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.
“Strangers looking fine, like nothing’s on the line, but deep, deep down inside we’d all want to resign if nothing’s on the line, we wouldn’t last the night if nothing’s on the line.” – Faded Paper Figures, “On The Line” Faded Paper Figures (FPF), an indie trio comprised of Heather, R. John Williams, and Kael… Read more »
Film: Advantageous Director: Jennifer Phang Writers: Jennifer Phang and Jacqueline Kim “It’s good to be humble, but you need to know your value. The wisdom, the ideas, and the kindness in you? That’s the secret beauty everyone wants.” – quote from Advantageous Advantageous is a valuable addition to the tradition of Brave New World, 1984,… Read more »
Film: Behind the Blue Veil Director: Robyn Symon “They were the men and the women of the sand, of the wind, of the light, of the night. They appeared as in a dream, at the crest of a dune, as if they were born of the cloudless sky.” ~Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio The opening scene… Read more »
(Read the first part of this article here.) “The more you understand the music, the easier you can dance.” – Orlando Gutinez Mezwed is a highly sensual?and danceable?musical genre. One of my earliest encounters with it was at a wedding in Gafsa; this having been my first visit to Tunisia, I was not at all… Read more »
“I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.” – Brian Eno Meeting Gaddour We encounter Abdelkadr, who is better known as Gaddour, at our local café, where we often see him coming and going. He’s a friendly guy with a lot of… Read more »
Album: Relics Artist: Faded Paper Figures “To become a meditating astronaut, in our view, means using our technological and political tools to come to a more thoughtful, earth-saving perspective, realizing that our place in the cosmos is small, sacred, and fragile.” – Faded Paper Figures A glance at their day jobs? Heather Alden is a… Read more »