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Black Blood
Content warning: war

In a shack surrounded by barren fields, a dying father and his son drink their last bowl of water. They need oil for the machines that will keep them alive and purify their water. A truck rolls past with a huge barrel of oil in the back. The son flags it down, only to discover the person driving the truck is a monstrous c...
Composer: Christiaan Venter
Librettist: Norman Yeung

Black Blood
Black Blood
Dark Star Requiem
Content warning: illness, death, HIV/AIDS

Dark Star Requiem is a poetic chronicle of the 25 years (as of 2010) of HIV-AIDS, reflecting the many faces of the disease and those affected by the pandemic.
Composer: Andrew Staniland
Librettist: Jill Battson

Dark Star Requiem
Facing South
Content warning: illness, death, colonialism

Facing South is inspired by the life story of American Arctic explorer, Rear Admiral Robert Edwin Peary, and his contested discovery of the North Pole in 1909. The opera takes place in the inner landscape of Peary’s mind during the last hours of his life in February 1920, as he lies dying of pernic...
Composer: Linda Catlin Smith
Librettist: Don Hannah

Facing South
TAP:EX Forbidden
Content warning: sexual violence, incarceration, religious abuse, homophobia, conversion therapy

Through several vignettes, Forbidden examines the idea of rules and taboos. Do they protect people, or do they control them? Are they of any value, or do they simply exploit the powerless?

A young girl, punished with repetition of religious tex...
Composer: Afarin Mansouri
Librettist: Donna-Michelle St. Bernard

TAP:EX Forbidden
Hook Up
Content warning: explicit language, sexual violence, sexual content, alcohol, blackout drinking

Hook Up tells the story of three friends who have made it to university, each with their own unique desires and inner conflicts. Mindy is just excited to keep her high school friend circle together and finally get some privacy with her boyfriend. T...
Composer: Chris Thornborrow
Librettist: Julie Tepperman

Hook Up
Ice Cream
Content warning: illness, memory loss

A mother and son have dinner. The mother is suffering from Alzheimer’s, and her son has increasing difficulty coping with that fact.
Composer: Benton Roark
Librettist: Liza Balkan

Ice Cream
Ice Cream
M’dea Undone
Content warning: death, murder, suicide, xenophobia

Jason, an army captain and now war-hero, is returning home after years of war and an uncertain future. His interpreter and lover M’dea and their son Chase accompany him to a new life in the West. Jason begins a political career, working alongside the President and Dahlia, the President’s bea...
Composer: John Harris
Librettist: Marjorie Chan

M’dea Undone
TAP:EX Metallurgy
Punk and operatic virtuosity collide in Tapestry’s third installment of the Tapestry Explorations (TAP:EX) series. Metallurgy is a collaboration between Jonah Falco and Mike Haliechuk of F*cked Up, the Polaris Prize-winning punk provocateurs, and two of Canada’s most masterful and versatile opera singers, mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó and tenor ...
Composers: Ivan Barbotin, Jonah Falco, Mike Haliechuk
Librettist: David James Brock

TAP:EX Metallurgy
TAP:EX Metallurgy
TAP:EX Metallurgy
TAP:EX Metallurgy
Nigredo Hotel
A ‘Hitchcock-style thriller’ for baritone and soprano, Nigredo Hotel is “the story of a neurosurgeon, a man of science, who has lost his soul. One night he thinks he has hit a child on the road and hides out in a decrepit, Hitchcockian motel run by a monstrous concierge called Sophie. The terrifying crone — his anima — locks him into his room an...
Composer: Nic Gotham
Librettist: Ann-Marie MacDonald

Nigredo Hotel
The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G.
Content warning: captivity, sex trafficking, sex work, sexual violence, violence, death

The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. is a fictional dramatic opera built on extensive factual research. Set in Ukraine in 1997, it is the story of Oksana, a young woman lured into the world of sex trafficking by a Russian recruiter, Konstantin, who ...
Composer: Aaron Gervais
Librettist: Colleen Murphy

The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G.
Oubliette
Content warning: captivity, memory loss

Laura has been forcibly confined in a basement for years until she frees herself. She approaches a stranger on the street, wondering if the stranger remembers her, and discovers that she barely remembers herself.
Composer: Ivan Barbotin
Librettist: Donna-Michelle St. Bernard

