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.
Patricia Deslauriers is the Quebecois jazz contrabassist spearheading the Patricia Deslauriers Trio, whose recording debut is a reverent tribute to the songs of beloved Quebec songster Richard Desjardins (read the Voice review here). Recently Patricia took the time to answer Wanda Waterman’s questions about her beginnings. ?Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making… Read more »
Film: Frankenweenie Director: Tim Burton Cast: Charlie Tahan, Frank Welker, Winona Ryder, Catherine O?Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau, Robert Capron, Atticus Shaffer The Very Mortal Deadlock Between Love and Power ?MR. RZYKRUSKI: Your country needs more scientists. They should make more. You should be a scientist. VICTOR: Nobody likes scientists. MR. RZYKRUSKI: They like what… Read more »
Film: Keyhole (2011) Director: Guy Maddin Cast: Jason Patric, Isabella Rossellini, Udo Keir, David Wontner, Kevin McDonald ?She was so naked. No one’s ever been so naked. I’ve kind of lost it. Where are we? we’re in a locked room.? from Keyhole Ulysses is in the House (But Is That Really a Good Thing?) This… Read more »
Album: Lucky Lucky Artists: Patricia Deslauriers Trio (Patricia Deslauriers on bass, Guy St-Onge on piano, Paul Brochu on drums) ?Le saumon rendu à la mer, le prisonnier dans les bras de son père, Le goéland dans le dépotoir, la bijouterie, la barre de fer. Du rock?n?roll sur ma misère, le brochet noir dans le banc… Read more »
Film: Pina: A film for Pina Bausch Director: Wim Wenders ?Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.? Pina Bausch A Physical Poem Whittled From the Core of Human Experience Ernest Sprott, my favourite English professor, once said, ?If you can’t put your thought into words, then perhaps It’s not a thought.? I believe he said this… Read more »
Missy Mazzoli is a New York composer who recently completed Song from the Uproar, an opera based on the life and writings of Isabelle Eberhardt, an eccentric 19th-century Swiss aristocrat who moved to Algeria and converted to Islam (read the Voice review of Mazzoli’s album here). Mazzoli’s compositions have been performed by the Kronos Quartet,… Read more »
This feature originally appeared November 16, 2012, in issue 2044. 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… Read more »
