Mandy Woo is a composer, producer, and music educator from Toronto, Canada. Fascinated since young by the power of music to convey emotions and tell stories, Mandy is passionate about bringing listeners to a different time and space.
Mandy's music has been heard on CBC Radio's Big City, Small World and The Strombo Show as well as on AM1430 Fairchild Radio. As a performer, Mandy has shared the stage with Robotaki, Featurette, Goodbye Honolulu, and Jon Neufeld of Starfield. Her curiosity with sonic spaces and musical storytelling led to postmoderndisco, a personal outlet for exploring ambient soundscapes. She has performed these dreamy soundscapes with various live band arrangements, from vocals and guitar, to more eccentric features such as French Horn, violin and clarinet, at venues such as the Hard Rock Cafe, Toronto Pearson International Airport, Trinity Bellwoods, Aga Khan Museum, Chinese Cultural Center, Chinatown Centre and Lee’s Palace. She has also performed at events such as Nuit Blanche, Night It Up, AsialiciousTO, Nookfest, Taste of Kingston, Queen West Art Crawl, and Canadian Music Week.
For inquiries or complete CV/portfolio, contact: [email protected]
Mandy's music has been heard on CBC Radio's Big City, Small World and The Strombo Show as well as on AM1430 Fairchild Radio. As a performer, Mandy has shared the stage with Robotaki, Featurette, Goodbye Honolulu, and Jon Neufeld of Starfield. Her curiosity with sonic spaces and musical storytelling led to postmoderndisco, a personal outlet for exploring ambient soundscapes. She has performed these dreamy soundscapes with various live band arrangements, from vocals and guitar, to more eccentric features such as French Horn, violin and clarinet, at venues such as the Hard Rock Cafe, Toronto Pearson International Airport, Trinity Bellwoods, Aga Khan Museum, Chinese Cultural Center, Chinatown Centre and Lee’s Palace. She has also performed at events such as Nuit Blanche, Night It Up, AsialiciousTO, Nookfest, Taste of Kingston, Queen West Art Crawl, and Canadian Music Week.
For inquiries or complete CV/portfolio, contact: [email protected]
Recent Composing Highlights:
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The Chinese characters for Hakka translate to “guest families.” These guest families travelled to many corners of the globe – Jamaica, Trinidad, Mauritius, India, Hong Kong, South Africa, and beyond. Today thousands of Hakka “guest families” call Tkaronto their home. In each new place the Hakka had to ask what it meant to be guests on others’ lands and how to preserve their own culture while respecting the culture of their hosts. These are urgent questions that Canadians are asking themselves as guests and uninvited settlers on Indigenous land.
In the Benevolence Hall you first encounter the Moon Gate video installation, which beckons visitors into the gallery and asks them to reflect on the lifecycle of a community. The Benevolence Hall also includes a reading room, which features reading materials on the Hakka and Chinese diaspora in Canada. The installation concludes with a short film (Benevolence, 2023) about Victoria B.C.’s Tam Kung Temple, Canada’s oldest Chinese temple, and the fight to keep its doors open.
Benevolence Hall
Created by Kevin Matthew Wong
Presented by Toronto History Museums
Produced by Broadleaf Creative with Why Not Theatre
Lead Artist, Concept, Production Design – Kevin Matthew Wong
Composer, Sound Design – Mandy Woo
Video Associate, Editor – Noel Pendawa
Production Manager – Crystal Lee
Exhibition Promotional Photography – Mary Anderson
This project is part of the Toronto History Museums’ Artist Mentorship Showcase: The Reset with Mentor Yung Yemi. Experience a range of art projects at 10 history museum sites.
ADMISSION DETAILS
In the Benevolence Hall you first encounter the Moon Gate video installation, which beckons visitors into the gallery and asks them to reflect on the lifecycle of a community. The Benevolence Hall also includes a reading room, which features reading materials on the Hakka and Chinese diaspora in Canada. The installation concludes with a short film (Benevolence, 2023) about Victoria B.C.’s Tam Kung Temple, Canada’s oldest Chinese temple, and the fight to keep its doors open.
Benevolence Hall
Created by Kevin Matthew Wong
Presented by Toronto History Museums
Produced by Broadleaf Creative with Why Not Theatre
Lead Artist, Concept, Production Design – Kevin Matthew Wong
Composer, Sound Design – Mandy Woo
Video Associate, Editor – Noel Pendawa
Production Manager – Crystal Lee
Exhibition Promotional Photography – Mary Anderson
This project is part of the Toronto History Museums’ Artist Mentorship Showcase: The Reset with Mentor Yung Yemi. Experience a range of art projects at 10 history museum sites.
ADMISSION DETAILS
- Ticket Info:Market Gallery 2nd Floor, St. Lawrence Market 95 Front Street East Telephone: 416-392-7604 Email: [email protected]
- Phone: (416) 392-7604
- For Tickets: (416) 392-7604
- Email: [email protected]
- More Info: • Hakka Artists Talk - evening of June 6, 2024 (time TBD) • "Benevolence" Play Reading, hosted with Tarragon Theatre - July 11, 2024 (time TBD)
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