Among Equals

On this Remembrance Day, Knockabout presents a new limited series: The Black HumIn 1914, the Canadian government called on all able-bodied men to serve their country in the Great War. However, when Black men went to enlist, they were turned away. In this first episode in our new series, we look at those early years of the war, when Black Canadians found themselves having to fight for the right to fight.*Download our Discussing Questions for your class*Written & Hosted by Cindy CharlesProduced by Ryan Barnett & Cindy CharlesRecord by Tyler RaumanThis series features interviews with Lt. Jerome Downey, Sgt. Craig Smith, Douglas Ruck, and Lindsay Ruck.Additional voices by Keith Francis & Matthew BarnettA Knockabout Media ProductionThis podcast was made possible thanks to funding from Veterans Affairs Canada’s Commemorative Partnership Program.Donate here to the Welcome Collective.

New from Knockabout Media: How I Wrote This w/ Pamela HensleyThere’s mystery within the creative process and a story behind every story. In the new podcast How I Wrote This, host Pamela Hensley sits down with acclaimed novelists, essayists, playwrights, translators, poets, and short story writers to learn more about their lives and the events that shaped their work.Episode 1: Julia Franck was born in 1970 in East Berlin in the former GDR (German Democratic Republic), a part of Germany that, at the time, was behind the Iron Curtain. As a child, she fled with her mother to the West and lived for nine months in a refugee camp, where they were interrogated by agents of the secret police. Five years later, when she was just thirteen, she left her mother’s home and returned to Berlin, this time living on the Western side with friends. Julia is the daughter of an actress and granddaughter of a sculptor whose family history has provided the backdrop for some of her most powerful books. The Blind Side of the Heart (called the Blindness of the Heart in the US), tells the story of a woman who abandons her son on a railway platform in 1945 after surviving the horrors of the Second World War. It was a story based on her own father’s childhood, a man she only met at the age of fourteen. The novel won the German Book Prize, the highest honour for literature in Germany, and went on to sell over a million copies. Two more of her books have been translated into English: Back to Back, based on her uncle’s life at the time when the Berlin Wall was being built; and West, which was adapted for the screen.Julia’s recommended reads:Herta Müller Katja OskampDana VowinckelHow I Wrote This is created and hosted by Pamela HensleyPresented by Knockabout Media. Original music by Tyler K. RaumanListen and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, and iHeartRadio.Find out more at our website: www.howiwrotethisthepodcast.comDonate here to the Welcome Collective.

In this special Roots and Hoots collaboration episode with Knockabout Media, host Gordon Spence is pleased to be joined by Eric Burant and Garrison Garrow of the Indigenous Art Centre (IAC). Eric Burant is an Archivist of mixed Anishinaabe and settler ancestry and Garrison Garrow is the Manager of Programs and Collections and is a Kanien'kehá:ka artist from Akwesasne. The two speak with Gordon about the history of the Indigenous Art Centre, their shared passion for Indigenous art and the intention of their work.Since its inception in 1965, the IAC holds one of the largest collections of contemporary Indigenous art. The vast collection includes sculptures, carvings, mittens, moccasins and paintings that are hand crafted and created by Indigenous artists across Canada. Eric and Garrison speak with Gordon about the necessity of showcasing, preserving and protecting Indigenous art. Pieces in the collection travel all over the world. To find out if any pieces are featured in a gallery near you, please contact: art@rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca.Links from discussion● Main website for Indigenous Art Centre● Saint Kateri Tekakwitha● Royal Canadian Mint - Fancy Dance Coin● Radical Stitch Travelling ExhibitionSnow Goose Gallery is a proud sponsor of the Roots and Hoots podcast and you can visit their website at snowgoose.caFor more information about the Legacy of Hope Foundation, please visit legacyofhope.ca

