As you may well know, you devoted follower of the Wavelog you, Wavelength's 11th Anniversary Festival line-up — Spinal Tappily titled ELEVEN — is coming up in less than a month. This year, we're doing more than just putting an awesome music festival. We're also going behind the scenes, to connect music fans
with the creation and production of independent music, and to educate our audiences
about local music scene history. Behold, the inaugural Wavelenth Studio Sessions (artist workshop) and Speaker Series (author talks). Read on for more info, and also learn about our first-ever Poster Show!

Wavelength Studio
Sessions #1 with Woodhands + Not The Wind, Not The Flag

Saturday, Feb. 19 @ Tranzac Tiki Room, 292 Brunswick Ave.

4-6pm • PWYC

The first installment of the Wavelength Studio Sessions
will consist of a workshop format with two bands talking about their gear,
their process, their interests, and their goals. This intimate event will take
place on Saturday, February 19th between 4-6pm in the Tranzac Tiki Room, and
will feature two duos also playing the ELEVEN Festival — Woodhands (Daniel
Werb, synth, and Paul Banwatt, drums) and Not The Wind, Not The Flag (Colin
Fisher, guitar, sax, etc., and Brandon Valdivia, percussion). A rare
opportunity to find out how these hyper-creative musicians cultivate their
craft.

Wavelength Speaker Series
#1 with Liz Worth + Stuart Berman

Sunday, Feb. 20 @ The Garrison, 1197 Dundas St. W.

4-6pm • PWYC

The inaugural Wavelength Speaker Series event, will
feature presentations by two writers and music journalists, who will take you
on a tour of local scene history and what it was like to make music in Toronto
in other eras. You might call it “Toronto: Before Wavelength.” Liz Worth,
author of Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral
History of Punk in Toronto and Beyond (Bongo Beat), will talk you through
the ‘70s punk scene in Toronto: the bands, the people, the venues, and give you
an insight into the minds of musicians of the time. Stuart Berman, associate
editor of Eye Weekly and author of This
Book Is Broken: A Broken Social Scene Story (Anansi), will detail the ‘90s
indie rock scene — those who were making things happen, the frustrations,
the limitations, the forgotten heroes and under-appreciated gems.

Each event will feature an opportunity for audience
Q&A.

Plus!

WAVELENGTH: FOR POSTERITY

Poster artwork from the Wavelength music series,
2000-2010

Music Gallery
— Fellowship Room — 197 John St.

Open during concert hours
— Feb. 17 to April 3

Wavelength has been an
important point of interface between the indie and experimental/new music
scenes since its early days, when Michael Snow first screened his 1986 film of
the same name alongside a program of local improvisers — music then rarely
heard in a club environment. Since 2003, Wavelength has presented one night of
its annual, multi-night February Anniversary Festivals at the Music Gallery,
Toronto’s Centre for Creative Music.

Poster artwork has been a
key element in the Wavelength identity, especially around the Anniversaries.
This exhibition displays some of the most memorable promotional posters of the
series’ first decade. Contributing artists include: Seripop, The Complaint
Department, Trip Print Press, Deadweight and Derek Ma.