Each location for FLEET will bring different contexts and opportunities for arts and culture programs. FLEET programs are guided by place, local community needs, and how to best advocate for and alongside ongoing arts and culture activities in each location. FLEET explores collaborative models for how the studios are used, engaged with, and activated over the course of the studio’s stay in a location.
Programs are delivered by a small team consisting of artists, arts workers, curators, planners, and architects. The team’s approach is to build and sustain responsive, respectful, and reciprocal relationships with artists, community partners, municipalities, and the public with a priority of removing and/or reducing systemic barriers to access FLEET as a resource.
The inaugural year of FLEET programming reflects these ongoing relationships through the lenses of care and community.
Upcoming Programs
Visiting Artist: Mohamed Assani
e are excited to welcome Mohamed Assani, who will be activating the FLEET studio in Edmonds Park from November 2024 - January 2025. While visiting, FLEET, Assani will be using the opportunity to write an original piece of music for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra featuring sitar, tabla and full orchestra.
Artist Workshops with Bianca Del Rio Kodato
Join Bianca Del Rio Kodato for a series of workshops invite participants to reconnect to the significance of food in their lives by coming together to share stories through the making of bags. The bags will be created through textile manipulation; by un-doing, and then re-binding, existing food bags (rice bags, coffee bags, onion bags, lime bags, etc.) into new re-contextualized bags. Participants are encouraged to manipulate the bags using techniques from their own lives, heritages and cultures, turning them into carriers of stories (as well as memories, traditions and dreams) of both the bags’ histories and the histories of the ones who are entwining them together.
Full-Day Workshop: Demystifying South Asian Music
Join Mohamed Assani at FLEET: Edmonds for a full-day workshop on South Asian music! Whether you are a percussionist, instrumentalist or vocalist, if you want to deepen your knowledge of Raag and Taal - rhythm and melody in South Asian Music, this workshop is for you. Learn how to play in complex time cycles, like 7, 9, and 10; grow your confidence in cross-rhythms; and acquire skills in rhythmic vocalization and counting techniques. You will also learn how to translate rhythmic ideas into melodic form on your instrument or voice.
