tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43912564803334732072024-02-20T21:39:54.452-08:00what I saw todaykristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09835229665831754674noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4391256480333473207.post-65158277251602752432013-04-02T03:56:00.001-07:002013-04-02T04:01:22.074-07:00I WILL MISS YOU<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">On Sunday night I had a dream -- I was back in Montreal, and it seemed as though I was living there, if only temporarily as I did during sumer 2010, when I was 19 years-old. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In the dream I found myself in a chochy nail salon, and my all-time favorite Montreal drag queen, Mado Lamotte, was doing my nails. Apparently that is her day job in my dreams. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It was so bizarre, and despite that nothing more happened than her doing a rush job and having to replace the thumb nail on my left hand a number of times before fleeing Montreal possibly forever in the wake of a hurricane, my dream was heavy emotionally. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The salon she worked as was dingy and messy with a series of small rooms and grey carpeting; she had shoe boxes everywhere and it appeared she was the only employee. She was wearing a white coat that estheticians typically wear. Despite that her job, at least on the surface, appeared mundane, I was still as enamored with her as I was in real life when I met her during the summer. She replaced aforementioned nail twice, and pushed down on it really hard the last time so it would stay, as I told her repeatedly how beautiful and cool she is (which I always do when I see her at the cabaret she owns in Montreal when I visit) and then, I had to say goodbye. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A big hurricane was taking over the city and I had no where to go; everyone was just trying to survive so she was in a rush but she might have smiled at me and said I was sweet before running away, or something. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">After that I walked outside in the dream and the sky was all gray and swirling around, and I saw my friend Erik by chance and called his name. He said I could take shelter with him. </span></div>
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Mado is a character I saw when I was a little 19 year-old face in a big crowd at her cabaret in Montreal. I immediately experienced an overwhelming sense of curiosity about her; I wanted to know who she was during the day and I wanted to be at the cabaret to watch her perform and speak French so fast I couldn’t understand it at night. Through journalism, and the basic sense of curiosity that sets the precedent for the lives of those who practice it, I have discovered more of characters like Mado. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Well, none of them are quite like Mado, actually. Or even like each other. But they are the reason I want to be involved in this field at all -- the people who are so interesting and inspire such a strong emotional response when you barely know them that they end up creeping into your dreams and making you feel sad when they leave both there and in real life, as weird as that sounds. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Although I know and have accepted, even if with sadness, that I will never achieve a close and intimate friendship with Mado, my goal for my relationship with her is to one day make a documentary film about her and the cabaret. My hope is to do it when I am a seasoned documentary filmmaker and I can do her justice as a subject. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I don’t know why anyone would choose a different career path (or in my case, life) than making films about interesting people and events and provoking thought about the whole world when they can, but that’s probably because I am in love with it already.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am going to be finished classes at CreComm after this week and I have the same hollow, sad feeling in my stomach that I had leaving Mado and Montreal behind when I had to come back to Winnipeg at 19; the same feeling I had leaving a hurricane in New York City in real life and as a result missing my first day of CreComm. But I have loved all of these experiences, and they have loved me back. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I will miss Creative Communications more than I care to articulate as I sit here blogging at ten to six in the morning, but I will say that it has changed my life in a practical way; it taught me how to work. And it taught me that I can do things even if I might not have always believed that to be true. So if I ever do have the privilege to fulfill my lifelong dream and make that documentary on Mado one day, I will only have CreComm to thank.<i><br /></i></span></div>
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kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09835229665831754674noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4391256480333473207.post-64255280974532651352013-04-02T03:36:00.000-07:002013-04-02T03:36:08.406-07:00WHAT IS VULNERABILITY<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am getting a little nervous because I am having a book launch at McNally Robinson Grant Park tomorrow. It is for my first book, <i>Late Bloomers. </i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Local fashion and culture blog Poster did an amazing feature about it <a href="http://www.thisisposter.com/2013/04/01/late-bloomers/#more-3879">here</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I feel nervous because I find myself in a vulnerable position both as an artist and a person while putting my work on the line. As a writer, I put my heart and soul into select works (the book being one of them) and then you bust it wide open so people can look inside. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">While thinking about this, journalism comes to mind. Particularly, print. As a print reporter last summer during my internship with the <i>Winnipeg Free Press, </i>I told the stories of others (which I have also done in the book, albeit through fiction), and the way I crafted the stories, the quotes I chose to include or not, and the details I decided were important enough to mention, all came from my desire to be a storyteller. Therefore, when my pieces were published, I sometimes felt scared or nervous (especially given how harsh Internet commenters can be). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As journalists and writers and artists and whatever we like to call ourselves, we have an amazing opportunity to tell all kinds of stories, whether they be our own or those of other people. I’ve come to find that accepting vulnerability is only part of the process, and as scary as it may feel at first (I think back to how nervous I was to present the book at the Winnipeg Convention Centre last month), the fear does not compared to how good it feels for people to recognize and appreciate your work. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So I am nervous for tomorrow, but mostly, I’m excited. I hope to see you there. </span></div>
kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09835229665831754674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4391256480333473207.post-58670443951468299202013-04-02T03:25:00.000-07:002013-04-02T03:25:08.269-07:00MEDIUM<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I spent this weekend editing the first documentary film I was involved in making with my friend and fellow student, Cindy. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Throughout the editing process, Cindy and I discussed a few times how we feel as though our broadcast journalism class has helped us become aware of and develop the skills we need to make documentaries. This continuous conversation got me thinking about different mediums for journalism.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I took for granted before how accessible, in many ways, print journalism is. And I don’t mean accessible to the audience, I mean accessible to the journalist. If you are able to secure interviews with the appropriate sources, even interviews that do not happen face-to-face but over the phone and, as a last resort, via email, you can write your story. As a broadcast journalist, however, you will need very specific footage to tell the story. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Cindy and I discussed the importance of having footage that is relevant -- what I mean by that is the opposite of “wallpaper footage,” as the instructors of broadcast journalism instructors at school call it. Wallpaper footage is a term I’ve come to understand as footage that simply fills the space as the voice of the broadcast journalist speaks to tell the story. I’ve noticed it so much everywhere I look now and I love that I have the ability to spot it because it truly weakens the story and because I am aware of it, I can avoid the practice of shooting it. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Our instructors say we should write to our footage, but I like to think of it more as shooting to edit. One of the best tricks I’ve found so far is working with the journalist while on the location/interview of the shoot and writing out a rough version of the script as you go based on the things your subject is saying and the environment. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">By practicing this you will end up with a story that would make sense even if the sound on the television was turned all the way down, with strong visuals and a sense of direction as to where the story is headed in every shot. </span></div>
kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09835229665831754674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4391256480333473207.post-86885588874970869102013-03-26T06:47:00.001-07:002013-03-26T06:47:15.571-07:00EXPERIENCE JUNKIE<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">For a long time, I have considered myself an experience junkie.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">That means that I have been addicted to new experiences for as long as I can remember. So far in my life, I have had the cops called on me by the school for being a grade 8 bathroom graffiti artist, and I’ve graduated as valedictorian from high school. <br />
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I spent my nineteenth summer’s nights at a Montreal drag club befriending the 50-something queen of an owner, and my twentieth winter dancing in a cage wearing next to nothing for cash at a Winnipeg gay club, and accepting heartbreak when the woman who paid me to do it didn’t want to be my girlfriend. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Shortly after, I sobbed before the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem while asking for help in a letter to God.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I did yoga poses with girls from the East village, who I never met before that moment, on the roof of a Manhattan apartment building during tropical storm Irene. I watched Irene own the city, and I vowed to do the same one day. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I wrote enough, and well enough, to secure an internship at an esteemed Canadian media outlet. When I got the call, I believed I might be able to create a life for myself. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">One fall, I smoked an entire pack of cigarettes sitting on pavement steps in the rain when a significantly older love interest left me at a martini bar.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I feel lucky for my life. No matter how shitty the day is, or the week, or the month, I still thank God in my prayers every night for letting me be me. This whole post relates to writing because for as long as I remember, I have been taught as a creative writer to write what I know, and I have been taught as a journalist, to know what I write.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The experiences I’ve had usually find me, but it’s because I have been open to them. Some of them are considered questionable and strange and even wrong, and sometimes I just want to be “good.” The thing that stops me from staying on a straightcut path, though, is that I often worry that without experiencing everything I can, I will not have as much to write about. And I will not be able to empathize as much with people I interview if I shut myself away from the expeirences that open themselves to me.<br />
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But I also don’t want to keep finding myself in trouble in one way or another. I wish I could just do everything right and follow some formula or rules on life or something and find myself where I want to be. But then again, I don’t think the place I want to be exists without a long history of experiences.<br />
