Lori Goldston + Christelle Saint-Julien + Elissa Kayal + Lori Goldston/Stefan Christoff duo
Venue: La Sotterenea, 4848 St Laurent Blvd, Montreal, Quebec H2T 1R5 Date: Friday, October 4, 2024
Doors: 8:00 PM Music: 8:30 PM
Tickets: $15.00 plus taxes and fees in advance, $20.00 at the door
NOTAFLOF (no one turned away for lack of funds)
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Join us for a concert presented by Arts in the Margins with support from Small Scale Music, Academics for Palestine at Concordia University, the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University, CJLO and CKUT.
This concert will mark the launch of a benefit compilation in support of the Palestinian radio project Radio alHara based in occupied Palestine in Bethlehem. Both Christelle and Stefan appear on the compilation that will be released in collaboration with Small Scale Music. Art prints will be available for purchase to raise additional funds for the Palestinian radio station.
This concert is co-presented and supported by Academics for Palestine at Concordia University.
This concert will also be the Montréal launch for the 2024 duet album A Radical Horizon, with Lori Goldston on cello and Stefan Christoff on piano, released by Beacon Sound in Portland.
The evening will feature a solo performance by Lori Goldston, a solo performance by Christelle Saint-Julien, a reading by poet Elissa Kayal and a duet by Lori Goldston and Stefan Christoff.
Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher from Seattle. Her voice as a cellist, amplified or acoustic, is full, textured, committed and original. A relentless inquirer, her work drifts freely across borders that separate genre, discipline, time and geography. Current and former collaborators and/or bosses include Earth, Nirvana, Mirah, Jessika Kenney, Ilan Volkov, Eyvind Kang, Stuart Dempster, David Byrne, Terry Riley, Jherek Bischoff, Malcom Goldstein, Steve Von Till, Lonnie Holley, Cat Power, Ellen Fullman, Maya Dunietz, Mik Quantius, Embryo, O Paon, Tara Jane O’Neil, Natacha Atlas, Broken Water, Ed Pias, Christian Rizzo and Sophie Laly, Threnody Ensemble, Cynthia Hopkins, 33 Fainting Spells, Vanessa Renwick, Mark Mitchell, Lynn Shelton, and many more.
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Stefan Spirodon Christoff is a media maker, community activist and artist living in Montréal. Stefan hosts the program Free City Radio, broadcasting weekly on seven community radio stations in Canada and shared globally as a podcast (Spotify + Apple Podcasts). Stefan makes music with many people globally, including Rêves sonores, Sam Shalabi, Lori Goldston, Adriana Camancho and Anarchist Mountains. Stefan is on the board of the Immigrant Workers Centre in Côte-Des-Neiges and organises with Cinema Politica Network. Stefan works with the Social Justice Centre and is also a graduate student in history at Concordia University.
Christelle Saint-Julien is a journalist, writer, translator, and musician based in Montreal. She works in media, communications, arts and culture, and is interested in people and their stories, both intangible and perceptible.
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Elissa Kayal is a Lebanese-Palestinian poet and literary critic. Her poetry and prose have appeared in several magazines, including Mœbius, Estuaire, Zinc and Lieu commun.