As a pioneering trans soul singer in the 1960s, Jackie Shane’s unapologetic and authentic presence in Toronto contributed to the local R&B music scene and made her an enduring queer icon in Canada.

About home and the (im)possibility of return. An “atmospheric arrival” captures a means of coming into being through memory and imagination, by reaching across spacetimes to “fetch” parts of the self that may exist elsewhere.

A young queer man named Bobby Bowen takes the audience on a journey of learning key terms that originated within queer Black and POC communities.