Oubliette
Oubliette
Playing Ball
An estranged father and daughter re-establish their relationship after he has suffered a stroke and can no longer speak. He tries to convey to her that he loves her and is sorry for the harm he caused her. She is still too hurt from their past to see what he is trying to say. Instead, she passes the time by reading a book. He finds another way o...
Composer: Norbert Palej
Librettist: Marcia Johnson

Playing Ball
Playing Ball
Rosa
Content warning: death, sex work

After the tragic death of her first child, a baby daughter, Isabelle has run away to another town in Spain to escape the grief, leaving her husband Hector with a double loss. They are a working-class couple. The scene opens with Isabelle expecting a client in a seedy bordello. Hector has found her. He entreats...
Composer: James Rolfe
Librettist: Camyar Chai

Rosa
Rosa
Sanctuary Song
An opera for all ages. Sydney, an Asian elephant poached at a young age from the jungles of Indonesia, recalls her remarkable life in captivity, far from home, as her keeper of 22 years leads her on a journey towards sanctuary in the hills of Tennessee. A dynamic weaving of opera and dance unearths friendships lost and found and restores a stole...
Composer: Abigail Richardson
Librettist: Marjorie Chan

Sanctuary Song
Sanctuary Song
Shanawdithit
Content warning: colonial violence, colonialsm, death, illness

1828, Notre Dame Bay, on the northeast shore of Newfoundland. William Cormack, an explorer and anthropologist, has recently created the Beothuk Institute: an organization designed to prevent the extinction of the original inhabitants of the island. After learning that a Beothuk wo...
Composer: Dean Burry
Librettist: Yvette Nolan

Shanawdithit
She is Me
Content warning: fire, death

Janna and her grandpa are in Toronto’s distillery district. Before she has to leave, Janna asks him to tell the story of how he and Grandma met. Both were fighting a fire, and met as part of the bucket brigade. Janna proudly reminds him he saved everyone that night, but this isn’t true. Grandpa confesses that a wo...
Composer: Lembit Beecher
Librettist: Katherine Koller

She is Me
Still the Night
Content warning: antisemitism, genocide, Holocaust, infanticide, murder, Nazis, sexual violence, sex work, violence, war

Still the Night tells the fictional story of two Jewish Polish cousins, both named Bryna, who have escaped fr...
Composer: John Alcorn
Librettist: Theresa Tova

Still the Night
The Cellar Door
Content warning: child sexual abuse, incest, death, murder

Judith and Daniel, long estranged siblings, are brought together by the passing of their father. Time has passed, but it seems like Judith hasn't changed at all. Daniel kills his sister when she wants to resume their childhood sexual relationship.
Composer: Melissa Hui
Librettist: Jovanni Sy

The Cellar Door
The Cellar Door
The Drawing Class
Content warning: war, the Holocaust, concentration camp

As soldiers march outside their room in Terezin, a teacher tries their best to inspire a student, despite the horrid conditions. The student is unable to escape into her imagination.
Composer: Christiaan Venter
Librettist: Sheldon Rosen

The Drawing Class
The Drawing Class
The Laurels
Content warning: death, murder, violence

This opera explores the interior realm of a woman’s response to a crisis. The Laurels plays with audience assumptions and expectations; it is well into the piece before we realize the stranger is not the person he appears to be. While it is important that Laurel’s understanding of the Stranger is consi...
Composer: Jeffrey Ryan
Librettist: Michael Lewis MacLennan

The Laurels
The Laurels
The Rape of Artemisia
Content warning: sexual violence

Based on the testimony of the 17th-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi on her rapist and instructor Agostino Tassi, we are given a snapshot of violation, confusion, and the oppression of women.
Composer: Ivan Barbotin
Librettist: Hannah Moscovitch

The Rape of Artemisia
The Rape of Artemisia
The Translator
Content warning: death, incarceration, interrogation, suicide, torture

A translator at a secret prison for suspected terrorists witnesses extreme torture and death of detainees. She leaks the information to news broadcasters, but the government covers it up as a hoax. Her supervisor begs her to say nothing more about the things she has seen -...
Composer: David Ogborn
Librettist: Leanna Brodie

The Translator
The Translator
Unfamiliar
Content warning: black-out drinking

A night out celebrating midterms takes a turn when Jamie doesn't return.
Composer: Darren Fung
Librettist: Dave Deveau

Unfamiliar
Unfamiliar
The Handless Maiden: Scene 8 (Wash the Loss)
Based on "The Handless Maiden," a mythic story found in cultures around the world, and a continuation of the events in Me and You (Madonna of the Wilderness).

