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Episode 23 — Season 1 finale

5/4/2021

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Your hosts get together for one more conversation. Next season is already in the works. Thank you to everyone who listened, shared, and enjoyed the podcast.
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Episode 22 — Education for peace

5/4/2021

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In this episode, you'll hear four different interviews Pria recorded with educators from all over the world as they navigate their work, and their work towards a more just and peaceful world. Anindo Marshall is a dancer, percussionist, lauded musician, and educator based in Los Angeles, but she is originally from Kenya. You'll hear how her current work seeks to bring her life full circle, as she is working to open a school in Kenya to give youth opportunities she did not have as a child. To learn more about Anindo and her projects, check out the following:

Marshall Dance Company https://www.marshalldancecompany.org/
Abukuts Arts Academy (the school she is starting in Kenya)
https://www.abukutsartsacademy.net/

Siva (SHI-va) is a visual artist, writer, poet and musician. He also has been a teacher in India for over 20 years. He comes from Madurai, a city in the very southern tip of India, and he continues to teach in the city where he grew up. This interview was recorded when Pria was in India in 2019, which feels like a lifetime ago, long before the inception of the podcast as it exists today. Siva's interview was a main inspiration for what Pria hoped the podcast could become.

Kristi Mahood is a teacher in Edmonton, Alberta. She connects peace work and ahimsa to the everyday actions she takes as a teacher. Pria also met her in India in 2019, and that's where this interview was recorded.

Finally, Pria interviewed Reva, a professor of education at the University of Toronto and producer of this podcast, to underline and connect these interviews.
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Episode 21 — Building peace through the arts

15/3/2021

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In this episode, we feature excerpts from a webinar from the Educating for Justice through Peace series which was broadcast on Zoom on January 31, 2021.  You'll hear from Kathrin Winkler introducing four speakers who use art as part of their activism for peace and nonviolence:

Janmejay Singh is one of the participants in the Jai Jagat march. He has worked with cinema, fiction and documentary, as director-editor and occasionally cinematographer for a variety of projects in India.

https://www.jaijagatinternational.org/marchers/janmejay-singh-india/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqqKcpg2gVKekXZT6VFf7Gg/featured

Sigrid Roman is a doctoral candidate in education at the University of Toronto. Her principal teaching and research area concentrates on education and political violence and conflicts, intervention, prevention and social change. Sigrid is also a visual artist whose work explores and examines the embodiment and shifting perceptions of peace, violence and human connection.

https://ca.linkedin.com/in/sigridroman
Instagram @signyaucafe
Alejandra Barahona, known as Bara, is an active artist, illustrator and educator from Guatemala. She specializes in characters inspired by her daily life and paints subjects that address questions regarding social interests, philosophy and human behaviour. Bara is the founder of El Nido Art Studio, exhibiting her work around the globe and has an amazing number of followers on Facebook. Her workshops focus on women’s empowerment through art.

http://alebarahona.com
https://www.facebook.com/colormebara/

Sakura Saunders is a member of World BEYOND War’s board, an environmental justice organizer, Indigenous solidarity activist, arts educator and media producer. She is a cofounder of the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network and a member of the Beehive Design Collective. She currently resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she works in solidarity with the Mi’kmaq resisting Alton Gas. She is also a board member of the Halifax Workers Action Centre and volunteers at the community arts space, RadStorm.

https://weestore.myshopify.com/collections/posters/products/mesomerica-resiste https://twitter.com/sakura1979?lang=en
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Episode 20 — Gandhian influence in two ways with Vijay Bharathiya and Inamul Hasan

5/3/2021

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These two interviews were recorded in 2019 by Pria in Tamil Nadu, India. Pria writes, "It's amazing to me that, even though I feel like a different person than I was when I recorded them, the truths and passion of Vijay and Inamul come through so clearly. I'm grateful and lucky to have spoken with them when I did, in person. I hope to see them again someday (before too long)."
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Episode 19 — Asking "what can we do?" with Lorena Julio

22/2/2021

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Lorena Julio is a human rights advocate based out of Argentina. She spent some time discussing her work with her nonprofit, "Fundación Comparlante." In Argentina, she works to secure rights for people with disabilities in varying forms. Lorena was also one of the 50 marchers who agreed to take a year away from their normal lives to march as a part of the Jai Jagat 2020 campaign, from Delhi to Geneva. For Lorena, this meant so much travel, and so much connection to different cultures. Though the march was postponed in March 2020, Lorena has been busy. In this episode, you'll find out what she's been up to, and hear some words of encouragement for all of us who find ourselves on the path towards peace.
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