PERFORMANCES:

Tuesday May 1, 2007
Grip Radio: The Camp X Files
opens Deep Wireless at the Drake Hotel
8 pm at The Drake Hotel Underground
1150 Queen Street W., Toronto
TICKETS: $10/$8 (free for conference registrants)
Reserve your tickets by calling 416-910-7231

Stephen Lategan, Stacey Depass, Craig Lauzon and Scott Yaphe take the 50s convention of live radio comedy to new heights. Set in 1944 at Camp X, Canada's infamous wartime spy training ground where every spy must learn how to undergo an effective, convincing transformation through lies and deceit in order to accomplish a mission - with much hilarity along the way.

Thursday May 10, 2007
Trans-local Performance
7 PM @ inter/access & Gallery Gallery 1313 (simultaneously)
inter/access ~ 9 Ossington Ave., Toronto
Gallery 1313 ~ 1313A Queen Street West, Toronto
TICKETS: $5 gets you into both performances (they are a short walk from each other)
Reserve your tickets by calling 416-910-7231

Gallery 1313 and inter/access will host simultaneous radio art performances by Stephen Kelly, Eleanor King, Anna Friz and Michelle Irving. Also included will be performances by Tetsuo Kogawa and company from Japan via internet. Audience members are invited to visit both locations and to bring a portable radio and cellphone to listen and participate.

Tuesday May 22, 2007
Radio in Ambience - The Ambient Ping
8 pm at The Drake Hotel Underground
1150 Queen Street W., Toronto
TICKETS: PWYC (suggested $5)

The Ambient Ping presents Radio in Ambience once again. Listen to Toronto/Berlin sound artists Robert Hoare and Steven Sauvé along with the Halifax duo Stephen Kelly and Eleanor King as they coax the radio ether into an outer-worldly electro ambient chill.

Thursday May 24th, 2007
Radio _Kontakte_ Concert
8pm @ the Ryerson Student Campus Centre (Alumni Room)
$15/$10 (free for conference registrants)

Karlheinz Stockhausen's classic work _Kontakte_ will be presented by Kevin Austin (Montreal) in its original 4-channel version, a rare treat, alongside _Figures de la Nuit / Faces of the Night_ by Francis Dhomont and other works included on the newly released Deep Wireless 4 radio art compilation CD. _Kontakte_ predates many trends in electronic music by decades and was produced at the famous WDR studios in Koln, Germany in 1959.

Francis Dhomont's lush bilingual radiophonic work _Figures de la Nuit / Faces of the Night_ was commissioned by CKLN, Toronto in 1991 for the radio program Transfigured Night hosted by David Olds. This concert will be spatialized by NAISA artistic director Darren Copeland. Free CD with admission.

Friday May 25, 2007
Radio Theatre 1 (with It is to Laugh)
doors open 7:30pm show start 8pm
Ryerson Student Centre, Alumni Room
55 Gould Street, Toronto
TICKETS: $15/$10 (free for conference registrants)

The It is to Laugh radio comedy series creators Dan Bernard & Michael Townsend from Portland, Maine team up with Toronto actors/performers Mark Ellis, Stacey Depass and Stephen Lategan Mark Ellis for a trans-comedy extravaganza. Also featuring Toronto sound artist and actor Richard Lee and including two works commissioned for CBC Outfront by Steve Wadhams and Sarah Boothroyd.

Saturday May 26, 2007
Radio Theatre 2 (with It is to Laugh)
doors open 7:30pm show start 8pm
Ryerson Student Centre, Alumni Room
55 Gould Street, Toronto
TICKETS: $15/$10 (free for conference registrants)

Same zany group as on May 25th performing a very different show of It is to Laugh radio trans-comedy. Also featuring Toronto sound artist and actor Richard Lee and including two works commissioned for CBC Outfront by Robert Hoare and Thelon Oeming.

Calendar

May 1, 2007
Grip Radio: The Camp X Files
8 pm at The Drake Hotel

May 10, 2007
Trans-local Performance
7 pm Simultaneously occurring at Gallery 1313 and inter/access

May 22, 2007
Radio in Ambience -
The Ambient Ping
8 pm at The Drake Hotel Underground

May 24th
Radio Kontakte Concert
8pm @ the Ryerson Student Campus Centre (Alumni Room)

May 25, 2007
Radio Theatre 1 (with It is to Laugh)
8 pm at Ryerson Student Centre, Alumni Room

May 26, 2007
Radio Theatre 2 (with It is to Laugh)
8 pm at Ryerson Student Centre, Alumni Room