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FADO E-LIST (July 2019)SAVE THE DATES: FADO programming for September! Dear friends, Just before the allure of summer 2019 takes your focus elsewhere, we implore you to SAVE SOME DATES for amazing upcoming FADO programming in September.
Performance Club is back with a trio of works from Moe Angelos, Hope Thompson and David Bateman. (There will be a surprise or two, so keep your eyes trained to the website and upcoming August and September E-bulletins for updates). Later in the month, Jess Dokin is going to conjure the archive in front of our very eyes, and Liina Kuittinen and Marita Bullman present new in situ performance works in our International Visiting Artists series. (Plus, did we mention that there will be a surprise or two?)
x, fado
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UPCOMING IN SEPTEMBER:
Queer/Play 2.0 by Moe Angelos (USA/Toronto) Thursday, September 5
The Talking Grave by Hope Thompson (Toronto)
Thursday, September 12
Lecture-performance by Jess Dobkin (Toronto)
Wednesday, September 18
Sex, Death & Macrame with David Bateman (Toronto)
Thursday, September 19, 2019
(and other dates TBA)
International Visiting Artists
Friday, September 20: performances
Saturday, September 21: artist talks
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FADO Performance Art Centre E-Bulletin for July 2019
INDEX 1. EVENT: a fact on my own right by Boris Nieslony
Date: June 28–October 6, 2019; City: Ratingen, Germany; Source: asabank
2. EVENT: Visiting Hours by k.g. Guttman
Date: June 29–August 3, 2019; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Gallery TPW
3. EVENT: The Performance Potluck
Date: July 12, 2019; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Chrysanthemum White Alder
4. WORKSHOP: Performance Video with Irene Loughlin
Date: July 14, 2019; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Trinity Square Video
5. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: The bank, the mine, the colony, the crime
Deadline date: July 15, 2019; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Stephanie Springgay
6. WORKSHOP: PAWS - Performance Art Workshop Sessions
Date: July 18–19, 2019; City: Amsterdam, NL; Source: Performance Art Event NL
7. EVENT: Pi*llOry
Date: July 18, 2019; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Holly Timpener
8. EVENT: 52 ARTISTS 52 ACTIONS Symposium
Date: July 20–21, 2019; City: Sydney, Australia; Source: Art Space
13. PUBLICATION: 9Questions, an artist project by Gustaf Broms Published by FADO Performance Art Centre and Centre for Orgchaosmik Studies
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Date: June 28–October 6, 2019; City: Ratingen, Germany; Source: asabank
a fact on my own right
Boris Nieslony
an overview exhibition about long durational works over the last 40 years
Dates: June 28–October 6, 2019
Opening: June 28, 7:00 pm
Location: Art Museum Ratingen, Germany
SPECIAL EVENTS:
Artist talk: July 14 / 3:00pm
September 8 / 4:00pm
Event: performances by Myriam Laplante and Antoni Karwowski
September 27 / 7.00pm
Event: "Open Source Performance" by PAErsche
October 6 / 11:00am
Symposium and lecture-performance: Boris Nieslony, entitled "Mind the Gap"
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Date: June 29–August 3, 2019; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Gallery TPW
k.g. Guttman
Visiting Hours
Gallery TPW
170 St. Helens Avenue, Toronto
June 29–August 3, 2019
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 29, 2:00–5:00pm
Performed by k.g. Guttman, Ahlam Hassan, Johanna Householder, Kelly Keenan, Mikiki, Shahir Omar-Qrishnaswamy and Bee Pallomina
With contributions by lo bil, Seika Boye, Francisco-Fernando Granados, Jessica Karuhanga, Matthew-Robin Nye and Joshua Vettivelu.
Performers are present Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from 12:00–5:00pm and Wednesday from 3:00–8:00pm.
