The Ballad of a Soldier-Bard. A Live Event

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Sat, Apr 11

Join us for a cross-disciplinary performance combining projected photography, spoken poetry, and live music, celebrating the dialogue between image, word, and sound. The event offers a reflective exploration of love, memory, and creativity in times of conflict.

The performance features black-and-white photography by Stefano Gulmanelli, spoken poetry by Arianna Dagnino’s cycle To Die Like a Poem. The Ballad of a Soldier-Bard (Ekstasis, Victoria), with live guitar accompaniment by Bruce Davidson and Leonardo Paolella, and voice by singer-songwriter Marenia (Maria Ylenia Trozzolo).

Centred on the figure of a soldier-bard — a jazz musician witnessing both the violence of war and the persistence of beauty — the Ballad invites the audience to engage with the healing and connective power of the arts in an age of global unrest.

Singer song-writer Marina (Maria Ylenia Trozzolo with musician Raffaele Cardone

This performance is part of the free public events of the Capture Photography Festival across Vancouver, is organised with the support of the Dante Alighieri Society of BC and is hosted at Notional Space, a gathering place based on a gift-economy model.