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.
Film: Without Shepherds Directors: Cary McClelland, Imran Babur Producer: Cary McClelland Genre: Documentary Forget Everything You Thought You Knew About Pakistan “The path I’m on is right for me. There’s pleasure in the seeking. There is a joy in it. It has a sweetness. Yes, sometimes there is bitterness, but when you digest it, it… Read more »
Album: Cécile McLorin Salvant, Woman Child Genre: Jazz ?You can’t copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means You’re working without any real feeling.? Billie Holiday The Finest Female Jazz Singer Out There Right Now, Bar None What if you were to discover a singer born with an amazingly mellifluous voice, who… Read more »
Film: Welcome to Pine Hill Director: Keith Miller Cast: Shannon Harper, Mary Myers, Landon Van Soest, Jaiden Kaine, Keith Miller, Katie Vitale ?The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.? John F. Kennedy Reality… Read more »
Film: Detropia Directors: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady Genre: Documentary The Dystopian Landscape of Your Punk Dreams ?These people lost this house to taxes. So the city just lets it sit empty and pyromaniacs come and they burn it up, and this is repeated all over the city. You got these guys who love fires…. Read more »
?Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.? Mason Cooley Billy Martin is a percussionist, filmmaker, music producer, composer, sculptor, visual artist, and carpenter and is part of the groundbreaking jazz trio Martin, Medeski & Wood. His latest musical production (due out this month) is Road to Jajouka, a remix tribute to… Read more »
A Singular Devotion to Liberated Means of Expression ?Whether It’s music or films or my drawings, I take the same approach: I improvise. I do have conceptual ideas I try to realize, but I think the best stuff comes out of improvisation. It comes from the same place, the same creative part of myself in… Read more »
