Call & Response with Port Moody Community Band

Join us on St. John’s Street for the final day of Resonant Chambers, featuring a pop-up performance of Jenny Hawkinson’s Call & Response, brought to life by the Port Moody Community Band -- directed by Corey Smith.

Featured in Hawkinson’s solo exhibition, Manifesto for Dissonance, the improvised brass score expands beyond the gallery in a continually evolving and shared public experience. First prompted by the urban soundscapes of horns recorded during convoy protests, the performance reimagines protest as a spacefor dialogue, dissonance, and collective listening, offering a timelyreflection on how conflict reverberates between public and private life.

After the performance, head inside PoMoArts for one last chance to experience Resonant Chambers, featuring solo exhibitions by Sonya Iwasiuk, Golriz Rezvani, and Jenny Hawkinson.

Jenny Hawkinson is an artist and creative researcher based in Vancouver, BC. Her practice exists between the studio and the streets and is found at the intersections of socially engaged art, conflict engagement, visual art, social composition and sound studies. Hawkinson’s work often plays with notions of public space and contested territories. Her preferred methodology is gathering, whether it be field recordings, found materials or people. The resulting projects are complex works that dance between the political and the poetic; creating space for practicing subversion, circular systems and gift economies.

In the Spring of 2024, Hawkinson curated and facilitated a d.i.y. community residency structured around notions of feedback. Feedback Loop shifted the gallery into a collective space for shared meals, discussions and reading groups, experimental sound-based art, performance/rehearsal space and a community drop-in. In July 2023 she facilitated Call &Response, a collaborative sound intervention beneath the Burrard Street Bridge in Vancouver, BC. In addition to several groups shows, she has exhibited her work throughout Western Canada. Several research trips to Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland, and the UK have informed her social practice and other creative work in understanding conflict engagement through a creative lens.

Hawkinson holds an MFA in Creative Research from Transart Institute with Liverpool John Moores University (2024) and a BA in Visual Arts from Trinity Western University (2010). She is grateful to work on the unceded and traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ ílwətaʔɬ /Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations.