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Life Stories Quilt Life Stories Quilt: Shahrzad Arshadi
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“Life Stories Quilt” is a multilingual podcast project with a focus on social justice, political and human rights activists life stories. A series of interviews with individuals from all walks of life whose passion and life focus is to bring positive changes into our world locally and internationally. Our goal is to create a colourful and multilayered “Sound Quilt” in order to reclaim our stories and our communities. Our wish is to reach different communities in our city, country and beyond in order to help build common knowledge and memories. This ongoing podcast project has been created to be a platform for dozens of old and new interviews that we start gathering in past decades in Montreal – Canada, Middle-East (Kurdistan), Europe and America. February 20th, 2019 we launched the website (lifestoriesquilt.com) and wishing every other week and regularly to add a new episode or new piece to our colourful Quilt!
*Podcast episodes will be in Four different languages; English, French, Farsi, and Kurdish
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Life Stories Quilt: Episode 12- Interview with Hicham Kayed
Hicham Kayed’s interview was recorded online on May 20th 2020. This Episode is in English. Hicham Kayed A Palestinian filmmaker and activist originally from Jaffa, was born in Lebanon where he currently lives and works. He is the director and the multimedia coordinator of AL-JANA, The Arab Resource Center for Popular Arts in Beirut, organizations...
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Life Stories Quilt: Episode 11- Interview with Säye Skye
Säye Skye’s Interview was recorded online on June 22nd, 2020. This Episode is in Farsi. Säye Skye is an award winning transgender Iranian rap artist and LGBTQ rights activist at the forefront of a new hip-hop movement that has its basis in social consciousness. With astonishing originality, his experimental raps challenge deep-rooted stereotypes of misogyny,...
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Life Stories Quilt: Episode 10 – Bermal Che
Interview was recorded on June 2018 in the Mountains of Kurdistan. Interview with Bermal Che was recorded in June 2018 in the mountains of Kurdistan. Bermal Che is a Kurdish poet, Singer, songwriter and freedom fighter. Bermal was born and grown up in Bakur – Northern Kurdistan (Turkey). She is member of PKK. This interview...
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Life Stories Quilt: Episode 9 – Ronia
Interview with Ronia was recorded in June 2018 in Kurdistan. Ronia Arial is a young Kurdish/Iranian writer, poet and freedom fighter. She was born and grown up in Sanandaj, Kurdistan (Iran). Ronia is member of PJAK (Kurdistan Free Life Party) and KJAR (Kurdish women society) This interview is in Farsi. *Music and songs by: Bermal *Interview...
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Life Stories Quilt: Episode 8 – Part 2: Janet Lumb
Interview with Janet Lumb recorded on December 15, 2018 in Montreal. Janet Lumb, born and raised in Toronto for twenty years and having lived in Vancouver for ten years, Janet Lumb has now been living in Montreal for the majority of her life. As a musician and sax player since ‘75 and working with dancers,...
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Life Stories Quilt: Episode 8 – Part 1: Janet Lumb
Interview with Janet Lumb recorded on December 15, 2018 in Montreal. Janet Lumb, born and raised in Toronto for twenty years and having lived in Vancouver for ten years, Janet Lumb has now been living in Montreal for the majority of her life. As a musician and sax player since ‘75 and working with dancers,...