The Canales Project and Founder Carla Dirlikov Canales Kick-Off Inaugural 2016–17 Season
Washington, D.C. – The Canales Project’s CEO and founder Carla Dirlikov Canales has completed a whirlwind kick-off to the 2016-2017 season. On September 21 in New York City, she hosted the launch event for The Canales Project. The next day she flew to China where she was the featured singer with the China National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Tan Dun at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beiing. She performed songs from the film scores Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and The Banquet, both composed by Tan Dun. As a heartfelt encore, she sang “I Love You, China”. All three songs were performed in Chinese.
Earlier that same week, Dirlikov Canales was honored to be included in the New York Fashion Week show for Tracy Reese’s new spring collection. The idea behind the presentation was to highlight real women and their accomplishments, and to bring diversity and awareness to fashion. You can read more about the show here.
When she returned from China, Dirlikov Canales turned her attention to the work of TCP’s new season.
On October 9–14, Dirlikov Canales will be launching the “Finding Your Voice” program with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Tucson (BGCT). The first part of an ongoing program, Carla and the BGCT will lead a week long workshop designed to spark young people across Tucson to use music and storytelling to address their own personal challenges associated with issues of identity and cultural divisions.
On October 21 and 22, Carla will be re-appearing with TEDxMidAtlantic to share the story of her journey over the past year, and to introduce the audience to four of The Canales Project’s artists. This event will take place in Washington, D.C. For more information, please go here.
From October 31–November 1, Dirlikov Canales will be co-directing a weeklong intensive seminar on cultural entrepreneurship titled “Music as a Catalyst for Change”, at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. For more information please visit this page.
It was also just announced that Dirlikov Canales will be starting a two year fellowship with the Hermitage Artist Retreat. Hermitage Fellows are a select group of America’s most significant and promising creative artists. She will be attending her first set of meetings as part of this project in November.
Also in November, Dirlikov Canales will host the first of The Canales Project’s Between Two Worlds concerts on November 10. This event will be presented in conjunction with the Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute as part of their Neighborhood Concert Series. Performers will include TCP artist-in-residence and poet Jacqueline Suskin, Oud player and entrepreneur Hadi Eldebek, guitarist Gabriel Morales, and violinist and YoungArts alumnus Kevin Hu. For more information, please visit this page.
For more information on The Canales Project, Carla Dirlikov Canales or The Canales Project’s artists or partners, please contact Maria Ory atmaria@thecanalesproject.com.