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Heidi Chan
Small and Mighty
by Heidi Chan
May 5 to 24, 2024
Learning a new hobby has never been easier. Access to teachers and lessons are virtually available any time of the day from anywhere in the world. It has become easier than ever to learn an instrument, a craft, or even a new career skill at the push of a button.
At the same time, such richness of information and opportunity can sometimes pull us too quickly through new practices. Through this workshop series, I invite you to enter a space where alongside artists you can focus on a practice more deeply, to find the joy and value in the small and mighty: doing one thing, but doing it well by slowing down and zooming in.
Heidi Chan
Heidi Chan was born in Canada to parents from Hong Kong and has worked with music and sound for theatre, dance, and film. Heidi plays bamboo flutes, percussion, and synthesizers, and is a member of Japanese folk music ensemble ten ten. Heidi also collaborates frequently with cross-cultural and experimental music collectives and has performed at various arts festivals, including Women From Space, XAvant, Eclectic Electric, and Older and Reckless.
In theatre, Heidi has worked at the Shaw Festival and Blyth Festival and has provided sound design and original music for productions with Theatre Gargantua, Outside the March, Company of Fools (Ottawa), and others.
Heidi currently teaches music and sound design at Toronto Metropolitan University and Humber College.
Photo by Sabrine S. Hakam