Renegala 2026

Paint by Notes!

Saturday February 28th at 7pm - historic alberta house

You are cordially invited to join Renegade Opera for a night of restorative, inspiring art, music, and community building! This year we're focusing on activities that bring us joy, calm, and creative energy, which fortify us for the work of building community and equity in the world around us.

Renegala 2026: Paint by Notes is an immersive event inviting our audience to paint while they enjoy musical performances by members of Renegade Opera. Starting with a painting demonstration from a wonderful local artist, audiences will be given everything they need to complete their own paintings inspired by the performance.

As always, your Renegala ticket includes catered food, complimentary refreshments, a photobooth, live performance, and a silent auction full of fabulous local items and experiences.

Attire: Your most fabulous apron/painting outfit

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Rosśa Crean (they/them) jokingly says they “create strange things that they like to appreciate when they are by themself, eating raw cookie dough in a dark closet,” but in truth, their music has been referred to as being “funny...and virtuosic” (Classic Concert Nova Scotia), having “exceptionally different, outstanding quality” (Download), and music that “stirs you deep, undertones of humanity” (Access Contemporary Music). Composing and creating music with a focus on the evocative and lyrical, they began their professional career as a Bass-Baritone, specializing in avant-garde and Contemporary Classical music.

As a person with synesthesia, Crean occasionally creates projects that focus on their own neurological responses between sound, color, and emotional states. Their chromesthesia was a creative tool in the creation of their American Prize winning opera "The Great God Pan," their one-act opera “The Times Are Nightfall” (a queer sequel to “Don Giovanni,” premiered at Opera America in July 2018), and their monodrama “The Priestess of Morphine” (commissioned and premiered by the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago in June 2019).

As a painter, Crean specializes in what they call “liminal abstract” works. Crean considers their chromesthesia as a tool that puts them in a liminal space between mind and body. They have done development work with MoMA, and have been a resident artist at Oxbow, Illinois State University, and Loyola University Museum of Art.

A prolific collaborator, Crean has received commissions from and worked with numerous artists, including The Mozart Players at Oberlin College, the International Museum of Surgical Science, clarinetist Andrew Hudson, ChamberQueer, The New Consort, Lynx Project, Talla Rouge Duo, and Constellation Mens Ensemble. For more information on Rosśa and their work, please go to www.rossacrean.com

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