Drawing and Sound Gathering with Asal Andarzipour and Michael Reinhart
Saturday, January 17, 2026, 2 – 4 PM. The Maggie and John Mitchell Art Education Studio, Harcourt House Annex (10215 – 112 Street NW, Edmonton)
We’ve had such a great time with our Drawing and Sound gatherings, that we want to have at least one more! So, come along on what is almost certain to be a wonderful, wintery Saturday afternoon and make some visual art! We’ll have all the paper, pastels, pencils, crayons and other stuff you could ask for, and some incredible, live sound to inspire you. Once again, your hosts will be amazing artist Asal Andarzipour and brilliant sound artist Michael Reinhart. You can sit and draw, colour to your heart’s content, just like when you were a kid! Thank you to Harcourt House Artist Run Centre for making this event possible!
All art materials will be supplied by Harcourt House and New Music Edmonton.
This event is 18+. Attendance is limited to 15, and pre-registration is advised. There is a $10 fee to cover the cost of materials.
Asal Andarzipour: “I identify as an immigrant artist walking in my nomad ancestors’ shoes. My long journey across the ocean from Tehran to New York and then Alberta continues to inform and form my creative profile. Since 2015, I have actively served in arts and culture non-profits, and have evolved into a visual artist and designer, curator and an art educator. I hold an MFA from Syracuse University and an MA in History of Art, Design and Visual Culture from the University of Alberta. I also play Tombak, a Persian wooden gublet drum. My artistic career and activism as an Iranian woman in the diaspora are integrated into my daily life. Over the years, drawing has remained an inseparable part of my practice in between artistic disciplines.”
Photo Credit Dimo Studio
Michael Reinhart, a graduate of The Ontario College of Art, 1976, has a wide & varied experience in the worlds of both visual art & music, having exhibited his paintings, drawings, prints & photographs in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, New York & Lyons, France. Hundreds of his illustrative & photographic images have been published nationally & internationally in books, magazines, newspapers & on television.
With long-time collaborator Lin Snelling, he has designed stages, lighting, music & video installations for contemporary dance & multidisciplinary performances across Canada. He & Snelling by New Music Edmonton, to create a video, ‘far off & personal‘, for their Now Hear This, Winter Solstice Festival. Michael also created original music for video for the project The Collective Body, a gathering of dance artists & composers, curated by Neil Cadger in Kelowna BC.
Since 1982, he has collaborated extensively with various musicians, dancers, poets, choreographers & directors in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Edmonton, UK & New York, primarily as a composer, but also as stage & lighting designer, videographer & photographer. He created the original music score for Before Tomorrow, winner of Best First Feature at TIFF in 2009.
He toured for several years, up until the pandemic, as a guitarist-singer-songwriter in Canada, New York & the UK, & has released six albums to date, among them eCHO, Cyprus Songs & extinction. In 2024, he performed at MONA in Hobart Tasmania, with Australian composer/multi-instrumentalist Colin Offord.
He continues to create drawings, watercolours & photographs as a regular practice in his studio at Harcourt House. Michael is still composing instrumental guitar works & very recently digitally released an instrumental album entitled ‘white desert blue shadows’, a collaboration with Toronto percussionist Barry Prophet, recorded in 2001.
Photo Credit Michael Reinhart
Accessibility
Harcourt House Annex Building, 10211 – 112 St. NW, Edmonton: Please ring buzzer upon arrival for art education programs. Art Education Rooms are located at the street level of the building; wheelchair accessible. Gender single stall washrooms (no handrails). Seating provided for all art education programs.
