Dans notre première épisode en français, une conversation avec l’artiste interdisciplinaire, Nathalie Derome. Une pionnière québécoise de la performance underground, et la directrice artistique et générale de la compagnie de production, Des Mots d'la Dynamite, Nathalie créé des spectacles pour les tout petits. Elle nous parle de son processus de création et de comment ces tout jeunes lui ouvrent les yeux sur plein de choses, y compris des questions de préjugés culturels et de racisme. Avec des chansons de son spectacle, C'est Ma Sœur!  

In Future is Now's first French episode, a conversation with interdisciplinary artist, Nathalie Derome. A Québécois pioneer of underground performance and artistic and general director of the production company, Des Mots d'la Dynamite, Nathalie creates shows for very little ones. She tells us about her creative process and how these very young ones teach her about many things, including about cultural prejudice and racism. With songs from her show, That's My Sister!

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In this episode you can listen to Shahrzad Arshadi’s interview with Razan Al-Salah,  a Montreal based Palestinian multimedia artist, educator and poet.   Razan’s work is concerned with investigating material aesthetics of dis/appearance of places and people in the context of colonial image worlds.

In this episode Razan talks about her life, love of community, art, image,  home and most specifically about her family and Oum Ameen / Razan’s grandmother!

https://razanalsalah.com

A first-generation Canadian artist of South Asian descent, based in Montreal, Mona Sharma works mainly in soft sculpture and digital drawing, two mediums whose accessible exteriors lend well to subversive acts. In this episode, Mona speaks to us about her latest project, To Sleep At Night, a series of digital drawings imagining an ideal living space for people with autism. To view Mona Sharma's project, see tosleepatnight.ca

Artist Forest Vicky Kapo, an indigenous person of Maori ancestry from Aotearoa, New Zealand, is a dancer, a musician and a visual artist. Forest also cares for the dying, working as a nurse in palliative care. In the Art of Dying, over a soundbed of original music, they share their reflections on art-making, on nursing the dying and on living in today's world. For more information about their work, see forestvkapo.com.

Khadija Baker is a Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist, originally from Rojava, Kurdistan, Syria. To find out more about Khadija Baker, see: khadijabaker.com

*Songs and Music;

Khadija Baker is a Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist, originally from Rojava, Kurdistan, Syria. To find out more about Khadija Baker, see: khadijabaker.com

*The Kurdish song at the beginning of this episode is “Jiyana Bê Deng” by Bermal