After seven years of wandering, the girl (now known as Madonna) has regained her hands through loving self-sacrifice. She’s returned to the cabin of her childhood, where her journey beg...
Composer: Benton Roark
Librettist: Katherine Koller

The Handless Maiden: Scene 8 (Wash the Loss)
The Handless Maiden: Scene 8 (Wash the Loss)
What is She?
Content warning: misgendering, intersex discrimination

A meditation on the discrimination intersex athletes face from their peers. A woman wins a gold medal, but her struggles to get there mean nothing to the organization and the other athletes. She’s disqualified and shamed.
Composer: John Harris
Librettist: Anna Chatterton

What is She?
What is She?
Where You Live
A businessman is waiting for a streetcar, with his back to an unhoused woman. The two silently judge each other. The man is annoyed at seeing someone who wants something for nothing, and the woman is feeling judged for a situation she has no control over. The two finally acknowledge each other, and we discover their shared experience.
Composer: Iman Habibi
Librettist: Michael Pollard

Where You Live
Where You Live
Of the Sea
Content warning: descriptions of enslavement, violence, sexual violence, death

A father will do anything to save his daughter. Of the Sea follows the story of Maduka, his daughter Binyelum, and fellow Africans thrown overboard during the Middle Passage who now populate mythical underwater kingdoms that span the ocean floor. Amidst the waves, ...
Composer: Ian Cusson
Librettist: Kanika Ambrose

Of the Sea
Medusa’s Children
Content warning: misgendering, mentions of sexual assault, and implied violence

Chrysaor and Pegasus, children of the gorgon Medusa, have been living with their aunts Euryale and Stheno. They receive a message from their dead mother telling the story of her assault and murder by their father Poseidon. Rejecting his mother’s family, Chrysaor g...
Composer: Colin McMahon
Librettist: Charlie Petch

Medusa’s Children
10 Days in a Madhouse
Content warning: ableism, institutionalization, medical abuse, mental illness, sanism, sexual violence

10 Days in a Madhouse is a psychological opera that plays with notions of madness, inspired by the life of Nellie Bly, a trailblazing reporter who in 1887 faked madness in order to be admitted to Blackwell’s Asylum for the Insane and report ...
Composer: Rene Orth
Librettist: Hannah Moscovitch

10 Days in a Madhouse
I Have No Stories to Tell You
Content warning: PTSD, violence, war

I Have No Stories to Tell You mines the aftereffects of war through the story of a soldier’s return home from an extended assignment on the battlefield. Written as a companion piece to Monteverdi’s Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, the opera explores war as a catalyst for changed identity through th...
Composer: Lembit Beecher
Librettist: Hannah Moscovitch

I Have No Stories to Tell You
Sophia’s Forest
Content warning: child neglect, death, migration, strong language, trauma, war

When Sophia’s mother dies, Sophia confronts half-forgotten traumas from her childhood. Sophia and her sister Emma grew up in a war torn country. The two young girls cope with and escape their grim circumstances – the adult world of war, death and displacement – thr...
Composer: Lembit Beecher
Librettist: Hannah Moscovitch

Sophia’s Forest
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Excerpts
Black Blood – Black Blood

A dying father and his son drink their last bowl of water. They need oil for the machines that will keep them alive and purify their water. A truck rolls past with a huge barrel of oil in the back. The son flags it down, only to discover the person driving the truck is a monstrous creature from the nation they’re at war with.

Facing South – Scene 4: “Flame (1919)”

Josephine asks for Henson's help, despite Peary's past bad treatment of him.

Facing South – Scene 5: “Undersea” (aria)

Minik remembers Greenland.

Facing South – Scene 8: “Constellations”

Henson helps Minik reach the land of the dead; Peary and Josephine argue about Peary's Inuit children.

