This time of year always gets us CtK gals buzzing with energy: the energy of feeling the sun after a long, cold winter; the energy of backyard bonfires and late night chats with great friends; and, of course, the energy of another year with our long-time love affair, NextFest. Oh, NextFest. How we heart you. We’re back this year with …
NuMusic at NextFest
Catch the Keys has always had a serious crush on NextFest. We admit we’re even more giddy than usual over the chance to deepen our obsession this year. Catch the Keys proudly announces NuMusic@NextFest. New to NextFest, this two-part music performance features brave new works by nine emerging composers from across Canada. Played by a fresh five piece music ensemble, this interactive …
Ncounter Dissonance
According to the great oracle (Wiki), “dissonance has several meanings, all related to conflict or incongruity” What does dissonance mean for an artist? Does social dissonance map onto musical dissonance? Does the sound of industry birth the sound of industrial music? Is dissonance noise? Is dissonance modern art? Is dissonance the extreme of sensory thresholds, or is it just the …
This is Not a Conference
Ncounters: Living in a World of Sound and Noise is a student led transdisciplinary conference held March 5 – 7 which invites you to explore new approaches to the exploration of sound. Join the Graduate Music Students Association and the History and Classics Graduate Association at Dewey’s Pub on Campus at 8pm on Friday March 5 for the opening event …
Ncounter Colour
Can you paint sound? Can you feel music? Can you separate sound from colour? Explore the artistic meaning and relationship among music, sound and colour. Ncounter colour and music Friday, February 26 at 7pm at Dewey’s Pub on Campus. This open stage concept invites visual artists, photographers, composers, performers, scholars and anyone interested in exploration and experimentation to explore colour …
Ncounter Improvisation
Ncounter sound. Ncounter visual art. Ncounter acting. Ncounter music, theory, composition, history, sociology and more at Ncounters: a monthly collaborative meeting of the minds presented by the Grad Music Students’ Association. Hosted at Dewey’s Pub on the University of Alberta Campus, Ncounters invites collaboration from sound artists, visual artists, actors, musicians, composers, theorists, musicologists, historians, sociologists, anthropologists and anyone interested …
Nik and Stu Shittiest Christmas Ever
View a slideshow of images from the performance, care of Andrew Paul with See Magazine! Two adorable kids are putting on a Christmas pageant when the director dies suddenly. In order to save Christmas, twelve baby Jesus’ have to perform twelve Christmas miracles in only twelve days. Only one thing is certain: after Nik & Stu’s Sh*ttiest Christmas Ever, Christmas …
U The Comedy of Global Warming
The indie5 09/10 season opener U: The Comedy of Global Warming is a unique, independently produced, locally created multi-media play about Alberta and Climate Change. U: The Comedy of Global Warming is a ribald, funny and engaging mixture of information, entertainment, criticism and hope that blends fiction and fact in search of truth and answers. The story of an oil …
Women and Animals
View a slideshow of photos from the event, care of See Magazine. Local visual artist Kevin Green likes women; he also likes animals; he doesn’t, however, like cilantro. Kevin thinks cilantro is the most pretentious of all herbs. But that doesn’t mean Kevin doesn’t occasionally enjoy being pretentious about art. Join Kevin Green, Michelle Domsky & Erik Bailey at External Art Affair Thursday, December 3 at …
GabboGabboGabbo
Your favorite puppet jerk is back for another night of gut busting hilarity Saturday October 31. Catch the Keys is proud to present Gabbo’s triumphant return – see Gabbo for one night only at the House on the Haunted Hilltop (8220 106 Ave) for a night of creepy good fun, drink specials, a costume contest judged by the lovely ladies of The Theatre Garage and the …