Author and activist Arundhati Roy urged readers to avoid returning to life as normal after the pandemic in her essay, "The Pandemic is a Portal." To prepare ourselves to consider new ways of being and doing, we look at musical events that used existing knowledge about improvisation to reimagine collaborative music-making in a time of social distancing. Learn more and listen to the whole series at https://artseverywhere.ca/projects/four33-improv-podcast/

Four33 – Make the Future Happen

From urban exploration to Olympic sport. Episode 7 explores Skateboarding as improvised movement connected with ideas of community and social justice. Learn more at: https://artseverywhere.ca/relationship-with-the-unknown/

Four33 – A Relationship with the Unknown

Episode 8 of the Four33 podcast presents four composers, Raven Chacon and Candice Hopkins, Scott Thomson, and Francis Carpo, in a discussion on graphic scores and how they subvert the traditional roles of composers, musicians, and audiences. Hear more at https://artseverywhere.ca/series/four33/

Four33 - Graphic Scores

Performing artists Pat Dillon Moore and Rhoma Spencer share over forty years of experience drawing from everyday life to create works that inform, entertain and most importantly, connect. Learn more at: https://artseverywhere.ca/gift-of-gab

Four33 - The Gift of Gab

Episode 10 of the Four33 podcast explores the voice as both a metaphor for and a tool of agency. Vocal improvisers, Amirtha Kidambi, Joni Nehrita, and Erwin Noblet share their perspectives on the unique functions of voice within musical performances being at once both vulnerable and powerful. Learn more at https://www.artseverywhere.ca/series/four33/

Four33 - Nowhere to Hide

Visit https://www.artseverywhere.ca/dissolve-disappearance/ for details.
Listening in a dark and comfortable environment is recommended, with headphones or 2.1 sound system onwards.

Voices, synthesizers, sound capture, mix and master: Elton Panamby
Tides captured at Mangue Seco beach (Raposa/MA)
Tracks recorded, mixed and mastered between June and September 2021 in São Luís/MA
In memory of Pettrus Talles.
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Boca d’água
Faixas: 1 Chama-Maré /  2 Leito / 3 Viração (maré de queda)

Recomenda-se a escuta em ambiente escuro e confortável com fones de ouvido ou sistema sonoro 2.1 em diante.

Vozes, sintetizadores, captação, mix e master: Elton Panamby
Marés captadas na praia de Mangue Seco (Raposa/MA)
Faixas gravadas, mixadas e masterizadas entre junho e setembro de 2021 em São Luís/MA
À memória de Pettrus Tales.

Elton Panamby - WATERMOUTH: Tidal-Calling / Bed / Turnaround (tidal fall)

For details, visit https://www.artseverywhere.ca/lullabies-for-anthropocene/

Agnieszka Bułacik - Lullabies For Anthropocene

At the 2025 ArtsEverywhere Festival, prominent thinkers Vanessa Andreotti and Báyò Akómoláfé came together with a small group of "eavesdroppers" to have a relaxed conversation before their keynote presentation at the Guelph Lecture—On Being that evening.
 
In times of profound unravelling, familiar sense-making frameworks collapse, calling us into radically new modes of perception, reasoning, and relating. Báyò Akómoláfé and Vanessa Andreotti invite you into an advanced yet playful dance with paraontology—a practice of sensing, thinking, and relating beyond conventional subject-object, onto-metaphysical orientations.

In this intimate conversational inquiry, listeners are invited to "eavesdrop," attune, and engage with profound shifts in awareness, gently exploring the paradoxical possibilities that arise when we hospitably meet both the limits of modernity’s logic and the challenges posed by technologies steeped in modernity’s harm. Rather than avoidance or rejection, this encounter invites deeper relational accountability, humility, and unexpected forms of emergence.

Join us for a nuanced exploration beyond thresholds, where improvisation meets complexity, and together, we cautiously and playfully conjure possibilities that exceed our inherited imaginations.

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Beyond the Threshold - Bayo & Vanessa part B

Beyond the Threshold - Bayo & Vanessa part A

The first episode of Four33 introduces our playful approach to critical discourse about improvisation and focuses on connecting broad themes to everyday experiences. Through conversations with unsuspecting strangers, our hosts, Stephen Donnelly and Carey West reflect on the tensions and dynamics of defining the elusive nature of Improvisation. For more episodes visit: https://artseverywhere.ca/projects/four33-improv-podcast/

Four33 – Crash Course in Improvisation

The second episode of Four33 explores George Lipsitz’s notion of accompaniment as laid out in his recent book, Insubordinate Spaces: Improvisation and Accompaniment for Social Justice. In his address to students and staff at the University of Guelph, Dr. Lipsitz shines a light on community art projects that model improvisatory practices' impact on equity struggles. He argues that institutions need to take a supportive rather than dominant stance in partnership with these movements. George Lipsitz is an American Studies scholar and professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. For more episodes visit: artseverywhere.ca/projects/four33-improv-podcast/

Four33 – What Work Do You Want the Work to Do?

The third episode of Four33 tracks how a second-line band saved Christmas. The hosts discuss issues of poverty, accessibility, social responsibility, and community integration with people in the neighbourhood during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Learn more at:
https://artseverywhere.ca/2021/01/13/four33-episode-3/

Four33 - They Came to Us: The Royal City 2nd Line Parade Band

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