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CBC RADIOACTIVE INTERVIEW
On Friday July 24, CBC Radioactive did an interview with me about my blog post on ‘safety’ in the downtown core. They also wanted to interview the amazing Leila Sidi about a powerful post she wrote on Facebook about her Dad’s LRT shop, but she was on the road. So I did the inter...
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On Friday July 24, CBC Radioactive did an interview with me about my blog post on ‘safety’ in the downtown core. They also wanted to interview the amazing Leila Sidi about a powerful post she wrote on Facebook about her Dad’s LRT shop, but she was on the road. So I did the inter...
Published at Urbane Adventurer
CBC RADIOACTIVE INTERVIEW
On Friday July 24, CBC Radioactive did an interview with me about my blog post on ‘safety’ in the downtown core. They also wanted to interview the amazing Leila Sidi about a powerful post she wrote on Facebook about her Dad’s LRT shop, but she was on the road. So I did the inter...
Published at Urbane Adventurer
On Friday July 24, CBC Radioactive did an interview with me about my blog post on ‘safety’ in the downtown core. They also wanted to interview the amazing Leila Sidi about a powerful post she wrote on Facebook about her Dad’s LRT shop, but she was on the road. So I did the inter...
Published at Urbane Adventurer
Building building building
In 2011, I wrote about my maternal Grandpa Croucher’s autobody shop in downtown Edmonton. I was quite small when he sold the family business that his father had built when he settled in Edmonton post-WWI. That business was Albert’s Autobody, which still stands next to the Hope Mission...
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In 2011, I wrote about my maternal Grandpa Croucher’s autobody shop in downtown Edmonton. I was quite small when he sold the family business that his father had built when he settled in Edmonton post-WWI. That business was Albert’s Autobody, which still stands next to the Hope Mission...
Published at Urbane Adventurer
Building building building
In 2011, I wrote about my maternal Grandpa Croucher’s autobody shop in downtown Edmonton. I was quite small when he sold the family business that his father had built when he settled in Edmonton post-WWI. That business was Albert’s Autobody, which still stands next to the Hope Mission...
Published at Urbane Adventurer
In 2011, I wrote about my maternal Grandpa Croucher’s autobody shop in downtown Edmonton. I was quite small when he sold the family business that his father had built when he settled in Edmonton post-WWI. That business was Albert’s Autobody, which still stands next to the Hope Mission...
Published at Urbane Adventurer
dancing aspen trees and lullabies for the lonely
(you can listen to this post here) It’s evening. I’m on the train and outside the world is entering that dusky summery time when everything feels like it’s melting from one realm to another. The golden hour. My favourite hour. And as the sun sets and the sky and grass are dancin...
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(you can listen to this post here) It’s evening. I’m on the train and outside the world is entering that dusky summery time when everything feels like it’s melting from one realm to another. The golden hour. My favourite hour. And as the sun sets and the sky and grass are dancin...
Published at Urbane Adventurer
dancing aspen trees and lullabies for the lonely
It’s evening. I’m on the train and outside the world is entering that dusky summery time when everything feels like it’s melting from one realm to another. The golden hour. My favourite hour. And as the sun sets and the sky and grass are dancing in the soft dusk light, I’m...
Published at Urbane Adventurer
It’s evening. I’m on the train and outside the world is entering that dusky summery time when everything feels like it’s melting from one realm to another. The golden hour. My favourite hour. And as the sun sets and the sky and grass are dancing in the soft dusk light, I’m...
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Support Elizabeth Pensée’s project Space Canoe
You can support the amazingly talented and brilliant thinker and artist Elizabeth Pensée here: she has lost everything in a fire and could really use some collective financial support to help make her gorgeous project Spacecanoe come to life. On her gofundme page she explains: “Spacecanoe i...
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You can support the amazingly talented and brilliant thinker and artist Elizabeth Pensée here: she has lost everything in a fire and could really use some collective financial support to help make her gorgeous project Spacecanoe come to life. On her gofundme page she explains: “Spacecanoe i...