Positioning the image as an encounter between performer and audience, Visiting Hours presents new work by Montreal-based artist and choreographer k.g. Guttman. A live exhibition hosted by an ensemble of performers, visitors are guided in relational and embodied observation techniques with images pulled from the practices of six Toronto-affiliated artists.
Working with varied forms of performance documentation from lo bil, Seika Boye, Francisco-Fernando Granados, Jessica Karuhanga, Matthew-Robin Nye, and Joshua Vettivelu, Guttman develops the conditions for visiting each artist’s image. These conceptual and performative visits explore how embodied practices can trouble the clear boundaries of where an image ends and a performance begins. In positioning spectatorship as a choreographic process, Visiting Hours asks what it means to be in embodied proximity with an artist’s practice, to consider an image not as a fixed object, but rather as a lived event.
Upon entering the gallery, visitors may choose the duration of their guided participation: five, ten, twenty minutes, or more. Audiences may engage with performers one-on-one or in small groups.
Guttman’s Visiting Hours is the first in a series of annual summer residencies at Gallery TPW, featuring artist-led explorations into how forms of spectatorship are produced in and with a public.
More info: http://gallerytpw.ca/exhibitions/kg-guttman/
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Date: July 12, 2019; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Chrysanthemum White Alder
The Performance Potluck
Workman Arts (651 Dufferin Street, Toronto)
6:00pm–9:00pm
The theme of this evening will be femme identity, trauma, and environmental awakening. Performances will emerge from within a dinner party atmosphere, where it is hoped that the vulnerability of sharing will help to establish a co-creative, nurturing environment where feeling and transformation can easily settle into our bones. There will be opportunities for experiential immersion in our opening ritual, so please try to be punctual if you would like to take part in this experience.
Please also consider that Workman Arts is a scent free-space so please take care to avoid scented products the day of (including essential oils).
Also, please bring (if you can):
–a food item to contribute to the potluck
–a dish, cutlery, and a cup
–a pillow and/or blanket for sitting (chairs will be available for those who need/want them)
–(optional) a piece of poetry or writing, a song, a dance, a piece of your heart, as there will be open floor time for sharing.
Please be sure to keep in mind the ingredients you use as some people will be gluten/lactose intolerant and/or vegan/vegetarian. Labels will be available.
Performanc-ers:
Irene Loughlin (www.ireneloughlin.com/)
Hanan Hazime (https://hananhazime.com/)
Kirrivath (www.paperbagempress.com/)
Chrysanthemum White Alder (www.manifest-breath.com)
Rachelle Walker (www.rachellealana.com/)
Esther Splett (https://cargocollective.com/EstherSplett/BIO)
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Date: July 14, 2019; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Trinity Square Video
THE IMAGINARY AND THE SYNCHRONOUS: working with accounts of the self in performance video
Video performance workshop with Irene Loughlin
Trinity Square Video
401 Richmond Street West, Toronto
Date: July 14, 2019
Time: 1—5 pm
Maximum Capacity: 10 participants
Cost: $55 for members / $65 for nonmembers
Autobiography acts as the means to explore video performance; participants link an aspect of their life with an object/s that represents this event or characteristic, linking it to a wider socio-political platform. The structure of the workshop emphasizes the imaginary and the synchronous. This one-day workshop is split into two parts, beginning with an exploration of artists who have used video performance followed by the creation of a ‘storyboard’ for a performance followed by a short video performance made by each participant. Please bring an object to work with that represents an aspect of your life—common performance objects include paper, books, a food object such as a bag of sugar (contained), feathers—the object is only limited by your imagination. Please consider containment and cleanup issues in the studio and near the camera.
