ShareSeaside Sessions Presents
PIQSIQ
Saturday, September 11, 7:30 PM
With a style perpetually galvanized by darkness and haunting northern beauty, sisters, Tiffany Ayalik and Inuksuk Mackay, come together to create Inuit style throat singing duo, PIQSIQ. Performing ancient traditional songs and eerie new compositions, they leave their listeners enthralled with the infinity of possible answers to the question “what is the meaning of life.”
With roots in Nunavut’s Kitikmeot and Kivalliq Regions, the sisters grew up in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Their love of katajjaq, Inuit throat singing, began in childhood and has bonded them together throughout their lives. After years of forging hard won skill, they developed their own form blended with their love of haunting melodies and otherworldly sounds.
As PIQSIQ, they perform improvisational looping live, creating a dynamic audience experience that changes with every show. PIQSIQ incorporates their dark and ethereal style into their recordings and have produced three studio albums to date.
Inuksuk and Tiffany continue to blend magic with sound to further develop their entrancing style for both national and international audiences.
Filming Notice: please be advised that your presence as a member of the audience during the filming/taping constitutes your consent to the possibility of your voice and likeness being used, without compensation, in the unlimited distribution, advertising, promotion, exhibition and exploitation of the program in any and all media by any method or device known or hereafter devised, and you release The Mary Winspear Centre from any liability in connection with such usage.
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Please note: all exchanges, gifting, or reselling of tickets must be done through the Mary Winspear Centre box office in order for us to conduct pre-screening, seat assignment, and contact tracing protocols.
If you are feeling unwell, have any COVID-19 symptoms, have been asked to isolate, or have been around someone who has been asked to isolate, tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 14 days, or been in contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 14 days, please do not attend the concert and contact the box office. For your well-being, the Mary Winspear Centre will provide hand sanitizers and facemasks.
Audience will be seated by MWC staff to allow for social distancing.
1. Arrive with your entire cohort and enter through the theatre lobby doors, located past the main entrance to check-in.
2. Ticketless event.
3. Masks are mandatory in all public spaces.
4. The Charlie White Theatre has recently been examined by our trusted HVAC Technician. Fresh air-flow is ensured at all times.
5. No intermission: Pre-ordered drinks and Artist merchandise will be served to you at your seats by a MWC volunteer. Maximum of 2 alcoholic drinks per patron at a time.
6. You may also order drinks during the concert –again brought to you by a MWC volunteer. Please text 250-880-7826 and include the cohort number we provide to you on a slip of paper at check-in. Maximum of 2 alcoholic drinks per patron at a time.
7. Cleaning/disinfecting of entire space before and after each performance.
8. No outside food and beverage permitted. You may bring a water bottle.
9. Mary Winspear Centre representative(s) present in house to monitor/ensure this plan is being followed.