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Anger and Love
I’ve been reading and re-reading Sara Ahmed’s recent piece “Against Students“. Letting her words tumble around in my head. Hardly believing a tenured professor is willing to say these things, to name these things. Her piece goes against everything we are taught as academic...
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I’ve been reading and re-reading Sara Ahmed’s recent piece “Against Students“. Letting her words tumble around in my head. Hardly believing a tenured professor is willing to say these things, to name these things. Her piece goes against everything we are taught as academic...
Published at Urbane Adventurer
affective films: filming change in Edmonton and Vancouver
So, today I offer to you affecting films about community, homelessness, working together. This film, “Give Me Solace”, is by my cousin, Savanna Todd. She made the film as part of the ‘Housing Matters Media Project in BC’s Lower Mainland (on unceded Coast Salish Territory)....
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So, today I offer to you affecting films about community, homelessness, working together. This film, “Give Me Solace”, is by my cousin, Savanna Todd. She made the film as part of the ‘Housing Matters Media Project in BC’s Lower Mainland (on unceded Coast Salish Territory)....
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READ THE TRC REPORT: “The Arts: Practicing resistance, healing, and reconciliation pg. 329-332″
Here is a really relevant section of the TRC Report for us to watch this week. Thank you, Coty, for participating in the #ReadTheTRCReport project. And thank you to the overwhelming support we have received from people across the country to help make this report accessible in different formats.
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Here is a really relevant section of the TRC Report for us to watch this week. Thank you, Coty, for participating in the #ReadTheTRCReport project. And thank you to the overwhelming support we have received from people across the country to help make this report accessible in different formats.
Published at Urbane Adventurer
So long and thanks
I have worked hard over the last few years to really engage critically but from a place of love with this city. I moved away to pursue a PhD because, well, you cannot do all your degrees in the same place and be taken seriously in the academy. Or so they say. In either case, … Continue read...
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I have worked hard over the last few years to really engage critically but from a place of love with this city. I moved away to pursue a PhD because, well, you cannot do all your degrees in the same place and be taken seriously in the academy. Or so they say. In either case, … Continue read...
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Interview on CKCU’s Friday Blend re: #ReadTheTRCReport
This morning I had the great pleasure of speaking about our #ReadTheTRCReport on CKCU (Ottawa)’s Friday Special Blend with Bob LeDrew and Susan Johnston. The interview starts at the 43:30 mark. http://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/player.raw.html?id=22574&token=l%3C%3F9Y%7CO%25%3F%3A%26E%60a%...
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This morning I had the great pleasure of speaking about our #ReadTheTRCReport on CKCU (Ottawa)’s Friday Special Blend with Bob LeDrew and Susan Johnston. The interview starts at the 43:30 mark. http://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/player.raw.html?id=22574&token=l%3C%3F9Y%7CO%25%3F%3A%26E%60a%...
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Some thoughts on art and self-determination (a Twitter essay)
(and one last one, for good measure)
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(and one last one, for good measure)
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READ THE TRC: VIDEO READING PROJECT (#ReadTheTRCReport)
Chelsea Vowel has created a call to action for all of us: READ THE TRC REPORT. Please read her article here: http://apihtawikosisan.com/2015/06/reaction-to-the-trc-not-all-opinions-are-equal-or-valid/ We heed her words and want to turn the report into something that people can access through mult...
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Chelsea Vowel has created a call to action for all of us: READ THE TRC REPORT. Please read her article here: http://apihtawikosisan.com/2015/06/reaction-to-the-trc-not-all-opinions-are-equal-or-valid/ We heed her words and want to turn the report into something that people can access through mult...
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A manifesto for the Edmonton arts scene (#boycottyegarts)
Sometimes, when you keep seeing the same apologetics trotted out to justify harmful behaviours in the art world, you get tired. You try to write eloquently about it. You wonder if you’re being over-sensitive. But then you stumble across a drawing of a scalped Indigenous person, and you thin...
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Sometimes, when you keep seeing the same apologetics trotted out to justify harmful behaviours in the art world, you get tired. You try to write eloquently about it. You wonder if you’re being over-sensitive. But then you stumble across a drawing of a scalped Indigenous person, and you thin...
Published at Urbane Adventurer
