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conscient podcaste222 wendalyn bartley – restoring our connection with natureHow do we restore our connection with nature? Because I think that part of the crisis that we're in, especially with the climate, stems from the fact that we've been disconnected from our relationship to nature. And so how do we restore that? How do we get back in touch with non-human beings? You know, with these trees in front of us here we're standing in High Park, and with the trees and with the waters and the lakes, whatever natural environment we're in, how do we. And how can we. And is it even possible? I guess the question...
2025-06-2715 min
PuSh PlayStaging Solitude (2021-22)Gabrielle Martin chats with composer Njo Kong Kie. Show Notes Gabrielle and Njo Kong Kie discuss: How did your relationship with PuSh start? What was the process of presenting work at PuSh? How do you interpret and react to the source material? How did you pivot to digital work during Covid? How does the work transition back to the live stage? How has your artistic practice grown over time? About Njo Kong Kie Njo Kong Kie (composer) is a c...
2024-10-2930 minPuSh PlayImpulse and Iteration (2019)Gabrielle Martin chats with Miriam Fernandes, co-artistic director of Toronto’s why not theatre. Show Notes Gabrielle and Miriam discuss: What was the process of creating Prince Hamlet and bringing it to Vancouver? What does it mean to create work with and for those hard of hearing? How do you take a huge show that isn’t built to tour on tour? How did your relationship with PuSh start? What was it like to collaborate with David Suzuki? How do you work with perfo...
2024-10-1527 min
Living HyphenBridging The GapThe final episode of our second season turns the question on distance: How do we close the gaps we’ve been exploring all season? How do we build a bridge to bring each other closer?
To help us consider the answers from different angles, we’ve gathered together some of our friends from the On Canada Project, the Department of Imaginary Affairs, and Filipinos United 4 Palestine.
Featured in this episode:
• Elvin John Malonzo Velasco (all pronouns) is a 1.5 generation Filipinx-Canadian migrated as a settler-guest in Scarborough, Tkaronto; spiritually rooted in Baguio...
2024-09-2556 min
The HenceforwardEpisode 30 - Youth Dreaming and Designing Relations to Lands and WatersIn this episode, youth researchers (ages 14 to 18) and graduate facilitators from the afterschool land education program, Youth Dreaming and Designing Relations to Lands and Waters, reflect on climate justice and Land relations, focusing on the impacts of colonization, urbanization, and gentrification on both human and more-than-human beings. Through rants, poems, and stories, they challenge anthropocentrism, express desires for more reciprocal relations with Land and water in the city, and envision just climate futures for their communities. This episode was originally recorded in the summer of 2024. We’d like to thank and celebrate the Afro-Indigenous, Black, and Indigenous yo...
2024-09-2327 min
conscient podcaste185 sandra laronde - home never leaves youI really believe that we carry the spirit of the land wherever we go. In the Western canon, they say that once you leave home, you can never return, but in the Indigenous canon, home never leaves you. I remember Sandra Laronde contacting me when I was running the Inter-Arts Office at Canada Council in early 2000 asking me where Red Sky Performance fits in the Council’s suite of programs and silos. Claude, you know, I combine indigenous dance, theatre, music, media and more but rarely the same way. The Council and Red Sky figured things out. I’ve...
2024-07-2245 min
conscient podcaste184 cpamo ai panel - from precarity to stabilityMy dream with AI started with curiosity about how technology can extend to the boundaries of artistic expression. I was fascinated by the possibility of emerging traditional art and forms of traditional artistry to create something entirely new and engage my passion for innovation and to explore AI as tools to enhance my creative visions and bring artistic ideas to life in ways I could only dream or imagine. (Sean Caesar)This is a special episode of the conscient podcast featuring a panel at The Gathering Divergence Multi-Arts Festival & Conference Spring 2024 presented by Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement o...
2024-07-191h 25
Gardening Out LoudGuest Episode #4: Urban Flower Farming with Sylvia ChengMost of Gardening Out Loud focuses on gardeners, but in Toronto there are a few ingenious folks farming in people’s gardens. Sylvia Cheng of Growing Tkaronto Floristry is one of those people growing gorgeous blooms on borrowed land, creating little pockets of abundance beside busy city streets.I came to Sylvia for her perspective on farming in gardens, working with landowners, and, of course, growing beautiful dahlias. On a beautiful late summer day, we checked out her home plot, one growing in the neighbour’s backyard, and hopped our bikes to visit a front yard dahlia plot...
2023-08-3126 min
StageworthyMichael Caldwell & Morgan NorwichSummerWorks Performance Festival is a curated festival of theatre, dance, music, live art and interdisciplinary forms, widely recognized as one of the most important platforms for launching new work in Canada.
summerworks.ca
Twitter: @SummerWorksTO
Instagram: @summerworksto
Michael Caldwell (he/him) is a choreographer, performer, curator, artistic director, producer, and arts advocate, based in Tkaronto, Canada.
Garnering critical acclaim, his choreography has been commissioned/presented throughout Canada at major festivals, in traditional venues and in site-responsive and community-engaged contexts. Michael’s most recent choreographic work responds to the 'site' in as many ways as ca...
2023-07-2550 min
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.26Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.26
"Raising the Family Lead by the Honoring of Our Emotions"
In this episode, we are joined by Jaisa Sulit. We discuss how an injury led her to a path of mindfulness and decolonizing how she has moved forward in work, how her own self care affects how she parents, the understanding that children are more intelligent than we personally observe or think, seeing her son as a co-creator, and more.
Jaisa Sulit (she/her/siya), her partner TJ Lim, and their son Jasper gratefully live together in Tkaronto...
2022-10-231h 10
Gavin Bradley: Liner NotesEpisode 10: The Clear Of NightLiner Notes is a podcast about the making of Gavin Bradley's dual albums Quiet Life and Violet Life.
Episode 10 covers ‘The Clear Of Night’ and the creation of cover art for each album.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. This project was produced in Tkaronto, also known as Toronto, the traditional territory of many diverse Indigenous groups.
2022-10-0804 minGavin Bradley: Liner NotesEpisode 9: Solo For ByronLiner Notes is a podcast about the making of Gavin Bradley's dual albums Quiet Life and Violet Life.
Episode 9 covers ‘Solo For Byron’ and the switch to upright bass.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. This project was produced in Tkaronto, also known as Toronto, the traditional territory of many diverse Indigenous groups.
2022-10-0801 minGavin Bradley: Liner NotesEpisode 8: Song For ByronLiner Notes is a podcast about the making of Gavin Bradley's dual albums Quiet Life and Violet Life.
