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Africville in Black and White by Gemini Award-winning filmmaker Cyrus Sundar Singh, is a site-specific verbatim theatrical and live musical piece based on the tragic story of the residents of Africville. Located in the city of Halifax, Africville was home to over 150 Black Canadians for over 60 years, who were evicted by the city in the late 1960s. The entire site was bulldozed, along with the Seaview Baptist Church, which was at the heart of the community. In this site-specific and interactive piece, St. Matthew’s United Church becomes a philosophical space, where parts of the Africville story unfold, taken from actual transcripts of the event.
Cyrus Sundar Singh is an Award-winning filmmaker, songwriter, composer, and poet. On May 4th, his new site-specific documentary Brothers in the Kitchen will have its World Premiere at the 2016 Hot Docs Festival. Brothers in the Kitchen will be screened inside a fully operational restaurant, and will be the first site-specific documentary ever seen at Hot Docs.
Riffing off b current’s powerful 25 year legacy of culturally-rooted theatre development in Toronto, the 14th biennial rock.paper.sistahz Festival is a hand-picked and fully curated theatre festival teeming with quality, diversity, and raw energy to bring rarely told and unusual stories to the stage.
A launching pad for multidisciplinary works by emerging and established artists of colour from all Diasporas across Canada, rock.paper.sistahz will be presented at Artscape Wychwood Barns from May 3 – 7, 2016.
b current presents
14th Biennial rock.paper.sistahz Festival
Special Announcement!
Presenting a Site-Specific Presentation of
Africville in Black and White
By Cyrus Sundar Singh
Saturday, May 7, 2016
Performance @ 2pm – 2:30pm
Q&A with Cyrus Sundar Singh @ 2:30pm – 3pm
St. Matthew’s United Church – 729 St. Claire St. West
FESTIVAL PASSES:
$75 Festival Pass and $20 Evening Pass Now Available at bcurrent.ca
$15 Evening Pass (Arts Worker / Senior / Student) Also Available
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2016-04-26
Toronto: b current presents "Africville in Black and White" on May 7