Love Songs to End Colonization
Peter Morin & Jimmie Kilpatrick
Presented by the Toronto Biennial of Art in partnership with The Theatre Centre and Dancemakers
Artists Peter Morin and Jimmie Kilpatrick are friends who share an abiding love for karaoke and present it through their ongoing artistic collaboration, Love Songs to End Colonization, a participatory karaoke project founded in kindness, joy, futurity, and engaging a collective voice through singing. Repurposing popular love songs, this project critiques, confronts, and dismantles the historical notions and the current presence of settler colonialism and utilizes karaoke as a methodology for social change. Listeners are invited to perform a song, sing-along, clap, dance, or simply witness and soak in love and music to dismantle colonialism, one love song at a time.
This program is a part of Your Timing is Perfect: Moments and Movements of Inquiry, a performance series in The Toronto Biennial of Art in which artists investigate the body as a living archive, exploring both its extraordinary strength and resilience, as well as its tenderness, vulnerability, and limitations.
Curated by Jenn Goodwin, Programs Curator, Toronto Biennial of Art.
Advisory Warning: This performance has loud sounds that may be complex for some viewers.
The Theatre Centre and Franco Boni Theatre are wheelchair accessible spaces. If you would like to reserve a seat for a wheelchair or mobility device, please book a reserved accessible ticket from the ticket options.
Masking is highly encouraged but not required.
November 30, 2024
to November 30, 2024
Tickets are pay what you can
Franco Boni Theatre
Saturday, November 30 – 8:00pm
This performance is 3 hours
Ticket holders will be allowed to come and go during the duration of the program, with admittance up until 30 minutes before the program ends. Wristbands will be provided upon check in so re-admittance is of ease.
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