Medulla
Written August 15, 2014
I exist in this world as if I were an endangered species…
Poetry Corner: Heidy M ‘Medulla’
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I exist in this world as if I were an endangered species…
The Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) returns this year with over 100 artists and authors from 11 countries. The 2024 festival will explore the concept of “writing home” – from books and stories about the places we all call home, to the ideas, cultures and conflicts that inform what home means to us.
TIFA always gives us an opportunity to hear from and meet some new authors like Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez.
Lisandro Alonso‘s Eureka is an atmospheric, contemplative film structured as a triptych that explores the experiences of Indigenous peoples across the Americas that spans time, geography, and history.
Paying For It, the live-action adaptation of Chester Brown’s best-selling graphic novel, “a comic-strip memoir about being a john”, co-written and directed by Sook-Yin Lee (Octavio is Dead! Year of the Carnivore) had its world premiere in the Platform programme at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.
Aluna Theatre presents its 6th edition of the RUTAS International Performing Arts Festival this month. For two weeks, RUTAS will present a variety of theatre and dance performances, installations, workshops, and a three day gathering in partnership with Factory Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, York University, Hemispheric Encounters, and the Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition (CALTAC).
Part caper, part road trip, part spiritual journey, So Surreal: Behind the Masks follows award-winning Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond (Reel Injun, Red Fever) as he travels coast-to-coast and across the Atlantic and back, gradually piecing together this groundbreaking global story of influence, reconnection and hopeful restitution.
Written and directed by Ryan Cooper and Eva Thomas, Aberdeen shines a light on the indomitable Aberdeen, who has been forced from her home due to flooding. As she adjusts to big-city life, she must face the inter-generational cycle of trauma that has been tearing her family apart for 5 generations in order to protect her grandchildren.
The TIFF Docs programme is one I often support each year I attend the festival. Documentaries have a way to get us to learn and discuss topics that can be sensitive, infuriating and at times quite difficult yet necessary to address.
At TIFF this year, I watched two documentaries covering the war in Ukraine. Below is a brief summary of each and some thoughts I would like to share with you.
CORPUS will have the North American premiere of the company’s original theatrical work Mukashi, Mukashi (Once upon a time) this month.
A co-production with Japan’s The Kio Company, Mukashi, Mukashi explores two iconic fairy tale characters from Western and Japanese folklore: The Wolf, from ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and the Crane, from ‘The Gratitude of the Crane’.
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