Our Mission
Photo Credit: Marie Teemant
HarpSparks is a creative community for curious listeners, sonic explorers, and artists of all kinds. Through education days, exploration sessions, and harp-centered performances, we celebrate soundscapes that stretch our imagination and challenge our perceptions.
Our Vision
HarpSparks is a new creative initiative encompassing three elements: a biannual weekend festival, workshops, and virtual offerings. As the project evolves, we seek to build a curious community of listeners and artists pushing boundaries and dissolving the stereotypes that keep us all small. In our inaugural season 2024, come explore the harp in an expanded way through works with electronics and voice, improvisation, and a rare performance of Freude for two amplified harps and voice by Karlheinz Stockhausen. Let’s embrace the unfamiliar and ask ourselves what more is possible!
Photo Credit: Curtis Perry
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Head to our Tickets page! Here you’ll find a link to register for our Exploration Day (March 2) and to purchase tickets for our show at Club SAW (March 3).
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Are you seeking an opportunity to discover new sound worlds and engage more deeply with your own creativity? If so, this is a space for you. Are you just wondering what on earth is going on over here? Great! This is a space for you, too.
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Not really. It is a developing community of people who are curious about music and what more becomes possible when we boldly embrace the unfamiliar. Artists who come to this space may be classically-trained but seeking new dimensions of themselves. Other people may come out of sheer curiosity. No matter your background and training, you are welcome.