Fin’amor (songs from a former criminal)

Workshop Presentation and Discussion

Saturday
Jun 04, 2022 7:30pm

Venue Baumann Centre

Cost Free

Fin’amor (songs from a former criminal) Workshop Presentation and Discussion

You are invited to be among the first to experience excerpts from, and reflections on, a moving new work by BC composer Jeffrey Ryan.

Join us for intimate evening of contemporary songs inspired by the medieval troubadour tradition and two significant 50th anniversaries in queer history:

the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the Canadian criminal code,
and the Stonewall Riots in New York.

Fin’amor (songs from a former criminal) is a collection of eight contemporary songs setting new queer-themed texts by James Fagan Tait for self-accompanying tenor (Bud Roach) and symphonie (an early form of hurdy-gurdy), reflecting the lived experiences of this creative team as gay men who came of age in those early years of a new queer reality, bursting with awareness and activism.

Like the songs of the medieval troubadours and trobairitz, these stories are rooted in love, relationships, and contemporary experience, now from a queer perspective.

Presentation begins at 7:30pm, followed by a discussion with the artists.

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