Attention Campers! Camp Wavelength is just two weeks away. Two weeks today! And now it’s time to make it official: Camp Wavelength is more than just music. In addition to the awesome line-up of music we’ve announced on our main stage, we’ve also got an exciting line-up of immersive fun and games, interactive installations and performance, and hunger/thirst-quenching food and drink to share!
Here’s some highlights:
After working up a sweat dancing to Holy Fuck on Friday night, overnight campers are invited to start their Saturday with a morning run hosted by The Wooden Sky. The “Blisters in the Sun” hit the pavement at 10 a.m. for a jog along the car-free streets of Toronto Island. First-time runners are welcome!
What would camp be without Capture The Flag? On Saturday at noon, collaborative trio of weirdos Posi Vibez present Orbz, their spin on the classic camp game.
On Sunday, the Ward’s Island baseball diamond becomes the Field of Dreams for an afternoon of pick-up softball with your favourite bands, before the final day of music kicks off. Participants include electro-pop duo and Wavelength Incubator artists, Most People, who were just added to the line-up for a Late Night Set on Saturday.
Creative muscles can also be stretched throughout the weekend. Toronto-based DIY story-telling collective Static Zine host Fort Zine, where attendees can contribute to a special edition Camp Wavelength zine. Copies of the camp-created zine will be available as a memento at the end of the festival.
Artist and costume designer Ian Langohr presents Costume Puzzles, an interactive activity that will have participants disguised as mythical creatures as they mix and match pieces of his unique costumes.
The fun continues on the beach and in the water with In Synch (synchronized swimming Wavelength style!) on Saturday afternoon and Radio Flotilla on Sunday featuring Gambletron and Johnny Forever with an installation featuring floating radios and a drag dance show.
Additional installations and performance art happen throughout the festival, with food and drink available throughout to keep you sated and hydrated.
Here’s the full list of additional happenings:
INSTALLATION & PERFORMANCE ART
ABSOLUTELY FREE & PETRINA NG: ON THE BEACH
(Toronto, ON)
Installation + Performance Sunday @ 6:45PM
On the Beach is an audio-visual collaboration between 2015 Polaris Music Prize long-listed avant-rock trio Absolutely Free and visual artist Petrina Ng. They have a history of collaborating on multi-media pieces, including the record release show for AbFree’s single “On the Beach” at a public swimming pool.
AEOLIAN CURRENT
Andrew Rutherdale & Matthew Jarvis Wall
(Ottawa/Sault Ste. Marie, ON)
Installation
Aeolian Current invites Camp Wavelength participants to engage in a sonic ecosystem. A multi-user instrument controlled by wind currents and motion sensor data, Aeolian Current processes physical phenomena and allows users to play a role in constructing and shaping sound.
CATERWAUL THEATRE: PUPPETREE
(Toronto, ON)
Installation
Caterwaul Theatre was founded by Erin Fleck and Sarah Fairlie in September 2013. Both Fleck and Fairlie have long been active within Toronto’s theatre, music and visual art scenes. Caterwaul produces innovative and immersive storytelling in puppetry, analog projection and stop-motion film.
AARON DAWSON
(Toronto, ON)
Projections (After Dark)
Camp Wavelength 2015 will be illuminated by the otherworldly visuals of Aaron Dawson, who also performs spacey, wall-of-sound electronic music as Dirty Inputs, and was part of the Toronto ambient drone collective Off The International Radar. He also works with Toronto design house mixMotion, VJ’ing and designing video and interactive installations for events around the world.
GAMBLETRON + JOHNNY FOREVER: RADIO FLOTILLA
(Montreal, QC)
Installation/Performance Sunday @ 4:45PM
Radio Flotilla is a tribute to Hanlan’s Point and its queer history, featuring drag-inflected performance and a floating radio transmission. Gambletron and Johnny Forever are sending some good old-fashioned radios floating out on tiny Torontonian waves, transmitting Gambletron’s dark, glitchy electronic soundtrack live from the beach, as Forever’s witchy drag churns the waters.
GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS
(Toronto, ON)
Projections (After Dark)
The psychedelic, immersive visuals of General Chaos Visuals (co-founded by devout Hawkwind fans Steve Lindsey and Eric Siegerman) have been an unmistakable hallmark of Wavelength concerts since our first year, 2000. Lindsey uses hand-painted gels and vintage, analog projectors to create entirely abstract images, using techniques he has personally developed.
IN SYNCH
(Toronto, ON)
Performances Saturday @ 3:45 & 7:45PM
In Synch is an amateur synchronized swimming team based out of Lake Ontario. Led by Aubyn O’Grady, In Synch is inspired by the movement and costuming of competitive synchronized swimming and is performed by members with varying degrees of swimming experience. Camp Wavelength will be their first public performance.
NIGHTLIFEGUARD
Vanessa Rieger
(Installation/Performance – After Dark)
In response to public injury while pool hopping, artist Vanessa Rieger decided to create a vigilante safety program, on duty during “off-hours” many a hot night. NIGHT LIFE GUARD will provide festival-goers with hydration, first aid, and party favours. The NIGHT LIFE GUARD station can be found on the beach and dance floor, wherever bodies need water.
