Fides Krucker

Please join Jessica Runge in her fundraising party to continue the creative development of her new solo, Becoming. Saturday November 4, 7:30 - 11pm Intergalactic Arts Collective 180 Shaw St., unit 103 Tickets sliding scale $50-$150, including one complimentary beverage, seasonal sweets, and cash bar (volunteer opportunities) Becoming combines movement, song, spoken-word, video-projection, and a surround-sound environment to create an ambitious, 50-minute multi-media performance work that confronts the challenges of making art in our precarious time, and finds, in that very act, the seeds of hope to carry on. Fides Krucker (director, vocal coach) Holly Small (movement dramaturge) Tom Kuo (sound design) Andrea Castaneda (stage management) The Fundraiser will feature: excerpts from Jessica Runge’s new solo: “Becoming” a reading by Lindsay-Zier Vogel from her upcoming novel THE FUN TIMES BRIGADE, a signature Zier-Vogel mini love-lettering activity, and musical vibes by Tom Kuo. There will be sweet treats to eat and drink, warmth, good company, and community. / Photo credit: Ömer Kardeş Yükseker

A NIGHT OF SINGING, READING AND MINGLING WITH FIDES KRUCKER JOIN US FOR AN EVENING CELEBRATING THE UNFETTERED HUMAN VOICE SEPTEMBER 21 2023 6:30 - 8:00PM Labour of Love | 223 Carlton Street, Toronto (south-side of Carlton, west of Parliament street) Cost: Free no RSVP necessary Copies of Reclaiming Calliope will be available for purchase. -- Dear friends and students, Regina Scheung is welcoming us into her beautiful shop The Labour of Love to bring my book Reclaiming Calliope to more readers. The event will be a wonderful opportunity to meet other students and mingle in a community drawn to voice. I will be singing with musicians Rob Clutton and Tania Gill and will read from my book. Both these things will increase your understanding of what I teach in class by illustrating and expanding my philosophy and practice. We had a lot of fun at the book launch last December and I expect we will again! Regina is brewing up some of her delicious cold teas and tisanes! Thanks! Fides

Hello friends, I am happy to announce an upcoming voice workshop at Arraymusic (155 Walnut Avenue) in downtown Toronto. It is geared towards musicians: instrumentalists, singers and composers. You do not need prior experience as a singer - but I would like you have a committed or professional musical practice, as well as think and dream “in music.” Please get in touch with me directly at [email protected] if this interests you. Please pass this information on to anyone you think would be interested! ------------- BREATH, VOICE, TEXTURE WORKSHOP w/FIDES KRUCKER (VOICE) (The 4 class workshop is FREE or “by donation” to Arraymusic.) Open your voice through breath and resonance to an array of expressive textures. Four 3-hour classes comprise a series designed to unfold vocal awareness and development with rigour and safety. WORKSHOP DATES: PART 1: VOICE & BREATH BASICS 1. SAT APR 15 - 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM 2. SUN APR 16 - 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM PART 2: VOICE AS INSTRUMENT + VOICE AND INSTRUMENT 3. SAT APR 29 - 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM 4. SUN APR 30 - 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM RSVP [email protected]; *Class limit 10-12 participants. FOR MORE INFORMATION please go to… https://www.arraymusic.ca/50th-anniversary-public-workshops-breath-voice-texture-with-fides-krucker/ ABOUT FIDES: Fides Krucker has sung, produced and created contemporary opera and interdisciplinary work in Canada and abroad for forty years. She is an avant guard singer & radical voice teacher. Her book Reclaiming Calliope: Freeing the Female Voice through Undomesticated Singing (North Atlantic Books) re-wilds the human voice through body-based emotional integration. fideskrucker.com

Hello Everyone! I am looking forward to Reclaiming Calliope’s official Toronto debut on December 8th at 7pm at Another Story Bookshop (315 Roncesvalles Ave). The venue holds up to 50 people, about half seated. The store is open prior to the launch so please come a little early to guarantee you get in - and maybe even a chair! There is no admission charge as this is a book launch. If you wish to buy a book at the launch that is great for the store who are kindly hosting this event. I also have 10 small posters of the cover artwork available at $40 each. They are 8 x 20” and gorgeous! I’ll bring them to the launch. Rob Clutton is arriving in a few minutes to work with me on a few songs. As well as well reading a two or three short excerpts from the book I look forward being interviewed by Marc Glassman. I am encouraging masking because Covid spreads through aerosols and I will be singing and would like to take deep inhales. The space is intimate and we are heading into a month of seasonal visiting! See you soon, fides

