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Some of My Best Music Teachers Are Prison Inmates

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In Conversation with Steve Bell by Wanda Waterman The Voice, Volume 22 Issue 45 2014-11-14 Steve Bell is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer from Winnipeg, Manitoba. After years of working with other artists, in 1989 he experienced a spiritual awakening, after which he created his own label—Signpost Music—for which he recorded fifteen solo albums. He’s now marking the 25th anniversary of Signpost with a multi-disk recording project, a tour of Canada. A feature-length documentary is now being made about his life and career. He’s won many awards, including two Junos. Recently he took the time to answer Wanda Waterman’s … Continue reading Some of My Best Music Teachers Are Prison Inmates

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Saturday Morning Cartoons with Eros and Thanatos

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by Wanda Waterman The Voice, Volume 22 Issue 44 2014-11-07 Film: Eight Animazing Short Stories “Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.” – B.R. Hayden These international animated shorts, winners of the first ever AniMazing Spotlight competition, have some common elements. There’s no dialogue in any of them, for one thing, which makes them watchable in any country, and the themes are universal. The films were judged for uniqueness, quality of narrative, character, animation, ingenuity, sound, and, yes, the message. The judges are from all over the world and come from very different … Continue reading Saturday Morning Cartoons with Eros and Thanatos