Send + Receive: a festival of sound

05/26/2026

Wednesday, July 8th at the West End Cultural Centre— crys cole and Oren Ambarchi return to Winnipeg, fresh off the 2026 release of ‘Sparkling or Silent,’ a detailed, richly associative electroacoustic collaboration on the Portraits GRM label. Do not miss this rare prairie appearance, featuring a performance from Hazel Fog. Advance tickets are on sale now.

crys cole is a Canadian sound artist working in composition, performance, sculpture and installation. Generating subtle and imperfect sounds through haptic gestures and seemingly mundane materials, she creates textural works that continuously retune the ear.

Oren Ambarchi is a composer and multi-instrumentalist with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. His work focuses mainly on the exploration of the guitar, “re-routing the instrument into a zone of alien abstraction where it’s no longer easily identifiable as itself. Instead, it’s a laboratory for extended sonic investigation”. (The Wire, UK).

Hazel Fog envelops the listener in analogue textures and warbling drone, weaving allusive field recordings into sheets of magnetic abstraction.

05/09/2026

Pet Retina and i.o return to Winnipeg on Sunday, May 24th for a special outdoor show with Princess Dasha and Thomas Toews + During. Text 204-330-5507 for the address—don’t miss this springtime ritual.

12/15/2025

Tuesday January 6th, at Public Domain: Ryosuke Kiyasu returns to Winnipeg for an all-encompassing snare drum solo, with support from the chamber-noise trio of Thomas Toews and Savant Flaneur; high frequency trepanation by Wasauksing Sniper and During; and a multi-sensory noisecore takeover by Puke Restaurant.

Doors at seven, home by ten. Pay what you can but be real.

10/24/2025

This Sunday, October 26th, TakeHome QTBIPOC Arts House and send + receive partner for an intro to beatmaking workshop with Hassaan Ashraf and Nancy Nguyen. Hassaan and Nancy will introduce their music making processes and workflow, and Hassaan will discuss how to repurpose old and accessible gear and the right to repair movement—no gear required!

The workshop takes place at TakeHome (100 Arthur Street, 6th floor) at 5pm and is suitable to all skill levels.

Currently based in Tiotia:ke, colonially montreal, hassaan has been making sounds for over 25 years. Staring her journey in Lahore as a metal guitar player, over the years she’s bloomed in to a multi-instrumentalist producer and composer with her work in improvisational powerhouses like Satan’s Chewtoys (winnipeg), visual direction with Overload (Lahore) and after many years of wait, she’s laying the foundation to launch her cassette label for marginalized musicians in montreal/winnipeg/lahore.

As a staunch advocate of the Right to Repair movement, hassaan has specialized in keeping old smart devices functioning and useable as an effort to reduce e waste, she believes in the refusal to participate in the unethical extraction of cobalt through genocide, exploitation and child labor in Congo perpetuated by far west nations, their evil tech companies like apple, google, samsung and many others.

Nancy Nguyen is primarily a visual artist and traditional East Asian art enthusiast. She has been practicing various traditional forms of art, such as sumi-e ink painting, Ikebana (Japanese flower arranging) and more recently, music production, while living in Vancouver, BC where most of her musical influence came from. She started experimenting with GarageBand during quarantine in 2020 and won third place in a beat making competition in her hometown Winnipeg, MB in 2024. Her music can be described as experimental, South East Asian, and nasty.

10/17/2025

Saturday, October 18th at 2pm! Julia E. Dyck leads a free workshop on Trance as Technique at The Output (100 Arthur Street, 2nd floor)

“Trance as Technique is a collective exploration of hypnosis as both an artistic and somatic practice. Through guided visualization, breath work, subtle movement, vocal practice and embodied exercises, participants are invited to enter altered states of perception where imagination and sensation intertwine. The workshop is guided by voice and accompanied by music, creating an environment that blurs the line between inner and outer experience. Together we will practice listening, both to ourselves and to one another, as a way of accessing trance states that can open new pathways of awareness, creativity, and connection. The session emphasizes process, experimentation, and the shared construction of a collective, somnambulist space.”

no experience required
duration: 2.5 hours

Julia E. Dyck is a Canadian artist and hypnotherapist based in Brussels whose multidisciplinary practice merges sound, performance, and expanded states of consciousness to explore the porous boundaries between body, technology, and the (sub)conscious. Rooted in relational and speculative methodologies, her work invites audiences into immersive experiences of collective transformation, using voice, vibration, and storytelling as portals to new modes of perception and presence.

Trained in hypnotherapy, Dyck creates participatory works that engage deeply with sonic imagination—monthly live hypnosis sessions, lecture-meditations, and bespoke sound prescriptions. Julia is a member of Audio Placebo Plaza collective, a feminist experiment in radical sonic care and placebo aesthetics, and the t.r.a.n.c.e community hypnosis project.

Her work has been presented internationally, including at the Karachi Biennale (PK), LOOP (KR), Bétonsalon (FR), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (DE), Cafe OTO (UK), Q-O2 (BE), Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris (FR), Musée d’art de Joliette (CA), Musées d’art et d’histoire de Genève (CH), and Darling Fonderie (CA).