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kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09835229665831754674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4391256480333473207.post-31281859832658709582013-03-26T06:14:00.001-07:002013-03-26T06:14:54.780-07:00WHERE TO START<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Sorry I haven’t been blogging lately.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Today I am going to talk about jobs, since Katherine mentioned in her post a conversation I participated in on Saturday night with her and a number of others who, unlike me, were actually employed by the <i>Projector </i>all year and for that reason, were at the party.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">To me it makes sense why everyone would be so concerned about potentially not having a job after school is over. One of my classmates says he already asked the restaurant he works at to make him full time again, because he does not know for sure if he will gain employment elsewhere (meaning in our chosen field), but “you have to pay the rent somehow.” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There are few jobs in this industry available now, or so it seems. Journalism, as I often like to rant about, is simply not the amazing thing it once was. It’s still amazing, but it’s not a time anymore where quality is more important than speed and people expect news in the paper tomorrow morning, rather than immediately when it happens, told through social media. These things are, of course, dependent on the media outlet, however.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As for me, I have been trying to take one day at a time and I am still figuring out who I even want to be in the world and in the writing world and all of that stuff, but I know if I contemplate this forever without taking a leap onto something then I will end up being nothing. So I need to get a job, too. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am taking some basic courses at the University of Manitoba in the fall in the film department. I definitely want to make documentary films. I have never found something I love as much as documentaries. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But I am troubled because after next year, what do I do? I used to have a romantic idea about starting off directly in documentary filmmaking, but now I don’t think that anymore. When I think about docs, I break them down into stories told through narration, character, visual, and sound. I feel as though I need to develop my storytelling skills through the first medium I ever did it through, and the one I will probably continue to love most for the rest of my life: writing.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So I guess what I’m trying to say is I want to start somewhere. Print journalism is calling my name lately, because I’ve grown throughout the last year in CreComm and I realize that even though it’s not everything it used to be, it’s importance remains the same and that is the way I can get my foot in the door - even if not in the doc making door immediately - and continue to learn what components to include when telling a story; learning what it means to tell a comprehensive, fair story. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So no, I don’t know where I will be, or what I am going to do for a job, but I am starting to know where to start. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Candace had always been her father’s daughter. Maybe that’s why I had always found it so easy to love her and get along with her,” Wilma Derksen writes on page 31 of <i>Have You Seen Candace? A Mother’s True Story of Coping with the Murder of Her Daughter.</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Those sentences are only two of the many that provide insight into what it was like to lose a child to murder, and that insight is what works best in this book.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Naturally, the reader does not completely understand and feel what Wilma Derksen did following her daughter’s death -- not even close. However, the author behind the book and the things that she saw are what makes the book a believable read. The reader is given insight into her anxiety, pain, distress, and ultimate motion forward back into life as well as the separate journeys through those things that her family members experienced. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As a reader, I trusted her words. I felt at ease reading the book because I knew Wilma Derksen was there, for the whole thing. I believed her book to be an honest one. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In some instances, however, I feel as though Derksen gave too many examples, or used too many analogies, and it made the read slow at times. For example, on page 197 Derksen writes “Every minute, every second of the day, we were reminded of Candace. Every time I laid out five plates instead of four, I had to put that fifth plate back into the cupboard. Every times I needed to run to the store and wanted to ask her to watch the children while I was gone, the words stuck in my throat.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Derksen continues to explain that many things she saw in the store she knew Candace would like but there was no point in buying them, and that she often spotted Candace in crowds only to realize it was strangers, and that she, in reality, just wanted to see her really badly. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">These details are the things that make the book come alive, and that allow the reader to imagine, even if only for a second, what it might have been like, and the effect losing Candace had on the Derksens. However, in some instances there were simply too many examples and I thought, from time to time, that I understood the message and that I wanted the book to move forward. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Overall, reading the book made me feel sad. It was difficult to picture some of the things Derksen wrote about; not for lack of detail, but because I did not want to imagine them. It made me remember, however, the importance of story; the way documenting events can bring them to the minds of others who have not lived them, and that social change may be born from this. