To Be Continued: Troubling the Archive

May 29 2023 13

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Join producer and 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, diasporic and queer archives of longing, memory and inheritance in arts-based practices. Hear from familiar voices, delve into hidden histories and discover your new favourite artist! We're also thrilled to debut a beautiful new graphic for this season, created by Hunter Dewache, and custom intro / outro sounds created by Bucko aka Chris Binkowski. Podcast editing is by fin-xuan. A special thanks to Nicole Bedford for her audio polishing work for episodes 5 through to episode 11. Make sure you’re subscribed on your podcast platform of choice so you don’t miss the first episode. This season of To Be Continued: Troubling the Archive is generously funded by a Digital Now grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.

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Ep. 11: Aedan, Keegan, Kole, Matt and Summer with Anna Season Finale!

May 29 2023 58 mins

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

Ep. 10: Adrienne Row-Smith and Hingman Leung with Anna Shah Hoque

May 15 2023 60 mins

What is the importance of controlling, directing and creating spaces for the kinds of stories we want to hear, witness and learn from and about? In episode 10 of the TBC podcast, producer Anna Shah Hoque talks to Adrienne Row-Smith and Hingman Leung about filmmaking, photography and visual storytelling and production. Anna, Adrienne and Hingman think through developing visual archi

Ep. 9: Matt Miwa, Sumayya Mayet and Nesta Charles

May 01 2023 66 mins

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. S

Ep. 8: Aedan Corey and Jennifer Brunet-Rentechem

Apr 17 2023 53 mins

In this episode, guest producer Aedan Corey chats with Jennifer Brunet-Rentechem about longing, nostalgia and memories. This discussion between friends articulates the complexities of being urban Indigenous peoples as they discuss how longing for community and culture is expressed through art and the dynamics between dispersion, queerness and connection and disconnection. Credits:

Ep. 7: Hasina Kamanzi, Jade Sullivan and Anna Shah Hoque

Apr 03 2023 48 mins

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: Seas

Ep. 6: Hunter Dewache, Miskomin Twenish and Summer Harmony-Twenish

Mar 20 2023 84 mins

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 influe

Ep. 5: fin-xuan, Pree Rehal and Namitha Rathinappillai with Anna Shah Hoque

Mar 06 2023 47 mins

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 cra

Ep. 4: Jayel Lamont and Feza Lugoma with Keegan Prempeh

Feb 20 2023 36 mins

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.

Ep. 3: Mailyne K. Briggs and Namitha Rathinappillai with Anna Shah Hoque

Feb 06 2023 51 mins

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 gr

Ep. 2: Kole Peplinskie and Seán Kinsella

Jan 23 2023 57 mins

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 info