Future Is Now

Janet Lumb's Life Story

Janet Sui Jing Lumb, a great Montrealer, a musician, community organizer and activist. In this episode we invite you to listen to Janet Lumb life story.

A Conversation About Gentrification

In this episode of Future is Now, you’ll hear a conversation about gentrification that co-producers Shahrzad Arshadi and Caroline Kunzle had with two scholars,  Aaron Vansintjan and Fred Burrill. Both Aaron and Fred have studied and organized around the question of gentrification for a long time. They share their thoughts on what it is, how it works and what we as artists -- and most importantly, as citizens -- can do to stop it.

The Future We Imagine!

In this episode ,  I am focusing  on our Hopes and Dreams. What is the future we are wishing to live or wishing to leave behind for our children and grandchildren and the generations after us. For that I asked different people to record their voices in order to  share their hopes and dreams with us. A beautiful collage! Many of us have experienced atrocities by living through wars, brutal fundamentalist revolutions, dictatorship, political repressions and corrupted regimes and unwanted migration. I am one of those people… Time passes whether I want to or not, I am getting old and it makes me so sad to think this is the world that I am leaving behind for my grandchildren. It makes me think more than ever that  we must do something to stop this brutal machine.  And this episode is a little trigger,  at least for some of us to think about the future and to  dream!  Maybe by talking about our hopes and dreams we realize ( I mean our collective we) deserve a better life than what we have been offered by greedy capitalists and warlords.

Freda Guttman a Montreal based artist and educator is talking about her life, art and activism

**The interview with Freda Guttman was recorded in October 2017 at her home in Saint Henri neighbourhood in Montréal. Freda Guttman  has worked as a printmaker, photographer and  as an installation artist. , her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the United States and internationally Her art practice and her political activism come together in a series of installations, in particular, one about the genocide of the Mayan people, Guatemala! The Road of War,  and an installation concerning the global system of food production and distribution, The Global Menu,  She has also produced two installations having to do with Palestine/Israel: Diminish Your Cup and Two Family Albums: Canada Park.  Check her website for more; https://www.fredaguttman.com [https://www.fredaguttman.com] Photo by: Thien V.

Woman Life Freedom: A Revolutionary Soundtrack / Interview with Kaveh Abbasian

A conversion about revolutionary art and most specifically revolutionary songs. Kaveh Abbasian  is an artist, filmmaker, university lecturer and political activist.