One of the best things about heading to the cabin in the summer is the opportunity to stop and be still. For Monica Kidd, that also means listening to the soundscape that underscores time spent at her family’s cabin in the Bay of Exploits. Here is a soundscape she produced featuring the sounds of making…
Under the city canopy, many voices reach for the sun. One rises. Up and up and up. (Print by Albrecht Dürer, www.britishmuseum.org) CLICK ON THE RECORDING TO LISTEN
In this second and final part of The Shoe Project (2018), you will hear the voices of performance coach Denise Clarke and participants Joy Ebenezer-Alawode of Nigeria, Michelle Huang of China, Svitlana Goncharenko of Ukraine, Maryann Abid of Iran, Valerie Jamga Tchatchoua of Cameroon, Roya Chalaki of Iran, Ivy Caines of the Philippines, and Nasima…
Every woman knows the power of a good pair of shoes, right? While the old cliché hints at shoes as a symbol of vanity, there is a unique literacy program in Canada that builds on the bond between women and shoes as a way to allow more women’s stories to be told. The Shoe Project…
She holds sun in her arms, beams. Called forth to music by Faraday’s child. CLICK TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING
A man, tattooed and shorn, picks a plum from the ground of the garden of the monks. Blows it off, pops it in his mouth. And is mendicant. CLICK TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING
Quiet evening, old bell calls. Wood here bends to the trusting weight of stone. CLICK TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING
Look out to Exploits, the sun setting at your back. Stay with me. It’s yours. CLICK TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING
Hold the book, let your eyes run. There are worlds in here — lift them from the page. CLICK TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING
Rocker-bottom pot rattles and rolls, the morning percussed by oatmeal. CLICK TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING
Chop your wood t’will warm you twice; then bake your bread and warm you thrice. CLICK TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING
A dead whale and man and his crackie complain about the cost of things. A truck coughs down Marine Drive. CLICK TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING
In 2016, Monica Kidd and her family spent a month at their cabin in the Bay of Exploits. Busy working on a novel at the time, her father-in-law challenged her to write a story about the capelin fishery instead. He was upset that the capelin hadn’t rolled that year, there were no whales, and there…
Missing my babies from way down in Antarctica. CLICK TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING
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Issues of immigration have been front and centre in the news lately. But behind the cacophony of international politics are all the small stories… those of loss and of new beginnings… that we don’t hear so often. The Shoe Project means to change all that. The brainchild of Toronto novelist Katherine Govier, The Shoe Project…
(Dolphin chatter – recorded with an underwater GoPro!) CLICK TO LISTEN TO THE RECORDING
Proper little shit-covered fellows. They go on and on, persisting. CLICK TO LISTEN TO RECORDING