LOST DOG SUNDAY

NOW SOCIETY, CDMX, SUONI PER IL POPOLO, AND BARKING SPHINX PRESENT:

TRADING PLACES / TRUEQUE / UN ÉCHANGE

featuring:

- Aleida Pérez (violin) & Alex Motta (acoustic bass) from Mexico City

- James Goddard (sax, mbira) & Jahsun (drums) from Montreal

Improvising with many local musicians (lineup TBC)

Forget what you know about stiff residencies. Un Échange: Trading Places: Trueque is an electrified, cross-border musical adventure that has been shaking up the scenes of Montreal and Vancouver since 2016. Imagine the most badass improv and experimental music communities from Montréal, Vancouver, and now for the first time this year, the sonic wonderland of Mexico City deciding to pack their bags, swap cities, and make some beautiful noise together.

Trading Places: Trueque: Un Échange is a vibrant multi-city residency program active since 2016 in Montréal and Vancouver and, starting in 2026, Mexico City, Montréal and Vancouver. This program brings together these foremost centers of improvised and experimental music, the NOW Society, Suoni Per Il Popolo, and CDMX Coordinators curating in collaboration, providing support for artistic practice and cultural exchange. Each year the resident artists are chosen to represent their communities in these residencies. The artists premiere new works, attend musical gatherings, perform in concerts, facilitate workshops, take part in improvised marathons and make recordings, forming new connections with local artists. 

DOORS 7:30 / DOWNBEAT 8PM 

 $15 online / $20 PWYC  at the door 

ALL AGES

at THE HARGROVE(150 EAST 3RD AVE) (enter around back in the alley)

~~~LOST DOG is a music series curated by Cole Schmidt and Kevin Romain, and presented by Barking Sphinx. 

~~~Accessibility info: There are two steps up to the entrance of the Hargrove. There is one gender neutral washroom which is not wheelchair accessible.

~~~Taking place on stolen Coast Salish land. We acknowledge that our work takes place in Vancouver on traditional and unceded Indigenous land belonging to the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish),Stó:lō and səlil̓wətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We are grateful for this place.