OPEN FORTRESS
(Toronto, ON)
Dance/Performance Interventions
Open Fortress (a.k.a. OF) is a brand new effort organized by Lee Gelbloom, Allie Blumas (Doomsquad), Emily Leblanc and Anna Mayberry (Anamai). Open Fortress aims to support its members by encouraging collaboration and rehearsal-space sharing, as well as creating and showing physical performance in non-traditional settings.
PHANTASM GROVE
Chris MaGee
(Toronto, ON)
Late Night Sound Installation Friday & Saturday @ 3AM
As Wavelength campers lie down to sleep, they will experience Phantasm Grove. Using techniques drawn from musique concrète and drone music, Chris MaGee seeks to use sound to re-enchant our environment, and create transformative experiences in listeners. Phantasm Grove is his first sound installation commission.
SUBZEROARTS: CUBEISM
(Toronto, ON)
Installation
SubZeroArts is a group of visualists, sound artists, technologists, fabricators, and software engineers working in contemporary art and science. For their Camp Wavelength debut, SubZeroArts will be presenting their latest installation, Cubeism, which uses light and sound to inform a location, creating a soothing new space for audience members to explore.
YOU ARE HERE: CAMP WAVELENGTH’S SKY GUIDE
Roxanne Ignatius
(Toronto, ON)
Installation
Roxanne Ignatius is a Toronto-based illustrator, costume designer and textile artist. She co-founded concert series/blog Silent Shout and has built sound-responsive LED robot costumes for the band MATROX. You Are Here aims to make festivalgoers more aware of the environment around them and their place within it, as well as the history of that relationship. Roxanne has also designed the stage sets for this year’s Camp Wavelength.
GAMES & ACTIVITIES
COSTUME PUZZLES
Ian Langohr
(All Weekend)
Costume Puzzles is an interactive activity by Ian Langohr, a Niagara-born artist who specializes in fun and engaging costume design. After completing his BFA in Sculpture and Installation at OCAD in 2008, Ian moved to Montreal to pursue his interests in art and music.
POSI VIBES: ORBZ
Saturday @ NOON – Gibraltar Point
POSI VIBEZ is a collaborative trio of weirdos/art project/your new favourite camp counselor. Only POSI VIBEZ allowed. POSI VIBEZ presents a take on the traditional camp game Rocks and make it their own, ORBZ. It’s like Capture the Flag, but with multiple items to steal!
STATIC ZINE: FORT ZINE
(All Weekend)
Fort Zine is a creative space where Camp Wavelength participants can make a mark on the whole experience by adding their touch to a special edition zine. Static Zine is run on an inclusive, DIY ethic by Jessica Lewis, Aviva Cohen, Melody Lamb, and a collective of storytellers from around the world.
MORNING JOG WITH THE WOODEN SKY!
Saturday @ 10AM – Meet at Festival Entrance
We are not running from time, we are running into it, running through it. Of course it’s nice to get a good sweat on too… especially after a night of dancing to Holy Fuck. Join the Blisters in the Sun as we spread our wings over Toronto Island Saturday morning around 10am.
CAMP WAVELENGTH’S FIELD OF DREAMS: SOFTBALL!
Sunday @ NOON – Ward’s Island Baseball Diamond
Nothing says summer like softball. Sunflower seeds and half-finished Steam Whistle in the outfield. Partying like it’s 1992. Join us on Sunday for Camp Wavelength’s Field of Dreams – an afternoon of drop-in, pickup softball at the Ward’s Island ball diamond (by the Ward’s ferry docks, past the Island Cafe). No experience or skill required.
PLUS: PING-PONG, GIANT JENGA & MORE!
FOOD & DRINK
ISLAND CAFÉ
BBQ Zone
The Island Cafe serves up local and garden-fresh comfort food and old school baked goods. Homemade local grass-fed beef burgers, vegan nut burger, yummy kebabs (both meat and veg), sandwiches, wraps, salads healthy snacks and corn. For camper breakfasts, we’ll have veggie and meaty breakfast burritos, fruit salad, bagels, and homemade granola with yogurt.
SNAKATAK
Food Truck
Tacos galore: beef (no need for teeth) brisket, melt-in-your-mouth pulled-pork, chicken and veggie options, plus vegetable samosas on a bed of greens with mango slaw, and Fried Monkey Balls (banana with pancake served with dollops of ice cream and fresh whipped cream).
Purveyors of the finest handcrafted ice pops and cordials, in a myriad of flavours from Raspberry Hibiscus to Strawberries’n’Cream to Kicky Key Lime.
Hot, fresh, baked vegan/gluten free donut skewers with your choice of deliciously unique home made toppings, and of course, a DIY sprinkle station.
Proud supporters of the arts and culture in Canada, Steam Whistle Brewing’s focus is on making one beer — a Premium Pilsner that Canadians can be proud of, brewed fresh locally at their independent brewery in downtown Toronto. Wavelength has been proud to partner with our friends at Steam Whistle on amazing musical events since 2009.
In 1995, Tito Beveridge built his own microdistillery, and still makes his vodka by hand on the same land in Austin, Texas. Tito’s Handmade Vodka is made of 100% corn and is naturally gluten-free.
Plus Wine, Kombucha, Soft Drinks and FREE H20!