The Pelee Island Stone & Sky Music & Arts Series 2025 Opens
The Pelee Island Stone & Sky Music & Arts Series 2025 (operating continuously since 2012) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing elite artistic experiences.
Stone & Sky is an accessible outdoor three season cultural centre presenting live multi-disciplinary performances by professional artists and providing artists’ residencies. Artists’ residencies in dignified, private accommodations provide us with the opportunity to develop a safe and sustainable way to share artistic works with new audiences and communities, promoting future collaborations across genres.
A disused, fossil filled limestone quarry amphitheatre and former landfill on Pelee Island (a distinctive venue with magnificent acoustic properties), is our performance venue. The Quarry creates an “art park” where established and emergent professional artists can perform in a natural, matchless, and accessible setting. The provision of professional artists acts as a cultural bridge between the Island and the artistic world at large. This is a unique project without parallel within our community, or indeed, within Canada.
Stone & Sky has created, developed, produced, and presented scores of professional artistic and ground-breaking events to thousands of participants. Our season consists of numerous multi-inter arts concerts featuring classical, jazz, and experimental music, spoken word, visual art, dance, Coming Together: a Collaborative Arts-based Reconciliation Celebration, Flutter Fest: A Community Migration Celebration, and artists’ residencies throughout the year.
The 2025 season (the 15th) includes:
- June 9-15: Coming Together: a Collaborative Arts-based Reconciliation Celebration featuring workshops, residencies and performances by Christine Friday, Beany John, Nathan Adler, Gord Grisenthwaite and an installation collaboration by JP Longboat and Patricia Fell,
- June 21: Solstice Ceremony with Nicole Dagenais (yoga) and soundbath meditation by TJ Travis,
- June 28: Canada Day Dance Party with Soul Delegation,
- July 13: Storyteller Pamela Cole and Windsor Classic Chorale,
- July 20: Poet Carlinda D’Alimonte and the Mike Karloff Jazz Ensemble,
- August 3: Percussion by Teajai Travis and LOOP, choreographed and performed by Montréalaise Flamenco dancer Audrey Gaussiran,
- August 16: Boston classical concert artists Miki Sawada (piano) and Kris Tong (violin),
- August 31: Nil-a-Nova Big Band,
- Sept. 13-15: Flutter Fest: A Community Migration Celebration
Flutter Fest will present a varied and diverse weekend consisting of a multi-inter arts live performance Entr’acte with sound poet Deanna Radford from Montréal, and electronica artists Marshall Drägun & Zhaoyi Cai. Also featured will be a public mural at the west dock pavilion, a puppetry workshop, and En Plain Air painting competition.
Support from the Dept. of Canadian Heritage, who consider Stone & Sky “a significant cultural event, nationally” and the Ontario Arts Council ensure we can offer all events on a ‘by donation’ basis. All performances end in time to catch the last ferry back to the mainland.
