2025-03-22

Saturday, 2025-03-22

Teachings of The Water Festival

Join the Acadia University School of Music, and the Acadia University community in an interdisciplinary celebration of water in our environment and our world. This four-day long celebration will include special guest Dr. T. Patrick Carrabré, a film screening, as well as concerts and talks by AUSOM students and faculty, the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, and guests.

Events will take place from March 20 - 23, 2025, click on individual calendar events for details. All events are open to the community, please join us in this celebration.

This series of events also recognizes World Water Day. World Water Day is an annual United Nations Observance – held on 22 March. World Water Day celebrates water and inspires action to tackle the global water crisis. A core focus of World Water Day is to support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030.

Acadia School of Music presents: Bathymetric Terrains - a concert by School of Music faculty

On Saturday, March 22, the Acadia School of Music presents "Bathymetric Terrains" - a concert by School of Music faculty.

As part of this performance, Derek Charke (flute) and Eugene Cormier (guitar) will perform Charke's Bathymetic Terrains - a stunning electroacoustic composition for live performance, computer processing and soundscapes that muses on the ecology of oceans and tidal bays and contemplates the fragile nature of underwater topographies and ecosystems.

Other featured faculty include Paula Rockwell (voice) and Mary Castello (piano), Deanne van Rooyen (harp) and others.

This concert begins at 7pm in the Festival Theatre.  Admission is by freewill donation at the door.