Episode 8 covers ‘Song For Byron’ and satisfyingly snappy snare sounds.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. This project was produced in Tkaronto, also known as Toronto, the traditional territory of many diverse Indigenous groups.
2022-10-0802 minGavin Bradley: Liner NotesEpisode 7: LaterLiner Notes is a podcast about the making of Gavin Bradley's dual albums Quiet Life and Violet Life.
Episode 7 covers ‘Later’ and revisiting bossanova.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. This project was produced in Tkaronto, also known as Toronto, the traditional territory of many diverse Indigenous groups.
2022-10-0803 min
Radio Aluna Theatre79 (English): Merendiando with Nina VogelSince I started in the world of puppetry, my artistic career and my life changed completely. And I felt as if I finally found the art form that is generous enough and that englobes all the other art forms, because puppetry is the meeting of the art of the scene, art of the stage, and the visual arts and music. So for me it is like the most complete and generous art form that ever existed. - Nina Vogel
Meet award-winning Brazilian multidisciplinary artist, puppeteer, singer, actress, and director Nina Vogel. Her approach to puppetry and art h...
2022-10-0545 min
Characters Without StoriesFarthing, the Accidental Pirate - Being a Badass with Mobility Aids with Wesley Magee-Saxton (D&D 5e)Wesley Magee-Saxton brings Farthing to the table. Farthing is a disabled high elf who became an accidental stowaway and an accidental pirate.Wesley and I discuss finding inspiration in historical research, creating magical items that help bring disabled characters to life in D&D, and how characters who need mobility aids can still be badass.This character is built for D&D 5e.Wesley is a disabled, queer performance artist and disability advocate based in Tkaronto Canada. They are the co-founder of Forge Ahead: a Party to Access.Learn more about...
2022-09-1233 min
poetic technologylike turtles hatching 🐢🧘🏽🌈✨Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia, I was born on Turtle Island in Tkaronto, and I currently live on the island of Bali in Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽a thought on resistance resistance of breaking out of a patternof doing something new of holding yourself tenderly it is not unsafe, it is just unfamiliar...
2022-08-2809 min
poetic technologyletter 017: so... are you the sun?!?! 💁🏽♀️☀️👀🤯Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia, I was born on Turtle Island in Tkaronto, and I currently live on the island of Bali in Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽In my last letter I wrote about gentle, deep healing. How ancient practices of Ayurveda offer detoxing tools that soothe and reset all your bodies — spiritual, mental, physical, emo...
2022-08-2108 min
Cue To Cue: The Performers' PodcastKaylee Harwood: How To Pursue New Passions When You Don't Know Where To StartIs your creative spirit calling you to pursue a different passion? Are you torn between staying in your comfort zone versus starting a new creative journey? Don’t fret, you’re not alone in this conundrum. This week, Performer/Director/Educator, Kaylee Harwood inspires us to live by design instead of default. She will take us on a journey how her stint as a swing enabled her to see the bigger picture which empowered her to pursue the creative world of directing. In this episode: Kaylee’s health battles and how it lead her to having a grati...
2022-08-151h 11
poetic technologyletter 016: a soulful unwrapping 🎁❤️🔥Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia, I was born on Turtle Island in Tkaronto, and I currently live on the island of Bali in Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽A conversation I find myself having often is around Ayurveda, specifically of cleansing and detoxing. Perhaps it is because in Indonesia they put sugar in literally everything. They also f...
2022-08-1409 min
poetic technologyletter 015: we are fermenting till we are yogurt 😦💆🏾♀️Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia, I was born on Turtle Island in Tkaronto, and I currently live on the island of Bali in Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽culture of meis the culture of youi ferment the old and the new creating an abundant form of the futuremelded together giving space for the third mefor you— homema...
2022-08-0712 min
Yum Cha EveryoneEpisode Twelve: We Grow Up 長大On episode 12 of Yum-cha dai-ga - 飲茶大家 (let's have tea/dim-sum together) I made a new friend named TG Wong. We chat in Cantonese and English about growing up, well-being, parenting, and so much more! They live in tkaronto and share their kindness and empathy as a parent to two kids, as a coach, an athlete, and are a fellow foodie and life long learner.
2022-08-0720 min
poetic technologyletter: 014 Cinnamon bun life is the best kind of life 👀 🤤Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia, I was born on Turtle Island in Tkaronto, and I currently live on the island of Bali in Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽I love cinnamon buns. Markville mall, a mall close to where I grew up smelt like cinnamon buns. Sometimes after school we would get a lucky surpr...
2022-07-3108 min
poetic technologyletter 013: Thanks Auntie! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia, I was born on Turtle Island in Tkaronto, and I currently live on the island of Bali in Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽what doesn’t seem obvious upfrontis a journey full of risks ripples through your life in unknown patterns intersecting with you at the most obscure and most obvi...
2022-07-2411 min
poetic technologyLetter 012: Resilient bodies- bodies that break and mend 🌎🥺🪡🙏🏽Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia, I was born on Turtle Island in Tkaronto, and I currently live on the island of Bali in Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽I am obsessed with food. At least 50% of what I do on the internet is look at recipes and food things. I dream about the meals I wan...
2022-07-1711 min
poetic technologypoetic sunday: honey maker in the sky ⭐🐝Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia, I was born on Turtle Island in Tkaronto, and I currently live on the island of Bali in Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽stars are raining on the roofclouding the sky and we are still herewondering why we are the only living beingsin the galaxythe audacity to believe that to be tru...
2022-07-1001 min
poetic technologyletter 011: home lives in your nervous system 🙆🏽♀️💫🥲Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia, I was born on Turtle Island in Tkaronto, and I currently live on the island of Bali in Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽pre-letter guide: This letter is a collection of poems, prose, and quotes. Each collection brings forward an energy, an intention. Non-linear by design, allowing space for all you...
2022-07-0309 min
StageworthyStephen Elliott Jackson & Neta J. RoseSteven Elliott Jackson is an award-winning playwright originally from Minto Manitoba and now living in Kitchener, Ontario. In 2017, he won Best New Play at the Toronto Fringe for “The Seat Next To The King” and it was produced in Canada and the United States subsequently. It was published by Scirocco Drama. In 2020, he won Best New Play for “Three Ordinary Men” at the Hamilton Fringe and it will be produced in June 2022 by Cahoots Theatre in Toronto. In 2022, he will be premiering TOM as well as The Garden Of Alla and The Prince’s Big Adventurer at the Toronto Fringe.
2022-06-2848 min
The Elixir. Curing Common Ideas about Self CareCreating Inclusive Spaces with Kaleb Robertson - Cultural ProducerMeet Kaleb Roberston in today’s episode–cultural producer, queer, trans & body positive activist–and learn about the realities and obstacles faced by the community. We’ll discuss how to create an inclusive space and how we can help as allies. We’ll also hear about Kaleb’s personal story and all the incredible projects he is working on.
