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.
Film: Made in Dagenham (Paramount Pictures 2010) Screenplay: Billy Ivory Director: Nigel Cole Cast: Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson, Geraldine James, Rosamund Pike, Andrea Riseborough, Jaime Winstone, Daniel Mays Genre: Docudrama ?In June 1968 women sewing machinists in the Ford car plant in Dagenham took a stand for equal pay in a strike that… Read more »
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hue is a Toronto-based indie band noted for its enthusiastic pop rock tunes, superlative sound production, and creative collaborations with a host of stellar acts (including Timbaland, We Are Wolves, The Wooden Sky, Two Hours Traffic, Said The Whale, Hollerado, Lights, and Mother Mother). Starting Fires is hue’s second full-length album. Recently the band’s leader,… Read more »
Film: Public Speaking (HBO 2011) Director: Martin Scorsese Genre: Documentary ?The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.? James Baldwin ?The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.? Dorothy Parker… Read more »
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?Where you goin?? Where you comin? from? Where you runnin? to? Where you go I will, I will follow. When you grow, I will, I will also.? from Starting Fires, ?The Bump? hue is a Toronto-based indie band noted for its enthusiastic pop rock tunes, superlative sound production, and creative collaborations with a host of… Read more »
Film: Another Year (2010) Writer/Director: Mike Leigh Genre: Drama, Comedy Cast: Jim Broadbent, Leslie Manville, Ruth Sheen ?For you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness . . .? 1 Thessalonians 5:5 Among the most precious scenes in this film are the ones that show… Read more »
« Le goût de l?harmonie classique, l?improvisation du jazzman, les atmosphères nostalgiques du Sahel ou les polyrythmies saccadées de l?Afrique centrale se résument dans un style afro-jazz-fusion, ou les influences diverses ne dénaturent pas l?atout principal de cet artiste à la personnalité inclassable : un phrasé assez original, avec un picking bien reconnaissable par la… Read more »
Film: Budrus (2010) Director: Julie Bacha Genre: Documentary ?Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one’s opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for… Read more »