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Concert Description

Join Xenia Concerts and Quatuor Despax for a fun, family-friendly, bilingual concert that embraces neurodiversity and disability! In this fun-filled concert, you’ll be introduced to the instruments of the string quartet, and the different personalities of the instruments (and their players). You’ll hear music from across three centuries, including quartets by Chevalier St. George, Emmanuel Despax, Felix Mendelssohn, tango tunes, and pop songs arranged by the performers. You’ll also have plenty of opportunities to move your bodies, ask questions, and meet the musicians – in English et en français!

This concert is designed to welcome members of the neurodiversity and disability communities, their friends, and families, and anyone else who benefits from a relaxed, supportive concert environment.

Do you have a suggestion for how we can make our events more welcoming and accessible? Write to Executive and Artistic Director Rory McLeod at rory.mcleod@xeniaconcerts.com or 647-896-8295.

Concert Features

• All expressions welcome! Feel free to make noise, get up, or stim!
• Wheelchair accessible venue
• Gender-neutral, wheelchair accessible washrooms
• Venue Guide
• Accessible PDF concert programs and listening guide emailed before event
• Fidget toys and noise-cancelling earmuffs can be provided upon request (please bring your own if you can)
• Flexible seating and a separate area for breaks
• Stretch breaks
• Visual schedule

COVID Safety Measures

• Masks are recommended
• Hand sanitizer will be readily available
• If you have symptoms of COVID-19, please stay home

Thanks To Our Partners

Festival of the Sound, Lyndsey Stevenato Children’s Therapy Services, Autism Ontario, Community Living Parry Sound, One Kids Place Parry Sound, Hands TheFamilyHelpNetwork.

Thanks To Our Funders

The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council, The Toronto Arts Council, The Government of Canada, The Azrieli Foundation, a donation in honour of the R.S. Williams & Sons Company Ltd., and Xenia Concerts donors.