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Adrienne Smith joins Am Johal and Melissa Roach in conversation for episode 12 of Below the Radar.
Author: Smith, Adrienne, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Roach, Melissa
Date created: 2019-03-11
This episode of Below the Radar features feminist Madeleine Shaw in conversation with Melissa Roach and Maria Cecilia Saba.
Author: Shaw, Madeleine, Author: Roach, Melissa, Author: Saba, Maria Cecilia
Date created: 2019-04-22
Episode 16 features Libby Davies, an activist and former Member of Parliament for Vancouver East. Libby spent the past four decades advocating for the Downtown Eastside community as a grassroots organizer, and an elected representative at the municipal and federal levels. She was also the first publicly out woman to be elected to parliament in Canada. SFU’s Melissa Roach and Jamie-Leigh Gonzales interview Libby about her newly released memoir, “Outside In”, covering her early days of community organizing, her experiences as a woman in politics, and representing her community’s concerns in Ottawa.
Author: Davies, Libby , Author: Roach, Melissa, Author: Gonzales, Jamie-Leigh
Date created: 2019-05-06
A visual artist who grew up in Vancouver’s Chinatown, Gwen Boyle’s work explores movement, history, and place. The granddaughter of a Pender Street jeweller, Gwen draws inspiration from the sights and sounds of her childhood — the clinking of beads on an abacus, the hammering of jade, the melting of gold. Gwen is in conversation with host Am Johal about experiences from her Chinatown upbringing. She shares what led her to pursue a lifelong career in art, and her fascination with the Arctic. She also speaks to some of her particular works, including the public art installation, “Abacus (Suan Phan),” an interactive sculpture symbolic of “merchants and old social fabric of Shanghai Alley and Chinatown.”
Author: Gwen Boyle, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Fiorella Pinillos, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alex Abahmed
Date created: 2020-10-29