Guest Bio:
Kaleb Robertson (he/him) is a Cultural Producer based in Toronto/Tkaronto traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. He is a queer, trans, and b...
2022-06-2128 min
poetic technologyletter 010: what is home? standing on cross roads 🏠💙🧳🌎🦦Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia, I was born on Turtle Island in Tkaronto, and I currently live in Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽So I signed a 1 year lease in Bali…It has been a long while since I actively chose to commit to a place and space for a duration longer than a...
2022-06-1910 min
poetic technologyletter 009: the strength of a tree arises from it's meandering roots 🌳💪🌎Hi! I am Parul. My ancestors are from South Asia, I was born on Turtle Island in Tkaronto, and I currently live in Indonesia. I use poetry, prose, poetic frames to unravel entanglements of our thoughts, feelings and experiences. Call it an evolving decolonization practice that is liberating the many intelligences our existence contains.☝🏽 I read you this newsletter, or you can read it yourself! 👇🏽pre-letter guide: This letter is a collection of poems, prose, and quotes. Each collection brings forward an energy, an intention. Non-linear by design, allowing space for all your intellects (emotional, intellectua...
2022-06-1207 min
BC Museums Association PodcastQueer(y)ing Museums Episode 4: Special Episode on Ukraine with Andrew KushnirIn this special episode of Queer(y)ing Museums, Tanya and Desirée chat with Andrew Kushnir (he/him) - a gay, Ukrainian Canadian playwright, actor, educator and activist living in Toronto/Tkaronto.
Throughout this conversation, we weave through a variety of topics including, what is the "war within a war" happening in Ukraine right now for LGBTQIA+ community and how is the LGBTQIA+ movement intertwined in Ukraine's fight for sovereignty? Further, how can the museum, cultural and heritage sector support Ukraine and the LGBTQIA+ community at this critical time?
0:00- Intro/background to...
2022-05-1246 min
Talking Sh*t With Tara CheyenneEpisode 35 - Interview with Naomi Brand (Performer, Choreographer, Writer and Facilitator)
Show notes below:
Talking Shit with Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Production
www.taracheyenne.com
Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP / FB: https://www.facebook.com/taracheyenneperformance
Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music
www.marcstewartmusic.com
About Naomi Brand:
Originally from Tkaronto (Toronto), Naomi spent ten years dancing on Treaty 7 territory (Calgary), before relocating to the unceded territories of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil- Waututh), and xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) people in 2013. She holds both a BA and an MFA from the University of Calgary and a DanceAbility te...
2022-04-2248 min
Mindful StrengthDr. Sarah Kim: Caring for the Frontline - Pandemic Recovery and ReflectionsToday we welcome Dr. Sarah Kim for a reflective conversation about her experience working as a frontline doctor over the last 2 years. Sarah shares what it's been like for her and how she is bringing creativity, mental health awareness, and compassion to her medical practice to meet the challenges of every day. More about Dr. Sarah Kim Sarah Kim is a Toronto/Tkaronto based physician specializing in Sport & Exercise Medicine and Mindful Psychotherapy and an independent dance artist. She is a Clinical Lecturer at the University of Toronto and Dancer-in-Residence with the Health, Arts & Humanities...
2022-04-0246 min
The Intersection HubS02E05 - The Five Fallacies of FundraisingIt is time to really question what “best practice” in the social sector. How can we move forward with inclusion, diversity, equity and belonging when we are stuck in archaic systems?
We are thrilled to welcome Tanya Hannah Rumble and Nicole McVan back into The Hub to update us on their work building a strong community practice and charting a new way forward for our sector.
Tanya Hannah Rumble, CFRE (she/her) and Nicole McVan, MA (they/them) are long-time collaborators and respected fundraising leaders. Together they have led learning sessions and facilitated workshops for more...
2022-03-2554 min
Beneath the Ceiba TreeCreepy Ghost Children AKA The Duennes (w/ Michelle Walker)This week on Beneath the Ceiba Tree, Sedina speaks with the wonderful Trinidadian born, artist and artsworker Michelle Walker. She shares stories of growing up in Trinidad and what she thinks about The Duennes folklore. *Books about Caribbean Folklore mentioned in this podcast: The Jumbies by Tracy BaptisteThe Famished Road by Ben Okri***To keep up with Michelle:https://www.instagram.com/warahoun/https://www.facebook.com/MeeshWalker.tdotTwitter: @de_warahounMichelle's BioKa...
2022-03-2239 min
StageworthyMateo Chavez LewisMateo is a young singer, songwriter, actor and pianist currently working on the lands traditionally known as Tkaronto. In 2020, he wrote and produced "Quarantine Songs," a song cycle about different characters dealing with the pandemic, which had its digital premiere on YouTube, featuring performers from Stratford, Mirvish and Charlottetown Festival stages. He is currently preparing to appear in Forever Plaid with Starvox Entertainment, and running a YouTube channel where he uploads weekly analysis videos of the greatest songs from the musical theatre canon. In the meantime, he continues to perform regularly alongside cabaret and comedy legend Mandy Goodhandy in...
2022-03-0800 min
conscient podcaste91 keith barker – telling a really good story'I look for stories that are not there just to educate people. If I tell a really good story and it happens to be about the global crisis, about global warming and about the effects on community, if I get your heart, then you're gonna go forward and look at other things, you're gonna start doing some research. It's like, I wanna look at and so to me, I always tell people, tell a really good story and get them on your side, and then they'll go and do their own work. As opposed to like, these are the seven...
2021-12-2935 min
conscient podcaste92 santee smith – about SKéN:NEN and interconnectednessMy conversation with indigenous multidisciplinary artist Santee Smith, artistic director of Kaha:wi Dance Theatre on Dec 10, 2021 in Tkaronto at a CPAMO panel about art and climate where Santee talks her new post-apocalyptic work in progress ‘SKéN:NEN’, ecological calendars, permaculture and more.
Santee Smith (Tekaronhiáhkhwa/Picking Up The Sky) is a multidisciplinary artist from the Kahnyen’kehàka Nation, Turtle Clan, Six Nations of the Grand River. Transformation, energetic exchange and creating mind-heart connections through performance is her lifelong work. Santee trained at Canada’s National Ballet School; holds Physical Education and Psychology degrees from McMaster Univers...
