09/28/2017
“Listen to the Chorus”, our upcoming Nuit Blanche Toronto project, has taken shape over the last four years and comes from a very personal and vulnerable place. It started as intimate conversations amongst ourselves to make sense of the violence, anger, and frustrations we felt, and expanded to include an inspirational circle of womxn sharing their thoughts and experiences on what it means to identify as a womxn and to be part of the movement fighting for womxn’s rights.
“Listen to the Chorus” takes these conversations to the streets, exploring the tension between the collective desire for change and individual needs, and gives space for voices excluded from mainstream conversations. We hope this immersive, four-channel video installation will move you as much as it has us in creating this work.
Thank you to our collaborators, poet Nasim Asgari, composer Cecilia Livingston, and our performers, Jacoba Barber-Rozema, Joanna Diindiisi Kwe Simmons, Renée Ashanta Henry (Renee The Voice), Nasim Asgari; and the countless number of womxn we’ve spoken to along the way. Your openness, generosity, passion in sharing your perspectives made the project what it was. Shout out to our production team, director of photography Steven McDonnell and sound producer Bram Gielen for their impeccable eyes and ears.
It’s truly been an honour to be curated by Barbara Fischer and be produced by Asad Raza - thank you for trusting in this vision and letting to come to life.
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