festival for Publik Space w/ Robyn Jacob – Vancouver, BC – August 2019 Cancelled due to Family Emergency
Cycles (Mvt V) performed by Marina Hasselberg at Sound X – Seattle, WA – August 2019
City Centre Soundwalk – Richmond, BC – August 2019
What’s Up in Wells Presents: Awkward Hug – Wells, BC – August 2019
Groceries Presents: Harley Small w/ the Pierce Kingans – Vancouver, BC – July 2019
Harley Small at Fox Cabaret w/ Booty EP and Saxsyndrum – Vancouver, BC – July 2019
Other Inland Empires at Portland Playhouse – Portland, OR – June 2019
Harley Small at Static Jupiter – Vancouver, BC – June 2019
Other Inland Empires at rEvolver Festival – Vancouver, BC – May 2019
Awkward Hug at rEvolver Festival – Vancouver, BC – May 2019
Awkward Hug at Uno Fest – Victoria, BC – May 2019
Digital Sanctuary: Showcase & Art Rave for Cyber Harm Reduction – Vancouver, BC – May 2019
Reality Therapy (single) w/ Harley Small – Vancouver, BC – April, 2019
Emerge on Main: Fox Cabaret – Vancouver, BC – April 23rd, 2019
Harley Small Tour – Nanaimo, Victoria, Vancouver – March 2019
Harley Small at SBC – Vancouver, BC – March 2019
The Dive: Musical Guest (dumbpop) – New Westminster, BC – February 20th, 2019
Harley Small at Static Jupiter – Vancouver, BC – February 15th, 2019
Creamy Pop at Wheel of Time Gallery – Vancouver, BC – February 9th, 2019
4×4 at the Fox Cabaret w/ Harley Small – Vancouver, BC – January 15th, 2019
Performances/Exhibitions 2018
Wayfinding // Wandering: Winter Solstice Walk – Vancouver, BC – December 2018
Strathcona Puppetry Group – Christmas Luncheon – Vancouver, BC – December 2018
Wayfinding // Wandering: Sunset Nursery Walk – Vancouver, BC – November 2018
Harley Small at the Toast Collective – Vancouver, BC – November 2018
Secret City: Robson Square – Vancouver, BC – September 2018
Wayfinding // Wandering: Fall Leaf Walk – Vancouver, BC – September 2018
Wayfinding // Wandering: Reading Lounge – Vancouver, BC – September 2018
Sea Fest with Harley Small – White Rock, BC – August 2018
Cutting Together Apart (Creative Research) – Calgary, AB – August 2018
Creative Remix at Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre – Vancouver, BC – July 2018
Other Inland Empires at the Fury Factory Festival – San Francisco, CA – July 2018
Ecstatic Waves Book Launch – Vancouver, BC – June 2018
Wayfinding // Wandering – Solstice Dawn Walk – Vancouver, BC – June 2018
Mirror Staging the Seeing Place – Toronto, ON – June 2018
Why Did You Separate Me from the Earth? (WOT Gallery) – Vancouver, BC – May
2018
Wayfinding // Wandering – Fraser Street Soundwalk – Vancouver, BC – May 2018
Wayfinding // Wandering – Collective Mapping – Vancouver, BC – May 2018
dumbpop Domestic Dream Diety Release at Selectors’ Records – Vancouver, BC– April
2018
Wayfinding // Wandering – Blossom Walk – Vancouver, BC – April 2018
Wheel of Time Gallery Opening – Vancouver, BC – February 2018
Wayfinding // Wandering – Valentine’s for Places – Vancouver, BC – February 2018
Domestic Spirituality (Sound Installation) at Western Front (Roses for Ruin Music Video Release Party) – Vancouver – January 2018 Cancelled due to illness
No Dots :: No Stems – Ecstatic Waves at the Gold Saucer – Vancouver – January 2018
Artist-in-Residence at Sunset Community Centre, Ice Rink, and Moberly Arts & Cultural Centre – January 2018 through December 2018
Performances/Exhibitions 2017