2021-12-1032 minconscient podcaste91 keith barker – telling a really good storyMy conversation with indigenous playwright, actor & director Keith Barker, artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts on Dec 8, 2021 in Tkaronto about indigenous theatre & storytelling including a reading of his 'APOLOGY, MY' 5 minute play for the 2021 Climate Change Theatre Action with voice actors Riel Schryer and Sabrina Mathews. Also with excerpts from e92 santee smith and e44 bilodeau.
Keith Barker is from the Métis Nation of Ontario and is artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts in Tkaronto. He is the winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Playwrights Guild’s Carol Bolt Award for best ne...
2021-12-0835 minconscient podcaste91 keith barker – telling a really good storyMy conversation with indigenous playwright, actor & director Keith Barker, artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts on Dec 8, 2021 in Tkaronto about indigenous theatre & storytelling including a reading of his 'APOLOGY, MY' 5 minute play for the 2021 Climate Change Theatre Action with voice actors Riel Schryer and Sabrina Mathews. Also with excerpts from e92 santee smith and e44 bilodeau.
Keith Barker is from the Métis Nation of Ontario and is artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts in Tkaronto. He is the winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Playwrights Guild’s Carol Bolt Award for best ne...
2021-12-0835 min
Digging In With ONNAnti-Black Racism and solutions for changeOver the last decade, Rudayna Bahubeshi has tirelessly advocated for racial justice and equity. In this episode, we unpacked systemic and interpersonal realities of anti-Black racism and racism within the nonprofit sector, while exploring formal and informal solutions for change within the sector.BIO: Rudayna Bahubeshi is an advocate for advancing equity and justice and has nearly ten years of experience in nonprofits, charities and government. She is Black and Arab, of Eritrean and Yemeni descent, and lives in Tkaronto. She has led programming, communications, and stakeholder engagement strategies at various nonprofits and charities, and has worked...
2021-11-1134 min
The whyPAR Podcast“Art Is Research”: On Knowledge from Identity and Place - A Conversation between Maddy Ross and Artist-Researchers Pree Rehal, Bert Whitecrow, Ayrah Taerb, Ammarah Syed, and Jahmal NugentThis episode features five artist-researchers from the Making With Place Research Project (MWP), a collaborative initiative in T’karonto between York University graduate students Charlotte Lombardo and Phyllis Novak and SKETCH, an award-winning community arts program. Pree Rehal, Bert Whitecrow, Ayrah Taerb, Ammarah Syed, and Jahmal Nugent are all established young artists who came together during the COVID-19 pandemic to explore and create placemaking art installations and activations. MWP recently launched an online journal-zine at makingwithplace.ca, and four exciting immersive and interactive public art projects taking place across T’karonto throughout fall 2021 and spring 2022. In this conversation, the arti...
2021-11-1135 min
The whyPAR Podcast“Art Is Research”: On Knowledge from Identity and Place - A Conversation between Maddy Ross and Artist-Researchers Pree Rehal, Bert WhitecroThis episode features five artist-researchers from the Making With Place Research Project (MWP), a collaborative initiative in T’karonto between York University graduate students Charlotte Lombardo and Phyllis Novak and SKETCH, an award-winning community arts program. Pree Rehal, Bert Whitecrow, Ayrah Taerb, Ammarah Syed, and Jahmal Nugent are all established young artists who came together during the COVID-19 pandemic to explore and create placemaking art installations and activations. MWP recently launched an online journal-zine at makingwithplace.ca, and four exciting immersive and interactive public art projects taking place across T’karonto throughout fall 2021 and spring 2022. In this conversation, the artist-researchers disc...
2021-11-1135 min
The Intersection HubEpisode 25 - Building a Community of PracticeWorking within a system to change a system is tough work. Through their Community of Practice sessions Tanya and Nicole are building a movement and creating safe and compassionate places for dialogue. We are thrilled to welcome Tanya and Nicole into the hub.
Tanya Hannah Rumble, CFRE (she/her) and Nicole McVan, MA (they/them) are long-time collaborators and respected fundraising leaders. Together they have led learning sessions and facilitated workshops for more than 2,000 professional fundraisers across North America and Europe on the topics of power and privilege; equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and fundraising. T...
2021-11-0549 minThe whyPAR Podcast“Now that we were conducting the research, it felt more like power“: On Doing YPAR Before and During COVID-19 - A Conversation between Maddy Ross and youth researchers at the Youth Research LabThis episode is the second in a two-part series featuring conversations between the WhyPAR Podcast’s new co-host, Maddy Ross and five youth researchers: Valeria Pineda, Lainey Rios, Luisa Gonzalez, Jaden McGregor, and Annie Silva. In this episode, the five youth researchers discuss their most recent YPAR project conducted in the summer of 2020 that explored the experiences of Indigenous and Latinx youth living in Tkaronto during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Valeria Pineda (she/her)
I am 21 years old and I recently graduated from a Social Service Worker program for Immigrants and Refugees, and I am currently wo...
2021-10-0632 minThe whyPAR Podcast“If we really learned like this in school, school would be so much better”: On Building Generative Classrooms - A Conversation Between Maddy Ross and youth researchers at the Youth Research LabThis episode is the first in a two-part series featuring conversations between the WhyPAR Podcast’s new co-host, Maddy Ross and five youth researchers: Valeria Pineda, Lainey Rios, Luisa Gonzalez, Jaden McGregor, and Annie Silva. In this episode, the five youth researchers reflect on their experiences in a school-based YPAR project, Youth Solidarities Across Boundaries (YSAB), a collaboration between the Urban Indigenous Education Centre (UIEC) of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) and the Youth Research Lab to convene Latinx and Indigenous high school students in Tkaronto to understand and address the challenges youth face in schools.
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2021-10-0434 minThe whyPAR Podcast“If we really learned like this in school, school would be so much better”: On Building Generative Classrooms - A Conversation Between MaddyThis episode is the first in a two-part series featuring conversations between the WhyPAR Podcast’s new co-host, Maddy Ross and five youth researchers: Valeria Pineda, Lainey Rios, Luisa Gonzalez, Jaden McGregor, and Annie Silva. In this episode, the five youth researchers reflect on their experiences in a school-based YPAR project, Youth Solidarities Across Boundaries (YSAB), a collaboration between the Urban Indigenous Education Centre (UIEC) of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) and the Youth Research Lab to convene Latinx and Indigenous high school students in Tkaronto to understand and address the challenges youth face in schools.Valeria Pineda (sh...
