Presented as a part of Jumblies Theatre’s larger multi-year project “blue skies, red earth & tall pines,” the choral performance songs from the edges features a suite of new music from award winning singer & composer Suba Sankaran plus other selected works performed by the Gather Round Singers and guests (including Autorickshaw and the Community Arts Guild). songs from the edges explores stories about the various borders people cross throughout their lives: literal, metaphorical, linguistic, religious, racial, emotional, psychological, and cultural.

This program is a part of Your Timing is Perfect: Moments and Movements of Inquiry, a performance series in which artists investigate the body as a living archive, exploring its extraordinary strength and resilience, as well as its tenderness, vulnerability, and limitations.

Note: While there is a capacity limit for this program, tickets are not required. Please arrive early to reserve your seat.

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This program is presented in partnership with Jumblies Theatre + Arts and is co-conducted by Suba Sankaran, Natalie Fasheh, and Shifra Cooper.

Image credit: Gather Round Singers at Border Crossing Odyssey. Photography: María Vega.

Date

September 21

Time

2:00pm – 3:00pm

This venue is wheelchair accessible.

This program has live ASL Interpretation.

This program has loud and/or complex sounds.

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A photograph of the Gather Round Singers choir performing. In the foreground, a Black person with curly hair and wearing a orange shirt is seen smiling, holding and waving a large scarf attached to a paddle with a face drawn on it. In the background there are multiple people with multiple ages and abilities singing outwards to a crowd of people. Some are in movement, others are performing ASL, and others are sitting and singing. Many are wearing orange as well.

Artist Bio

Jumblies Theatre + Arts

Jumblies is a Toronto-based organization with a Canada-wide reach that engages in collaborations between professional artists and diverse people and places, mentoring and supporting others to do so as well. Jumblies expands where art happens, who gets to be part of it, what forms it takes and whose stories it tells. This imperative has led them outside of specialized art venues and to place radical inclusion at the core of their work. They say ‘Everyone is welcome!’ and embrace the joys and challenges, social and aesthetic, of meaning or trying to mean it.

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The Gather Round Singers is a radically inclusive community choir, made up of singers of mixed ages, abilities, and backgrounds.

The choir upholds core values of access by: avoiding auditions; learning music by ear; providing transportation, healthy food, language interpretation/translation, personal care workers, on-site childcare; using accessible venues, and welcoming new members at any point in the process (sometimes up to and including the day of a performance!). For over a decade, the Gather Round Singers have been a part of Jumblies’ core Toronto projects, performing newly-commissioned works.

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