Calendar

Doors at 7:30pm
Samson Wrote at 8pm
Mingjia at 9pm
pomes at 10pm

pomes (TOR)
Blending the naturalistic folk sounds of the East coast with the progressive, industrial sounds of Toronto, pomes’ sound is an infusion of country/folk, jazz, and math-rock.
http://pomesband.bandcamp.com/

Mingjia (TOR)
Mingjia (pronounced MING-jee-ya) writes songs that are equal parts fantastical & relatable, & sings them with courage & honesty. Call it pop / classical / jazz / destiny?
https://mingjia.bandcamp.com/

Samson Wrote (GUELPH)
Samson Wrote creates experimental alt-folk. This work confronts the ways in which sexuality, community, family, and anxiety interrelate.
https://samsonwrote.bandcamp.com/

Join us to celebrate the opening of this new exhibition!

7PM - 9PM

Frances and Alisa have been working on a call and response project for several years. Starting with a succession of two distinct visual pieces and culminating in co-creating several collaborative mixed media pieces. This form is borrowed from music, most notable in historical work songs and originates at its most basic from human communication. It has been used widely by artists as a means of discourse.

The artists set out with very few parameters; only that they each respond to the other’s mark making. Sometimes ideas and works in progress are shared, other times final works are revealed as complete. In the final phase this call and response project, they are working back and forth on the same piece, contributing small areas of colour and/or texture at a time.

During the course of the project, any sense of linearity has been lost and the pieces are cross-pollinating beyond the initial structure of the project creating a visual dialogue, as well as a private inter-personal dialogue.

Alisa's Bio:

Alisa McRonald is a devoted maker of things. Art school was not her thing and she left in 1995. Since then, and among other things, she has studied tapestry weaving under Ixchel Suarez and handspinning and textile dyeing techniques at the Haliburton School of Art.

She was one-half of dynamo, a multi-disciplinary textile, performance, animation, you-name-it duo from 1997-2008. She was the mayor of dynamo-ville, in actuality a shop/installation/performance space located in NYC from 1997-1999. Dynamo went to Tokyo in 1999 and 2001 for two large-scale performances at HaNNa Gallery before establishing themselves in LA from 2001-2008.

She has exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally including a solo show of art dolls based on female musicians at Capacity 3 Gallery (2017), a community earth loom project at the Guelph Enabling Garden (2015), yarn bombing the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto (2010). Her work has been featured in several publications including “By Hand: The Use of Craft in Contemporary Art” (2006, Princeton Architectural).

In addition to maintaining her art practice in Guelph, Alisa also acts as a creative mentor and teacher/facilitator via various organizations including Art Not Shame. She unites her entrenchment in pop culture with her unparalleled sewing/sculpture/story-telling skills. She is inspired by other handmade items such as quilts and afghans for her, these items have a feeling of nostalgia and comfort to them. In addition, Alisa often uses recycled materials to lend to the nostalgic feel as well as fit with her philosophy of re-using what she has.

Frances Bio:

Frances studied English Literature and Art History at McGill University before teaching for a year in Italy where she fell in love with design. A graduate of Environmental Design at the Ontario College of Art and Design, Frances worked in architectural offices from 2003-2012, on large scale commercial and broadcast design. Currently, Frances teaches at OCADU in Environmental Design and works in the field of interior design. Her artwork is in private collections across Canada, the US and UK and part of the public collection of the Canadian Mental Health Association.

Frances's visual work is either figurative or abstract landscape. The common subject is imagined memory. Future, past and fantasy have equal weight. The lens of nostalgia casts a foggy dream-like appearance. The subtext comments on play, pastime and gender. In this vision, figures are simplified or distorted so as to emphasize gesture as if in a memory.

Doors and sign-up at 6:30 PM
Event at 7:00 PM

$5/PWYC

Calling beginning, intermediate and advanced artists, poets, musicians, magicians (and more!) to come out and perform on the first and third Wednesday of every month! Sign up at Silence begins at 6:30 pm, performance between 7-9 pm. Silence provides P.A., piano, drum kit, mics, and atmosphere!

