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 LGBTQ+ lives in Boston and beyond. 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" (a multimedia installation), 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 an ever changing line up of guest-curated performance artists.
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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 Cultural Architects. Additional creative support provided by partners Dancing Queerly, The Front Porch Arts Collective, and Jean Appolon Expressions. Stones to Rainbows/Gay to Queer Lives is supported by: the New England Foundation for the Arts' Creative City Boston program, with funding from the Barr Foundation (2020); The Equality Fund at The Boston Foundation (2020, 2021); the Somerville Arts Council and the Cambridge Arts Council, local agencies supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency (2021); and individual donors.
