This week Hanna Petersen brings Community Forum voices from the North Burnaby Community Fair, while Nathalie Lopez talks to members of the community at the Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood house!
Audio Work
Interview with Poet Chelene Knight – CJSF 90.1 FM
CJSF presents a live recording of poetry open mic at EWMA’s East Side Friday (last Friday each month). On April 29th, Enterprising Women Making Art (EWMA) hosted an evening of poetry, spoken word, and storytelling. It featured Chelene Knight, whose writing is deeply rooted in her experiences of mixed ethnicity. Recently, Chelene has been exploring the idea of “home” in her writing and poetry. She reads from BRAIDED SKIN and unpublished poetry, and speaks to producer Hanna about her work.
Meet the East Coast Creative Collective
This is a talk tape I did for the Radio Room. My colleague Tim Callanan and I went out and found where creative people like to congregate in Halifax. Surprise, surprise, It was at a bar.
Check out the cool people we met and hear what kind of creative shenanigans went on with a pencil in one hand and a beer in the other.
A Gaelic Story
This was a pak I did for CKDU’s the Radio Room. It’s a half hour show produced by the King’s radio workshop.
I went to a Gaelic language conference at Dalhousie and learned a little more about Gaelic language and culture.
Halifax Music Co-op gets a new home
This is a pak I did for CKDU’s the Radio Room. It’s produced from the King’s radio workshop. I caught up with the Halifax Music Co-op and checked out their new digs.
At the time I made this piece they had just moved in to their new home. Now they’ve been awarded over 30,000 dollars for some much needed renovations.
Under the Bandshell Documentary Sample
This is a sample of the documentary I made in March 2014.
It’s the story of a true hidden gem in Halifax. Maurice McGaffney is a very talented pianist in his seventies.
But he’s never had one lesson – and he can’t read a note of music. He has a very unconventional style of playing and a hundred stories to tell. I was fortunate enough to hear a few of them.
Hanna Petersen 