Jae Yang

While each performance experiment is distinct, Switch has been using and evolving a care-based creative methodology to tell stories with artist and neighbour collaborators. Switch centers the unique knowledge systems, activism and artistic expressions of LGBTQ2S+, BIPOC, and intersectionality marginalized folks who varyingly experience the world as fat, mad, disabled, working class and/or criminalized.

This year’s workshop performance comes out of three years of relationship building and artistic experimentation in Regent Park. In 2023, having completed six years of work in the Village and Parkdale, Switch will now focus on sharing methodologies and cross pollinating with other queer and trans artists. Regent Park is one of Canada’s oldest community housing projects. Recently coming out of a two decade “revitalization” which pushed out the previous residents to make way for newer buildings that include both community housing and for profit condominiums, the area has thankfully retained a spirit of connectedness, where people from various cultures make their home there, raise their kids, and congregate in communal spaces.

Company: Switch Collective
Switch Collective: Sedina Fiati, Lexi Sproule, Naty Tremblay, Mojo Noble, Faith-Ann Mendes
Artist Collaborators: Victoria Mata, Rosina Kazi, Ana Figo, Alejandra Higuera