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August 31, Sept 1, & 2, 2011
Brief Encounters, guest producer of long-standing inter-disciplinary event,
Performance Works, Vancouver, BC.
October 6, 2011
Recital & Master Class at Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia
October 8, 2011
Recital & Master Class at Memorial University, St. John's Newfoundland
November 2011
Heart and Stroke Foundation Benefit House Concert with Forbidden Flutes,
Vancouver, BC.
November 19, 2011
Performance of Nickel, Requiem for Peace with Vancouver Chamber Choir,
Chan Centre, Vancouver, BC.
December 2011
Benefit Concert for Women's Prison Rock 'n Roll Camp,
Waldorf, Vancouver, BC.
January 2012
Bach Rocks and Mozart Swings, school concert series with Forbidden Flutes,
throughout Vancouver, BC.
February 24-26, 2012
Flexible Flutist retreat led by Forbidden Flutes,
Vancouver, BC. Contact laura @laurabarron.net for more info.
April 2012
Annual Community Art Project with Something Collective,
Sunset Community Center, Vancouver, BC.
May 6-8, 2012
Guest Artist/Teacher at Music Fest Northwest,
Spokane, WA.
After standing-room only shows and rave reviews for Brief Encounters (see press link here), Laura looks forward to a diverse fall season which includes the premier of her multi-media, recital/theatre piece, What Moves Us, based on her year-long, round-the-world trip in 2007. She is also enjoying a deeper commitment to the community-based work that she has been shifting to for years. Consequently, she has formed Something Collective, an artists team (including a filmmaker, a puppeteer, a dancer, and a visual artist) with whom she has secured a three-year resdiency at the Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre that will result in several annual interdisciplinary community art projects.
This season also sees the launch of several projects with her new non-profit, Instruments of Change, including the construction of Artrike, a pedal-powered, multi-functional stage on bikes (in partnership with the UBC mechanical engineering department). I of C will also run a Ladies Rock 'n Roll Camp at the Alouette Correctional Centre for Women, beginning in 2012.
Additionally, Laura is helping to organize two arts conferences this year, including the NFA's 3rd annual Career and Artistic Development workshops at the summer convention. This season's workshops will hopefully also include a new NFA competetion. In Vancouver, Laura is also collaborating with UBC piano professor, Rena Sharon, to start an Arts of Conscience conference, in June 2012, focusing on topics related to Art for Social Change. More details on both events TBA.
Finally, the first draft of Laura's first novel, Mosquito Chronicles, is due to be completed at the end of this year, and she continues to write her blog, The Flute Doctors, which gets new listeners jazzed about classical music: (http://www.forbiddenflutes.com/tfdBlog.html).
Go to Laura and Geoff's adventures pages
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