lowry's Podcast

eMigrations 18 is from the vault. I met up with David Odhiambo in Banff in August. He was in his own studio in the Layton colony at the Banff Centre for the Arts, working on his latest novel, The Lost Boy. We talked about his work, touching on questions of style and intention. David and I talked about the legacies of the 1990s identity struggles and the pressures he and others face.

eMigrations Podcast 13 features a  reading by Paulo da Costa recorded on October 5, 2006. Paulo was reading his work at Emily Carr Institute for Art + Design + Media, in Vancouver (ECI).

This reading is the 3rd in the Fall 2006 On Edge Reading series, sponsored by ECI and the Canada Council for the Arts, with funding for Literary Readings.

More information about Paulo da Costa can be found at www.paulodacosta.com.

Thanks for Jean Rhoutier for recording the event and to Paulo da Costa for permission to broadcast this podcast.

I caught up with Ashok Mathur at the Banff Centre for the Arts earlier this month, June 10 2006, and we sat down and talked about Ashok's work as a new Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Cultural and Artist Inquiry at Thomson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC. Ashok and I spoke about the end of English and possibilites for transforming literary and cultural studies. We also talked about his goals for the new Centre for Innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada linked to his CRC. The music used in this show is Balancing Forces by Andrea from an album titled Words to Water. It has been downloaded from Pod Safe Audio (http://www.podsafeaudio.com/) and used with permission from the artist. It is licensed under Creative Commons License 2.0--Attribution, Noncommercial.

This is a talk I gave at Emily Institute for Art and Design in Vancouver on April 7, 2006. The focus is on my pedagogy, particularly in relation to teaching writing/composition, and my professional practice as a writer and editor. In addition to providing some sense of where I'm coming from, I hope that it might stand as something of rational for or in so way comment on these podcasts.

This episode features a fascinating discussion by writer Larissa Lai. Lai is speaking to a Film Studies class in the Explorations Program at Simon Fraser University, Surrey Campus, about the influence of Ridley Scott's classic film Blade Runner on her novel Salt Fish Girl. Showing clips and providing readings from the work, Lai looks at questions of "race" and gender, particularly in relation to issues of "cloning" or genetic modification raised in the film and addressed in her novel.

This is a follow up to EP 8. Wayde Compton, Larissa Lai, and Fred Wah are answering questions from students and faculty at the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. Guy Beauregard is the facilitator.

Pheobe Gau and Erica Huang discuss Le Mook and University of British Columbia's Literature Etc. club. Le Mook is a bilingua--Chinese and English--magazine published by UBCLE that deals with a wide range of topics and issues. www.ubcle.com Nov. 18, 2005, Coquitlam College, Coquitlam BC

Don Kugler discussing his and Richard Rose's adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's Coming Through Slaughter for a stage performance at Toronto's Silver Dollar Saloon. Oct. 28, 2005, Simon Fraser University, Renaissance Cafe