Here I was, a seventy-year old Canadian artist, and yet I found the garment workers in Bangladesh eager to participate and to be part of something.
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Like so many artist-creators who felt somewhat suffocated under our country’s last political regime, for me it was like a breath of fresh air when our new government was formed. Cuts to the CBC and the arts gave […]
Guy Rodgers, writer and scenariste, has been a tireless campaigner for English Language Artists in Montreal Quebec.
Jeff Barnaby was born on a Mi’gmaq reserve in Listujug, Quebec. He has worked as an artist, poet, author and filmmaker who was recently nominated at the Genie awards for best short film – File Under Miscellaneous (2010). His work […]
Kamal AlJafari’s Port of Memory (2010) is situated in the port of Jaffa. The film explores the formation of time in space—durational affect—and constitutes a relation of space and architecture via the cinematic lens that conjures up a new way […]
In January 2009 Caryl Churchill penned the play Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza in response to Israel’s Operation Cast Lead military strike upon Gaza. Cast Lead lasted 3 weeks, ending January 18th 2009 and was responsible for the […]
Scott Camil in Vietnam, taken from archival footage used in the Winter Soldier documentary. In his life Scott Camil has been shot three times: twice in Vietnam and once by the US government. A well known anti-war activist and […]
—> Click on this text to hear Janet Lumb play the “Chant of Maarya”. Interview Q. You are a musician, a sax player, film composer and activist. How do you combine all this? A. They are all for me […]