10/13/2025

Sisso + Maiko perform Friday at the West End Cultural Centre! Do not miss this joyful masterclass in Tanzania's Singeli sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8hpYbqKAvo

Tickets available now: https://www.eventbrite.ca/o/send-receive-26200555989

Sisso and Maiko, core members of the Singeli movement welcome you into Singeli madness: a frenetic, high speed electronic music from Tanzania.Based in Dar Es...

10/10/2025

Tonight Video Pool Media Arts Centre!

Event Details:Date: October 10 – November 11, 2025 Opening: Friday Oct. 11th | 7:00 - 10PM Gallery Hours: Wed–Fri. 1-5PM Location: Poolside Gallery Chronicling the tunnel's eternal return to debt Bint mbareh Presented in partnership with Send + Receive: Festival of Sound An enveloping vocal work...

10/06/2025

New work by BINT Mbareh, entitled ‘chronicling the tunnel’s eternal return to debt,’ debuts this Friday at 7pm on 101.5 UMFM and at Poolside Gallery (100 Arthur Street). Broadcasts will continue throughout October on UMFM and CKUW, and Poolside will feature the work for contemplative listening until November 11th.

BINT mbareh is a sound researcher with a focus on water in palestine. her interest in the physical parallel between the water wave and the sound wave leads her into questions of border dissolutions (between bodies, between states, between tenses), and into the possibility of being enveloped by the voice, by sounding communally similarly to being enveloped by a water body. she challenges settler colonial epistemology by taking seriously palestinian ways of knowing, from rain-summoning music to shrine pilgrimage as an instigator to political revolution.

She has brought her work to the Tate Modern, Cafe Oto, Savvy Contemporary, Unsound Festival in Krakow, the Lincoln Centre, B7L9 (Tunis), Darat Al-Funun (Amman), and (as cofounder) Ramallah’s Exist Festival and Qattan Foundation. She has also exhibited installation work at the Royal Botanical gardens in Edinburgh, Sharjah Biennial, and her work has been acquired by the Irish Museum of Contemporary Arts.

10/01/2025

Our final concert of the v27 festival weekend takes place on Sunday, October 19th, at the West End Cultural Centre, with performances by Julia E. Dyck, Jairus Sharif and Mustafa Rafiq, and Dreejur.

Julia E. Dyck is a Canadian artist and hypnotherapist based in Brussels whose multidisciplinary practice merges sound, performance, and expanded states of consciousness to explore the porous boundaries between body, technology, and the (sub)conscious. Rooted in relational and speculative methodologies, her work invites audiences into immersive experiences of collective transformation, using voice, vibration, and storytelling as portals to new modes of perception and presence.

As a duo, Jairus Sharif & Mustafa Rafiq explore the influence of their environment, their own cultural histories, and chosen ideals through improvisations that stretch into territories where drone, noise, and jazz lurk.

Dreejur was born from a desire to follow feelings as far as they will take us. To create semi-improvised sonic places for people to sit awhile. For sounds to be uncovered through exploration and play. To gather sounds from the life around us and find a sonic home for them to live on record. A combination of guitars, synths and field recordings build worlds – sometimes understated and meandering, at other times loud and all-encompassing. But always patient and responsive.

Tickets available now!

09/29/2025

v27 continues at the West End Cultural Centre on Saturday October 18th, co-presented with GroundSwell.

Liew Niyomkarn is a sound artist and composer with a background in experimental sound practice and performance. Her work primarily explores layers of sound, repetition of notes, harmonic spectra, and resonances achieved through acoustic string instruments such as the zither and lyre, which she employs to craft various tuning systems. She integrates field recordings to capture the essence of time and the narration of memory through sound.

Founded in 2014, Savant Flaneur is an experimental music artist collective working on Treaty 1 Territory.  Often referred to as “chamber punk,” Savant Flaneur tries to expel the dichotomy between western art music and colloquial music scenes by collaborating with a wide array of artists in a variety of genres and practices. Savant Flaneur is one gifted idler, a virtuosic procrastinator, the slacking wunkerkind.

Qiujiang Levi Lu is a NYC-based performance artist, experimental musician, composer, and educator. Their work transforms the body into a sonic object through interactions with movements and audio technology, exploring identity, sound, and space. Their resulting performances consist of choreographed, ritualistic improvisations building upon ancient Chinese drumming traditions to manifest body dysmorphia, sexuality, spirituality, and mortality.

matthew gervais has lived in winnipeg his whole life. his work is an attempt to reflect his own already false memories of this place, of night and strangers voices, of streetlights beating against a starless sky. using electronic means such as synthesizers, casio sampling keyboards, cellphone field recordings and tape machines this memory deforms until the thing that remains is the remains of itself.
 
ian bell is a montréal-based photographer and ambient musician working with samples, digital image, and contact microphone percussion. He has released numerous solo recordings and contributed to bands as a drummer and percussionist.