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.
“Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.” Chris Martin Manteca is a nine-piece Toronto-based jazz ensemble whose music is notable for its buoyant enthusiasm, broad spectrum of influences, smarts, and incredible listening appeal. Monday Night at the Mensa Disco was released in September. It was fan-funded via Indiegogo, fans helped… Read more »
“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” Berthold Auerbach Manteca is a nine-piece Toronto-based jazz ensemble whose music is notable for its buoyant enthusiasm, broad spectrum of influences, smarts, and incredible listening appeal. Monday Night at the Mensa Disco, their ninth album, was released in September. Via Indiegogo, fans helped Manteca… Read more »
Album: Manteca, Monday Night at the Mensa Disco “We are driven by an intense desire to see the thrill in our audience’s eyes. With nine players on stage when we play an ensemble figure together there is a power and this kind of joyous impact surrounded by the silence between the notes that exhilarates us… Read more »
Film: Money and Life Director: Katie Teague Genre: Documentary “Planet Finance is now getting bigger than Planet Earth.” Rebecca Adamson, Indigenous Economics Advocate, quoted in Money & Life “I tell the story of a more beautiful world. To me That’s a story of the money but more broadly a story of the people. What’s happening… Read more »
“Comme aux pires moments de la colonization. Mais cette fois, la colonization est interne.” ~Soufiane Ben Farhat, La Presse de Tunisie, 24 October 2013 “By time, indeed, mankind is in loss, except for those who have believed and done righteous deeds and advised each other to truth and advised each other to patience.” [Quran, Surat… Read more »
Film: Much Ado About Nothing Director: Josh Whedon Genre: Comedy Lovers, Liars, and Tongue-Lashings “I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.” ~said by Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing At times this film reminds me of the Seinfeld episode in which, after some carefully laid… Read more »
Film: Computer Chess Director: Andrew Bujalski Genre: Mockumentary/Art House An Eerie Order Behind the Chaos “It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order? and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.” ~Douglas R. Hofstadter “Just take something mediocre and turbocharge it.”… Read more »
