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.
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 »
Ingrid D. Johnson is a Winnipeg-based singer-songwriter with a deeply soulful rhythm-and-blues feel that evokes the girl pop singers of the early ?60s. With her band The Funky Fresh Crew, she released her debut full-length album What About Love? on October 9. A Jamaican who came to Canada with her family at the age of… 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 »
My family’s been skipping back and forth across the Canadian-American border for generations, and many of us, including yours truly, hold dual citizenship. The events of September 11 persuaded the government to demand for the first time that we get passports to move between our two native lands, for which inconvenience we felt mildly insulted…. Read more »
Film: Mysteries of Lisbon (2011) Director: Raul Ruiz Screenwriter: Carlos Saboga (based on the novel by Camilo Castelo Branco) Genre: Drama/Art House/International ?He was a just and virtuous man who was unfortunate.? from Mysteries of Lisbon ?She has a shrine of love in her heart. They turned it into a cup of bile.? from Mysteries… Read more »
Film: Kinyarwanda (Visigoth Pictures 2011) Writer/Director: Alrick Brown Cast: Edourd Bamporiki, Cassandra Freeman, Cleophas Kabasiita Genre: Dramatization based on real events ?Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.? Martin Luther King, Jr. ?Forgiveness is the final form of love.? Reinhold Niebuhr Same… Read more »
