Who is We:
Voices Across the Divides

May 12-14, 2022

harbourfront centre theatre, Toronto

This was an invitation from the Art of Time Ensemble and Writers Collective of Canada to experience the transformative and healing aspects of writing, of creativity.

How can writing transform a life? Of the writer, of the listener?  How are we rescued by a new voice, finding within us a purpose we’ve never experienced before?  Whose voices matter?

Who is We?

Who Is We is a question asked by a single voice in pursuit of community, about questioning our notions of “Us and Them”. The past couple of years have made it clear that whatever each of us may have assumed our We to have been – whether sentimentally rooted in family, practically framed by politics, or idealistically the human race  – the time has come to acknowledge that questions need to be asked.

Repertoire/Credits/Media

🎥 Who is We (2022) Full Performance

🎥 Dee Hope
Testimonial
Who is We

🎥 Ahana Das Sarkar
Final Pilgrimage
i. The Before
ii. The Durin
iii. The After

Shirin Tobie-Paul
Monarch Machinations

Ellise Ramos
Ruptures

🎥 Joe Da Silva
Frustration with English My Father’s House
Redemption
Land Hard
Bitter Soil

Christina Walsh
Family - The F Word

🎥 Wrecks Ricardus
Stop a Moment

Rooth Vimalanathan
Suvaasam
We are the key
I am

🎥 Kan Cheung
Reflection: On Being a Chinese Psychic Sherpa

Luxshie Vimaleswaran
When I Say I Have Not Written in Three Years

Marta McIlroy
Tribe of the Small Hands

Paul Eng
The Fentanyl Release

🎥 Roberta Taylor
Inside the Rooms of Holiness
Where I am From
Nothing Fits
Perfection
The Broken World

All music composed by Jonathan Goldsmith

Jonathan Goldsmith piano, Peter Lutek woodwinds, Hugh Marsh violin, Rob Piltch guitar, Scott Peterson bass

🎥 Daniel MacIvor, Director
Jill Carter, Dramaturge
Laurie-Shawn Borzovoy, Projection Designer
Arun Srinivasan, Lighting Designer
Arwen MacDonell, Production Stage Manager
Sam Shaw, Technical Director

Artists

Photos

All photos by John Lauener

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