The School of Creative Arts (SoCA) invites UWindsor students, faculty, and staff to its virtual guest series “Opera, creativity and the politics of inclusivity” with Teiya Kasahara at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 11. Register for this free event on Zoom.

Toronto-based first-generation Nikkei-Canadian settler Teiya Kasahara is a queer, gender non-binary, interdisciplinary performer-creator who uses the pronouns they-them.

Kasahara has spent more than a decade singing both traditional and contemporary operatic roles across North America and Europe, exploring the intersections of identity through opera, theatre, electronics, and taiko within their artistic practice.

In January 2020, Kasahara performed the lead role of Cio-Cio-san in the Windsor Symphony Orchestra’s performances of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.

Find more information and video on the SoCA website.

—Susan McKee