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Smiling Into A Broken World

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In Conversation With Resala by Wanda Waterman The Voice, Volume 22 Issue 40 2014-10-10 “Give charity without delay, for it stands in the way of calamity.” – the Prophet Mohamed, quoted by Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 589 The Resala Charity Organization is an Egyptian charity that recruits volunteers to serve the needy. Some of its actions include caring for the elderly, orphans, the blind, the deaf, financially strapped families, and children with special needs, as well as conducting blood drives and secondhand clothing drives, recycling, medical care, tutoring, and literacy training. Recently Abdulazeez Al-saeed, the manager of the Tanta branch of Resala, … Continue reading Smiling Into A Broken World

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From the Archives: The Earthwork Interview

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by Wanda Waterman First published in The Voice Magazie, Volume 15 Issue 45 2007-11-30 The Earthwork Interview I wasn’t old enough to be a true hippy when hippiedom first started taking root in Bear River, Nova Scotia, back in the early 1970s; I was far too young, still in my early teens and going to school with fishermen’s kids who wanted nothing more in life than to become conspicuous consumers. After school I was minding the babies of people who lived in apartments above their own health food outlets, or geodesic domes or log cabins or teepees or very old … Continue reading From the Archives: The Earthwork Interview

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In Conversation With Gillian Sze

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by Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 32 2014-08-15 Gillian Sze is a Montreal-based poet who studied creative writing at Concordia University and who has already achieved numerous accolades for two books of poetry, Fish Bones and The Anatomy of Clay (recommended here in the Voice). Recently she took some time to answer Wanda Waterman’s questions about childhood, sensitivity, and feeding the muse. Read the interview here. Poetry: “Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.” – Marianne Moore   Continue reading In Conversation With Gillian Sze

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Everyone Should Have One’s Own Museum

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In Conversation With Susan Malmstrom, Part II by Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 31 2014-08-08 “You’re wrong. She is a phony. But on the other hand you’re right. She isn’t a phony because she’s a real phony. She believes all this crap she believes. You can’t talk her out of it.” – Truman Capote, from Breakfast at Tiffany’s Susan Malmstrom is an artist specializing in digitally produced photography. She grew up in California, receiving a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from the University of California at Irvine, and has lived in Canada since 2004. Her … Continue reading Everyone Should Have One’s Own Museum

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From the Archives: In Conversation With Film Scholar Francesco Casetti

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by Wanda Waterman First seen in the Voice Magazine, Volume 16 Issue 49 2008-12-19 Francesco Casetti is a renowned professor of cinematography and author of the recent Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity (see Voice review here). Mr. Casetti is chair of the Department of Media and Performing Arts at the Università Cattolica in Milan and was recently a Visiting Professor at Yale University. Recently, Mr. Casetti spoke with The Voice from Connecticut. “The cinema is exactly this: an experience that vacillates between the possibility of an excitement beyond measure, and an adherence to measures that avoid all risk. … Continue reading From the Archives: In Conversation With Film Scholar Francesco Casetti