German Walk T.O. - BIKE TOUR (DEUTSCH)

A relaxing cycling tour exploring Toronto's wildly varied landscape, both natural and urban, with stops at sites of German-Canadian significance along the way.

By engaging the process of photography with intention and awareness as both observer and creator, we gain the ability to bridge our internal and external worlds replacing unwanted patterns or perspectives with feelings of wonder, awe, and gratitude, all while tapping into and unlocking a vast well of creativity, wisdom, and intuition within us all.

Welcome to *Switching Queen(s): Back Alley Galaxies*, the first audio tour of **b current Performing Arts' *Wheel of the Year Walks*.** We recommend starting your journey in Node 1, in the South-West Corner of Masarayk-Cowan park. Through soundscapes of words, everyday life, music, and poetry, you will meet fictionalized and real humans in a sharing of blended time and space, transmutation between so-called human and animal species, entities, and spirits. While you move through the lands on which the neighbourhood of Parkdale stands, the Switch Collective will interrogate the challenges -- stemming from colonialism, capitalism, gentrification -- the area and its inhabitants face, and the manifest resilience bursting forth from all of the cracks. ### Credits Part of **Wheel of the Year Walks, an initiative created by b current Performing Arts.** *Switching Queen(s): Back Alley Galaxies* was created by The Switch Collective (Anna Malla, danjelani ellis, Jody Chan, Naty Tremblay, Sedina Fiati) with guest collaborator Leon Tsai Anna Malla - Direction, design, editing Kaija Siirala - Sound Design & Mixing **Featuring** Andrea Thompson - interview b solomon - poem “This Tree” Brescia Nember-Reid - song “Someday you’re gonna die” Kara Manso - graphic design Kiley May - excerpt from “Ghost Walker” Suzette Clarke - interview *Parkdale Women’s Leadership Group* & *Parkdale People’s Economy* - Miru Yogarajah, Anthony Riley, Mercedes Sharpe, Nadia Rajaram, Ko Hosoya, Stephanie Francis, Ida Smith, Sha Ally, Beryl-Ann Mark, Bernadette Rilloraza, Lobsang Dolkar - interviews and collaborative creative dreaming about Parkdale futures **In partnership with** b current Performing Arts, with special thanks to Artistic Director Sadie Berlin **with the assistance of** University of Waterloo Department of Knowledge Integration, with special thanks to Isabelle Lavallée-Gordon and Rob Gorbet **With support from** Canada Council for the Arts Masaryk Cowan Community Centre PARC - Parkdale Activity and Recreation Centre Parkdale People’s Economy Parkdale Women’s Leadership Group RAW - Raging Asian Womxn Taiko Drummers SKETCH Working Arts **Previous incarnations of Switching Queen(s) have been supported by:** Summerworks Festival Canada Council for the Arts Toronto Arts Council Ontario Arts Council **Social Media handles: Instagram / Facebook** b current Performing Arts @bcurrentlive / b current Switch Collective @switch.collective.performance / The Switch Project Parkdale People’s Economy @parkdalepeopleseconomy / Parkdale People’s Economy Anna Malla @apmals / Annapurna Malla Brescia Nember-Reid @drawing.with.knives.shadows / Drawing With Knives Shadows danjelani ellis @groundwork.redux / DanJelani Ellis Jody Chan @jodyr.chan / Jody Chan Kiley May @artstarkiley / Kiley May Leon Tsai @blossom.leontsai / Leon Tsai Naty Tremblay @civilcyborg / Naty Tremblay Sedina Fiati @bwheelsheels / Sedina Fiati

Explore what it's like to walk around Christie Pits Park in the summer. Allow yourself to reminisce about summer and escape this cold and gloomy winter by listening to the different audios around the park.

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