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">On the other hand, the book made me confused in some ways. This is complicated for me to articulate because I fear it will be interpreted as me dismissing the importance of the Candace Derksen story, but as I mentioned in journalism class recently, I feel confused as to why the Candace Derksen murder received significantly wide and frequent media coverage compared to the stories of other missing and murdered Manitoba women. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The book discussed a variety of media coverage the case received, and after visiting the <a href="http://missingmanitobawomen.blogspot.ca/">Manitoba Missing and Murdered website</a> and reading about hundreds and hundreds of girls and women -- some who have never been found -- I cannot discern why their stories are not covered as widely by the media as this one was. I want the answer, but I don’t know where to ask. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am pleased, however, to see that this one received the amount of coverage that it did as it, along with those of other girls and women, are important ones to tell. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I personally preferred this book to <i>Journey for Justice: How ‘Project Angel’ Cracked the Candace Derksen Case </i>by Mike McIntyre (which I blogged about last year<a href="http://www.kristy-hoffman.blogspot.ca/2012/03/my-thoughts-are-everywhere.html"> here</a>). To me, <i>Have You Seen Candace? </i>seemed more honest and credible than McIntyre’s work, simply because Derksen wrote it. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Because I am interested in the human aspect to almost every story, I preferred this first person perspective to what I found to be a long series of psychiatrist reports in McIntyre’s work. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My reaction to our in-class discussion with Wilma Derksen was one of sadness. I remember Derksen saying when she spoke to our class last year that she did not let the murder of her daughter destroy her.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My mother has a friend at work who allowed her four year-old daughter Ruby go over to her grandmothers apartment, which was a door away from their apartment. In the single instant that Ruby was trying to go from her apartment to her grandmothers, a man abducted her. He raped her and murdered her by crushing her skull with a rock.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My mothers friend rarely talks about the murder. She talked about it in the past, however she continues to live a life centered around many of the things my own mothers is centered around. The case was not covered in the media after the killer was convicted. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I see Wilma Derksen as a strong woman, to say the least. I am not going to try to pretend to understand her pain. I cannot help but feeling, however, that in some ways she did let the murder of her daughter destroy her because it would appear that it is her entire life.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But as someone who has never lived through a tragedy comparable to this one, or any of those of murdered and missing Manitoba women, I am inclined to ask how one could not be destroyed. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This weekend I started thinking about what it would be like to blog about pop culture.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This is something I frequently think about, and I have never once wanted to be a journalist that covers that type of content. Although, my mind is changing in some ways. Not because now I want to be that type of journalist, but because I see the importance of popular culture, and the influence it has on our society. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">For example, I remember watching Barbara Walters’ ten most fascinating people, and Anna Wintour was featured. This must have been about four or five years ago, and Anna was describing how if you observe closely, and you have a keen eye, you can see fashion as a way of conveying current affairs. Then there were images shown that were taken from <i>Vogue </i>when Bush was in charge and war had an influence on the United States, and all the models were in combat gear. It was pretty neat.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I guess this topic took over my head on Friday when I was working at MAC and we launched a collection based on Betty and Veronica from the Archie comics. The collection is called Archie’s Girls and because I currently can’t do much with my hair, I wore my usual head wrap but created freckles on my face in honor of Betty (who has freckles in the comics) and also in preparation for a photoshoot I am doing for my IPP where the model has to have freckles, as they are a form of symbolism in the story. I wasn’t trying to look like Betty or Veronica, but I was inspired by the art behind the creation of their characters in the comics, similar to how I am inspired by the art I discover through pop culture-related journalism.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am watching <i>The Carrie Diaries, </i>which is a book-made-into-television-series about Carrie Bradshaw before we see her in <i>Sex and the City. </i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In <i>The Carrie Diaries, </i>Carrie is still in high school. She is around sixteen or seventeen at the time and it shows her developing into the columnist we see later on. <br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I like the show because it shows Carrie, who in a way is an inspiration to me, growing into being her own person and finding her style as a writer. I like that is shows her using her experiences as material for her diary even at a young age, like I used to do.<br />
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I feel as though as an aspiring documentary filmmaker and journalist, I often pressure myself to produce something that is poignant and profound and will provoke thought and change minds. While that will always be my ultimate goal, watching the young Carrie every monday night with one of my best girlfriends Aneisha reminds me that it’s okay to write about every day experiences, however big or small, just for the sake of writing. </div>
