News and initiatives
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Interview – Resources provided by Kristine Maitland
As part of the podcast series, “ArtsAbly in Conversation,” Diane Kolin interviewed Kristine Maitland, a storyteller, singer, dancer, photographer, and public speaker, living in Toronto, Canada. Listen to Kristine Maitland’s interview This post presents the resources that Kristine Maitland mentioned during the conversation. Kristine Maitland Kristine Maitland is a longtime storyteller, public speaker and researcher. She acts as an consultant in a one on one capacity and with non-profit organizations looking at creative projects and image. Given her training from George Brown College as a Career Development Practitioner and experience in media, her current focus is networking and research for…
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ArtsAbly in Europe – Summer 2024
This is a brief summary of the musical activities that occurred in September 2024, while ArtsAbly’s activities were on pause. After a family trip in Paris and a week of musical research in Weimar in Germany, Diane, the founder of ArtsAbly, spent time at the organ festival of St. Laurenzen in Saint-Gallen, Switzerland. As a singer, she performed with the pianist, organist and composer Bernhard Ruchti. As a musicologist, she interviewed some of the guest artists who gave recitals during the festival, starting with Bernhard Ruchti who played the opening concert, Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin from the Saint-Sulpice church in Paris, and…
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Interview – Resources provided by Clint Warren
As part of the podcast series, “ArtsAbly in Conversation,” Diane Kolin interviewed Clint Warren, a Composer, a Guitarist, a Singer-Songwriter and a Producer living in Cleveland, in Ohio. Listen to Clint Warren’s interview This post presents the resources that Clint Warren mentioned during the conversation. Clint Warren Clint Warren is a Reggae Rock Singer with Indie R&B and Pop music influences. He suffered several spinal cord injuries and poly-trauma during service in the USMC in 2004. Clint Warren is an Indie Rock Singer with a Roots Reggae voice. “There are artists on this planet that are unforgettable with a magical…
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Interview – Resources provided by Charlie Mosbrook
As part of the podcast series, “ArtsAbly in Conversation,” Diane Kolin interviewed Charlie Mosbrook, a singer songwriter and a music educator living in Cleveland, in Ohio. Listen to Charlie Mosbrook’s interview This post presents the resources that Charlie Mosbrook mentioned during the conversation. Charlie Mosbrook’s website In the tradition of Woody Guthrie, Charlie uses his music as a vehicle to build a better world — through programs like Music to Life, Stop the Hate, monthly performances in the local spinal cord injury unit, and countless charities and events that advocate for human rights and environmental action. Charlie’s music is both…
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Interview – Resources provided by Tamar Bresge
As part of the podcast series, “ArtsAbly in Conversation,” Diane Kolin interviewed Tamar Bresge, an artist, writer and educator from Toronto, currently in the Creative Writing program at California Institute of the Arts. Photo credit: Rebecca L. Welch Listen to Tamar Bresge’s interview This post presents the resources that she mentioned during the conversation. Tamar Bresge’s website Tamar Bresge is an artist and writer from Toronto, Canada. She works primarily in literary art, performance, and photography, picking at positions of power, hierarchies of bodies, and locating the Self. She likes most paperback books, all kinds of sparkling water, and the Oxford comma. She is…
