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B Current WOYW 1 - Switching Queen(s): Back Alley Galaxies

Toronto

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

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Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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