2021-10-0434 minThe whyPAR Podcast“Now that we were conducting the research, it felt more like power“: On Doing YPAR Before and During COVID-19 - A Conversation between MaddyThis episode is the second in a two-part series featuring conversations between the WhyPAR Podcast’s new co-host, Maddy Ross and five youth researchers: Valeria Pineda, Lainey Rios, Luisa Gonzalez, Jaden McGregor, and Annie Silva. In this episode, the five youth researchers discuss their most recent YPAR project conducted in the summer of 2020 that explored the experiences of Indigenous and Latinx youth living in Tkaronto during the COVID-19 pandemic.Valeria Pineda (she/her)I am 21 years old and I recently graduated from a Social Service Worker program for Immigrants and Refugees, and I am currently working as a Yo...
2021-10-0432 min
Quarantine Phone CallsFatima Kamenge: Companion through the leap, Tkaronto, Turtle IslandConnect with Fatima on her InstagramLearn more about Fatima's workFind the referenced Oprah & Eckhart Episodes HereShow Host: Michael Chaffin--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/quarantine-phone-calls/message
2021-09-0154 min
StageworthyUche AmaUche Ama is a Black queer performer, actor & vocalist born on the indigenous land called Tkaronto. She is passionate about cathartic art that intrigues and makes you ask questions. A 2019 Dora nominated graduate of the Music Theatre Performance program at St Clair College and an alumni of 'Broadway Theatre Project', her previous performances include 21 Black Futures (Obsidian Theatre & CBC Arts),The Negroes Are Congregating (Piece Of Mine Arts) & Obeah Opera (Asah Productions).
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2021-07-2754 min
rabble radioFrom epidemic to pandemic: rethinking healthThis is Episode Four of the Courage My Friends podcast: From epidemic to pandemic: rethinking health. We discuss how people are coping in the pandemic and the ways populations are impacted differently. Where is the most vulnerability? The discussion highlights the realities for those in poverty, particularly the under-housed. Together we discuss how Indigenous teachings and harm reduction practices can inform our responses to these current crises and help us to move forward in a compassionate way that does not leave people behind. Today's guest host John Caffery is joined by two guests -- Zoë D...
2021-06-1655 min
Climate Justice RadioEpisode 2 - Making Space For Our Grief with Kristen SisonIn this episode of Climate Justice Radio, host and CJTO member Bella Lyne interviews Kristen Sison, about her work as a death doula and explores the intersections of death cycles, grief and spirituality. Kristen Sison is a diasporic Filipinx Womxn community choreographer, storyteller, artist-healer, and book witch! She serves community by creating youth-led alternative educational spaces that re-imagine how we teach and talk about climate change and climate justice including Conscious Minds Camp, now Conscious Minds Co-operative, and most recently, a 3-month climate leadership program called Rooted and Rising. She is close to releasing a book called It’s Bi...
2021-05-171h 21Talking Sh*t With Tara CheyenneEpisode 27 - Interview with Susie Burpee - Dance Artist, Scholar and Advocate for Caregivers in the Performing Arts
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2021-05-0353 min
New Left RadioFrom Bitlis to Darfur to Tkaronto - The Foundation for Genocide EducationThe crime against humanity of genocide occurs across cultures, across ethnicities, and across our world. On today’s drop, Joe Roberts and guest co-host Mac Chorney welcome Heidi Berger and Marcy Bruck from The Foundation for Genocide Education to discuss their effort to include genocide education in curriculums across North America so it’s victims are never forgotten and it never happens again.
2021-04-2939 min
DanceOutsideDanceLaressa Dickey in conversation with Michaela GerussiHow might attention be considered as a connecting point between contemporary dance practice and Craniosacral Biodynamics? With this question in mind, Michaela invites guest Laressa Dickey to speak about the points of overlap she has found between working with language, movement and in therapeutic settings. Together they discuss some of the basic and more complex principles fundamental to Craniosacral Biodynamics, beginning to explore more broadly the ways that this work can inform our sense of ourselves both in life and as applied to movement-based artistic practice. They discuss:- interdisciplinary artistic practice: tensions/mysteries between forms...
2021-04-081h 13
Possibilities PodcastPandemic Minisode 2 - Possibilities of Merendiando w/ Camila Diaz-Valera & Monica GarridoOur second minisode features Camila and Monica from Aluna Theatre ’s MERENDIANDO podcast! These two are fabulous and we chat about getting honest with yourself and others, creativity and using this time to reflect and practice how we want to be in the world. If you’re looking for deep insight and laughter, this is a must listen to episode! *This episode is part of a feedswap with MERENDIANDO a podcast that reflects the realities of making art in a complex world from the perspective of two queer artists born in Mexico and Canada, who are Mexican and Canadian in di...
2021-03-2529 min
Radio Aluna Theatre48 (English): Merendiando One Year into the Pandy“We don’t need the ‘you’ from a year ago, we need the ‘you’ now. We need the ‘you’ that you’ve become, and what that requires is a lot of honesty.”
- Camila Diaz-Varela
This week is all about reflecting, and checking in with the community. Camila and Monica discuss how a year of physical distancing has impacted their art practice, and we hear from extra special guests Yolanda Bonnell, Rhoma Spencer, Sofia Fly, and the Party People Collective, Elizabeth Staples and Jordan Campbell.
How have you adapted your craft to this new context? D...
2021-03-1746 min
Studies in National and International Development Podcast SeriesMutual Aid: Covid -19 and BeyondJoin SNID for a panel discussion about the role of grassroots movements and local activism during COVID-19 with Jade Da Costa of The People’s Pantry (Toronto/Tkaronto), Tom deGrey of the Downtown Eastside SRO Collaborative (Vancouver/Unceded Coast Salish Territory), Queen’s Post-Doctoral Fellow in Geography and Planning Dani Aiello, and Liz Turner of Mutual Aid Katarokwi (Kingston/Katarokwi). […]
2021-02-1200 min
Farm to Future#11 - Creating a Digital Magazine for Korean Stories with Harriet Kim & Mirae Lee, Co-founders of ChoaHarriet Kim and Mirae Lee are the Co-founders of Choa Magazine (@choamagazine), an online platform for Korean diasporic stories. Harriet is a photographer, writer, community arts organizer, and environmentalist. She co-created a portrait series called Dressed in Layers: A Hanbok Project and is the founder of the Korean Canadian Writers’ Collective. Mirae is a cultural producer, bilingual writer, translator, and illustrator. She has worked with various Tkaronto-based not-for-profit arts organizations until recently when she moved to Asia to explore new possibilities in new settings.In this episode, we talk about the inspiration behind Choa Magazine, why we ne...
2021-02-0238 min
Heartberry PodcastSOTR: Living A Good LifeCW: suicide SOTR: Shanna is on the road interviewing her supervisor Dr. Jeffrey Ansloos who is Nehiyaw (Cree) and English, and is a member of Fisher River Cree Nation (Ochekwi-Sipi; Treaty 5). He grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba (Treaty 1), and currently resides in Toronto (Tkaronto)! Dr. Ansloos’ research focuses on Indigenous health, social policy, and in particular suicide and suicide prevention. He also examines community-based and systems-level change processes needed to advance social and health equity within Canada, with a particular focus on Indigenous rights.As the first professor we have interviewed, we are in...
