Leader: Cyrus Sundar Singh
Location: Room 7-270, 7th Floor – John Molson Building, 1450 Rue Guy – Concordia University
In-Person Session
Dogs, Gods and City Hall is a collaborative 50-minute co-creative presentation that engages practice, theory and performance in the framing of the narrative. The participants are immersed in experiential learning that places them inside Canadian history thereby complicit in creating, disseminating, and archiving the narrative. It is a participatory-performative-liveness that is based on the author’s ongoing research with the community of Africville. The presentation contains verbatim transcripts from interviews conducted by the author. All audio elements of this presentation were also captured by the author on multiple research trips to Africville, Nova Scotia spanning five years.
Cyrus Sundar Singh,
Cyrus is an AcademiCreActivist: a Gemini Award-winning filmmaker, scholar, composer, singer-songwriter, and published poet. He arrived in Toronto as a fresh-off-the-boat ten-year-old from India and almost embraced the winter. His doctoral thesis, Performing the Documentary explores site-specific live-documentary, which brings together the audience, subjects, musicians and multimedia in the co-creative telling.