Digital collage by Julie Hammond. Original photo by Marcus Fisher
Sunnyside by Side
2021
Two neighbourhoods, 1,200 km apart, both occupied by European descendants in the late 1880s, with common histories of trolley transport and freeway resistance, now house restaurants and infill housing on lands that had been village sites, hunting grounds, grasslands, and forests filled with game, roots, and berries. On June 17, 2021 artists rebecca bruton in Sunnyside, Calgary, Alberta and Julie Hammond in Sunnyside, Portland, Oregon led Sunnyside By Side, an evening soundwalk of simultaneous and speculative listening to the place we are and the place we aren’t. This guided walk took listeners through a variety of sonic environments, attuning attention to the presently present and across physical and chronological distances.
Date: June 17, 2021
Portland - 6:00pm PT | Calgary - 7:00pm MT
Sunnyside by Side was commissioned and presented by New Works Calgary in collaboration with Springboard Performance/containR.
Portland Sunnyside soundwalk
Calgary Sunnyside soundwalk
Banner drawing by David Chandler