ABOUT IRENE LOUGHLIN
Irene Loughlin holds an MFA in Visual Studies from the University of Toronto, a BFA from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver and is an alumni of the Ontario College of Art, Toronto. Using a neuro-diverse perspective, her practice encompasses performance art, video, sculpture, drawing and text-based work that is informed by feminism and magic and employs aesthetics derived from the history of art and the West Coast of Canada. Working from an emotive perspective, she employs visual metaphors from medical, ecological and historic contexts in order to comment on our contemporary social and political discourse. Loughlin has participated in various solo and group exhibitions including Through a Window: Visual Art and SFU 1965-2015 Audain Gallery, Vancouver (2015), Westbeth Gallery, Transforming Community: Disability, Diversity and Access NY (2015) and The Month of Performance Art, Berlin (2014). She has been awarded the Lynch Staunton Award, Canada Council for the Arts, for mid-career, interdisciplinary practice and a SSHRC Masters Level Scholarship and is the author of numerous essays, articles and conference proceedings.
TO NOTE:
Trinity Square Video’s workshops may be subject to changes in the schedule, instructor, or content. If so, Trinity will refund full workshop payment to participants who are unable to make the rescheduled dates or should the program be cancelled. Workshop registrants will be notified in advance of any changes or cancellations.
To be registered, you must be paid up in full. Accepted Payment: Visa, Mastercard, via phone; cash or debit accepted in-person. Cancellation 5 business days prior to workshop; NO REFUNDS GIVEN for CANCELLATIONS made with less than 5 business days.
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Deadline date: July 15, 2019; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Stephanie Springgay
The bank, the mine, the colony, the crime: A walk for the radical imagination against Bay Street
A collaborative walking tour for art, activism and inquiry in Toronto’s financial district
October 5, 2019
10:30am–4pm
Organized by:
Stephanie Springgay and Sarah E. Truman (WalkingLab)
Max Haiven (ReImagining Value Action Lab – RiVAL)
Please submit proposals to present or participate, or sign up for updates here by July 15:
Toronto’s financial district, built on stolen Haudenosaunee and Mississauga lands, is home to many ghosts, notably those dispossessed by the global extractive industry headquartered on the city’s infamous Bay Street. The violence of (neo)colonialism haunts the corporate towers and cleansed streets of the financial district; it also haunts the pensions and savings of millions of Canadians who, knowingly or not, are invested in the industry via the neighbourhood’s preeminent financial institutions.
This glass, metal and concrete zone is a reactor of the imagination, where the abstract codes of global finance fuse with the settler colonial logics of racialized extraction and neoliberal capitalism. But what else might the imagination generate if we assembled ourselves otherwise? What resilient pasts, rebellious presents and radical futures flow beneath the surface, ready to erupt? How can we imagine and enact the complex solidarities we need to overturn the financialized global order of deadly inequalities and the fascistic spectres it unleashes?
WalkingLab and the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL) propose to assemble a temporary community of activists, artists, scholars and other peripatetic counter-speculators to investigate and challenge this power by walking together. On 5 October 2019 we will assemble in Toronto’s financial district to share our knowledge, ideas and forms of resistance through a series of presentations at various locations. We are calling for expressions of interest from those who might be willing to share their stories and talents as part of a collaborative walking tour.
Please use this form to propose a talk, a performance, or another intervention that could take place during our day-long event. Most contributions will take the form of 15 minute presentations that will take place at locations along our route, but we are also keen to explore other possibilities including durational artworks, installations, media or time-based works, and games. We anticipate that we will walk together for several hours hearing presentations at specific sites before retiring to a nearby indoor space for a conversation and panel. There will be a lunch break.
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
–Counter-speculations: pre-colonial memories, anti-colonial struggles and decolonized dreaming in the territories currently known as “Toronto”
–The afterlives and traces of slavery and racial exploitation in (Canadian) financial and banking capital, including the role of Canadian banks in necolonialism in the Caribbean
–Confronting the financial mechanisms that drive extractive capitalism: anti-mining and other activism
–The architectures of financialized power: concrete, abstract, digital, material
–Colonial algorithms: data extractivism, surveillance capitalism and the gendered/raced bodies they target in the city
–Histories of financial violence, crime and activism in “Canada”
–Artistic and academic confrontations (and/or complicities with) extractive capital
–Biting the hand: confronting extractive and financial sponsorship of arts and culture
–Urban zones of extraction and colonial dispossession: struggle within/against/beyond “gentrification”
–Marketization: oblique uptakes on how ‘the market’ appears, proliferates, and captures daily life
Modest honouraria or artist fees are available for selected presenters.
