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.
Album: Holly Cole, Night (2012) ?A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.? Maya Angelou ?When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.? Montserrat Caballé This Songbird Built the Golden Cage and Comes and Goes at… Read more »
Film: Give Me the Banjo (2011) Writer/Producer/Director: Marc Fields Cast: Narrated by Steve Martin, with appearances by Béla Fleck, Dom Flemons, Pete Seeger, Rhiannon Giddens, Alison Kraus, Taj Mahal, and many others Genre: Documentary ?This machine kills fascists.? A sticker on Woody Guthrie’s guitar ?This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.? Inscribed on… Read more »
Album: Song from the Uproar: the Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt (2012) Artist: Chamber opera by Missy Mazzoli; libretto by Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek ?Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.? Simone Weil The Joy and Discontent of a Holy Nomad In 1904 a lovely young Swiss aristocrat, Isabelle Eberhardt, rents… Read more »
Film: Miss Representation (2011) Director: Jennifer Siebel Newsom Genre: Documentary ?Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.? Liz Stanley and Sue Wise Like a Smile from a Big Sister Who Really Believes in You Several intelligent, sensitive high school girls… Read more »
Ingrid D. Johnson is a Winnipeg-based singer-songwriter with a deeply soulful rhythm-and-blues feel that evokes girl pop singers of the early ?60s. She recently released her debut full-length album What About Love? with her band The Funky Fresh Crew. A Jamaican who immigrated to Canada with her family at the age of four, Ingrid’s contribution… Read more »
Film: The House of Tomorrow (2011) Directors: Hanan Kattan and Shamim Sarif Screenwriter: Shamim Sarif Genre: Documentary ?Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass,the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase ?each other? doesn’t… Read more »
Film: She Dreamt That I Died (2011) Director: Matias Mariani Genre: Documentary ?Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity, Some wicked planetary dispensation, Some Saturn’s trick or evil constellation Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn The contrary, so stood when we were born. We… Read more »
