Using Photography as a Gateway to Mindfulness / TO

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.

Erkunde die vielseitige Landschaft Torontos: Eine Radtour quer durch die Stadt, entlang verschiedenster Orte mit deutsch-kanadischer Geschichte.

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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Welcome to High Park sound walk. By following the route on the Echoes app, you will hear a selection of original poems read aloud by the poets themselves. Each poem represents a different location within High Park and encourages visitors to discover spots for quiet contemplation. Inspired by the monumental trees and surrounding landscape, these poems serve as a celebration of the unique features of the area. Voice of Trees High Park is a collaboration between Giovanna Iorio, Michael Rothenberg, Robert Priest and Larry Sawyer. Poets included in the sound walk: Bill Bissett- A Tree Phil Hall- Toward A Blacker Ardour Mark Goldstein- My Ravine Larry Sawyer-Memory Suit Lina Ramona Vitkauskas- Taiga Geoff Bouvier-Those Old Familiar Ditties Dale Smith- Grass Seeds Charlie Petch-Daughter of Geppetto Part 4 Jennifer Hosein- Exile Lillian Allen- I Saw A Perfect Tree Robert Priest- A Tree Will Take The Heat For You John Robert Colombo-Memory of Falling from a Tree Lawrence Bayne- Tree Patrick Connors - The Path Michael Holmes- St. Marys Deacon Blues Honey Novick- High Park Marty Smith- The tree and me by onecloud Clifton Joseph - Not poem

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