Yesterday some time, Kathryn Marshall fired back against the angry letters, emails and critical writing that we have been amassing on the internet against her widely disputed interview with Ezra Levant. The link is posted below to her personal blog so you can read it for yourself. Megan Dart pointed it out to me this morning, and I had a chance to read it, go grab a cup of tea and think on it.
Friday, July 8, 2011
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Thoughts from 'Artists'
I always feel weird putting up posts or smart, insightful words my friends put up and know that the main categorization that I put them under is 'artist'. The word 'artist' is something easy for the public to separate a sense of 'us' and 'them' from. But in truth, I do fundamentally believe that everyone has artistic talent, everyone has a desire, and capability to express themselves artistically. Which is not to detract from us who make a career out of it, some of us choose to do it professionally, whatever that means.
But in the interests of making 'artists' less faceless, less like French mimes, less like your high school Drama queen who waxed Shakespeare at you, less like that hippie chick you always see walking down the street with a sketchbook, artists are people, Canadians, in this case, who are interested in presenting ideas, truths, and stories to their audiences. As wide and as varied as our nation is, we produce artists of ever walk, vocation, media, and message there is. Here's some interesting snippets of responses since the Sun Media explosion.
But in the interests of making 'artists' less faceless, less like French mimes, less like your high school Drama queen who waxed Shakespeare at you, less like that hippie chick you always see walking down the street with a sketchbook, artists are people, Canadians, in this case, who are interested in presenting ideas, truths, and stories to their audiences. As wide and as varied as our nation is, we produce artists of ever walk, vocation, media, and message there is. Here's some interesting snippets of responses since the Sun Media explosion.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Megan Dart on Taking The Fight to Sun News
Artist, Writer, Blogger and Social Media Guru Megan Dart took the time this morning to write a detailed post about what we can do as concerned Citizens about misleading and untruthful journalism that Sun News Network is perpetuating.
Check out her post here.
http://www.facebook.com/notes/megan-dart/seven-things-you-can-do-to-stick-it-to-sun-news/10150233563938865
If you don't have or don't like facebook, you can also find it here.
http://yegartsandpolitics.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/seventhings/
Also I got the video uploaded into youtube after a ripping job, apologies for the low quality but I didn't want to run more passes or spend more than half an hour on it today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRdHyxKZkTw
Check out her post here.
http://www.facebook.com/notes/megan-dart/seven-things-you-can-do-to-stick-it-to-sun-news/10150233563938865
If you don't have or don't like facebook, you can also find it here.
http://yegartsandpolitics.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/seventhings/
Also I got the video uploaded into youtube after a ripping job, apologies for the low quality but I didn't want to run more passes or spend more than half an hour on it today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRdHyxKZkTw
Monday, July 4, 2011
Sun News Network Attacks Artists
This has literally just made its way across my desk. I'm in rehearsal right now composing on the fly while stage managing and now am having difficulty doing either until I write about this.
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