Jody Freeman

[Serai editor Jody Freeman interviewed Vice-Chief Sipi Flamand from the Atikamekw Council of Manawan in early January 2022. The Council of Manawan and the Atikamekw Nation Council spearheaded consultations in the Atikamekw community and the larger Québec community, […]

Editorial

Just music: a sense of lineage from the personal to the cultural and beyond

Prasun Lala and Jody Freeman

a thread of history, a thread of legacy, a thread of continuity in cycles, rhythms, tradition and culture

Interview

She Cleans the Sky

Jody Freeman

An interview with Roxann Karonhiarokwas Whitebean [Editorial note: Montréal Serai editor Jody Freeman interviewed Roxann Karonhiarokwas Whitebean in mid-May 2021, before the heart-rending discoveries of the unmarked graves of 1,148 children on the sites of former Indian residential schools.] Jody: […]

Editorial

Our stories, our truth

Jody Freeman

There is a vital energy pulsing through this winter issue of Montréal Serai. It radiates off the landing page, with the vibrant art of Leah Kanerahtaroroks Diome, who is from the unceded Kanien’kéha:ka Territory of Kahnawake. In her […]

Editorial

Climate change and the commons

Rana Bose, Nilambri Ghai and Jody Freeman

In the past couple of years, we have all discussed and dissected, with intensity, the man-made climatological changes that have hit our earth. It has become frustratingly clear that it is not enough to debate the science, the […]

Editorial

Faith, culture, identity: setting a new stage

Jody Freeman

Veteran war correspondent, Robert Fisk, speaking to a packed house at St. James United Church in Montréal in 2015, reflected on ISIS and the colonial history that has fomented justifiable resentment across much of the Middle East and […]

Interview

Rumble: the Indians who Rocked the World

Jody Freeman, with Catherine Bainbridge and Ernest Webb

Interview with Catherine Bainbridge and Ernest Webb Introduction: The evening of the interview, I showed up at Catherine and Ernie’s door. Ernie had just come back from a rehearsal with the Montréal Symphony Orchestra for Tomson Highway’s opera, […]

Interview

Checking our blind spots: An interview with Alexa Conradi

Jody Freeman

What we ask for is true justice: justice for ourselves, justice for our daughters, justice for our grand-daughters…

Tribute

Walking in Beauty and with Power – the Spirit of an Ojibwe Elder, Art Solomon

Jody Freeman

[This tribute to Art Solomon is an adaptation of a radio documentary written for Radio Canada International in 1995, a year and a half before he died. Now, twenty years after his death, his words and actions and powerful spirit […]

Art

Mile End Murals

Jody Freeman

Portrait of Nina Simone, heart blazing, on Jeanne Mance St., by Montréal street artist (and jazz singer) MissMe, who describes herself as “an artful vandal.” For more on MissMe, go to her website at http://www.miss-me-art.com/. (Photo by Jody Freeman) —– Anonymous mural […]

Poetry

Ellipse & For daughters I can’t call mine

Jody Freeman

Ellipse I am the chaos of my father’s order I am the conscience of his delight I am the fantasy of his prison I am the mirror of my father’s light I am the axis of his revolution I […]