Empty It Out

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Saturday May 17, 2025
Secondsight
+ Empty-It-Out Ensemble

@ 918 Bathurst St
6:30 Doors/ 7pm Show

$20-25 at the door

Our last night of What Is: heart(break) proposes the dignity of endings, clearings, and cathartic release. Having filled our cups over five days, Secondsight offers a live, sonic meditation, gently guiding us to let go and empty it out, with the awareness that these are aspects of an intricate and never-ending cycle. Attendees can lie down and get comfy through a meditation that hovers between experimental ambient, esoteric sound healing practices, and spacious atmospheric textures inspired by afrosurrealism and dreamwork, all ended with a special set by Chinelo.

And when an ending still feels unbearable, Empty-It-Out Ensemble forms a drone orchestra punctuated by offerings by poets Jade Blair, Khashayar Mohammadi, and Esther Splett. All together, they create moments of trance, stillness, and sudden breaks that transport the body to a state of levity liberated from its weights and wounds.

Both acts serve as a beautiful cap-off to What Is: heart(break) and remind us that even when endings suck, they’re sometimes just what we need.

As a part of our closing day, artist Brooke Manning has been commissioned to organize a Cursed Objects Swap, a ritual marketplace of heartbreak and renewal: trade your cursed objects (gifted items that hold value but you wish to part with) of love for another’s, transforming grief into growth through ceremony, magic, and poetic exchange.

Curated by James Goddard.

All prices inclusive of HST