All the information can be found here: http://rival.lakeheadu.ca/torontotour/
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Date: July 18–19, 2019; City: Amsterdam, NL; Source: Performance Art Event NL
PAWS - Performance Art Workshop Sessions
Date: July 18–19, 2019
Location: H.J.E. Wenckebachweg 144, Amsterdam, NL
Time: 19:00–22:00
Open to everyone who feels triggered to experience performance in process!
Artists Kamila Wolszczak, ieke Trinks, and Nina Boas will each give short workshop sessions on the 18th and 19th of July, 2019, in Amsterdam. The workshops are sharings on how each of the artists work with objects in performance, resulting in two evenings with a diverse mix of performance art approaches. This workshop is open to anyone who wants to get acquainted with performance art in general, but also for those who are experienced it is an opportunity to explore different methods.
Cost:
One session: €15
Two sessions:€30
More than two sessions: additional by donation
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Date: July 18, 2019; City: Toronto, Canada; Source: Holly Timpener
Pi*llOry
*first edition
A Performance night at Toronto Media Arts Centre
32 Lisgar St, Toronto
Thursday July 18
7pm–10pm
PWYC / *This is a dry event*
Employing the liberation of bodies as a primary medium, Pi*llOry harnesses the epic powers of presence, space, politics, shame, and ability, while also refracting their infinite incarnations. These artists renounce the binary and traditional gender roles, and in doing so, not only create new ones, but space for others to create and live in them as well. Through a variety of aural, visual, and visceral mediums, Pi*llory explores the depths of fragmented gender/queer identity, pushing beyond label and classification. On the edge of complete uncertainty, with only the already structural, limited, and bound ways of description and discrimination, Pi*llOry arm themselves with the unknown, in hopes of navigating the surrender that comes with being an other.
Works by
Leena Raudvee
Matthew Moir
David Frankovich
Holly Timpener
Sophie Traub (aka wisdomfruit)
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Date: July 20–21, 2019; City: Sydney, Australia; Source: Art Space
52 ARTISTS 52 ACTIONS Symposium
July 20–21, 2019
Artspace
51 Cowper Wharf Road, #43
Level 2, Seminar Room
Artspace, in partnership with Asialink Arts and Asia Society Australia, will host a symposium designed to stimulate discussion, critical thinking and engagement with some of the most important issues explored in the 52 ARTISTS 52 ACTIONS project - censorship, activism, migration, labour, gender and economies of power.
The two day event will bring leading thinkers and artists from across the Asia-Pacific to shift perceptions and push the boundaries of conventional thought, including talks and performances from FAFSWAG (Aotearoa) Enkhjargal Gangbat (Mongolia), Hit Man Gurung (Nepal), Hasan Hujiari (Bahrain), Ashmina Ranjit (Nepal) and Mike Parr (Australia).
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Date: July 26 & 27, 2019: Oberhausen, Germany; Source: Marita Bullman
INTERVAL °10
Unterhaus, Oberhausen
Free
ARTISTS
Boris Nieslony (DE)
Anja Ibsch (DE)
Preach R Sun (USA)
Leena Kela (FI)
Constantin Leonhard (DE)
Since 2013 INTERVAL offers a platform for international performance artists to meet and exchange ideas, strategies and concepts. For this edition a total of ten local and international artists will be invited to INTERVAL°10 to explore the public space in the Ruhr area with all its multifaceted diversity and to develop and present site-specifc performative works and be part in the PAErsche Open Source Performance. Come and see Performance Art which will expand the the public places with multi-layered, processual, political and poetic images.
