Shows

Art of Improv – June 2026 Edition, is excited to present an evening of spontaneous creation featuring musicians who have founded world-renowned Canadian bands & collaborations.
Set 1: Mark Gane, Eugene Martynec, Bill Gilliam



Set 2: Bob Wiseman, John Oswald, Jesse Levine

Doors open 7:30pm

Art of Improv – June 2025 Edition, is excited to present:
– Germaine Liu & Mark Zurawinski
– future proof: Bea Labikova & Raphael Roter

Sunday June 15th, 8pm
Annette Studios
566 Annette St, Toronto,
$20 / PWYC

Doors open 7:30pm

Set 1
future proof – Bea Labikova (woodwinds + electronics) and Raphael Roter (percussion + electronics).

Set 2
Part 1) Germaine Liu (sound artist, percussionist, improvisor, and explorer of found objects) and Mark Zurawinski (percussion) will play a few percussion pieces and also work with prompts / scenarios to inspire music-making.

Part 2) Germaine and Mark will improvise music with Bill Gilliam (piano), Eugene Martynec (electroacoustics) and Bill McBirnie (flute).

Germaine Liu (germaine.she.her.hers) and Mark Zurawinski (he/him) are long-term loving partners, life and art collaborators and makers. Together, and with the support of their friends and arts organizers, they have been fortunate to dream and create many joyous projects like And With (supported by The Bentway) – a sound walk inviting participants to experience sounds and textures of The Bentway and We Made This With Love (supported by Music Gallery), a candy-inspired two-part sharing (1. sonic and visual exploratory film 2. sound/movement performance, with Fahmid Nibesh and Raphael Roter, where performers become “NERDS/Nerds” a symbiosis of candy+state-of-being.)

Germaine and Mark, along with their friend Joe Sorbara, are co-founders of Imaginary Percussion Ensemble where they play works like Water Music (sonic/physical/touch exploration with water + objects), CeramiX (sonic/physical/touch exploration with ceramic objects made by Chiho Tokita) and most recently Suite May Sixteen (a collection of pieces for idiophones, drums, cymbals, objects and images). Germaine and Mark also love to garden and cook food. They are grateful to share art, life, food, nourishment, joys and grief with communities that they are fortunate to be in relationship with.

future proof is the improv-avant-groove amalgam of Bea Labikova (woodwinds + electronics) and Raphael Roter (percussion + electronics). In the age of fast fashion, faster obsolescence and fastest disembodiment, all that remains for ‘future proof’ is human creation and connection in the present tense. Bea and Raphael exist here, grazing on feelings, circumstances, happenstances and humanstances to make immersively large and driving music of the moment.