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What's Literacy?Episode 70 - Roen Higgins performsRoen's bio from www.roenhiggins.com: An award-winning Poet, Youth Educator, Inspirational Speaker, and Impact Coach. Her mission is to Elevate her audience with key life skills; such as resiliency, leadership, creative literacy, self-care & community well-being.
What’s Literacy episode 57: Creating and Building a Life of Learning with Roen Higgins and Linda Sparks: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literacy-quebec/episodes/Episode-57---Creativity-and-building-a-life-of-learning-with-Roen-Higgins-and-Linda-Sparks-e1k49vo/a-a5f02n7
Poetry videos from Literacy Quebec’s Youtube channel: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiQ-_SGhqkRordirziCve6lP0xobwjR30
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2023-07-2012 min
4thSpace ConcordiaEight Voices: Finalists for the First QWF Spoken Word PrizeIn an exciting world premiere, the eight finalists for the inaugural Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF) Spoken Word Prize will offer short performances showcasing their talents. The prize is open to all forms of spoken word performance, from storytelling to sound poetry, hip hop, and dub.
Performances by Caitlin Murphy, Debbie Braide, Erín Moure, Johanne Pelletier, Liana Cusmano, Lucia De Luca, Raïssa Simone, Roen “Blu’Rva” Higgins and presented by the Quebec Writers’ Federation and Concordia's SpokenWeb project, the event will be hosted by poet and SpokenWeb director, Jason Camlot.
2023-04-211h 00
What's Literacy?Episode 57 - Creativity and building a life of learning with Roen Higgins and Linda Sparks!Welcome to Season 9 Episode 5 of What's Literacy Got To Do With It? by Literacy Quebec!
In today's episode, Jaimie sits down with Linda Sparks, who started her journalism career writing articles for the Aylmer Bulletin and the West Quebec Post, including her own weekly column entitled the Faces of West Quebec. Linda also worked in the film industry as a location scout, screenwriter and production coordinator. She even worked on a Rolling Stone music video! Recently Linda has written her first fictional novel A Pair of Brothers for middle-grade readers. Linda talks about her journey to becoming...
2022-06-2751 min
What's Literacy?Episode 55 - Celebrating Adult Learners with Lost for WordsWelcome to Season 9 Episode 3 of What's Literacy Got To Do With It? by Literacy Quebec!
In today's episode, we celebrate Adult Learners with special guests from Lost For Words, a 3 episode series on SBS in Australia. The show follows amazing adult students on an intensive literacy course with host Jay Laga'aia, and literacy experts Joanne Medlin & Adam Nobilia. Today, our guests are: Mike and Makere, Adult Learners from Lost for Words, Joanne Medlin the President of the Australian Council of Adult Literacy and Adam Nobilia, Teacher of Community Services at TAFE New South Wales. We get a b...
2022-04-231h 00
Recharge, Rebuild & RestoredResilience, Positivity, Inspiration. Tapping into the power within to serve others.Ft Ms. Roen Higgins. Not only has Roen turned her life’s lemons into lemonade; she is serving it to others and teaching everyone she can that they too can make a refreshing beverage to sip on in their lives too. Roen Higgins is an award-winning spoken word poet, educator, dynamic speaker, certified impact coach and a Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) facilitator. Founder of The Elevated Creative, her mission is to elevate her audience with important life skills such as self-care, resilience, leadership, creative literacy & community well-being. An active Special Care Counselor for the past 20 years as well as a...
2022-04-1043 min
The SpokenWeb PodcastThe Show Goes On: Words and Music in a PandemicHow has the reading series been transformed by the Covid pandemic and its accompanying technologies of virtual gatherings? In this episode, Jason Camlot - SpokenWeb Director and Professor of English at Concordia University - takes us on a reflective listening tour through recordings of the Words and Music Show as it has evolved through the pandemic since early 2020. The Words and Music Show has been organized by Ian Ferrier for two decades to bring performances of literature, art, and music to live audiences at the Casa del Popolo in Montreal. Jason assisted Ian with organizing after Covid sent the...
2022-02-071h 07
It's About TimeSeason 2 Episode 6 - Roen HigginsRoen Higgins is an award-winning Spoken Word Poet, Educator, dynamic Speaker, and Impact Coach. Her mission is to Elevate her audience with important life skills such as self-care, resilience, leadership, creative literacy & community well-being. Roen loves helping young people Emerge and Adults Shift towards Elevation. As a coach, she is dedicated to raising others to get unstuck and tap into their genius zone.
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2021-09-291h 05
Boss Up Your Brand PodcastUsing your influence wisely: Interview with Roen HigginsWhat does it mean to be a person of influence? It’s deeper than you may think. Learn the mindset to have as a person of influence — including understand the power that you wield as a person of influence, and how you can use it to empower others.To follow our guest Roen Higgins, follow her at @roenriggins on Facebook and Instagram.
2021-02-0121 min
Shifting PerspectivesEpisode 34: Pivoting with Intention (with Guest Host Roen Higgins)Happy New Year! We are starting off this year a little differently. This week's episode is hosted by Roen Higgins. You may remember Roen from Episode 6: I am a Witness. Roen invites listeners to dive into getting to know Yolande, the host of Shifting Perspectives. They discuss everything from podcasting, to transitions, to life challenges, to motherhood to entrepreneurship. To find out more about Yolande Robinson, visit www.yolanderobinson.com Shifting Perspectives is a conversation with Yolande and Latasha that challenges listeners to fuel themselves with diversity in the way they think, the way they wor...
2021-01-301h 01
Shifting PerspectivesEpisode 6: I am a witness... (with Roen Higgins)This week, Yolande is joined by the founder of The Elevated Creative, Roen Higgins. After a powerful performance of her spoken word piece 'I am a witness...', Roen joins Yolande in discussing the effects of being a witness during this period in history. Roen encourages listeners to tap into their creativity as a way to process their feelings and to cope. She also highlights for listeners that their creativity can not only help in their wellness, but can also serve as a tool for social change to shift perspectives. Shifting Perspectives is a conversation with Yolande a...
2020-06-1344 min