See Sounds Listening Series presented by Publik Secrets – Vancouver, BC – November 2017
Wall Street Listening Posts – Installation and Soundwalk with Julie Hammond Vancouver, BC – November 2017
Indifference Machine with Arne Eigenfeldt – Seattle, WA – November 2017
Cycles (I, V) performed by Marina Hasselberg presented by Vancouver Pro Musica – Vancouver, BC – October 2017
dumbpop at the New Moon Cabaret – October 2017
Other Inland Empires – October 2017
Mirror Staging – Los Angeles, California September 2017
In Several Times – Vancouver, BC September 2017
A Walk for 09.09.17 – Vancouver, BC September 2017
Make.Shift with Harley Small – Bellingham, Washington August 2017
Play Nice: Musical collisions between humans and intelligent machines– July 2017
Sea Fest with Harley Small – White Rock, BC August 2017
New Moon Cabaret – Vancouver, BC July 2017
Richmond Art Gallery: Art After Dark Remix with Co.Crea.Tive – Richmond, BC July 2017
Fox Cabaret with Harley Small – Vancouver, BC – June 2017
Môj Gidget – the NW New Works Festival at On the Boards with Julie Hammond – Seattle, Washington – June 2017
Mirror Staging the Seeing Place – Choreographed by Sasha Ivanochko, Vancouver – June 2017
Flesh Trace Slip – Choreographed by Linnea Gwiazda – Vancouver, BC – May 2017
Harley Small at Grandma’s Palace – April 2017
Embodied Emplacement – Vancouver New Music’s Spring Soundwalk Series, New Westminster – April 2017
dumbpop and sight: an evening of music – Waterloo, Ontario – April 2017
Sonic Boom Festival, Cycles performed by Marina Hasselberg – March 2017
Re-Un-Solved (Co.Crea.Tive) with Nancy Tam, Linnea Gwiazda, and Alanna Ho, Vancouver – March 2017
dumbpop and Sam Lynch at Grandma’s Palace, Vancouver – February 2017
BLiNK: Box of Assorted Creams, Russian Hall, Vancouver – February 2017
PuSh Festival: Youth Assembly with Patrick Blenkarn, Vancouver – January 2017
Performances/Exhibitions 2016
RE:Composition Live! (Co-Op Radio Fundraiser) – November 2016 – Gold Saucer Studios
The Danube by Maria Irene Fornes Directed by Julie Hammond – November 2016 – Simon Fraser University
Open To Enter (Co.Crea.Tive) – October 2016 – Selector Records
Festival Mosaic (with Farooq Al-Sajee) – October 2016 – Roundhouse Theatre
Parade of Lost Souls (with Dusty Flower Pot Cabaret) – October 2016 – Commercial Drive
Mosaic Senior Day – October 2016 – Aboriginal Friendship Centre
Sugar’s Waste – October 2016 – Simon Fraser University
Object Dialogues – September 2016 – Wong Theatre (Simon Fraser University)
Vines Art Festival – August 2016 – Trout Lake Vancouver
Mice Bards (Co.Crea.Tive) – May 2016 – Gold Saucer Studio
Future Markers (MFA Spring Show) – May 2016 – Simon Fraser University
The Living Surfaces (MFA Spring Show) – May 2016 – Simon Fraser University
II Pause (MFA Spring Show) – May 2016 – Simon Fraser University
Organic Strategies (Co.Crea.Tive) – April 2016 – Red Gate Arts Society
Intonarumori Performance – April 2016 – Vancouver Art Gallery
Code of Silence – January 2016 – Gold Saucer Studio
Publications 2017
Mad Times Issue 2: Community and Solidarity – A lesson about Hinduism at the barbershop – August 2017
Discorder Magazine – Show Review – March 2017
Egress Zine – Change for a Dollar? & Change I and II – February 2017
Publications 2016
Egress Zine – “A Piece for One Person” – March 2016
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