2020-11-2354 min
StageworthyB’atz’ Recinos“I am the son of two tribes. I am the daughter of one birth. I am the spirit of many nations. I am a child of mother earth.”
B’atz’ Recinos was born and raised on Turtle Island with mixed Maya roots from Iximulew (Guatemala). A creator, performer, advocate, and Harold Award recipient for the performing arts of Tkaronto. Their commitment to equitable and diverse practices within the arts has led them to speak at YouthREX and several other panels and publish articles with NOW, Intermission Magazine, and contribute to The Director’s Lab book published by Playwright...
2020-11-101h 00
Hopping the FenceEmily ReimerEmily Reimer is an interdisciplinary artist based in Guelph, Ontario. Her work uses performance, drawing, and video to think about her relationships to herself and the people around her, often working in close collaboration with family members.Our conversation was recorded in Tkaronto, on the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Anishinaabe, and Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nations. This episode of Hopping the Fence contains use of a dated and derogatory term for sex-workers, as well as discussion of Catholic mythology. Show Notes Emily’s work ...
2020-11-0638 min
Not Your Average AuntiesEp.2: Weaving Our Migration Stories: Loss, Resilience & ReclamationThe Wendat, Haudenosaunee, Anishnaabe peoples in Tkaronto (Toronto) have been dispossessed of their rights, and continue to be subjected to colonization and genocide. In this context, Farheen and Mohini discover each other’s stories of migration to England and eventually to Canada, from Pakistan and India. They explore their relationship to language, share experiences of racism and reflect on reconnection to self and community. Stay tuned for a future episode about settler colonialism.
Deepest gratitude to:
Our parents, who with great courage, strength and persistence did the best that they could in moving across continents and oceans - more than on...
2020-11-0458 min
Face2Face with David PeckResistance, Art & Sonic HighwaysShane Belcourt and Face2Face host David Peck talk about Amplify, resistance, Metis history and voice, interpretation and interconnectedness, sonic highways, identity politics, music and art and what it reveals about culture and us.TrailerMore info here.Synopsis:Our Endless Resistance featuring songwriter Shane Belcourt author Maria Campbell and Métis Rights Advocate Tony Belcourt.Métis songwriter Shane Belcourt, finds inspiration looking back on interviews he did with celebrated Métis author Maria Campbell, and his father, an acclaimed Métis Rights lead...
2020-10-2846 minHopping the FenceB WijshijerB Wijshijer is a research-based artist working within digital media and video installation. Wijshijer utilizes online trends and subcultures to deconstruct mediated intimacies and personas on digital platforms. Informed by acceleration aesthetics, their work plays with excess and artifice to interrogate the ways in which late capitalism affects our digital lives. Wijshijer received their BFA in Printmaking from OCAD University in 2017 and an MFA from the University of Waterloo in 2020.Our conversation was recorded in Tkaronto, on the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Anishinaabe, and Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nations....
2020-10-2338 min
Hat CollectingJade Pichette (Diversity and Inclusion Professional, Gythia, History lover)On this episode of the Hat Collecting Talk Show we welcome Jade Pichette who is an inclusion, diversity, and belonging professional and program manager at Pride at Work Canada, a Gythia (Priestess), and a history lover. Lacey and Jade talk about changing work through the pandemic, where Jade was at the age of 30, mental health, advice for their peers, and more. CN for mention of suicidal behaviours while discussing mental health. *****Note: the series of questions asked to guests has been evolving, here is what was asked/discussed in this episode***** TIMESTAMPS: What are you currently up to? (1:05) What...
2020-09-2544 min
Country QueersTessaTessa grew up in Cookeville, Tennessee - which was built on Cherokee and Shawnee land. At the time of this interview, in November 2017, Tessa was 22 years old and studying chemical engineering at TN Tech. In this interview she talks about coming out to her parents, her work with Cumberland Gender Advocacy to support other trans folks in rural middle TN, the struggle to find trans affirming healthcare and jobs in the rural South, and her experiences coming up through the Boy Scouts. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * You can learn more about this project at www.cou...
2020-07-2137 min
Moment of TruthMOT WEB EXCLUSIVE - Ian Maracle (May 15th, 2020)MOT WEB EXCLUSIVE - TKARONTO MUSIC FESTIVAL: ONLINE (MAY 15, 2020)
This year's unofficial kick-off to summer won't exactly be business as usual, but for the artists headlining a new Indigenous music festival, the show must go on. The Tkaronto Music Festival, originally planned as an outdoor music festival, has moved online and will be streaming on TKMF.ca, as well as Facebook and YouTube Live, over three days this May long-weekend!
Artists performing include DJ NDN, Juno Award winning Anishinaabe blues rock Digging Roots, folk and country singer-songwriter William Prince, The Launch winner Logan Staats, Northwest Territories based Leela Gilday, plus...
2020-05-1524 min
Toronto NewsnessNewsness - May 15-18, 2020I butcher the beautiful pronunciation of the Tkaronto Online Indigenous Music Festival, Collective Arts Brewing and Wavelength team up for a Long Weekend Saturday Party, and Phase 1 of re-opening begins for the Province of Ontario!
2020-05-1502 min
The HenceforwardEpisode 29 – Black-Indigenous Identity in CanadaIn this episode, Kayla Webber and Paige Grant interview Denise Baldwin, from Ontario, to discuss her experiences of being a Black-Indigenous woman in Canada. The conversation considers the ways that Black-Indigenous and/or Afro-Indigenous identities have, and continue to be, invisbilized in Canada. Some members of these communities have been taught to dishonour their Indigenous and/or Black ancestors who have made it possible for them to be here. Denise draws attention to how she understands and expresses her Black-Indigenous identity. This episode was originally recorded in March 2019.
2020-04-2127 minThe HenceforwardEpisode 28 – “I don’t know if a city… can be liveable”: An Interview with Nasma AhmedThis episode was originally recorded in February 2019. However, it is especially relevant during the COVID-19 virus, given the increasing use of online platforms, and amidst conversations about life following the pandemic. In this episode, Sefanit interviews Nasma Ahmed, the founder of Digital Justice Lab (DJL). Nasma is a Black woman whose work considers surveillance, digitization, and tech justice amidst an everchanging Toronto. She discusses her work with DJL and its necessarily broad scope, as well as the Sidewalk Project and critical questions important to future city building. Who do these proposed “smart cities” account for, and at whos...
