created by The Switch Collective
(Anna Malla, danjelani ellis, Jody Chan, Naty Tremblay, Sedina Fiati)
with guest collaborator Leon Tsai
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.
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Anna Malla - Direction, design, editing
Kaija Siirala - Sound Design & Mixing Kara Manso - Illustrations, graphic design Kiley May - excerpt from “Ghost Walker” Brescia Nember-Reid - Song “Someday you’re gonna die” Andrea Thompson - Interview b solomon - poem “This Tree” 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