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This event takes place on the evening of Thursday, April 4th, 2024 at the Faculty of Music. The location will be shared with you via email on April 3rd. This event includes a free documentary screening, a conversation with Dr. Beverley-Glenn Copeland, his wife and creative partner Elizabeth Glenn-Copeland and Adrian Berry, and music-making.
Food will be served at 5:30pm. The event begins at 6pm.
Throughout a fifty-year recording career, Dr. Beverly Glenn-Copeland's music has defied categorisation and genre, its only consistency being the fusion of vision, technology, spirituality and place. A Black, trans artist, he is a strong advocate on behalf of Black, Indigenous, and 2SLGBTQ+ communities in Canada and abroad, and has influenced new generations of artists.
Elizabeth Glenn-Copeland is an author and theatre maker whose career evolved at the intersection of arts and activism. Her novella, JAZZ: Nature’s Improvisation, a coming-of-age story of a young trans male, won the 2014 Ken Klonsky Novella Prize, later shortlisted for the 2015 ReLit Award. As 2018 Writer-in-Residence at the Joggins Fossil Institute, she wrote the narrative eco-poem, “Daring to Hope at the Cliff’s Edge: Pangea’s Dream Remembered” (Chapel Street Editions), later taking this work on the road to the Dawson City Music Festival, Folk on the Rocks, and MoMA PS1 in NYC. As part of their deep commitment to working with children and youth, Elizabeth and Glenn founded and ran a theater school devoted to community building. Through a series of artist residencies, they collaborated on the creation of five musical plays which speak to the times in which we live. Elizabeth believes in the power of art to change lives. Her work speaks of that belief. Daring to Hope with Elizabeth Glenn-Copeland (buzzsprout.com)
Adrian Berry will facilitating our post-screening conversation. Adrian is a musician, digital media artist, educator and creative researcher whose practice is a synergistic creature born from almost a decade as a composer, saxophonist and vocalist in American punk bands. Nurtured by intuitive investigations into audiovisual technology, collaborative music making, and live performance, Adrian’s new multimedia project Gold Cove explores themes of desire, trauma, and the unheroic reality of resilience through an extra-disciplinary lens. You can read more about Adrian's work here: https://adrianberry.club/