VIM Online!
An evening of performances and interviews with five local music talents
Kimmortal, Marina Hasselberg, Tariq, Tzo’kam and Venetta
Hosts: Jo Hirabayashi and John Korsrud
December 3, 2020, 7pm
Facebook and Youtube
Free registration: https://vimonline.eventbrite.ca
On December 3, join the Vancouver Independent Music Centre Society for an evening of performances and interviews on youtube and facebook!
Please support local music by donating to the Vancouver Independent Music Centre: https://bit.ly/3pIjH0s
With (by order of appearance):
Kimmortal
Kimmortal is a queer non-binary filipinx musician (poet, rapper, singer), visual artist and creative facilitator who is passionate about making and using art and music to empower, educate, and activate community engagement and healing. Kimmortal is a talented artist who combines hip hop, indie, electronic, and experimental into a powerful mix of raw vocals, imaginative instrumentation, and powerful storytelling. They released their most recent album “X marks the Swirl” in 2019 which was longlisted for a Polaris and recognized as top 19 albums of 2019 via CBC. In 2020 Kimmortal was nominated in the Hip Hop and Rap category of Breakout West Music Awards.
Marina Hasselberg
Award-winning cellist Marina Hasselberg’s musical career led her from her birth country of Portugal across the world to Vancouver’s eclectic music scene. Starting as a chamber musician with a strong background in classical music, her passion quickly expanded into baroque music, experimental music, improvisation, and interdisciplinary works that cross all genre boundaries, taking her on a path to perform with various orchestras, ensembles, theatre, dance and film productions, mimes and calligraphers, noise bands, and improvised music groups. In early 2021, Marina will be releasing her debut album featuring written and improvised music for solo cello and electronics, and small ensembles featuring guest improvisers Jesse Zubot, Aram Bajakian, Kenton Loewen, Giorgio Magnanensi, and François Houle.
Tariq
Tariq is a Juno nominated singer/songwriter and recording artist, also a member of the critically acclaimed Vancouver band, Brasstronaut. His latest, “Telegrams,” is his sixth full-length solo release. Tariq is also a nonfiction writer whose essays on song craft have appeared in Walrus Magazine. He is currently working on a memoir about growing up as a first-generation Canadian kid who dreams of playing in a rock n’ roll band.
Tzo’kam
Tzo’kam means “chickadee” and “visitors are coming” in the Stl’atl’imx language. Flora Wallace and her family have always sung together, but the family decided in 1997 to expand their efforts to share the culture. It did not take long for Tzo’kam to start performing, touring and recording. Tzo’kam, under the direction of Russell Wallace since the death of the founder, lead singer and family matriarch Flora Wallace, continues to work within their communities to teach, share and maintain a tradition that has been kept alive by dedicated elders.
Venetta
Venetta is the co-founder of NuZi Collective, an events, and music collective focused on uplifting black & brown women, trans women & gender non-conforming individuals within the Vancouver electronic music scene through music initiatives & community engagement and empowerment. She is committed to reclaiming the black & brown roots of electronic dance music and creating black political spaces as a source of empowerment. Venetta has quickly become an important DJ and voice in Vancouver’s thriving underground dance music scene, and her blend of techno, electro, acid (and beyond) is starting to make waves outside of Vancouver. She is also the founder and executive director of the Vancouver Black Therapy & Advocacy Fund, a non-profit foundation aiming to connect Black Vancouver residents with mental health resources such as free therapy.
Jo Hirabayashi (host)
Jo Hirabayashi is a musician, producer/composer and videographer living on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples–Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. Jo operates creatively under the moniker jo passed 平林 which, under the project name sometimes referred to as a “band,” has released two EPs and one LP on internationally renowned label Sub Pop records in 2018. Jo has directed music videos for artists Kokoro Dance, Debra-Jean Creelman and many others.
John Korsrud (host)
VIM Board Member John Korsrud is a composer, producer and trumpet player based in Vancouver, Canada. He is the leader and principal composer of the 18-piece Hard Rubber Orchestra, a jazz/ new music ensemble he formed in 1990. As a composer, John performed on his own trumpet concerto, Come to the Dark Side, at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 2010, commissioned and performed by The American Composers Orchestra. John has also been commissioned by The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, The CBC Radio Orchestra, Turning Point Ensemble and Vancouver New Music. As a trumpet player, John’s eclecticism has seen him perform with Anthony Braxton, to punk legends DOA, and The Vancouver Symphony.
Poster design: Big Wave Design / John Endo Greenaway
Videos: shot at and produced by KW Studios.
Located in the Woodward’s Heritage building at 111 West Hastings Street in the traditional lands of the x?m??k??y??m (Musqueam), S?l?ílw?ta? (Tsleil-Watuth), Stó:l?, Shíshálh (Sechelt) and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nations of the Coast Salish peoples (Vancouver). KW studios are multipurpose production/performance spaces available to rent to the public with a mandate to support low-income, non-profit, indigenous and DTES artists. The spaces consist of a 1,051 sq. ft. dance studio on the main floor, and a 3,802 sq. ft. production studio with attached recording studio, dressing room and servery in the basement. Both spaces feature harlequin vinyl sprung dance floors, lights and lighting grid, recording / live sound gear, projector and screen, green screen and a full outlining curtain track.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Government of Canada, FACTOR and Canada’s private radio broadcasters, and the city of Vancouver.
