Happenings: Sound Festivals, Food & Community

One (1) I heard Gordon Monagan speak at U of T last week, about his sound art installation work, where he mused on the architectural interaction between sound and space. One of Monagan’s most interesting installations was a piece at Kitchener’s 2009 Open Ears Festival, taking place this year, from April 27^th to May 1^st. The Open Ears Festival "is for people who play digital sticks and Halo, suspended electric guitars, turntables and accordions, jazz and violins and rainforests and pianos (and pianos that play themselves)..."

The annual Eklectics Electrics Festival is held on Monagan's farm, just outside of Meaford, Ontario. Each year the festival assembles an eclectic program of avant-garde and crossover musicians, as well as art installations, DJs, and films.

Two (2) At Scarborough high school Bendale Business and

Technical Institute, students plant and care for what may be Canada’s first school-based market garden. It proves the educational value of food and all the ways it can be worked into the curriculum. “There are so many schools that could be turning their lawns into fields of food,” says garden co-ordinator Ian Hepburn-Aley, a community food facilitator with FoodShare -- a non-profit organization that tackles food and hunger issues through grassroots projects and has helped 26 Toronto schools create food gardens. From “An edible education” by @thesaucylady | Jennifer Bain, Food Editor Toronto Star

Three (3) Happy Pi Day!! “If we really calculated it precisely enough… maybe we would crack some deep-seated secret of

the universe... Pi has infiltrated popular culture more than any other mathematical concept." Show here: Wanda's Pie in the Sky celebrates Pi Day by baking square versions of the popular dessert. Also from The Toronto Star.

Four (4) The YMCA Table Top project and Toronto's Brothers Dressler partnership: a unique approach to bring together YMCA communities that make up this national organization.