A process-to-performance project that documents, connects and celebrates LGBTQ+ lives in Boston
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Stones to Rainbows/Gay to Queer Lives is an installation and performance project developed from the intergenerational and cross-sectional dialogue among Boston area LGBTQ+ lives. Through workshops, facilitated interviews and archival research, community members and professional artists bring multi-media art forms together on a roving physical installation that also acts as a frame and backdrop for live dance, music, spoken word.
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It hit me during a rehearsal with two younger artists: they knew the AIDS crisis from reading about in history books - or more likely, online. They asked me what it was really like. I asked them about their free use of the word queer. And a conversation across generations began...
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- Artistic Director Peter DiMuro on the inspiration of Stones to Rainbows
Traversing The Spectrum |
Performing Humanity |
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Through present-day interviews, archival research and creative workshops, Stones to Rainbows introduces past to present, connects older to younger, and builds a bridge between what was gay and what is now queer.
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Within the cradle of our "Queerhenge" (free standing doors-cum-canvases collaged with multimedia archives), the history and the present of LGBTQ+ lives are animated with a series of cabaret-style performances of dance, music, spoken word and more, performed by professional artists and community participants alike.
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Our Partners
Stones to Rainbows/Gay to Queer Lives is a project of Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion, in collaboration with The History Project, Arlington Street Church, and Ágora. Additional partners include Dancing Queerly and The Front Porch Arts Collective. Stones to Rainbows/Gay to Queer Lives is a recipient of the New England Foundation for the Arts' 2020 Creative City Award.
Photography Credits, Top to Bottom and Left to Right:
Photo by Susan D. Fleischmann (1990), Courtesy of The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston.
To learn more about these photos, please visit The History Project.
Photo by Susan D. Fleischmann (1990), Courtesy of The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston.
To learn more about these photos, please visit The History Project.