In this collection of stories,
Dominoes at the Crossroads, Kaie Kellough navigates Canada s Caribbean diaspora, as they seek music and a connection to their past. Through a broad cast of characters including jazz musicians, hitchhikers, suburbanites, student radicals, secret agents, historians and their fugitive slave ancestors Kellough stretches the stories from Montreal s Old Port to as far as the South American rainforests.
Kellough is a writer based in Montreal. His novel
Accordéon was a finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award in 2017. He is also the author of the poetry collection
All in a Weekend13:55Kaie Kellough tips one narrative into the other with Dominoes at the CrossroadsMontreal author Kaie Kellough weaves together a series of interconnected short stories from different narrators from the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, with common themes around identity, belonging, coming of age and revolution. He shared his inspiration for the award-winning
Author: Heidi Greco (Anvil Press, 2021)
During the early 1970s, Hollywood experienced a transformation of thematic motives and ideas in the performing arts. More specifically, movies as well as TV shows and music began to change popular culture by responding to ongoing issues pivotal in American life and politics in a boldly critical manner.
Hal Ashby’s 1971-movie, Harold and Maude, falls under this very category the plot focusing on a forbidden love affair between a young, lost man and an old woman. But at a deeper level, the movie deals with critical issues such as trauma, the Freudian theme of Eros and Thanatos, the dance between love for life and desire for death, the absurdity of war, criticism of the establishment with all its political and religious connotations, and questioning societal norms.
2020 will be remembered as a transformative year around the world. How did it change Vancouver?
For the sixth year, the Vancouver City Planning Commission brings together our city’s top urban thinkers, planners and advocates for our annual year-in-review forum a discussion of how the last year’s events and decisions will shape where Vancouver is heading.
The panel on February 18, 2021 includes
Kamala Todd, an Indigenous urban community planner and filmmaker;
Alex Boston, a renewable, resilient +restorative cities specialist;
Anthonia Ogendule, a Black community leader empowering youth to transform communities and shift culture; and,
Jesse Donaldson, an author and journalist who shines a provocative light on Vancouver’s civic culture and history.
This 2021, you can expand your reading list and consider these Filipino writers and publishers.
With the country’s notoriously fickle internet connectivity and the continuing danger of physical contact, I find books a safe remedy to the growing loneliness of lockdown. Many local cultural workers and institutions, despite the punishing circumstances of this current crisis, are putting out work, which deserve a much larger audience. This 2021, you can expand your reading list and consider these Filipino writers and publishers.
National Publishers
The country’s biggest publishers often still have books worth checking out. Anvil Publishing has repackaged several Filipino classics for a contemporary audience, including Manuel Arguilla, Lope K. Santos, and the always fabulous Nick Joaquin. Books from the dearly departed Visprint Inc Bob Ong’s bestsellers, Agay Llanera’s heartfelt “Choco Chip Hips,” “Kikomachine,” and “Trese” comics have found a second life in A
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