2020-04-2134 minThe HenceforwardEpisode 27 – Defenders of the Water School: An Interview with Alayna Eagle ShieldThis episode was originally recorded in October 2018. It remains relevant today, amidst the COVID-19 virus, as we are imagining life following the pandemic. In this episode, Jennifer Sylvester and Jade Nixon interview Alayna Eagle Shield, creator of the Mní Wičhóni Nakíčižiŋ Owáyawa (Defenders of the Water School), which began at the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Camp at Standing Rock. Alayna generously shares her work at the school and speaks to the importance of Indigenous languages and traditions, particularly the Lakota language, for her children and future generations.
2020-04-2126 min
Conversations in AnthropologyEpisode #29: Jason De León and Teresa MaresWe’ve got a roving mic on the loose. In this episode, that mic is in the hands of David Giles, as he roamed the halls of the 2019 joint meeting of the American Anthropological Association and Canadian Anthropology Society in Tkaronto/Toronto. There, David caught up with two bright minds of migration studies, namely Jason De León and Teresa Mares. What does an anthropological framework bring to the study of borders? How do you do an ethnography of borders? This episode covers some big contemporary questions. Jason is Professor of Anthropology and Chicana/o Studies at UCLA, and Director of...
2020-03-0952 minHeartberry PodcastU Sound WhiteShanna and Yotakahron discuss Yotakahron’s name change, more colonial violence, and the importance of naming experiences to validate and affirm the violence we encounter as Indigenous people. A surprise guest makes an appearance and we learn not to record during a festival in Tkaronto. You can find more information at their website: www.heartberrypodcast.com and be sure to check them out on Twitter at @heartberrypod and Instagram at @heartberrypodcast! If you want to email in, they can be reached at heartberrypodcast@gmail.comOriginal artwork by Shanna Peltier Mixing by Liam Taylor
2019-11-3040 min
The HenceforwardMeditating on the ElsewhereIn November 2017, Indigenous and Black community members, scholars, and activists gathered at the University of Toronto to discuss getting elsewhere. In the spirit of The Henceforward, the elsewhere is lived and created today, as well as a realm of unknown possibilities. Members of the gathering created guided meditations that take us on a walk-through future-day 125th Street in Harlem and invite us to visit places we yearn for. We invite you to listen closely, perhaps close your eyes, and travel with us into the elsewhere. Contributors, in the order their voices are heard: Sefanit Habtom Marie Laing Karyn Recollet Eve Tuck...
2018-11-1216 min
The HenceforwardGentrification in TorontoIn this episode, Chris Ramsaroop, Greer Babazon and Nisha Toomey discuss Toronto’s rapid gentrification. We visit the kitchen table to unpack what communities are most impacted by gentrification; explore how gentrification has been, and continues to be, justified by (settler colonial) logics of progress and inevitability; and we speak with a resident of Toronto’s Junction area on the shifted/shifting community.
2018-09-2529 min
The HenceforwardMulticulturalism – A Performative DistractionIn this episode, Carey DeMichelis & Bea Jolley delve into the Canadian rhetoric of multiculturalism. The Kitchen Table discusses what multicultural discourses miss and mask. And we are joined by Tiffany King, Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Michael Dumas, Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the Graduate School of Education and the African American Studies Department. Dr. King, Dr. Dumas, and the Kitchen Table draw our attention to the ways that performances of multiculturalism serve as a distraction from the changes needed and des...
2018-09-2540 min
The HenceforwardHow Can I Talk About This Violence Without Being Violent?In this episode, Sefanit Habtom and Sigrid Roman interview Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński and Naomi Rincón Gallardo, creators of the Formaldehyde Trip and Unearthing. In Conversation, respectively. Naomi and Belinda generously share their artistic decision-making processes, how they see art as resistance, and speak to future generations of Black and Indigenous peoples. Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński is a writer and artist living in Vienna/Austria. Grounded in Black feminist theory, she is interested in memory and Black radical imagination. Her artistic work combines photography, collage, video, and performance. Since October 2015 she is a candidate in the PhD-in-Practice Program at...
2018-09-2541 min
The HenceforwardHenceforward Episode 22 – Migrant Labour, White Settler Anxiety, and No ReturnsThis episode explores the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program in Canada by considering the modes of surveillance, exploitation, denial and violence embedded in the program. Nisha Toomey and Chris Ramsaroop demystify false histories of Canadian innocence and the white settler anxieties entrenched in the state.
2018-03-1440 min
The HenceforwardEpisode 21 – Hazelburn In a deliberate attempt to un-forget erased histories, this snack episode considers a housing co-op in Toronto’s downtown core. The name of the street, the co-op, and the land where it’s situated, trace a relationship between settler colonialism, slavery, and antiblackness.
2018-03-1405 min
The HenceforwardThe Henceforward Episode 20: Self-care, Smudging, and PenguinsIn this episode, various voices consider self-care in the work of the henceforward. There is a discussion of self-care collectively vs. individually, Elder Jacqui Lavalley generously explains smudging, and dark sousveillance* is offered as a form of self-care. *Dark sousveillance counters and subverts surveillance mechanisms that target Black and Indigenous peoples. For more information about dark sousveillance and its intervention into surveillance studies, read Simone Browne’s book, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness.
2018-03-1424 min
The HenceforwardThe Henceforward Episode 19: Policing Black Lives – An Interview with Robyn MaynardIn this episode, Danielle Cantave and Sefanit Habtom interview Robyn Maynard, author of the new book Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. In her book, Maynard narrates little known - or entirely unknown - stories of Blackness in Canada and the continued state-sanctioned violence enacted upon Black people. This conversation includes her reasons for writing the book and her imaginings for the future.
2018-03-1439 min
The HenceforwardThe Henceforward Episode #18 - Safety For Who?In this episode, Simone Weir, Kate Curtis, and Jessamyn Polson feature extended interviews with Gita Madan and Tanya Aberman about the safety of Toronto schools for Black and undocumented youth. The central question of the episode is when we talk about safety, whose safety are we talking about? Gita discusses the School Resource Officer (SRO) program, which places uniformed and armed police officers in high schools, and Tanya considers the everyday ways in which schools and school personnel put undocumented students at risk. The first part of the episode was recorded in April 2017, and the following segment...
2017-11-031h 09
The HenceforwardFuturities With Alicia ElliotIn this episode, Erin Soros interviews writer, Alicia Elliott. Alicia discusses writing in the “messy zone” without answers, her reasons for writing creative non-fiction, and much more. How do Black and Indigenous people now imagine alternative futurities, and what approaches do they find most useful? Here at this threshold, an important intellectual and emotional energy is gathering – contributors to the dialogue cognizant always of past and present oppressions, while also creating visions of life that is otherwise.