With featured guest: Jennifer Beehler
Jennifer Beehler is a Guelph singer-songwriter who characterizes her music as folk-country. Personal songs of reflection and tongue in cheek lyrics combine to give the audience a glimpse into Jennifer's view of the world around her and perhaps a bit of themselves.

Doors at 7:30pm
Show at 8:00pm
$15 tickets at the door or Eventbrite

Silence Presents provides an accessible venue for touring and professional artists to perform for the Guelph community.

Prolific musician and master of the eight-string guitar, Thomas Carbou is a fan of sound. With the narrative theme of improvisation and the desire to surprise, the guitarist, composer, arranger, percussionist and sampler unveils a bold and pleasantly complex music where freedom is king. Flirting at times with the stigmata of traditional music, folk and song, his universe that describes itself as electro-jazz unfolds without resistance, out of time and barriers.

Having, over the years, taken part in several international projects (in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Vietnam, the United States, Canada, etc.) which have led to many successful artistic collaborations, he was awarded the Creation / Residence Award of the Ville de Québec, as part of the 2007 RIDEAU Fellowship, for his In Motion album. He also signed, in 2010, Denis Villeneuve's documentary "Remembering the Ashes - Regards sur Incendies", directed by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette (The Ring and The Little Giants), winner of a Gemini Award in the category "Best Documentary - Culture". Evolving sometimes solo, sometimes collectively, Thomas Carbou inspires and creates, as he breathes.

https://thomascarbou.bandcamp.com/

An eclectic evening at Silence with Toronto genre-benders Mauve Grove and Guelph heavyweights Animatist and Still Sound. These artists mix jazz, prog, hip-hop, and alternative rock into an explosive and curious musical palette that is sure to impress.

Show at 8pm, wrapped by 11, a great way to start a Saturday eve
$10/PWYC

Mauve Grove | Toronto, ON (avant-funk/hip-hop):
https://www.facebook.com/mauvegrove/
https://mauvegrove.bandcamp.com/

Animatist | Guelph, ON (alt-rock/math rock):
https://www.facebook.com/animatistmusic/
https://animatist.bandcamp.com

Still Sound | Guelph, ON (alternative/psych rock):
https://www.facebook.com/stillsoundmusic/
https://stillsound90.bandcamp.com

[46 Essex]

Archetypes. Griefwork. Facilitation.
9 a,m. to 4 p.m. $375
Silence - 46 Essex St. in Guelph

[46 Essex]

Archetypes. Griefwork. Facilitation.
9 a,m. to 4 p.m. $375
Silence - 46 Essex St. in Guelph

[46 Essex]

Archetypes. Griefwork. Facilitation.
9 a,m. to 4 p.m. $375
Silence - 46 Essex St. in Guelph

[46 Essex]

Doors at 7:30pm 
Show at 8:00pm 
$15 tickets at the door or Eventbrite

Silence Presents provides an accessible venue for touring and professional artists to perform for the Guelph community. 

Kitchener-Waterloo artist, JoJo Worthington, has won numerous awards + accolades, yet hasn’t stopped pushing her work to uncomfortable boundaries. Forging ahead with Epoch producer Connory Ballantyne + engineer William Crann, Worthington’s latest work ’\\’ or ‘Two Lines’ is a surge into new territory.

Her vocalizations reminisce of Kate Bush, her ingenuity with looping techniques remind one of the omnipresent Canadian force of Owen Pallet, and her completely refreshing take on the [often blasé] ukulele is pushing the experimental-folk musician to create some of the most forward-thinking music of her generation.

https://jojoworthington.bandcamp.com

With special guest: Samson Wrote
Samson Wrote creates experimental alt-folk. This work confronts the ways in which sexuality, community, family, and anxiety interrelate.

https://samsonwrote.bandcamp.com/

Visuals by Christine Mills
Soundscapes for the imagination
Move. Meditate.Get lost in the woods.
8:00 p.m. Suggested $20
Silence - 46 Essex St. in Guelph

[46 Essex]