Exciting December 8th book launch news! Incomparable bassist Rob Clutton will perform two or three songs with me. Rob’s playing is as tasty and adventurous as it gets. Here he is playing bass on a dock for our 2017 In This Body fundraiser (not everyone agrees to take their treasured bass onto a dock!). Thursday, December 8 at 7pm Another Story Bookshop 315 Roncesvalles Ave Free- all welcome @#robclutton

You are invited to an evening of vocal fun and discovery which will include Fides reading from Reclaiming Calliope, an interview with arts journalist & editor Marc Glassman, and an experience of the human voice that makes you hungry for more. Thur. Dec.8 @ 7 PM Another Story Bookshop 315 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto

Hello all! This is a missive of requests. I hope you don’t mind and thank you in advance... If you have bought the book on Indigo or Amazon and you liked it could you please review it on their website? And as always can you pass on news about the book to those who you think would enjoy it. --------- REVIEWER KRISTINE MORRIS INTERVIEWS FIDES KRUCKER, AUTHOR OF RECLAIMING CALLIOPE "Soundraker. Marvelmaker. Spinequaker. Truthstaker. Soulwaker. Barrierbreaker. What then can you say without words? You have no idea until you try. Fides Krucker accepted the challenge and her exploration into nonverbal sound and breath just may help you realize what it is to be fully human. We learned of this extraordinary opera singer through Kristine Morris’s review of Reclaiming Calliope in Foreword’s July/August issue. In the review, Kristine notes that Fides went in search of her own “natural soundscape—one that came from her body’s own need to express, uninhibited, the full range of human emotion in a natural way,” and when she found it “her career, her singing, and her life took on a whole new dimension and focus.” And your first step in Fides’s footsteps begins with this reviewer-author interview." [Follow the link in the Profile!]

A first review of 'Reclaiming Calliope'! /reviews/reclaiming-calliope/ Thank you, Kristine Morris, for taking to the time to feel your way through its chapters and for responding so favourably to its themes.

Reclaiming Calliope Missive Five: The Full Blown Beauty of Anger Reclaiming Calliope is dedicated to my daughters, Magda and Oksana, as well as to my mother, Mary. I have often felt like my daughters’ student when it comes to unbinding our emotional inheritances. I wonder how the thoughts and stories between this book’s covers will affect them? The book will be released August 2nd. I know many of you have preordered. Thank you! I’d like to ask you if you could like and/or share the writing I am posting so that we can let as many people as possible know about the book. I am now on instagram and twitter…those are also sharing options! CLick the profile link to find the following excerpt from Chapter 20: The Full Blown Beauty of Anger. #womenwriters #singer #singing #voice #feminism #femalevoice #author

Early this morning I listened to Chapter One of Breath while walking through downtown Toronto. As the heat tumbled in around me author James Nestor explained that aeons ago human mouths, throats and noses became less robust through the eating of softer, cooked foods and although this proved to be a better adaptation for speech it has affected our prowess as breathers. The yawning practice core to my work could be an antidote to the day’s high temperatures through cooling our overheated frontal lobes (so much to process, always!) but for sure it releases the limitations we’ve placed on our upper airways and pharyngeal space, and renders throat, mouth and nasal passageways more open and flexible. Teasers from Reclaiming Calliope’s two chapters on yawning are in the profile link #womenwriters #singer #singing #feminism #femalevoice #author .

air wants you to thrive … it does not discriminate between individuals … Last week I shared my point of departure for the writing of this book. This week’s excerpt brings to life a student’s first session in my studio. #womenwriters #singer #singing #feminism #femalevoice #author [follow the link in the profile!]

Reclaiming Calliope: Missive Two Lake Nipissing’s churned up water crashes wave after wave onto a beach only meters from the rustic cabin within which I am prepping my teacher’s training summer module. Books by Betty Martin and David George Haskell bring to the surface what is shared between the acts of giving and receiving and the acoustic history of the planet. It is all about listening. My current preoccupation with “utopian moments” or “processes” also underpins my planning, in stark contrast to the past weekend’s blared news. Reactions to the overturn of Roe v. Wade crest and surge. I think of shame. How relentlessly a woman’s sexuality is associated with shame. I think of our two mouths – the one that has been historically silenced or ignored and the one whose self-possession and authority is being robbed and bridled by the American State. This is a form of rape. My book pairs a woman’s sexual agency with her vocal freedom. That personal reclamation is connected to the raucous, undomesticated sorority we are seeing in demonstrations across the US and Canada. My book does not start with the thread of rape and sexual shaming but it does begin with community. Chapter 1: Hope is the thing with feathers… is set in Northern India. It is where my “soloist” starts to slip … - Follow the link in the profile to read the second book excerpt. #womenwriters #singer #singing #feminism #femalevoice #author