Whispered Folds is a metaphor for the overlapping layers of identity, experience, and resonances that are explored in this year’s VNM festival
Date/Time: Oct 18 2025, 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm
Vancouver, Orpheum Annex | Event calendarCost: $29.00
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A sonic exploration of Intimacy, Boundaries, and Borders
Using sound as a powerful medium to reimagine relationships between individuals, cultures and spaces, the artists invite us to consider how sound reflects and disrupts physical, psychological, and cultural borders.
Day 3:
JJJJJerome Ellis (US)
JJJJJerome Ellis is a stuttering, Afro-Caribbean composer, poet, and performer. His works are invitations to healing, transcendence, communion, and deep listening. Through an interdisciplinary practice that focuses on oral storytelling, improvisation, and the interrelations between speech, silence, disability, and religion, he’s collaborated with choreographers, rappers, playwrights, booksellers, typographers, podcasters, toddlers, and filmmakers.
Ellis will share improvisations and atmospheres from his new record Vesper Sparrow, released by Shelter Press.
Anaïs Maviel (US)
Anaïs Maviel is a composer, artist, vocalist & multi-instrumentalist dedicated to translating spiritual concepts to sensory experiences, using sound as medicine & alchemy. With traditional and experimental approaches, her works investigate the power of sound to shape reality and emphasize the relevance of cultural hybridity. She navigates song, choral, instrumental, orchestral music, and staging with a strong connection to cosmologies of sound and speech rooted in oral traditions such as mantra and ring shout. She strives to bridge the gaps between genres and to create a diverse, inclusive, yet sacred musical experience.
Maviel will perform a series of originals excerpted from her various works, including Time is Due, and arrangements of folkloric songs. Maviel’s compositional language focuses on harmony, and, in a solo performance context, the piano allows her to share her latest explorations, applied to song forms, and as they support storytelling, lyricism and improvisation.
No children under 10 years old permitted
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