July 26 / 6pm
PAErsche Open Source Group-performance
July 27 / 4pm
Solo performances
With friendly assistance of the Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalens, Kulturbüro Essen, Kulturbüro Stadt Oberhausen, kitev, Zentrum Alibi.
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Deadline date: July 31, 2019; City: Pontevedra, Spain; Source: Mario J. McQueen
FUGAS E INTERFERENCIAS
IV INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART CONFERENCE
CALL FOR PAPERS 2019
This is an open call for artists, theoreticians and students to publicly present research about the art of action from an open position that presents multiple perspectives.
The communications presented to the congress must be original and unpublished, in addition to not being pending publication. The scientific committee of the congress will not accept those communications that do not meet the publication criteria expressed herein.
People who wish to participate should propose a reflection that reflects a state of innovation in the theoretical-critical investigation of the language of action art, offering hypotheses that help us to anticipate their future.
For information, please visit the website:
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Deadline date: July 31, 2019; City: Yaoundé / Soa, Cameroon; Source: Perform'Action
International Festival of Performance Art of Cameroon
Perform'Action Live Art 3
The International Festival of Performance Art of Cameroon launches a Call for Applications for the third edition Perform'Action Live Art 3 to be held from November 29 to December 6, 2019 in Yaoundé and Soa. The theme of this edition is: "Art and Ecology, Performance Art against Pollution."
The call for applications is open to all artists around the world, no age limit, artists must be available throughout the duration of the Festival, for 8 days: workshops, discussions, conferences, residencies, restitution etc.
All artists who work with used objects, and in the public space are encouraged to apply. We accept Performances, non-standard, extreme, anti-conformist, and offbeat. The festival encourages interdisciplinary creations, including installations, and works using multimedia. The festival also encourages intercultural exchanges and collaborative productions to apply.
The deadline for applications is July 31, 2019.
Perform'Action Live Art 3 support: meals, internal transport in Cameroon, homestay accommodation is encouraged.
Artists support includes: international transport between their departure city and Yaoundé and probably accommodation.
Send your file including: CV, Letter of motivation, a short biography to: performactionliveart@yahoo.com
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Encumbrance by Johannes Zits A SummerWorks Performance
Toronto Media Arts Centre - Mezzanine 32 Lisgar Street, Toronto
Thursday, August 8 from 8:00–9:30pm Friday, August 9 from 7:00–8:30pm
Johannes Zits has been collecting second-hand clothing as material for performative interventions for over 15 years.
In Encumbrance, Zits and collaborators Branda Dale, Holly Timpener and Enok Ripley explore the conflicted relationship we have with our clothing and ask us to contemplate our own assertions of consumerism, “fast fashion” and labour. Using masses of second-hand garments, they consider the ways our bodies are identified with clothing, and how this interconnection helps construct our identities, shapes our desires and tastes.
Part of the SummerWorks Presentations programming—offering you a snapshot of contemporary performance in 2019. A vital collection of new theatre, dance, music, and live art works from across the country.
Created and Produced by Johannes Zits with the assistance of Holly Timpener; Performed by Johannes Zits, Holly Timpener, Enok Ripley and Branda Dale
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9Questions, an artist project by Gustaf Broms
Publication: $20 Publication & postage for Toronto: $25 Publication & postage to Canada/USA: $30 Publication & postaget to UK/Europe: $35
Pay via PAYPAL, credit or debit. Email info@performanceart.ca to place your order.
