The Chan Centre presents HUGH MASEKELA Saturday, March 12th at 8:00pm Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC Legendary South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela is an innovator in the world music and jazz scene and is active as a performer, composer, producer and activist. This iconic artist is best known for his integral role in Paul Simon’s tour behind the classic album Graceland. Masekela’s Grammy award-winning hit Grazing in the Grass sold over 4 million copies and made him an international star. He has collaborated with numerous artists in the USA, Africa and Europe including Miriam Makeba, Dizzy Gillespie, Harry Belafonte and Herb Alpert. Renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey chose a piece by Masekela to create a work for his world famous Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Masekela also co-created the Broadway smash musical Sarafina that introduced the sounds and passion of South African music to theater audiences worldwide. Masekela’s work as an activist raised international awareness of the South African government’s restrictive Apartheid policies. In the 80s, Masekela’s hit song Bring Him Back Home became an anthem for the Free Nelson Mandela movement. Articulate and brilliantly musical in a number of genres, Hugh Masekela has been a defining force in world music and the struggle for human rights both in Africa and around the world. This presentation of Hugh Masekela at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts is supported by: Presenting Sponsors
Platinum Sponsor
Melanie Ferrandi & Douglas Leard
Coming up in the Chan Centre’s Spring 2011 Season Film Screening: Rebirth of a Nation
Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe Street Thursday, April 7th at 7:00 pm Nearly a century after the release of D.W. Griffith’s classic and contentious 1915 silent movie Birth of a Nation, Paul D. Miller – the conceptual artist, musician and writer known as DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid – creates a daring “remix” of Griffith’s epic to expose the film’s true meaning and relate it to the socio-political conflicts of contemporary America. Originally commissioned as a live multimedia performance, Rebirth of a Nation’s unique “DJ mix”/deconstruction of this infamous film challenges us to revisit and reinterpret its troubling, complicated legacy and ponder the lessons it offers about mass media manipulation today. Rebirth of a Nation features an original score by Miller performed by the Kronos Quartet. Presented in partnership with Pacific Cinémathèque
Sound Unbound: DJ Spooky & the Digital Arts
SFU Woodward’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts,149 West Hastings Street Friday, April 8th at 4:00 pm In this expansive lecture, Paul D. Miller (a.k.a DJ Spooky) reconstructs the history of sound and recorded media by several of the most well-known artists of their field – ranging from Brian Eno to Moby to Chuck D, as well as artists, writers and theoreticians. These are reports from the front lines on the role of sound and digital media in an information-based society. The talk will be followed by a short Q&A. Presented in partnership with SFU Woodward’s
DJ Spooky in Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica Chan Centre for the Performing Arts Saturday, April 9th at 8:00 pm
“This man is as brainy as a Mensa meeting, sharp as Zorro’s sword, funny as Falstaff. He is Einstein with a better haircut, a streetwise black Tolstoy, a revved-up renaissance man for the digital age, obsessed with art, information and digital technology.” - Sunday Star Times – Auckland, NZ
DJ Spooky’s large-scale multimedia work, Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica, is a meditation on global warming, translating Miller’s first person encounter with the harsh, dynamic landscape of Antarctica into visual and sonic portraits. In addition to video projections and DJ Spooky on turntables, the performance will also feature Corey Hamm on piano and string trio, Infinitus.
The Niqãb: Freedom or Oppression? Chan Centre for the Performing Arts Saturday, April 16th at 8:00 pm
Is the niqāb a symbol of religious expression or a tool of oppression? Farzana Hassan, outspoken and controversial commentator on Islam and Muslim issues, believes that the face-covering veil traditionally worn by Islamic women represents the latter. A committed Muslim, women’s rights activist, author of Islam Women and the Challenges of Today and past president of the Muslim Canadian Congress, Hassan regularly criticizes fundamentalism and extremism in her religion. The Chan Centre is proud to present the UBC - Laurier Institution Multiculturalism Lectures, which are signature events hosted by The Laurier Institution in partnership with UBC Continuing Studies and CBC Radio One.
Tim Flannery
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts Friday, April 29th at 8:00 pm When it comes to our fragile biosphere, what does the future hold? And what do we need to do to secure it? A leading environmental activist and advocate on carbon emissions and population levels, Tim Flannery paints a vivid and terrifying picture of our planet’s potential future in his award-winning books, including The Weather Makers, Now or Never and The Future Eaters. Please join us for a rare Canadian appearance by one of Australia’s foremost thinkers and writers. These events supported by:
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