This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions
Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:30 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.
We will be watching and then discussing a YouTube video from Vox entitled “What’s inside this crater in Madagascar?”. This video unravels the fascinating natural and human history of a crater in Madagascar and the village that exists within it. Toronto Oasis organizer Ryan Zhang will provide an intro and outro to the video as well as questions for discussion.
We will also be having live music this Sunday! Our featured musician will be Laura C. Bates (B.Mus), a Canadian violinist, songwriter, vocalist and educator. She has been dragging horsehair across strings on small wooden boxes for over 30 years. Since she bought her first delay pedal at age 15, dull moments have been in short supply. Her artistic practice traverses a peculiar vista of heavy metal (Völur), folk styles (The Boxcar Boys), and classical music. Although she struggled to complete her jazz degree, these dark years emboldened her advocacy for free-range jazz and her vision of a world where instruments can graze freely beyond the confines of Western harmony. She has rendered services for: Astronaut Chris Hadfield, Jason Momoa, Gowan, Sook-Yin Lee, iskwē, and The Strumbellas and once met Kendrick Lamar in line at a hot dog stand. She will happily play your garden party or compose a score for your horror film. www.lauracbates.com
Please RSVP on Meetup to get access to the Zoom link:
https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/300718080/
Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!
Our guest musiscian has been recorded: GMT20240519-152654_Recording_640x360.mp4