Bridging Resistance Radio: Episode 9 (Artists Talk: Fortify This & Converging Lines)

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This episode features talented and courageous Indigenous artists from two different art shows in Thunder Bay: FORTIFY THIS and Converging Lines at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery. Hosts Jay and Sarah sit down with Cree Stevens and Andrea Terry to discuss FORTIFY THIS, a collaborative community-based art project that commemorates Indigenous performance art, activism and honours that land. Later on the show, you'll hear a recording from the Converging Lines opening gala at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, a show that features Indigenous artists such as Shaun Hedican, Kristy Cameron, Elliot Doxtater-Wynn and Cree Stevens. Bridging Resistance is an intergenerational storytelling project that amplifies the voices of Indigenous and racialized peoples through radio to foster deep listening and understanding and critical reflection on a personal and community level as a means to address the ongoing impacts of colonialism, racism and exclusion in Thunder Bay, Fort William First Nation and beyond. This radio project is a collaborative effort between a volunteer programmer named Jayal Chung who hosts and produces Queer Radio Hour; Farah Ahmed, host and producer of Racialized the Podcast and Advocacy Coordinator for Racialized Young Professionals Network; and Sarah Nelson, a community advocate who currently works with Matawa First Nations. Website: www.resistanceradio.tumblr.com/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/bridgingtbay/ LU Radio: www.luradio.ca/ This initiative is made possible by the Community Fund for Canada’s 150th, a collaboration between Canadian community foundations, the Government of Canada, and extraordinary leaders from coast to coast to coast.