Cluster: strength in numbers.

Special thanks to our sponsors:
Socan Foundation
Automated Design Systems
Studio Flat
The Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music
The Kenaston Wine Market
Manulife Securities
MGI Securities
Strata Studios

Without your generous support Cluster would not be possible. If you would like to contribute to please contact us via email or on facebook using the links above.

Cluster is a platform for artists—emerging and established, local and international—to create, to collaborate and to experiment. The inaugural festival will present three evenings of unique musical and artistic experience, with programming that is unapologetic in its innovation, provocation and integrity. Created and curated by local composers Luke Nickel and Heidi Ugrin, the festival is set to become a vital fixture on the Winnipeg scene by celebrating and integrating our diverse artistic communities.

Night Flares
March 18, 2010 - 8pm
Eckhardt-Grammatté Hall [map]
University of Winnipeg

Cluster's inaugural year debuts with an illuminating concert integrating the audience and performers in unexpected and exciting ways. Internationally renowned sax & piano duo Allen Harrington and Laura Loewen perform a showcase of works by Manitoban composers, including this year's guest composer, Gordon Fitzell. Meanwhile, architect Herb Enns will transform the performance hall into an interactive visual space using light alone.

shadows, petals, airports
March 19, 2010 - 8pm
Perret/Roy Studio [map]
(5th floor, 290 McDermot ave)

An intimate and amplified evening set in a raw, warehouse space in Winnipeg's Exchange District. At once highly visceral and mysteriously vast, this night's program explores the latest in performer-electronics interactions and multi-disciplinary juxtapositions. Acoustic becomes electric. Shadows become dancers. Silence becomes sound.

The Great Divide
March 20, 2010 - 8pm
Park Theatre [map]
698 Osborne Street

Rising Montreal percussionist Gina Ryan performs a diverse set of newly commissioned Canadian works. Also included: local video artist Bryan Besant premieres a trio of short films—with live improvised soundtracks by the Cluster Troubadours, featuring up-and-coming pop ingenue Ingrid Gatin and early music maniac Max Fleischman. Carrying the evening from act to act is a parade of walking, talking weather balloons.

Tickets - available at the following locations and at the door (cash only)

Student ($10)
Adult ($15)
Student Pass ($25)
Adult Pass ($40)

Artspace
(204) 947-9024
425-100 Arthur St.
(Debit, Credit, Cash)

Kenaston Wine Market
(204) 488-9463
1855 Grant Avenue
(Debit, Credit, Cash)

Cluster Festival
(204) 223-9939
info@clusterfestival.com
(Cash only)

Artists + Performers

• David Adamcyk
• Javier Alvarez
• Parker Bert
• Bryan Besant
• Eliot Britton
• Stacey Brown

• Tim Church
• Kevin Curtis
• Erika Donald
• Herb Enns
• Gordon Fitzell
• Max Fleischman

• Ingrid Gatin
• Allen Harrington
• Maddy Hildebrand
• Chris Kayler
• alcides lanza
• Laura Loewen

• Haydon Mariner
• Justin Mariner
• Michael Matthews
• Luke Nickel
• Freya Olafson
• Jamie Pham

• Wendy Rondeau
• Gina Ryan
• Kaija Saariaho
• Örjan Sandred
• Melina Stinson
• Anthony Tan

• Heidi Ugrin
• Byron Wood