Koffler.digital Audio Programs

Beginning at the Bookmark for Michael Ondaatje’s IN THE SKIN OF A LION, Lazaro’s Dream is an audio walk like none other. History and fiction are artfully assembled into a surreal dream-scape that carries the listener along from the east side of the Bloor Street Viaduct, through part of the Danforth neighbour and down to Riverdale Park. The pieces, written by Jules Lewis, unfolds slowly like a wandering hallucination. Memories of Toronto are fused together with original fiction and archival reimagining, leaving the listener casually drifting through a hundred years of regional history. Scattered throughout the walk, fragments of Ondaatje’s iconic text seem to float up to the surface of perception, guiding the listener through the murky world of Lazaro’s Dream.