Or purchase a copy through Unbound: www.thisisunbound.co.uk/collections/books/products/9questions
In 2014, Swedish performance and visual artist Gustaf Broms composed a list of nine questions that he started to circulate to fellow performance artists—many he had a personal connection with and many more he had never even met. The questions covered a range of paired concepts—the bricks and mortar of performance practice (including Material/object, Audience/receiver, Sound/silence, Time/rhythm, Space/emptiness)—and grounded by questions about personal experience, lineage and language. The impulse to gather this collection arose from a conversation Broms had had with another artist; but what makes this volume first and foremost an artist’s book is that the questions are asked from the specific perspective of Broms’ deep personal understanding that, as a practice, performance resides at the permeable borders between the conscious and subconscious, and the meeting of the concrete world of form and the spiritual realm. For Broms, these are the essential questions. The responses collected are as diverse and wide-ranging as the artists and their own approaches, from the practical, to the abstract to the simply far-flung, in addition to some reassuring and surprising overlapping ideas and connections.
The roster of contributors to the 9Questions book project is an impressive array of international performance artists whose work covers a range of performance and performative multi-disciplinary approaches, including: Adina Bar-On, Alastair MacLennan, Andrea Saemann, Antoni Karwowski, Arahmaiani, Artur Tajber, Barbara T. Smith, Bartolomé Ferrando, Boris Nieslony, Brian Connolly, Dorothea Rust, Elvira Santamaria-Torres, Esther Ferrer, Fausto Grossi, Guadalupe Neves, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Gustaf Broms, He Yunchang, hermann nitsch, Irma Optimist, Jamie McMurry, Jill Orr, Johanna Householder, John Duncan, Kurt Johannessen, Leif Elggren, Linda Mary Montano, Macarena Perich Rosas, Margaret Dragu, Mariel Carranza, Marilyn Arsem, Martha Wilson, Monika Günther & Ruedi Schill, Myriam Laplante, Nigel Rolfe, Nobuo Kubota, Paul Couillard, Pekka Kainulainen, Rocio Boliver, Roi Vaara, Ron Athey, Serge Olivier Fokoua, Shannon Cochrane, Stelarc, Tanya Mars, Tehching Hsieh, Tomas Ruller, Valentin Torrens, Zbigniew Warpechowski and Zhu Ming.
ABOUT GUSTAF BROMS Gustaf Broms is a Swedish visual artist working in performance, video and photography. His performance work has presented work across Europe, Asia and North America. His practice is engaged with the exploration of the nature of consciousness, the dualistic concept of "I," as the biological reality of being in the BODY, and being MIND, as the perceived experience of the flow of phenomena. He is a co-founding member of REVOLVE Performance Festival in Uppsala. He was the subject of 2012 film, The Mystery of Life – An Art Apart: Gustaf Broms by Carl Abrahamsson.
Published by FADO Performance Art Centre and Centre for Orgchaosmik Studies Edited by Gustaf Broms and Shannon Cochrane Translations by Paula Alvarado, Robert Rowley, Nicolas Scrutton, Jie Wang Design: Lisa Kiss Design
ISBN 978-0-9730883-4-2 (FADO Performance Art Centre, Canada) 978-91-639-8460-0 (Centre for Orgchaosmik Studies, Sweden)
This publication project is supported by Stiftelsen Längmanska kulturfonden. FADO Performance Art Centre acknowledges the suport of the Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, and the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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ABOUT FADO PERFORMANCE ART CENTRE Established in 1993, FADO Performance Art Centre is a not-for-profit artist-run centre based in Toronto, Canada. FADO provides a stage and on-going forum in support of the research and development of contemporary performance art practices in Canada and internationally. As a year-round presentation platform, FADO exists nomadically, working with partner organizations and presenters, and utilizing venues and sites that are appropriate to individual projects. FADO presents the work of local, national and international artists who have chosen performance art as a primary medium to create and communicate provocative new images and perspectives. FADO is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Artistic & Administrative Director: Shannon Cochrane Board of Directors: Cara Spooner, Francesco Gagliardi, Jenn Snider, Cathy Gordon, Clayton Lee, Julian Higuerey Núñez
Office: 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 445, Toronto, Canada M5V 3A8 info@performanceart.ca FADO on Instagram: @fadoperformanceartcentre To subscribe to this mailing list: https://dm-mailinglist.com/subscribe?f=d6de595f |
