Founded in May 2000 in Vancouver by Cem [Gem] Zafir, Zula Presents has produced many concerts of avant garde, creative, improvised music, free jazz, and musique actuelle, providing invaluable venues both for touring artists and local creative musicians.
To encourage and promote creative music in the Hamilton area, a group of arts professionals have joined Zula Presents to create ZULA MUSIC & ARTS COLLECTIVE HAMILTON. Since June 2014, the organization has presented and promoted a monthly series as well as an annual alternative music festival in Hamilton in June.
Through the series and festival, Hamilton audiences have accessed diverse, challenging and innovative music, which was previously presented very rarely, if at all, in their community. As Zula develops, we envision that its programming –– particularly the June Something Else! Festival –– will become a destination event.
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Founded in May 2000 in Vancouver by Cem [Gem] Zafir, Zula Presents has produced many concerts of avant garde, creative, improvised music, free jazz, and musique actuelle, providing invaluable venues both for touring artists and local creative musicians.
To encourage and promote creative music in the Hamilton area, a group of arts professionals have joined Zula Presents to create ZULA MUSIC & ARTS COLLECTIVE HAMILTON. Since June 2014, the organization has presented and promoted a monthly series as well as an annual alternative music festival in Hamilton in June.
Through the series and festival, Hamilton audiences have accessed diverse, challenging and innovative music, which was previously presented very rarely, if at all, in their community. As Zula develops, we envision that its programming –– particularly the June Something Else! Festival –– will become a destination event.
As it develops, Zula will continue to:
• Build an audience for creative music, improvisation, experimental music, free jazz and other newer traditions in the growing downtown Hamilton arts community
• Create a local infrastructure to connect Hamilton audiences, musicians and other artists with the national and global creative music communities through the presentation of both world-renowned and emerging Canadian and international artists
• Bring a wider spectrum of music to the Hamilton music scene, presently dominated overwhelmingly by a narrow spectrum of rock and pop
• Help to foster outreach initiatives to connect music schools and their students with working musicians, performances and venues locally and regionally
• Help to educate and inform music students and the general public about a range of non-popular and unconventional musics by making workshops and performances available, as well as providing public information about the field of creative music generally
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Zula Presents
