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.
Movie:The Vivian Maier Mystery Director: Jill Nichols If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern. – William Blake In a time when photography has become so ubiquitous that cameras… Read more »
You would be hard pressed these days to find a major movie release that does not have a VFS connection … – Marty Hasselbach, Managing Director at Vancouver Film School What do The Avengers, Iron Man 3, The Dark Knight Rises, Monsters University, District 9, Forrest Gump, The Vampire Diaries, Elysium, and countless other popular… Read more »
Album: Illusions Artist: Ibrahim Maalouf Consécration de la classe du virtuose franco-libanais . . . synthèse du voyage intérieur et de l?élan vers les sommets du jazz. – So Jazz, Novembre 2012 From the first sweetly thoughtful tones of the title track, Illusions manages to express a complex range of concepts with a mountain of… Read more »
We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say. Zeno of Citium, as quoted by Diogenes Laërtius True, the Mindful Bard is normally about books, music, and film, but once in a while we’re compelled to branch out into other formats, especially in the digital age when websites, film… Read more »
Album: I Am In Need of Music Artist: Suzie LeBlanc I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling fingertips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow. Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low, Of some song sung to rest the tired dead, A song to… Read more »
Film: Frankenweenie Director: Tim Burton Cast: Charlie Tahan, Frank Welker, Winona Ryder, Catherine O?Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau, Robert Capron, Atticus Shaffer The Very Mortal Deadlock Between Love and Power ?MR. RZYKRUSKI: Your country needs more scientists. They should make more. You should be a scientist. VICTOR: Nobody likes scientists. MR. RZYKRUSKI: They like what… Read more »