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
