DAY 5: MONDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
Intersection Music & Arts Festival with the Canadian Music Centre and Arraymusic Presents:
LMNL: "THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME"
A multi-locational interactive in-person/online hybrid concert performance of "Rainbow," created by Jerry Pergolesi and Louise Cambell.
FREE and open to the public at both locations.
2pm @ the Canadian Music Centre (20 St. Joseph St.), Arraymusic (155 Walnut Ave.) and streaming online.
Performance livestreaming on:
https://www.facebook.com/intersectionfestival
https://www.twitch.tv/intersectionfestival
Workshops and rehearsals happening on Day 2 and Day 4 (https://intersectionfestival.org/festival/day-4)
Toronto performances led by Andrew Noseworthy (CMC) & Yang Chen (Arraymusic)
Toronto in-person performance featuring: Naomi McCarroll-Butler, Mary-Katherine Finch, Sara Constant, Sarah Fraser Raff, Joyce To, Adrian Irvine and more...
Online performers featuring: Tina Pearson, Yaz Lancaster, Adam Cuthbert, Phong Tran, An Laurence, Priscilla Smith, Paulino Cravens, Bert Power and more...
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Rainbow is a post-modern deconstruction and re-imagining of the classic popular song “Over the Rainbow” sung by actress Judy Garland as the character Dorothy Gale and featured in the 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz.” In the queer community, the song “Over the Rainbow,” the actress Judy Garland, and the character Dorothy Gale function as signifiers and enduring symbols of vulnerability and defiance, both of which are deeply entrenched in queer life. “Over the Rainbow,” Garland and Dorothy represent a sense of utopian wonder and longing for a place where one belongs. The song appears in the movie when Dorothy is in conflict, unable to control her own circumstances. Her aunt tells her to “find yourself a place where you won't get into any trouble" to which Dorothy muses to her small dog Toto, “Do you suppose there is such a place?” and then proceeds to sing “Over the Rainbow.”
The queer community has forever constructed its own “place” both physical and metaphysical, where “trouble” is a slippery and subjective term; where one creates their own reality on their own terms by re- appropriating contemporary culture for their own purposes. A lasting euphemism derived from the film: the ubiquitous “we're not in Kansas anymore" serves as a commentary on the sense of displacement and belonging in a strange yet familiar place of one’s own making.
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This event would not be possible without support from the Toronto Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Foundation, the City of Toronto, the Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage, and The SOCAN Foundation.