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.
Michael Gauthier is a Montreal-based musician who teaches jazz guitar at the University of Montreal and at McGill University. A long-time fixture of the Montreal jazz scene, his memory houses a vast and irreplaceable knowledge of the history of jazz in Montreal since the sixties. Recently he took the time to answer Wanda Waterman’s questions… Read more »
Book: Art as Therapy Authors:Alain de Botton and John Armstrong “Growth occurs when we discover how to be authentically ourselves in the presence of potentially threatening things.” – Alain de Botton and John Armstrong in Art as Therapy Angelica Kauffmann was the darling of European aristocracy not only because of her gifts as a portraitist,… Read more »
“One of the things I like about Jazz, kid, is I don’t know what’s going to happen next. Do you?” – Bix Beiderbecke “Ahhh, those Jazz guys are just makin? that stuff up!” – Homer Simpson Michael Gauthier is a Montreal-based musician who teaches jazz guitar at the University of Montreal and at McGill University…. Read more »
Album: Alive Artist: Hiromi “I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity.” – Billy Joel “Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. I remember an English professor at Dalhousie who taught us… Read more »
Album: The Greatest Show on Mars Artist: Clothesline Revival “Never known to have performed before any live audiences on Earth, Clothesline Revival received an exclusive invitation to join an interplanetary circus on a mission to become the first musicians from Earth to entertain Martian colonists.” – from Clothesline Revival’s official website “I don’t know where… Read more »
“As emotionally poignant as it is damning, Inch?Allah is a wonderfully crafted film that will move you in a way unlike most films revolving around terrorism and conflict. It is an uncompromising look at the collateral of the decades-old conflict in the Middle East, venturing outside the realm of politics and political biases and presenting… Read more »
Book: Anatomy of Clay Author: Gillian Sze “It’s ordinary to love the beautiful, but it’s beautiful to love the ordinary.” – Anonymous Have you ever leafed through a stack of New Yorker issues just to check out what kind of poetry they publish? Did you conclude that the point was to be just as pointless… Read more »
“The primary cause of unhappiness is not the situation, but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral, which always is as it is.” – Eckhart Tolle “We move through the day with our mind almost continually occupied … While we are… Read more »
