Early Music Vancouver hosts Renaissance-inspired Our City of Ladies on August 1

Performance on EMV Summer Festival lineup speaks to women’s rights

SPONSORED POST BY Early Music Vancouver

Christine de Pizan (2023). Artwork by Marco Tulio

Early Music Vancouver presents ensemble Servir Antico’s Our City of Ladies at Christ Church Cathedral on August 1 at 7:30 pm. The concert is part of this year’s EMV Summer Festival, which focuses on the impact and role of women in history through a musical lens.

Founded and directed by Chilean-born historical keyboardist Catalina Vicens, Servir Antico breathes new life into European vocal and instrumental music from the age of Renaissance humanism.

With Our City of Ladies, the ensemble continues to explore The City of Ladies—an allegorical city conceived by medieval French poet and court writer Christine de Pizan (1364-1430) to defend and protect women and their right to education. Servir Antico’s journey is to expand the walls of the city started five centuries ago, and to invite audiences to take part in its existence.

Vicens, who is based in Italy, is Early Music Vancouver’s 2023 artist-in-residence.

More information and tickets to the concert, sponsored by Pam Ratner, Joy Johnson, and Katherine Paton, can be found here.

Post sponsored by Early Music Vancouver.