TAP:EX Forbidden – Act 1, Scene 2: “With His Eyes (Male Gaze)”

An interrogator turns his lurid eyes on an imprisoned female activist. Purposefully misunderstanding her movements as seduction, he convinces himself of something horrid.

TAP:EX Forbidden – Act 1, Scene 4: “Stay, Still, Forever”

A cleric prepares for confessional. Someone enters the booth. The cleric realizes it’s a man with whom he shared a mutual attraction. The man has recently finished gay conversion therapy and wishes to resume some kind of a relationship.

TAP:EX Forbidden – Act 1, Scene 6: “Book’s Lament”

A book pleads with the audience to be read. A rhythmic chorus rises. A tribute to the banned, the burned, and the hidden.

TAP:EX Forbidden – Act 2, Scene 4: “Dubai know how to Party”

A distraught woman is trying to report her sexual assault to a policeman. She admits she’s had some alcohol. Instead of pursuing justice, the policeman arrests her for illegal possession of alcohol. The Child witnesses all of it.

TAP:EX Forbidden – Act 2, Scene 5: “Power Shift”

Lucifer is enraged at the unfairness put upon him. The Child sees, and has an idea. Perhaps the system should be broken. When Lucifer realizes the Child has seen his truth, he tries to hide his emotions.

TAP:EX Forbidden – Epilogue

Lucifer rebuilds the cage, then tries to convince the audience to join him in self-exile.

Hook Up – Section 4, Scene 1: “The Morning After: Walk of Shame”

Hungover, walking home the morning after the party, Mindy remembers disturbing images from the night before - she isn't sure exactly what happened.

Hook Up – Section 4, Scene 2: “Text Alerts”

Mindy plugs in her phone, which died at the party. It comes alive with a constant stream of texts from Tyler and Cindy from the night before, who were both worried about her. Mindy rushes to the bathroom to throw up.

Hook Up – Section 4, Scene 3: “Putting the Pieces Together”

Someone has posted pictures of Mindy at the party with different men. Mindy, Cindy, and Tyler argue about who is to blame. Cindy and Tyler depart angry, leaving Mindy sitting alone on her bed.

Hook Up – Section 5, Scene 1: “Mindy’s Spiral”

Mindy tries to understand if she was raped at the party. She can't make herself contact anyone, but seeks information online; Cindy slips a morning after pill under the door.

Hook Up – Section 5, Scene 2: “Heather” (duet)

Heather and Mindy share a moment of intimacy as they discuss their experiences of sexual violence.

Ice Cream – Ice Cream

A mother and son have dinner. The mother is suffering from Alzheimer’s, and her son has increasing difficulty coping with that fact.

M’dea Undone – Act 1, Scene 3

M'dea and Jason commit to loving each other and helping each other recover from the war and memories that haunt them.

M’dea Undone – Act 1, Scene 7: Revealed (aria)

In a dream state, M'dea recalls all she has done to survive.

M’dea Undone – Act 2, Scene 5

M'dea tries once more to get Jason to stay with her, but he believes he will never forget his war crimes if she is in his life. M'dea eventually agrees to go back to her country.

TAP:EX Metallurgy – Metallurgy A – second movement

A couple is trying to come to terms with the loss of their daughter. They grieve, and fight with one another.

TAP:EX Metallurgy – Metallurgy A – third movement

The couple continues to mourn.

TAP:EX Metallurgy – Metallurgy A – final movement

Duet between the woman and a violin, symbolizing her daughter.

Nigredo Hotel – “Until I was a child…” (aria)

Ray, a jaded neurosurgeon, muses on the loss of his childhood wonder and innocence.

Nigredo Hotel – “I hate water” (aria)

As Sophie runs a bath in the distance, Ray reflects on how uncomfortable bathing makes him feel.

Nigredo Hotel – “When I was small” (aria)

Ray sings of the ambivalence his parents felt towards him as a child.

Nigredo Hotel – “The square root…” (aria)

Ray frantically tries to calm himself by reciting scientific jargon, while a being claiming to be his own child self tries to open the door.

Nigredo Hotel – “Wisdom Aria” Option 1

Sophie, the manifestation of Ray's soul sings an extended aria explaining how she has been locked away from Ray since he was a child.

