Shows
Dialexicon: experiments in language and listeningNaomi Tessler: sand + invitationhttps://naomitesslermusic.bandcamp.com/2024-08-0811 minDialexicon: experiments in language and listeningNoah Goodbaum, the Mighty Rhino: friendship + surplusNoah Goodbaum AKA The Mighty Rhino https://bit.ly/RhinoDiscography on Spotify and https://themightyrhino.bandcamp.com/track/company-policy2024-08-0813 minDialexicon: experiments in language and listeningE. G. Condé: migrant + meshworkAuthor of acclaimed indigenous futurist climate fiction novella "Sordidez" E.G. Condé is a queer Boricua writer of speculative fiction. He is one of the creators of Taínofuturism, an emerging genre of art and storytelling that imagines decolonized futures that center indigenous Caribbean traditions and cosmologies. https://egconde.com/2024-08-0810 minDialexicon: experiments in language and listeningShad: water + directionShad is a Toronto rapper who's won a Juno and has released seven full-length albums. He's on instagram @shadkmusic2024-08-0609 minDialexicon: experiments in language and listeningGeorge Elliott Clarke: artist in a time when we are preparing for nuclear war + excuses for warGeorge Elliott Clarke is the author of "Where Beauty Survived: A Memoir of Race, Family Secrets, and Africadia". He is the former poet Laureate of Toronto and of Parliament. He teaches poetry courses at the University of Toronto.2024-08-0644 minDialexicon: experiments in language and listeningLaara Fitznor: "the answer lies within" + "work with it"2024-08-0614 minDialexicon: experiments in language and listeningJacqueline Karsemeyer: activism + the place of women2024-08-0520 minDialexicon: experiments in language and listeningIsaiah: potlatch + feast2024-08-0507 minDialexicon: experiments in language and listeningDon McGeachy: cartography + detail resolution2024-08-0517 minDialexicon: experiments in language and listeningTom Allen: rhythm + understanding2024-08-0211 minDialexicon: experiments in language and listeningRashid: writing + journey2024-08-0210 minDialexicon: experiments in language and listeningPablo: maps + details2024-08-0208 minDialexicon: experiments in language and listeningTravelMama Anna: trust + cheapAnna Von Frances lives in Mexico with her daughter Luna. She's been several kinds of entrepreneur and CEO.2024-07-3106 minDialexicon: experiments in language and listeningJulianne Smit-Brousseau: calm + cats2024-07-3110 minDialexicon: experiments in language and listeningKarla Ghartey: harm reduction + people who inject drugsKarla Ghartey, RN, MN, is a professor of nursing, a founding member of Sudbury unsanctioned overdose prevention group, and a mom. I asked her about the overlap of those three areas, for her. The words that emerged were:
Harm reduction: fostering independence and preventing people (kids and people who inject drugs) from killing themselves
People who inject drugs: how we refer to people in a given community and not defining those people by one need or aspect of life2024-07-3106 minDialexicon: experiments in language and listeningMania: meaning + finalMania attended the Beat Street event December 22, 2023 and delivered a live interview in front of a small audience.2024-05-1009 minDialexicon: experiments in language and listeningLily: safety + Dialexicon: experiments in language and listeningAli: avoidance + sanity + dreadAli attended the Beat Street event December 22, 2023 and delivered a live interview in front of a small audience. 2024-05-0304 minDialexicon: experiments in language and listeningtUkU: music + lineagetUkU is a composer, singer, and performance artist, exploring the relationship between words and melody; voice as archive to sonically weave community. A Dora-nominated theatre composer and a poetic songwriter who excels at uniting text with complex harmonic songlines, tUkU honours the place singing takes in black woman culture. ‘I come to music through a powerful musical lineage, from the Bey family of artists, in Canada and the US, prominently rooted in jazz culture. ‘I have been singing with my mother and sister since I was a child.’ The recipient of a Chalmers Arts Fellowship, tUkU created a project titled...2024-05-0108 min
Dialexicon: experiments in language and listeningCarter: audio drama + bringing people togetherCarter is the second of 5 people interviewed Friday December 22, 2023 at Isaiah Gibson and Ofield Williams' Beatstreet event "Electric Potlatch." He shares about his current audio drama "Capella" about a man stuck in an abandoned space station blasting tunes from every corner of the galaxy in hopes of being found.
https://youtu.be/6JdxmdrS0mc?si=-ZV_JVMMHMblh93h2024-04-2607 min
Dialexicon: experiments in language and listeningAlyssa Ages: strength + healingJournalist, writer and strongman lifter Alyssa Ages sits with Dialexicon to answer to "strength" and "healing". Her book "Secrets of Giants: A Journey to Uncover the True Meaning of Strength" is available here:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707130/secrets-of-giants-by-alyssa-ages/ 2024-02-1506 min
Dialexicon: experiments in language and listeningSunu P Chandy: closeness + vulnerabilityI got to speak with Sunu Chandy on her way to DC in the car outside the airport. She was in Toronto promoting her book of poetry "My Dear Comrades." The first question came out of the beautiful cover art by Ragni Agarwal: an image of east Asian queer love, an image of closeness. From that, then: What does vulnerability mean to you? Sunu answered "Not having to put on a show. Being able to talk about what's really going on and be real with people both in a political sense about what's causing rage, and what's causing joy--because...2023-11-2902 min
Dialexicon: experiments in language and listeningHow To DialexiconDialexicon: experiments in listening. This introduction is a good place to start, to do your own Dialexicon interview. With your friend, family member, neighbour, hero.2023-08-0901 min