2017-11-031h 07
The HenceforwardEpisode 16 – Water Ways and Ways to the WaterIn this episode, Jessamyn Polson, Kate Curtis, and Greer Brabazon linger with water and all of its rushing meaning. Including an extended interview with Dr. Karyn Recollet, this episode considers ways to find ourselves back in love and in good relation to the water. Other contributors include Simone Weir, Erin Soros, and Sandi Wemigwase. Karyn Recollet is Assistant Professor in the Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto. Her university website is: http://www.wgsi.utoronto.ca/person/karyn-recollet
2017-10-0247 min
The HenceforwardMore Than A Bookstore, A Meeting Place Featuring Itah SaduSeason 2 begins with an interview by Jade Nixon and Cornel Grey with Itah Sadu, founder and owner of A Different Booklist. A Different Booklist is an independent bookstore and cultural centre in Tkaronto that specializes in books from the African and Caribbean diaspora. Itah generously outlines the history of the space, naming many prominent writers, poets, and publishers along the way. This episode also introduces our new segment Kitchen Table Talks. At the kitchen table, Indigenous and Black peoples think through different issues together. Follow A Different Booklist on Twitter @ADFRNTBooklist
2017-10-0237 min
The HenceforwardEpisode 14 – “It’s Not About You”: An Interview with Kyle Mays In this episode, Marie Laing, Rebecca Beaulne-Stuebing, Sandi Wemigwase, and Sefanit Habtom sit with Kyle Mays to discuss his work as a Black-American Saginaw Anishinaabe scholar and hip-hop enthusiast. He discusses what draws him to the work he is currently doing, how hip-hop is used to dismantle Indigenous stereotypes, and what relationships he hopes to see between Indigenous and Black peoples. He also recommends many artists and writers for listeners to check out. --- Kyle Mays’ articles mentioned in the episode: Can we Live – And Be Modern?: Decolonization, Indigenous Modernity, and Hip Ho...
2017-06-0335 min
The HenceforwardEpisode 13 – A Conversation Between Eve Tuck & Rinaldo WalcottThis episode features the full discussion between Eve Tuck and Rinaldo Walcott that took place at the Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education Conference at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education on September 30, 2016. Snippets from this exchange were featured in Episode 10, “Writing Into the Henceforward”. In this conversation, Eve and Rinaldo explore the complexities of indigeneity, land, and sovereignty as understood and lived by Indigenous and Black peoples.
2017-05-1833 min
The HenceforwardEpisode 12 – The Start Of The Future NowIn this snack episode, Melissa Wilson and Lynn Ly provide an overview of the work that the Henceforward podcast sets out to do.
2017-05-1704 min
The HenceforwardEpisode 11 – Podcards From The EdgeIn this snack episode, Rahma Hilowle, Christy Guthrie, and Fizza Mir deliver “podcards” (podcast/postcards) that reflect on time and place. Presented as short letters, the contributors take us to Black Creek, an Art History Museum, and on a commute along Highway 407 to consider the often untold stories of land and spaces we engage with daily. The podcards consist of sounds, memories, and interactions that mark the spaces today.
2017-05-1709 min
The HenceforwardEpisode 10 – Writing Into The HenceforwardIn this episode, we have collected snippets from the discussions that took place at the Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education Conference, a one day conference for writers and aspiring writers hosted by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. The episode is split into three segments based on the themes that emerged from a few of the conversations. Throughout the event, we checked in with conference attendees to find out what it means to them to write into the henceforward. We share these conversations to inspire our listeners to continue them further.
2017-05-0230 min
The HenceforwardEpisode 9 – Whose Land InterruptedIn this snack episode, Jen Brailsford, Alicia Cameron, and Karima Kinlock disrupt a game show entitled “Whose land is it anyways?” because of the settler colonial and antiblack narratives it perpetuates. Instead, they offer reflections upon what land is and means to Indigenous and Black peoples living on Turtle Island. The episode features a spoken word piece by K.K.Q.
2017-05-0207 min
The HenceforwardEpisode 8 – The Books Episode: Settler Colonialism, Blackness & LandIn this episode, Melissa Wilson and Lynn Ly offer an overview of texts that explore settler colonialism, blackness, and land. This episode hopes to make terms more approachable and accessible by connecting them to current examples. Traveling through history, the present, and into the future, this discussion provides insight into the citation practices that ground our podcast. The texts referenced in this episode are listed below, in the order they were mentioned: Palmater, Pamela. (2015). Indigenous Nationhood: Empowering grassroots citizens. Fernwood Publishing Company. Byrd, Jodi. (2011).The Transit of Empire: Indigenous critiques of colonialism. University of Minnesota Press...
2017-04-0722 min
The HenceforwardEpisode 7 – "I don’t want to ask you an f-ed up question," with Rinaldo WalcottIn this “snack” episode (a shorter episode released between full-length episodes) Rinaldo Walcott and Eve Tuck discuss the dilemmas of posing generous and productive questions between Black people and Indigenous people. Walcott reflects on the long practices within whiteness to frame questions in ways that replicate the brutalities of white imposition, and the implications of those frames on questions non-white communities can engage with each other. Walcott emphasizes the need for generosity, and to ask each other urgent questions in and beyond our usual frames. This Henceforward Snack is part of a longer interview bet...
2016-11-2707 min
The HenceforwardEpisode 6 – Movement Building Beyond the Moment: On Getting Free Together in #StandingRock and #FreedomSquare with Kelly HayesThe Henceforward Episode 6: Movement Building Beyond the Moment: On Getting Free Together in #StandingRock and #FreedomSquare with Kelly Hayes. In this episode, Stephanie Latty, Sefanit Habtom, and Rebecca Beaulne-Stuebing interview Kelly Hayes, a cofounder of the Chicago Light Brigade and the direct action collective Lifted Voices. Hayes is a member of the Menominee nation, and is based out of Chicago where she works as a direct action trainer. Kelly Hayes recently wrote an article for truthout.org called “From #NoDAPL to #FreedomSquare: A tale of two occupations.” In the article and in this interview, Hayes beautifully details the...
2016-09-1320 min
The HenceforwardEpisode 5 – Back To The HenceforwardIn this episode, Faith Juma and Hunter Knight take you on a journey to the future! And also the past. And also the present. All of them are part of the future because of our nifty TTC delorean, a time-space compression device that formerly happened to be a subway car in Toronto. Featuring special guests Rebecca Beaulne-Steubing, Shequita Thompson, and Mitch Case.
2016-09-0644 min