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kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09835229665831754674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4391256480333473207.post-44447127412723036992013-01-15T04:43:00.002-08:002013-01-15T04:43:32.036-08:00DO YOUR JOB<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Yesterday my classmates and I watched the Phoenix Sinclair inquiry take place at the Winnipeg Convention Centre.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The inquiry is trying to discover the factors that led to and allowed the death of the little girl, which happened in 2005. It was at the hearing that I remembered, in part, why I want to be a journalist/filmmaker/person who creates art to raise awareness and provoke thought and social change.<br />
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We were all sitting around listening to witnesses who had worked at Winnipeg Child and Family Services at the time that Phoenix’s file passed through, and admittedly it wasn’t the most thrilling experience. But I tried to listen really carefully and take as many notes, as accurately as I could. And then they got to the details surrounding what Winnipeg CFS workers typically look for when trying to assess if a child is being abused.<br />
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They named bruises and children walking funny and having trouble sitting down and a variety of other things that made me have to blink away tears. They said Phoenix went to Wellington School, and I don’t know why but that made the whole thing very real to me and it felt like my heart was fucking breaking right there in the room. <br />
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Journalists are, in some cases, required to know about things that are too horrible to imagine, like in this case. And while I am not claiming to be an expert on the case by any means, I did gain a lot of insight into what might have happened by attending the hearing yesterday knowing I was going to have to report on it. It reminded me of the importance of doing that; of listening carefully and gaining awareness about whatever is going on in this crazy world and of raising the awareness of others, too, so maybe one day they will rally for change. Basically making sure that people don’t forget about the Phoenix’s and the Beverly Rowbothams and the Aileen Wuornos’s (whatever your views are on her) and the Debs (see my post titled “Flying High Again -- Deb is the name of the woman in that story) and all the rest of the ones who can be noticed and even helped, maybe, if me and you, and all the other journalists can lend them a voice.<br />
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I will elaborate on this in my next post. </span></div>
kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09835229665831754674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4391256480333473207.post-11375667788647480832013-01-08T04:32:00.001-08:002013-01-08T04:32:05.102-08:00STORY IDEAS<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I have learned a lot about coming up with story ideas in my second year of Creative Communications. For example, in Broadcast Journalism, I cannot simply put down the first story idea that comes to me. I have to consider what I will use for b-roll, who I will interview, whether the story will make an interesting one visually, and if I can arrange to pull the story off in time for it to be aired (or, so far this year, submitted to the instructor by the deadline).</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">While I, as a student, haven’t talked or thought about story ideas as much in regular journalism class as I have in broadcast journalism class, I have still considered it, and I feel as though my idea about how to find a story has changed.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">While I never saw the value in ripping off stories from larger media outlets, such as the Freep or the Sun, I have developed some techniques that might appear basic to everyone but are news to me. I call them my “skills as an observer.”<br />
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The first skill as an observer I have developed is looking around at thing when I am walking, rather than texting on my cell phone or going on facebook. It is very surprising how much I actually notice when I really give things a good look and my eyes are open and all of that.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">For example, in the summertime I was walking on Main Street by the Seven Eleven that’s a few blocks away from my house and I guess I decided to be more observant than usual that day. I noticed the Manitoba Clothing Company and for whatever reason, I stopped in front of it and just stared into the window. The mannequins in there had been figures in the backdrop for my entire life; I remember not noticing them as I walked by thousands of times with my mother when I was a kid, and later, by myself. I decided to go in and ask some questions about this place for the first time in my 21 years on earth. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I found out that in addition to having a sweet selection of deadstock, high-waist Levi’s from the 70s, the company was closing. It had been open since 1944 and used to make uniforms for a whole bunch of city services and stuff (the Winnipeg Police Force, etc.) until outsourcing basically put them out of business. They had a whole factory upstairs that the owner told me used to be filled with forty workers, and now can only afford to employ seven. There were old men that still hung around there that had been working there since being sixteen. For those people, it was like the end of an era, or a bunch of eras. Now that’s a story.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The second skill I learned as an observer is to listen carefully to what people say. This includes reading things carefully, too.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Those are just a few tricks I’ve learned about finding story ideas. You might find, as I have, that using observational skills will not only make you a better journalist, but it will make you acutely aware of your surroundings and that might make your life easier. It’s made mine easier, and I generally feel better about myself, too. It might even make you a better friend or girlfriend or boyfriend or whatever you are. Sweet.</span></div>
kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09835229665831754674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4391256480333473207.post-27457200345308948852012-11-12T19:37:00.001-08:002012-11-12T19:37:24.261-08:00MAKE NO PROMISES<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I have been thinking about where I will be at this time next year and it makes me feel scared. I have some plans and whatever, but I feel as though one of the downfalls of being a journalist - or any sort of creative person - is that nothing is guaranteed career-wise.<br />
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I guess nothing is guaranteed for anyone, ever. But I feel as though nothing is guaranteed even more for people who enter jobs that are not “in demand” like a doctor is “in demand.” It is strange to me, though, that journalists are not more in demand because the world would certainly be difficult to understand for the average person without them. I touched on this a little bit in my last post, about how, in my opinion, the job of a journalist is to help the public understand occurrences around the globe. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Anyway, as I was saying, that’s the downfall - that there is so much competition and so few jobs and the industry is changing and getting even more uncertain. But I also think those things are kind of like highlights. I usually like things to be rollercoaster scary, and I have gotten myself in and out of trouble all of my life so I feel as though I am as prepared as the next person to enter something like this where everything is kind of uncertain. It is almost like a trade off - as a journalist, and as I experienced on a small scale interning at a paper this summer, you get to go around and observe a number of things every single day, and then you get to tell the whole world (as you know it) the story, what happened. Up until I was about 20 that used to be my life anyway, just cruising around and deciding on what I should do depending on how good of a story it would be later, so it was pretty nice to get paid to do it and not have to be so personally involved at the same time when I worked for the paper. Having a sweet gig like that obviously doesn’t come for free. That’s what I mean when I said it’s like a trade off - the jobs are few and you have to work your fuckin ass off to hook anything up. But in the grand scheme of thing it makes sense because I guess if it was easy everyone would be doing it. <br />
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I remember at the paper this summer I was cruising around on Portage in the company car with my Lennon rose-colored shades on. And I had covered a story where someone drowned in a pond so I was feeling sad. I was sad that, before my very eyes, the mission of the underwater police unit turned from a rescue mission to a recovery mission. And I was sad that the kid was so young and just drowned in a pond, just like that. But I was a little happy because I got to be there to observe and try my best to get all the facts about what lead up to this, so in a way, and on a surface level, I was doing my part in helping others around the city understand why things went the way they did. It didn’t feel like doing enough, really, because if I could I would bring that kid back, but it was the most I could do as a journalist, you know what I mean? I guess I was happy too because, on a personal level, observing that whole recovery mission and all the people standing around waiting for this kid to get pulled out of the water made me think about my own life as a kid (yes I am still a kid I don’t care what you say) and that I was alive and doing a cool job and it was summertime and later that day Katherine (the other intern and my pal) and I were going to Chapters and she was going to pick out some cool fiction for me, even though I felt like I was living a life I didn’t even need to escape from. Talk about seeing the world through rose-colored glasses. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And I remember getting to go to a farm one day when I was reporting, and learning about how damaging wild predators can be to livestock, and seeing farmers loosing their money and their minds over it, and I remember thinking I was pretty lucky to get to know different things like that. And to have the opportunity to make a difference in someones life by being the vehicle through which their story gets told. <br />
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So that’s what it’s about, I guess. There are no guarantees but if you work hard enough to hook it up for yourself it’s pretty fuckin sweet. And I’m okay with knowing that. </span></div>
kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09835229665831754674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4391256480333473207.post-62230421306450760772012-10-29T20:40:00.000-07:002012-10-29T20:40:29.745-07:00THE WORLD<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As I usually do, lately I am thinking a lot about the differences between fiction and non-fiction, or journalism, in writing.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I watched <i>Chicken Ranch, </i>the first documentary Nick Broomfield made when he got out of film school, on Saturday. He discovered the Chicken Ranch, which is a legal brothel operating outside of Las Vegas, through an amateur pilot friend who read about the ranch in a plane magazine, because the ranch has a plane that flies in clients. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The documentary made me think about my need and desire to open my eyes to things going on around me and things going on, even if not so much around me: to read the paper, listen to the news, and know what’s happening. It’s strange because I developed a very strong idea about news media outlets after working for the paper this summer: I was very skeptical leaving once I saw the way news is manufactured, I guess you could say. I left thinking news was not in line with the truth, or that is was merely some version of it. <br />
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And then the editor of that paper, Paul Samyn, came in to the school I go to and did a presentation about the paper and the media in general to first year CreComm students. I managed to sneak in for the last few minutes of it, where Samyn described the paper itself, and the media in general, as a tool people can use to understand the world. So maybe I had it all wrong, then. Maybe the paper is only the beginning for a curious reader: it will give you the story, as honest and straightforward as possible (at least that is how it should be) and then if you want, you can go and find out more about what you’re reading about on your own time. I find comfort in understanding the paper that way, though: as a way of understanding all kinds of occurrences. And that is what I want to do for others: help them understand certain rules and laws and situations and people, whether it be through journalism, documentary filmmaking, or general motion picture. <br />
