Sunnyside By Side

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 will lead 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 will take listeners through a variety of sonic environments, attuning attention to the presently present and across physical and chronological distances. 

The soundwalk will last approximately 1 hour and will take place at a slow pace. Due to COVID-19, pre-registration is required and walk size will be limited to 10 people. Please wear a mask, and bring water. 

 

Calgary: Walk will depart from containR (located by the Sunnyside LRT Station) at 7:00 pm MT. Please arrive at 6:45pm. 

Portland: Walk will depart from the south side of Sunnyside Environmental School (SE Salmon St between 34th & 35th) at 6:00 pm PT. Please arrive at 5:45pm. 

 

Accessibility information: Each walk will cover approximately 2.5KM, and last for approximately one hour. The walks will be slow, with frequent stops. The Calgary walk will take place predominantly on paved walkways, with some short excursions over a grassy park area, and through some wooded paths on McHugh Bluff. There are public washrooms available at the starting point on the Calgary walk. The Portland walk will(information forthcoming).

 

Presented by New Works Calgary in Partnership with Springboard Performance and ContainR.

 

Soundwalking is a practice of walking and listening to the surrounding environment. Without making a distinction between ‘good’ or ‘bad’ sounds, soundwalks can attune us to the present and bring new understandings of the places we inhabit. While the practice developed in the 1970s in Vancouver, BC amongst composers R Murray Schafer, Hildegard Westerkamp, and others, it is currently used by artists and musicians of all stripes in multiple forms.