Developed over multiple years with local residents, organizers, and activists, Switching Queen(s), is a roving multi-media queer political street performance experience in Parkdale, exploring histories of QTBIPOC and Mad/disabled resistance, and dreaming up radical liberatory futures through movement, song, shadow puppetry, poetry, live video projections, and storytelling.
You will travel within the experience, tracing pathways & ecologies navigated by Queer, Trans, Poor, Mad, Racialized, Indigenous, (Im)migrant and displaced peoples in the area. We will invoke spirits & ghosts of people and places erased by time and urban development. We will pay homage to the bandit wildlife and activist elders. We will weave poetic stories of love, resilience, hard labour, seed sowing, madness & waters rising across time.
You will travel within the experience, tracing pathways & ecologies navigated by Queer, Trans, Poor, Mad, Racialized, Indigenous, (Im)migrant and displaced peoples in the area. We will invoke spirits & ghosts of people and places erased by time and urban development. We will pay homage to the bandit wildlife and activist elders. We will weave poetic stories of love, resilience, hard labour, seed sowing, madness & waters rising across time.
Presented by SummerWorks Festival as part of ArtworxTO: Toronto's Year of Public Art 2021-2022
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Created and performed by The Switch Collective: Anna Malla, daniel jelani ellis, Naty Tremblay, and Sedina Fiati, in collaboration with:
Partners SummerWorks Festival Greenest City Parkdale Women’s Leadership Group Parkdale People's Economy BAND Gallery and Community Centre Eva’s Phoenix print shop With many thanks to b current Performing Arts for producing Switching Queen(s): Back Alley Galaxies Paul Zulauf & Dennis (sculptor) - for site access on the Milky Way & being great neighbors! Funders Canada Council for the Arts Toronto Arts Council Ontario Arts Council |
