Interview

After Fukushima, it became clear to me that there was a problem with memory in Japan....

I believe that poets have a moral responsibility to speak up for those whose own voices have been suppressed or altogether silenced.

Mexican filmmakers Luis Ernesto Nava and Keisdo Shimabukuro have devoted the last ten years to understanding and documenting human migrations through Mexico.

But the Empire is wracked with growing contradictions.

Here I was, a seventy-year old Canadian artist, and yet I found the garment workers in Bangladesh eager to participate and to be part of something.

    Like so many artist-creators who felt somewhat suffocated under our country’s last political regime, for me it was like a breath of fresh air when our new government was formed. Cuts to the CBC and the arts gave […]

This summer 2015, from June 23-June 26, the Simon Fraser University English Department’s France Field School will be in full swing with special guest speaker Professor Norman Cornett, from Montreal, introducing the students to Paris’ international jazz culture. Professor Cornett […]

Guy Rodgers, writer and scenariste, has been a tireless campaigner for English Language Artists in Montreal Quebec.

Jeff Barnaby was born on a Mi’gmaq reserve in Listujug, Quebec. He has worked as an artist, poet, author and filmmaker who was recently nominated at the Genie awards for best short film – File Under Miscellaneous (2010). His work […]

Kamal AlJafari’s Port of Memory (2010) is situated in the port of Jaffa. The film explores the formation of time in space—durational affect—and constitutes a relation of space and architecture via the cinematic lens that conjures up a new way […]

In January 2009 Caryl Churchill penned the play Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza in response to Israel’s Operation Cast Lead military strike upon Gaza.  Cast Lead lasted 3 weeks, ending January 18th 2009 and was responsible for the […]

  Scott Camil in Vietnam, taken from archival footage used in the Winter Soldier documentary. In his life Scott Camil has been shot three times: twice in Vietnam and once by the US government. A well known anti-war activist and […]

  —> Click on this text to hear Janet Lumb play the “Chant of Maarya”. Interview Q. You are a musician, a sax player, film composer and activist. How do you combine all this? A. They are all for me […]