Taymaz Saba

January 6th - 23rd, 2022

This adaptation of I Cannot Lie to the Stars is a deeply intimate audio drama, following a grieving young mother as she sings, commiserates and shares stories with her fellow women of colour around a campfire. While centering joy and healing, Stars offers a raw and unflinching meditation on race, class and queer partnerships. Through poignant confessions and original choral music, I Cannot Lie to the Stars celebrates the power of community.

Featuring
Anjalica Solomon, Lili Robinson, Emily M Cheung and khattieQ

Artistic Team
Direction & Adaptation – Fay Nass
Music Direction and Original Compositions – Taymaz Saba
Mixing and Recording Engineer – Piotr Wieczorek
Sound Designer – D. F. Simmons
Stage Manager – Jenny Kim*
Lead Producer – Anais West
Promotional Photography – Kimberly Ho

Host Nation Welcome - Sempúlyan Gonzales

1:02:07 | 2020 | Canada | English, Spanish, Arabic & Cantonese
With Closed Captioning

Vancouver Premiere: December 16 – 20 2020, online

Official Selection of the Madrid International Film Festival, the New York City International Film Festival and the Nice International Film Festival

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Be-Longing is a theatrical performance on film, incorporating ancient and contemporary lyrics, devised performance, movement and interdisciplinary media about the nature of queer desire, exile, mourning and migration in diaspora. A collaboration between three Canadian artists from Taiwan, Iran and India, Be-Longing is an elegiac ode to home and longing during a time of contagion.

Artistic Team
Theatrical Direction – Fay Nass
Film Direction – Meghna Haldar
New Media Direction – Sammy Chien

Featuring
Alexandra Lainfiesta, khattieQ, Jackson Wai Chung Tse & Baraka Rahmani

Music Direction and Original Compositions – Taymaz Saba
Sound Design – Helena Krobath
Set & Maquette Design – Jennifer Stewart
Costume Design – Carmen Alatorre
Digital Design – CHIMERIK 似不像
Director of Photography – Kaayla Whatchell
Production Manager – Nicole Lamb
Stage Management – Susan Miyagishima
Assistant Stage Management – Katie Voravong
Co-Producers – Fay Nass, Anais West, Patricia Trinh

Inspired by “Diaspora,” a community devised projected developed with Queer Arts Festival & Rainbow Refugee