NAC Orchestra

Sphere

September 22-25, 2022

Creative Team

Alexander Shelley

Music Director, NAC Orchestra

Alexander Shelley succeeded Pinchas Zukerman as Music Director of Canada’s NAC Orchestra in September 2015. The ensemble has since been praised as being “transformed... hungry, bold, and unleashed” (Ottawa Citizen) and Shelley’s programming credited for turning the orchestra into “one of the more audacious in North America” (Maclean’s). Shelley is a champion of Canadian creation; recent hallmarks include the multimedia projects Life... read more

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Angela Rawlings

Co-Curator, SPHERE

a rawlings is a mineral, plant, animal, person, place, or thing. Also known as Dr. Angela Rawlings, they are a Canadian-Icelandic interdisciplinary artist-researcher who works with languages as dominant exploratory material. Their practice seeks and interrogates relationality between bodies—be they human, more-than-human, other-than, non. Meditating on languages as inescapable lenses of human engagement, rawlings’ methods over the past twenty years have included sensorial... read more

Partners

Canadian Museum of Nature

Saving the world through evidence, knowledge, and inspiration! The Canadian Museum of Nature is Canada’s national museum of natural history and natural sciences, with roots dating to the mid 19th-century. The museum provides evidence-based insights, inspiring experiences and meaningful engagement with nature’s past, present and future. It achieves this through scientific research, a 14.6 million specimen collection, education programs, signature and travelling exhibitions, and a... read more

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The Royal Danish Library

The Royal Danish Library is the Danish national library and University library. King Frederik the third founded the Library in 1648. The collection was at the beginning a part of the king’s private collection, later, under king Christian the seventh, the library was made open to the public. Today the library has buildings and departments at several other locations in Denmark. Combined, they house a considerable part of Denmark’s national cultural heritage and a great many historical... read more

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Ottawa Art Gallery

The OAG is an independent, not-for-profit, charitable organization governed by a volunteer board of directors. Since its founding in 1988 has built a significant permanent collection that now numbers more than 1,020 works including paintings, sculpture, graphic arts, photographs and new media.

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SAW Gallery/Club SAW

From its inception in 1973, the artist-run centre SAW has supported politically and socially engaged art, focusing on the performance and media arts. Many of the world’s best-known artists have exhibited at SAW in the early stages of their careers. Begun by a group of local artists, the gallery was originally part of the legendary café Le Hibou on Sussex Drive, hence the name SAW, an acronym for Sussex Annex Works. In 1981, the centre founded the SAW Video cooperative to support... read more

Concerts and Featured Artists

Exhibits, Installations and Activities

The SPHERE Ecosystem

Co-Curators
Alexander Shelley, Angela Rawlings
Producer
Stefani Truant
Associate Producers
Daphne Burt, Kelly Racicot, Ryan Drew
Communication
Julia Bacic
Marketing
Guillaume Lebreton, Greggory Clark, Bobbi Jaimet
Programming Consultants
Mairi Brascoupe, Katherine Day, Michael Davidge, Lise Bach Hansen, Signe Vinther Robsahm
Technical Director
Pasquale Cornacchia, Peter Kealey
Volunteer Coordinator
Alain Chauvin
Creative Design
Northern Army
Translation
Laurence Robert, Edgar Broca Coop
Box Office
Theresa Godbold
With special thanks to
Arna Einarsdóttir

SPHERE is presented as part of Nordic Bridges, a year-long cultural initiative led by Harbourfront Centre in Toronto and supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers. Visit NordicBridges.ca to learn more.