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Posts By: Wanda Waterman
Wanda Waterman
Wanda Waterman is a poet, spoken word artist, blogger, cultural journalist, and digital nomad. She’s been writing regularly for The Voice Magazine since 2004, not long after she began studying psychology at Athabasca. Her poetry has been published in Descant, The Talking Leaves, Chizine, Our Times, The Best of Tigertail, and Pottersfield Portfolio and her articles in Design is Political, Rawckus Magazine, Coastal Life, The New Internationalist, This Magazine, and in her blog, The Mindful Bard. She grew up in Nova Scotia, but after having lived in New Hampshire and North Africa she’s now settled in Montreal.
J.D. Miner is a distinctive alternative folk ensemble from B.C. It now consists of singer and songwriter Darryl Klassen, who also can play just about anything, Joe Worst on bass, and Chad Joiner on fiddle, mandolin, clarinet, and guitar. Honorary lifetime member Joel Klingler, who writes songs and plays mandolin and guitar, also joins them… Read more »
Film: The Illusionist (Sony Pictures Classics 2010) Director: Sylvain Chomet Original Script: Jacques Tati (adapted by Sylvain Chomet) Genre: Animated ?Writers and people who had command of words were respected and feared as people who manipulated magic. In latter times I think that artists and writers have allowed themselves to be sold down the river…. Read more »
Read Part I of the series here. “An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. The avant-garde man is the opponent of an existing system.” Eugène Ionesco… Read more »
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Film: Metropia (Atmo 2009) Director: Tarik Saleh Script: Fredrik Edin, Stig Larsson, Tarik Saleh Cast: Vincent Gallo, Juliette Lewis, Udo Kier, Stellan Skarsgård, Alexander Skarsgård, Sofia Helin ?If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face?forever.? George Orwell, 1984 Brazil’s 1984-Style Matrix in 21st-Century Sweden At the end… Read more »
?We are all artists in a way?every action, word, and song has an impact on the world, and we can design and craft that impact.? Alysha Brillinger in an interview with Wanda Waterman Alysha Brillinger is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She has crafted a unique personal musical style by combining blues and reggae to make funky,… Read more »
?There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior; what he says and does must be admired, not because it is intrinsically admirable, but because it is his remark, his act. Does… Read more »
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