Sat, Oct. 2

12:00 - 1:00

Admission:

$10.00 + HST

Clad in austere black, YAYOI HIRANO's lithe figure unfurls a ribbon of movement on the stage: one moment she is hunched in the posture of age, the next rocking a child, shooting a gun, placing invisible flowers around her head with gestures as delicate as lace, as precise as time. Her face registers both history and the ineffable; the audience caught by awe at her lyrical transformations. YAYOI: one of the rare Japanese performers whose talent and creative spirit reach beyond the boundaries of their native land. Her contemporary productions, rooted in mime, dance, mask and drama, showcase a sculpted sense of physicality engaged in recreating traditional and modern narratives.
* YAYOI graduated from Toho Gakuen College of Performing Arts, co-founding the Mime Theatre Pierrot-kan in 1975 to popularize pantomime in Japan through modern works.
* YAYOI’s prolific career as a solo performer began in 1985. Her early one-woman shows included “A Woman”(1985) and “YAYOI DOJOJIi”(1988). In 1989, she became the first mime artist ever to receive the Ministry of Education Fellowship, and spent a year collaborating with artists in Germany and Canada.
*In 1990, she founded YAYOI Theatre Movement. Her extensive international performance credits include festivals in Italy, Germany, Spain, Holland, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Bulgaria, Poland, South Korea and Singapore as well as five North American tours. She has performed in 13 countries and 28 cities.
* YAYOI’s further shows include programs with prominent international artists. She has worked with Canadian photographer, Courtny Milne in “The Sacred Earth”(1995), with Japanese Jazz musician Terumasa Hino in “UZUME”(1996), with Artistic Director Halina Witek of the Theatre Het Klein from Holland in “BLAUBAAD”(1997) and “Divine Commedia”(1998), with the Fuchu-City Orchestra in “Borelo”(1997), and with Chinese opera singer Jin Youg Zie in  “Carmen”(2000). In July and August 2001, Yayoi presented “Snow's daughter” with the leading Bulgarian mime artist Nicky Sotirov in Japan and Bulgaria. For this work Yayoi was awarded the Annual Prize of Bulgarian Actors for Experimental and Avant-garde Performance Art.
*YAYOI first visited Vancouver to perform at the Japanese Pavilion during Expo’86. Since then, she has returned to participate in numerous summer Fringe Festivals. In August 2001 she and Tokyo dance troop “RAKUDO” presented  “A Human Nature” to three western Canadian Fringe audiences. In summer 2002 she brought a company of nine from Tokyo to perform the original work “Wind’s Traveler” at Fringe Festivals in Winnipeg, Swift Current, Saskatoon and Edmonton.  Since becoming a permanent resident of Vancouver in the fall of 2002, YAYOI has continued to stun audiences with her performances and mask carvings, infusing an ancient art with the stark and supple imagination of the millennium.

Sat, Oct. 2

2:00 - 3:30

Admission:

$10.00 + HST

LATIN PERCUSSION WORKSHOP with Raphael Geronimo     

Refreshing, hands-on rhythmical fun for all ages with one of Vancouver’s leading percussionists.            

Open to everyone. No experience necessary. 

RAPHAEL GERONIMO has been part of the Vancouver Music Scene for many years, performing, teaching and directing for many of the city's best loved groups. Third generation in a family of professional musicians and dancers, he committed himself at age seventeen to serious musical studies under his father, Rene "Boying" Geronimo, and made his professional debut one year later. Continuing his training he studied in Cuba at the Laboratorio Internacional de Folklore and in New York City at the Harbour Center of Performing Arts.
Raphael continues to direct Rumba Calzada, an explosive latin jazz ensemble which was passed onto him by his father. Rumba Calzada has performed internationally and has been nominated for a 2002 Canadian Independent Music Award, 2002 Westcoast Music Award, 2002 Juno Award and a 2008 Western Canadian Music Award.
In 2008, Rumba Calzada performed at the Miri International Jazz Festival in Sarawak, Malaysia, representing Canada, and was voted back as the "crowd favourite" to return for 2009.
"Canadian based Rumba Calzada brought the house down with their eclectic mix of Latin, Salsa and Afro-Cuban rhythms."   - Adam Lee, Music Room (Asia)
Raphael has also written music that has been featured on television programs such as the L Word, Godiva's, Dead Zone and Show Me Yours.
He also instructs drum and percussion work shops at schools and education centres throughout Canada and the United States and currently teaches drums at Long and McQuade Music Center.

