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January 29, 2012
Rock Lottery, benefit for Instruments of Change Women Rock! program,
Rock music program in BC women's prison
Waldorf Hotel, Vancouver, BC
February 24, 2012
National Aboriginal Awards Ceremony,
collaboration with native dancers, singers, and drummers
Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, BC
March 8, 2012
International Women's Day performance with Forbidden Flutes
Creekside Community Centre, Vancouver, BC
March 10, 2012
North Shore Women's Centre Benefit Performance with Forbidden Flutes
Centennial Theatre, North Vancouver, BC
April 19 - May 3, 2012
Aida with Vancouver Opera Orchestra
Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, BC
April 27, 2012
Premiere of original interactive school show, Captain Creative, with Something Collective,
Mobelry Arts and Cultural Centre, Vancouver, BC.
July 1-14, 2012
Guest Artist/Teacher at Comox Youth Music Festival,
Comox, BC.
August 21-23, 2012
Guest Artist/Teacher at Snowwater Flute Festival
Mt. Baker, 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 Fraser Valley Institute in Abbotsford, 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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