Anna Von Frances lives in Mexico with her daughter Luna. She's been several kinds of entrepreneur and CEO.

Karla Ghartey, RN, MN, is a professor of nursing, a founding member of Sudbury unsanctioned overdose prevention group, and a mom. I asked her about the overlap of those three areas, for her. The words that emerged were:

Harm reduction: fostering independence and preventing people (kids and people who inject drugs) from killing themselves

People who inject drugs: how we refer to people in a given community and not defining those people by one need or aspect of life

Mania attended the Beat Street event December 22, 2023 and delivered a live interview in front of a small audience.

Lily attended the Beat Street event December 22, 2023 and delivered a live interview in front of a small audience.

Ali attended the Beat Street event December 22, 2023 and delivered a live interview in front of a small audience.

tUkU is a composer, singer, and performance artist, exploring the relationship between words and melody; voice as archive to sonically weave community. A Dora-nominated theatre composer and a poetic songwriter who excels at uniting text with complex harmonic songlines, tUkU honours the place singing takes in black woman culture. ‘I come to music through a powerful musical lineage, from the Bey family of artists, in Canada and the US, prominently rooted in jazz culture. ‘I have been singing with my mother and sister since I was a child.’  The recipient of a Chalmers Arts Fellowship, tUkU created a project titled diary of a salt. eater, to set to melody select poems from nayyirah waheed’s salt. for black woman chorus. In research into ways of being, tUkU recently participated in collective process work facilitated by philosopher/writer/activist Bayo Akomolafe.  tUkU is currently composing and recording her solo song set entitled luna’s re-. ‘More than anything, the experience of listening shapes my choices of expression as an artist and inspires my day-to-day movements as a human being.’  CATEGORY:WOMAN is tUkU’s debut as a film composer.

Carter is the second of 5 people interviewed Friday December 22, 2023 at Isaiah Gibson and Ofield Williams' Beatstreet event "Electric Potlatch." He shares about his current audio drama "Capella" about a man stuck in an abandoned space station blasting tunes from every corner of the galaxy in hopes of being found.

https://youtu.be/6JdxmdrS0mc?si=-ZV_JVMMHMblh93h