We’re finally into May and LVAC artists are starring all over the calendar. Whether you’re keen to fight through the midges or prefer to stay home with your laptop, we've got you covered–read on!
Online launch of Remember Tomorrow: A Telidon Story
For more than 30 years, a stack of cardboard boxes in the archive at Toronto's InterAccess had remained unopened. In them were floppy disks that stored some of the country’s first digital artworks, made using a homegrown technology called Telidon.
—Remember Tomorrow homepage
Think the internet was invented by Americans? Well, maybe. But a decade before the World Wide Web, Telidon, a networked computer graphic system that heralded the dawn of “two-way communication” through TVs and phone lines, was created in a Canadian government lab.
LVAC’s Lilian Radovac was part of the exhibition team behind Remember Tomorrow: A Telidon Story, an online exhibition that tells the story of the rise and fall of this uniquely Canadian system, how it was hijacked by (who else?) artists, and the pioneering methods that were used to bring their artworks to you today. You can even add to the trove of digital artworks on the site by creating your own, with the help of a gloriously cheesy tutorial that exhorts you to “journey into the future of art and communication using Telidon!”
Curated by Shauna Jean Doherty, supported by Digital Museums Canada and hosted by InterAccess, Remember Tomorrow launched on April 25 and runs until April 24, 2030. You can visit English and French versions of the exhibition at the link below, and I highly recommend you do. Even the FAQ page for this exhibit is fascinating. Congratulations, Lilian!
Northern Telecom BrochureMay 1981
SOLO presents Encore
This Saturday evening, LVAC member and choral singer Gerrit Seppenwoolde will be part of a very special performance by the Southern Ontario Lyric Opera (SOLO). Canadian baritone Gino Quilico—a Grammy Award winner who has sung in opera houses from La Scala to the Met—will join SOLO's orchestra and youth and adult choruses in a mixed program of opera and musical-theatre favourites.
SOLO is offering this show at only $25 for adults/seniors and $10 for those sixteen and under, making it a perfect Mother’s Day gift or, honestly, gift-to-self.
Encore will take place at the Burlington Performing Arts Centre on Saturday, May 10 at 7:30 p.m. Get tickets at the Burlington PAC box office online or by phone at 905-681-6000.
REMINDER: Local Vocals spring concert
As we wrote in our last newsletter, LVAC’s Pat Lewis and Local Vocals will sing in spring on Tuesday, May 6 (tomorrow!) at 7:30 p.m. with their community concert "Jazz Hands." Visit the Local Vocals event page for details.