Nigredo Hotel – “Wisdom Aria” Option 2

Sophie, the manifestation of Ray's soul sings an extended aria explaining how she has been locked away from Ray since he was a child.

Nigredo Hotel – “You are dark but lovely”

Ray and Sophie sing an intimate duet as they reconnect and reconcile.

The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. – Act 1, Scene 2

In a forest in Romania, Oksana discovers she has been tricked and is now in danger. Konstantin and his partners rape Oksana & Natalyia.

The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. – Act 1, Scene 4

In Greece at a bar, three women are held captive: Konstantin sends Lyubia with a businessman, Natalyia with the Immigration officer who cuts her, and Oksana is bought by Konstantin at auction. Konstantin then offers to the crowd a gang rape just as the police arrive to raid the bar. Instead, he escapes with Oksana and Natalyia.

The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. – Act 1, Scene 6

On the Albanian coast the women captives wait for the boat to Italy. Oksana is still defiant, trying to figure out an escape for herself and others. The boat and Konstantin arrive, and Oksana fails to convince him to free her and Natalyia.

The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. – Act 2, Scene 1

Brindisi refugee shelter: Father Alexander and social worker Clara work with the refugees. An injured Oksana arrives and asks for help; Lyubia, who escaped when the boat docked, is among the refugees and recognizes Oksana.

The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. – Act 2, Scene 3

Screaming, Oksana awakens from a nightmare; Father Alexander comes to her and she admits she may have let Natalyia drown to save herself. The Father counsels forgiveness of herself and others, but Oksana is not convinced that is possible.

The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. – Act 2, Scene 5

Father Alexander and Oksana realize they share an attraction for each other, but Oksana is determined to go home and tell her parents what has happened. Konstantin phones the refuge to get Oksana back.

The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. – Act 2, Scene 6

Refugees are trying on clothes, when Dima and Konstantin enter looking for Oksana. Konstantin offers Father Alexander money for Oksana and Clara calls the police; Konstantin and Dima leave before the police arrive.

The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. – Act 3, Scene 2

On the eve of Oksana's departure, Father Alexander has to go to pick up another woman in distress. He leaves his knife with Oksana because she is afraid Konstantin will show up. Lyuba and Oksana say their goodbyes.

The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. – Act 3, Scene 3

Father Alexander discovers the distress call was a set by Konstantin, but Dima decides he can't beat up a priest and lets Father Alexander go back to Brindisi where Konstantin is.

The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. – Act 3, Scene 4

Konstantin breaks into Oksana's room and tries to convince her to leave with him. When this fails, he tries to rape her again but she stabs him. He gets the knife and stabs her before he dies. Father Alexander returns and Oksana dies of her wound, dreaming of home.

The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. – Act 3, Scene 5

Sofiya and Yuri consult Asa when Oksana has not arrived as her lettered promised. They are interrupted by Pavlo with news that the priest from Italy is on the phone, and wants to talk to Oksana's parents.

Oubliette – Oubliette

Having escaped forced confinment in a basement, a girl approaches a stranger. She asks if the stranger knows her, as she tries to remember her past.

Playing Ball – Playing Ball

Tabitha helps her father Ken, who has had a stroke. She combs his hair and helps him with his therapy ball, retrieving it each time he drops it.

Rosa – “Every day I blistered my hands…” (duet)

Hector and Isabelle express their resentment towards each other for the sacrifices they each made.

Sanctuary Song – Scene 2: Capture

James and Sydney start their journey. Sydney remembers being young and playing in the forest with her friend Penny. One day, they are both captured, and the family herd is shot.

Sanctuary Song – Scene 3: Fire

Sydney is injured in a fire and sold to the zoo.

Sanctuary Song – Scene 4: Alone (aria)

Sydney on her first day at the zoo. Frightened and alone, she thinks of her homeland.

Shanawdithit – “Out of this world” (aria)

Shanawdithit, dying, speaks to her ancestors. She is ready to leave this world.

Shanawdithit – “These last few months” (aria)

Cormack presents his findings about Shanawdithit to the members of the Beothuk institute.

Shanawdithit – “What? A man?” (aria)

Shanawdithit reprimands Cormack for his saviour complex.

