In this episode, Anna Shah Hoque rounds off Season 3 with a chat with the fabulous guest producers of Season 3: Aedan Corey, Keegan Prempeh, Kole Peplinskie, Summer Harmony-Twenish and Matt Miwa.   They dive into how they have cultivated their art practices in Odawa, the push and pull relationship between sustaining a creative practice in a neoliberal capitalist economy, and how and each of their respective communities.  Thank you so much for joining us this season! Thank you to all the participants! What has been your favourite conversation? We hope you have a great summer!&nbs ..read more

In this episode, we begin at a local flower shop: Scrim's Florist on Elgin. Guest producer Matt Miwa and his invited guests Sumayya Mayet and Nesta Charles have all worked there and have each incorporated floral design into their art and creative practice.  Flower shops are unusual retail spaces; they invite artistic engagement and collaboration more than most other retail realms. Scrim's was also the first employment opportunity for both Sumayya and Nesta upon arriving in Ottawa from Johannesburg and St. Lucia (via Toronto), respectively.   This episode traces a day in the life ..read more

How can we honour ourselves through art and story? In episode 7, Hasina Kamanzi, Jade Sullivan and Anna Shah Hoque discuss storytelling in its various iterations, and explore its relationship to art, decoloniality, archives and Black and Brown joy.   They share laughs and stories of how their relationship to art grounds them in their histories, memories and communities.  Credits: Season 3 graphic created by Hunter Dewache. Custom intro / outro sounds created by Bucko aka Chris Binkowski. Podcast editing is by fin-xuan, with post-production audio work by Nicole Bedford. This seas ..read more

Episode 6 is guest produced by Summer-Harmony Twenish. It features a dive into queer Algonquin relationality with our homelands, histories and kin from the perspective of three young Anishinabe artists from Kitigan Zibi.  This episode emphasizes joy, hope and the importance of daydreaming about what our artistic practices could look like beyond settler-colonial and capitalist influences!  Credits: Season 3 graphic created by Hunter Dewache. Custom intro / outro sounds created by Bucko aka Chris Binkowski. Podcast editing is by fin-xuan, with post-production audio work by Ni ..read more

How does art make it possible to talk about the stories we inherit, the stories we contribute to and the stories we want to belong to?   Episode 5 features fin-xuan, Pree Rehal, Namitha Rathinappillai and Anna Shah Hoque joining for a compelling discussion about the importance of art and stories in their respective practices.   This conversation centres on friendships, developing a craft, lateral crossings and connections through creative practices and connecting intentionally to think about relationality, community and art-based storytelling.    Credits: Sea ..read more

Episode 4 features guest producer Keegan Prempeh with guests Jayel Lamont and Feza Lugoma in a conversation exploring their relationships with Blackness, artistic expression and belonging.   The discussion is gratefully guided by the words of authors James Baldwin and Sobonfu Somé. Listen in as they trace the intricacies of creativity, diaspora identity and connection to community.  Credits: Season 3 graphic created by Hunter Dewache. Custom intro / outro sounds created by Bucko aka Chris Binkowski. Podcast editing is by Fin-xuan. This season of To Be Continued: Troubling the Ar ..read more

Episode 3 features Mailyne K. Briggs and Namitha Rathinappillai with host Anna Shah Hoque. They consider the work of spoken acts of memory and identity, connection to language and community in the diaspora.   This conversation allows us to lean into stories of creative practices through linguistic projects to connect, claim, and attend to home, self and diaspora.  Credits: Season 3 graphic created by Hunter Dewache. Custom intro / outro sounds created by Bucko aka Chris Binkowski. Podcast editing is by Fin-xuan. This season of To Be Continued: Troubling the Archive is generously ..read more

Episode 2 features guest producer Kole Peplinskie (they/them), Anishinabe artist and beadworker @rustlingpine, in conversation with Seán Carson Kinsella (they/he) (@seanythek), a nêhi(th/y)aw / optipemisiwak / Nakawé / Irish, Two-Spirit, crip poet and storyteller.   The two Indigiqueer artists chat about the role and gift of storytelling and how powerful that gift can be when informed by their multi-faceted humanness.  Credits:  Season 3 graphic created by Hunter Dewache. Custom intro / outro sounds created by Bucko aka Chris Binkowski. Podcast editing is by Fin-xuan. This ..read more

Welcome to a new season of To Be Continued: Troubling the Archive! We kick off this season with a conversation between host Anna Shah Hoque and Jade Sullivan, host of the podcast My Intersectional Opinion (@myintersectionalopinion). This first episode serves as a framework for Season 3. In the next eleven episodes we will talk about diasporic longing and ancestral inheritances. We will think together about how we make memories with each other for each other, and tune into stories that were set to the side. We’ll also talk about the community building that is possible for Black, Brown and Indig ..read more

CUAG invites you to join host Anna Shah Hoque and guest producers Aedan Corey, Matt Miwa, Kole Peplinskie, Keegan Prempeh and Summer-Harmony Twenish for a new season of the groundbreaking podcast To Be Continued: Troubling the Archive. The podcast engages Ottawa-based QTIBPOC artists, arts workers and activists whose networks, ideas and histories have built, and continue to build, this incredible community. Artists featured include Adrienne Row-Smith, Hingman Leung, Pree Rehal and Jennifer Brunet-Rentechem. This season foregrounds conversations about Black, Indigenous, racialized, diaspor ..read more