autumn 2021 newsletter
Near Capilano Suspension Bridge, in so-called Vancouver, the stolen and unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, Musqueam, Lil'wat and Sechelt nations.
A new colleague recently asked me, “What is falling away for you these days"? Their question made me reflect on what I’m ready to let go of, especially when taking stock of all the new learnings and experiences I have had this past year and a half.
I hope your autumn is going well too, and that the things that aren’t serving you anymore are also able to fall away during this time of year.
This is the first of a quarterly series of newsletters (and accompany blog posts) that I will send out, highlighting projects that I’m especially excited about. Please scroll through if you’re interested to read, see, hear and watch more about what I’ve been up to and what’s upcoming. You can always find the latest updates on my website www.teiyakasahara.com or on social media @teiyakasahara.
Wishing you health and good spirits as these days get shorter and colder.
— tk.
2021-2022 Artist-in-Residence at UofT’s Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
This season I’ll be joining the Queer Trans Research Lab at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University Toronto as their Artist in Residence. Myself, along with various scholars and community leaders make up the Queer Trans Research Lab, or the QTRL. Read more by clicking the button below and bookmark this website for future articles featuring various members of the lab, check out the lab’s podcast called QTcast, and stay tuned for a work-in-progress performance next spring of a new project called Little Mis(s)gender that I’m creating.
A new CBC Short Documentary
I had the pleasure to sit down with filmmakers Maria Sarrouh and Leah Borts-Kaufman this summer to talk about my identity as it relates to my experience in opera. Click the video thumbnail to watch.
The Butterfly Project video recording
A co-production with Confluence Concerts and Amplified Opera, my Butterfly Project (or The Ballad of Chō-Chō san) will be documented this week for a limited video release coming February 2022. Watch this interview with curator, Marion Newman and I from earlier this year about the upcoming project.