Shanawdithit – Scene 1

Cormack meets Shanawdithit for the first time. She’s been working as a servant for Peyton for five years under the colonial name of Nancy April. Cormack is awed; he believes this woman is the last of the Beothuk. Peyton gives her to him, saying she’s useless.

Shanawdithit – Scene 2

Cormack’s study in St. John’s, now Shanawdithit’s room. “Nancy April” reveals she can speak English quite well, and tells Cormack her real name: Shanawdithit. Cormack asks her where the rest of her people are, where her home is. Shanawdithit says simply: they are no more. Shanawdithit reflects on the loss of her people and the taking of her a...

Shanawdithit – Scene 4

The taking of Demasduit weighs heavy on Shanawdithit’s heart. Cormack, unsure of what to do, tries to comfort her, saying Demasduit was treated well. Shawnadithit asks if white people actually care about her people, her story, because Cormack’s words are betrayed by the actions of his fellows, and indeed, his own. Cormack insists he will ensu...

Shanawdithit – Scene 5: Salmon, Seal, Caribou

Shanawdithit describes the last days of her family as they were pushed from their land and then hunted. She asks Cormack not to speak of their death, but of their life. Cormack is ecstatic and gets lost in the memories Shanawdithit paints. She breaks his reverie with the cold fact that the life she speaks of will never happen again. She colla...

Shanawdithit – Scene 7

Her health fading, Shanawdithit wonders if she’ll be welcomed into the spirit world after so much time with the colonists. Cormack tells her he must leave, and Shanawdithit gives him a sketch of his house to carry with him. He leaves the room to pack. Shanawdithit hears the spirits of her people calling her name. It is time. One spirit in par...

The Cellar Door – “Down there I won’t go” (aria)

Daniel sings of his fear at the prospect of going down into the cellar of his childhood home, after his father has died.

The Cellar Door – “That’s all you have to say?” (aria)

Judith sings angrily at her brother when he expresses his desire to leave their childhood home after their father has died.

The Cellar Door – The Cellar Door

Back in his childhood home after the death of this father, Daniel kills his sister when she wants to resume their childhood sexual relationship.

The Drawing Class – The Drawing Class

A teacher tries to inspire and distract a student as soldiers march outside their classroom, but the student is unable to escape into her imagination.

The Laurels – “Lost” (aria)

A young woman, Laurel, runs through a dark forest, filled with anxiety and haunted by disturbing memories.

The Laurels – “And so I killed a man…” (aria)

Laurel stabs the Stranger, killing him. As his body slides to the ground to rest at her feet, she begins to feel a new sense of freedom, not realising that it is at the cost of her conscience and her humanity. The aria should be performed with an improvisational blues quality over the regular pulse of the accompaniment, to convey both this se...

The Laurels – The Laurels

In a wooded park at night, it seems like Laurel is running for her life- but it turns out she is running from the memory of the murder she committed that night.

The Rape of Artemisia – The Rape of Artemisia

In pain after being raped by Tassi, Artemisia tries to understand what just happened, while Tassi justifies himself.

The Translator – “America died in that cell” (aria)

Traumatized by her experiences, Alessandra reflects on her work as a translator in an American military prison.

The Translator – “You can understand all you want” (aria)

Colonel Crane, Alessandra's supervisor, tersely tells her to lose what her perceives as her naive sense of morality: "We are just here to win."

The Translator – The Translator

2003: After leaking torture photos to the internet, American army translator Alessandra Jenson refuses to be hushed up, and live streams her suicide in protest.

Unfamiliar – Workshop Version

A night out celebrating midterms takes a turn when one student doesn't return.

The Handless Maiden: Scene 8 (Wash the Loss) – Wash the Loss Away

A Gardener, lost in the wilderness, ends up at Madonna's cabin. She recognizes him as the man in her dreams and vows to heal him of his grief.

What is She? – What is She?

An intersex woman wins a gold medal, but her struggles to get there mean nothing to the organization and the other athletes. She’s disqualified and shamed.

Where You Live – Where You Live

A businessman is waiting for a streetcar, with his back to an unhoused woman. The two silently judge each other. The man is annoyed at seeing someone who wants something for nothing, and the woman is feeling judged for a situation she has no control over. The two finally acknowledge each other, and we discover their shared experience.

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