There is HOPE.

Band performance at Southern Time Band

There is HOPE.

Southern Time Productions is a music and film production, social innovator company based in Toronto producing great music and film works to accelerate public awareness and action to global health, social, and environmental concerns.

Beginning in 2005 with the production of openly HIV-positive musician Timothy Bartsch’s rock opera ‘Southern Time’ as a multimedia stage production in Vancouver, BC, since then, STP has been working to produce the Southern Time story into cinematic form.

In 2018, STP found the core instrumentalists of Southern Time Band in Toronto. In 2019, we found the band’s first openly HIV positive backup singer, Justin Anantawan. In 2020 as the Southern Time Band was recording its first studio album, Shessi Sandu joined the ranks as a second backup singer. The company is now looking for funds to continue promoting Southern Time Band’s overture album, ‘Lost in Love No More,’ and preproduction of the ‘Dreamer’ series to begin.

OUR SOCIAL MISSION

As a social innovator company, Southern Time Productions holds its health, social, and environmental aspirations as high as its profit motive. When speaking to our fans and giving interviews, the Southern Time Band’s mission will be to encourage HIV prevention and testing, decrease HIV stigma and criminalization, and demand improved treatment for all people living with HIV. It also will press for a functional cure for everyone who is HIV positive. Part of the proceeds from all that Southern Time Productions obtains will go to the Southern Time Foundation, which will fund crucial HIV/AIDS-reduction initiatives worldwide. STP founded the Southern Time Foundation in February 2020 and is also looking for funds to begin operations. With the monies generated from album and concert sales, merchandise, sponsorships, donations, and other means, STP will produce the Dreamer series in cinematic form over the 2020s.

 

While and after the Dreamer series’ distribution completes, Southern Time Productions will help other artists create and disseminate their music and film works in harmony with Southern Time’s core mission.

*** The Southern Time Band is for hire. Our band performs a ‘ 21st Century Social Classical’ (AKA ‘rock opera’) style of music ~ ‘psychedelic jazzy-classical musical-theateresque art-rock.’


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