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And then something else happened that made me notice something entirely different and unrelated about fact and fiction. I went to one of my favorite places on planet eart as I know it: Chapters. I spent the whole day there in the fiction and literature section, and after selecting <i>Lives of Girls and Women </i>by Alice Munro, I went down to the Young Adult section. I went straight to the Judy Blume books. She is one of my favorite authors, and I’d say most young girls have read <i>Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret</i>, or at least most “half-Jewish” girls like me. Anyway, I picked up a copy of <i>Blubber, </i>which I’ve read already but do not own, and started to read it again. <br />
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And I am in love because automatically I was brought into the fifth grade class of Jill Brenner and I felt sad for Linda Fishcher who Jill and her friends call Blubber and I understood Jill’s mother as she huddled in the corner of the family bathroom and smoked a cigarette after she had quit and I was no longer in Chapters or in Winnipeg or in my own life. <br />
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And then I went home and a girlfriend of mine picked me up. After we went out for dinner and we were driving home in the dark, we stopped in front of the seedy hotel where the former subject of a documentary I was shooting lived. The same one who left me messages that kept me up at night and the same one who had me worried he was going to fuck me up the way he fucked some guy up in jail. Anyway, I saw him as my girlfriend and I drove by. I saw him standing outside the hotel, now rooming house, in the dark, and I remembered there are scary things and people in the world. And then I remembered that unlike in fiction, where the author creates worlds and lives in them while writing, and others live in while reading, journalists do not get to choose the story. They have to remember bad things happen. And that scares me and makes me want to live in fiction forever. </span></div>
kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09835229665831754674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4391256480333473207.post-10296265752153444092012-10-22T20:45:00.001-07:002012-10-22T20:45:18.207-07:00TELL ME EVERYTHING<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">That made me start thinking about what types of things different Canadian publications cover, and what types of things they should cover. I guess I started thinking about why Canadian publications and media outlets cover political happenings in the United States, or in Europe or the Middle East. Should we be concerned about stuff that happens far, far away?<br />
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I think the answer is yes.<br />
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Whoever gets elected in the upcoming election in the States will probably affect Canadians in ways that I do not know, but more importantly, Canadians have the right to knowledge about what’s going on anywhere in the world. That is one of the most amazing things about being Canadian: unlike different parts of the world, we are not limited when it comes to information. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If I want to go and read about the political climate in Syria, I can do that and I can rest assured that the website will not be blocked by the government. In fact, I can look up anything from terrorist attacks to various religions to gay porno and no one is going to stop me because I live in a country defined almost entirely by freedom and our media outlets reflect that. Through interning at a newspaper this summer, I learned I can write about different things too, and (in most cases) I won’t have to worry about being the target of a violent attack over it. At least not when I am in Canada.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So I think that covering the upcoming U.S. election is important because people are interested in it. It is also important because the election over there will probably have an influence over the way things are done here. But most of all, it is important because as Canadian media outlets and journalists, we are taking advantage of a right that, unfortunately, is not recognized in all regions of the world. We are taking advantage of a right to know whatever we want.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If this seems simple it's because it is, but overall I am glad I live in a place where I can call information my own for the taking (and distributing). I am glad I grew up in a place where, as a one time aspiring journalist, I knew I could write about things that matter to me and matter to the Canadian population and my life would not be threatened, as was the sad case with the young girl in India recently. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Now back to creating things that I would not be allowed to show in other countries. Bye!</span></div>
kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09835229665831754674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4391256480333473207.post-16290623173375382332012-10-15T09:50:00.002-07:002012-10-15T09:50:42.694-07:00A THOUSAND FAREWELLS<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In <i>A Thousand Farewells, </i>author and journalist Nahlah Ayed describes what it was like to leave Winnipeg, Manitoba and return to a refugee camp plagued by conflict and violence in Amman, Jordan. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">She was thirteen years old when her and her family returned to Canada, but the things she saw when her family initially moved back to the camp inspired her to cover what the book describes as one of the world’s “most volatile regions” as a journalist.