Our five part series on the PNIAI has concluded, but we have more to share with you. Over the next several weeks, we’ll be dropping bonus episodes that include extended interviews with the experts that helped us in putting this podcast together. In this bonus episode, we present part two of our interview with Cory Dingle, the man in charge of the Norval Morrisseau estate. In it, Cory discusses Morrisseau's fraught relationship with the media, and the massive forgery ring that threatens the artist's legacy.Download the listening guideHosted by Soleil LaunièreProduced by Ryan Barnett, Maia Foster-Sanchez and Nahka BertrandArtwork by Caleb Ellison-DysartTheme by Justin DelormeThis series features interviews with Bonnie Devine, Greg A. Hill, Michelle LaVallee, Carmen Robertson, Pauline Beardy, Philip Gevik, Corey Dingle, Donna Feledichuk and Joseph M. Sanchez.A Knockabout Media Production | Funded by the Government of CanadaDonate here to the Welcome Collective.

Our five part series on the PNIAI has concluded, but we have more to share with you. Over the next several weeks, we’ll be dropping bonus episodes that include extended interviews with the experts that helped us in putting this podcast together. This bonus episode features clips from our interview with artist and curator, Bonnie Devine. In conversation, Bonnie delves deeper into the life and work of Daphne Odjig, and offers fascinating insights about this seminal artist, whom she considered a friend.Download the listening guideHosted by Soleil LaunièreProduced by Ryan Barnett, Maia Foster-Sanchez and Nahka BertrandArtwork by Caleb Ellison-DysartTheme by Justin DelormeThis series features interviews with Bonnie Devine, Greg A. Hill, Michelle LaVallee, Carmen Robertson, Pauline Beardy, Philip Gevik, Corey Dingle, Donna Feledichuk and Joseph M. Sanchez.A Knockabout Media Production | Funded by the Government of CanadaDonate here to the Welcome Collective.

In this episode, we look at the factors that resulted in the dissolution of the PNIAI, what happened to the artists in the years that followed, and the group's ongoing legacy, today.Download the listening guideHosted by Soleil LaunièreProduced by Ryan Barnett, Maia Foster-Sanchez and Nahka BertrandArtwork by Caleb Ellison-DysartTheme by Justin DelormeThis series features interviews with Bonnie Devine, Greg A. Hill, Michelle LaVallee, Carmen Robertson, Pauline Beardy, Philip Gevik, Corey Dingle, Donna Feledichuk and Joseph M. Sanchez.A Knockabout Media Production | Funded by the Government of CanadaDonate here to the Welcome Collective.

In this episode, Daphne, Jackson, Alex, Eddy, Carl, Joseph and Norval begin exhibiting together. And then, an idea starts to take form. The seven of them will form a collective; one of the first self-organized art activist groups in Canadian history. One of its main goals: to fight to establish a forum and the spaces for the voices and perspective of Indigenous artists.Download the listening guideHosted by Soleil LaunièreProduced by Ryan Barnett, Maia Foster-Sanchez and Nahka BertrandArtwork by Caleb Ellison-DysartTheme by Justin DelormeThis series features interviews with Bonnie Devine, Greg A. Hill, Michelle LaVallee, Carmen Robertson, Pauline Beardy, Philip Gevik, Corey Dingle, Donna Feledichuk and Joseph M. Sanchez.A Knockabout Media Production | Funded by the Government of CanadaDonate here to the Welcome Collective.

In this episode, we meet Joseph Sanchez and Eddy Cobiness, and Daphne reconnects with her roots and opens her own little shop inspired by Andy Warhol's famed studio: The Factory.Download the listening guideHosted by Soleil LaunièreProduced by Ryan Barnett, Maia Foster-Sanchez and Nahka BertrandArtwork by Caleb Ellison-DysartTheme by Justin DelormeThis series features interviews with Bonnie Devine, Greg A. Hill, Michelle LaVallee, Carmen Robertson, Pauline Beardy, Philip Gevik, Corey Dingle, Donna Feledichuk and Joseph M. Sanchez.A Knockabout Media Production | Funded by the Government of CanadaDonate here to the Welcome Collective.