Sat. Oct. 2

4:00 - 5:30

Admission:

$10.00 + HST

MIME and MASKED MOVEMENT WORKSHOP with Yayoi Hirano       

Open to everyone of all ages, no experience necessary.Enter the magical world of this celebrated artist and her exquisite masks. In last year's festival this workshop had strong attendance and rave reviews that demanded a return engagement. Here is your second chance...

Sat, Oct. 2

7:00 - 9:30

Admission:

$20.00 + HST (Includes Dessert Buffet)

NAME THAT TUNE CABARET                                         With “Leemy and the Retros”  

Liam Hockley-clarinet, Clark Brendon-vocals and guitar, Tony Booker-vocals and accordion, Ron Hadley-piano, Joey Smith-bass

An intriguing twist on TOSH’s well-loved cabaret (with dessert buffet) nights. Old favourite evergreens, pop hits from the 50's, 60's and 70's as well as song quizzes throughout the evening with lots of prizes!

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LIAM HOCKLEY is currently in his fourth year of a Bachelor of Music program, majoring in clarinet performance, at the University of Victoria. At UVic, Liam studies with Professor Patricia Kostek, and performs with the UVic Orchestra and Wind Symphony. He also plays in chamber groups of all sizes and instrumentation, performing everything from wind trios by Mozart to the premiers of  new works by student composers. In April of 2009, Liam was the featured soloist in performances of Rossini’s Introduction, Theme and Variations by the Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra.
Liam is a graduate of Ballenas Secondary School, in Parksville B.C., where he excelled both musically and academically. He studied with clarinetist Earl Thomas for eight years, played in the school Concert and Jazz Bands, The Oceanside Youth Orchestra and Kwallenas (an inter-school jazz combo) and was the 2007 recipient of a major scholarship from the Bill Dwyer Memorial Scholarship Fund.
Liam was also very involved in Parksville-Qualicum community music projects. He spent five summers playing everything from clarinet to saxophone to slide whistle in the pit orchestra for Bard to Broadway, the local summer stock theatre. His future plans include graduate studies in music.

CLARK BRENDON: A highly regarded musician in the Victoria music scene, Clark has established himself as one of B.C.’s most versatile musicians.  He can be seen in the city’s finer clubs, pubs and lounges playing his beloved Gibson guitar, perhaps his double bass which has been in his good hands for over 20 years, singing, playing sax and sometimes percussion.  He has toured Europe, played in New York City, at North 
America’s largest Swing band festival in Sacremento California, and in countless other venues. His influences include jazz, gypsy jazz, blues, Latin, Flamenco, Parisian musette and Swing. He has a deep love of the music of the 30s and 40s.  “Swing tells a story. I love the honesty and simplicity of swing standards and blues. It lifts the audience, allowing them to dust off the day’s worries and be happy.Whatever style I play, I aim to leave the listener feeling good.  There’s no better way to communicate in a direct way with people than music” he said. Clark plays with Twango, Cold Cut Combo, The Flying Saucers and other Victoria bands..
About his early years, Clark says “I played 2 years of tenor sax in early high school but was frustrated by a teacher who thought a marching band was the only music for a sax. My dad however was burning up the vinyl at home with Oscar Peterson trio, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Mose Allison and early B.B. King. My mother liked country music, and that illustrated to me that there's a deep need for soulful  expression no matter what shape the musical vehicle or form.”
Eventually Clark returned home to Victoria to raise his 2 kids rather than pursue fame and fortune on the circuit. Commenting on the local scene he said “I believe all the great players that I have the honour to play with around here are equal to the players that I could chase down anywhere. And that goes for the audiences here also.”

TONY BOOKER is an accomplished musician, composer and conductor.  Since earning his Masters degree at UVic in 1984, Tony has worked as a piano/organ accompanist on the UVic faculty and as a freelance pianist and organist.  He conducted and sang with the Victoria Balalaika Orchestra from 1980 –2000 and currently conducts his own professional choir, Voces Intimae. When he is not busy as choirmaster/organist at St. Michael and All Angels, he is known to strap on an accordion and perform in several bands.