Bicycle Opera Project have announced their 2017 tour dates.  They will be performing Juliet Palmer and Anna Chatterton’s Sweat.  It’s a work about sweatshop labour in the garment industry and is scored for nine voices and no instruments.  Sweat will be directed by Banuta Rubess, conducted by Geoffrey Sirett and designed by Sonja Rainey. The cast includes: Catherine Daniel, Caitlin Wood, Stephanie Tritchew, Keith Lam, Larissa Koniuk, Justine Owens, Emma Char, Alexandra Beley and Cindy Won.

Dates and locations are as follows:

Hamilton
July 15, 8:00 pm, July 16, 2:00 pm
Workers Art and Heritage Museum
51 Stuart Street
Pay-what-you-can performance made possible by WAHC’s community, public and union supporters: The City of Hamilton, the Hamilton Community Foundation, the Ontario Arts Council, the Province of Ontario – Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport, Canada’s Building Trades Unions (CBTU) and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).  At some point there will also be a bicycle tour of former industrial sites led by staff from the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre.

Waterloo
July 19 7:30 pm
The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery
25 Caroline Street North

Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival
July 22 – Ride with Bicycle Opera
Join Bicycle Opera as they ride leisurely from Ottawa to Almonte, with pop up performances along the way! Full route and pop-up locations TBA, contact vgoymour(at)chamberfest.com to add your name to the list to find out first about the route and timing of the day!

Almonte
July 23 2:00 pm
Mississippi Valley Textile Museum
3 Rosamond Street East, Almonte

Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival
July 24 10:00 pm
La Nouvelle Scène Gilles Desjardins
333 King Edward Avenue

Kingston
July 28 7:30pm
The Isabel (Performance Hall)

Prince Edward County
July 30 2:00 pm
Baxter Arts Centre
3 Stanley Street
Bloomfield
Pay-what-you-can performance generously sponsored by friends of the Baxter Arts Centre

Cobourg
August 1 7:30pm
Trinity United Church
284 Division Street
Presented by The Mill at Piper Creek

Toronto
August 3,4,5 8:00 pm
August 6 2:00 pm
Aki Studio
Daniel Spectrum Theatre
585 Dundas Street East

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit bicycleopera.com