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Ayed’s knack for describing things comprehensively worked beautifully in the book. This is likely the result of her observant nature (a trait common among journalists who produce thorough work) and strong memory. For example, at the beginning of chapter two, <i>Refugees by Design, </i>Ayed states that she “clearly” remembers what it was like to enter the camp, even though it was the middle of the night and Ayed was a young girl at the time. The small details, like her parents “taking turns sighing” or that the metal door her father knocked on was “dotted with rusted bullet holes” paints a vivid and frightening image in the reader’s mind. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Her talent for selecting detail that will evoke particular emotions and tell a specific story runs through the entire book, and makes the read memorable, while creating obvious contrast with the stories concerning the Middle East that one sees on the 6 o’clock news. In chapter seven, <i>Ghosts, </i>Ayed describes the role Arabic poetry played in her own life growing up, and the role it continued to play for the Arabs at large. “Arab poetry was owned by all the people,” Ayed writes on page 135. One would not think such a detail would appear in a book that seems, prior to reading it, to be about Middle Eastern conflict, refugee camps, and the Arab Spring. It gently humanizes a region that is often characterized by violence, while details like the fact that a group of surgeons performed free cosmetic surgery for people disfigured by Saddam’s torture supported those gentle details by suggesting in an urgent way that the goings-on in the Middle East leaves humans, like you and me, disfigured and despaired every single day.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The one critique I have when it comes to what did not work in the book is that, at times, Ayed was writing for an audience who is at least somewhat familiar with Muslim culture. I felt mildly frustrated when I had to look up certain words or references in order to thoroughly understand the book. The first time this happened was as early as page 10, when Ayed states that “Eid was a memorable occasion, but so were Christmas and Easter.” I expected Eid was some kind of Muslim holiday, but I checked it out on the internet just to be sure (for the record, Eid comes at the end of Ramadan, which is a month of fasting for Muslims). Therefore, maybe some explanations are missing here and there in <i>A Thousand Farewells, </i>but then again the book is not supposed to be a guide to Arab culture. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The thing I, as a journalist, learned most from this book is to remember to observe: to speak less and listen more. Ayed would never have gotten the stories she has in this insightful book had she not constantly been in tune with her surroundings. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If I compare the book to another non-fiction book I studied in journalism class last year, <i>Journey for Justice: How Project Angel Cracked the Candace Derksen Case </i>by Mike McIntyre, the one obvious difference is that Ayed ascends simply being a reporter and becomes a storyteller, while McIntyre got caught up in stating the facts. <i>A Thousand Farewells </i>moves fluidly as a story, and the reader remains interested. <i>Journey for Justice </i>became repetitive and laden with reports from killer Mark Grant’s psychiatrist, and at times became boring to me as the reader.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The book affected me in a simple yet profound way: I found it inspiring. It made me think about the role of autobiography in journalism and art, and I was happy to read a clear, coherent story written by someone who evidently had been carrying it around in their heart for nearly all their life. Ayed had something to say for a long, long time and after investing time in getting it out on paper, she said it. That is something all journalists and writers can aspire to. </span></div>
kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09835229665831754674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4391256480333473207.post-22053364184757258652012-10-09T04:50:00.001-07:002012-10-09T04:50:30.882-07:00POST-SECONDARY FOR EVERYBODY<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">During the summer, I had the opportunity to interview students participating in the National Summer Science Camp for First Nations and Inuit youth at the University of Manitoba.<br />
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The students were from various Aboriginal communities across Canada and the camp, an annual event, takes place in a different province every year. The purpose is to inspire an interest in science among Aboriginal youth.<br />
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I remember thinking the initiative was cool because it gives Aboriginal youth the opportunity to compare and contrast, through real experience, traditional and non-traditional medicine, thus presenting Aboriginal ways of healing and non-Aboriginal ways of healing as equally important. <br />
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“I want to study Aboriginal medicines,” Haylee Garson, a 14-year-old from Fisher River First Nation told me when I talked to her in August. <br />
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That alone made the program seem amazing to me since if nothing else, it had one Aboriginal youth not only talking about going to university (according to the provincial government website, Aboriginal high school graduates are more likely to attend community college or other forms of non-university post secondary education), but also about studying an integral element of her own Aboriginal culture - a tiny step towards re-awakening a culture left destroyed by the cultural genocide that took place within the walls of residential schools.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Another sweet thing about the camp was that it aimed to provide the youth with a chance to experience post-secondary education as realistically as possible. This includes staying in a dorm (or, as manager of integrated programs at the Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre Rudy Subedar pointed out to me, a hotel). I didn’t realize it at the time but dorm life is a huge barrier to Aboriginal people who want to pursue post-secondary education. <br />
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A challenge that may not be entirely unique to Aboriginal people, but undoubtedly affects their shot at a post-secondary education in a university setting, is the financial burden brought upon by living in rez. More than that, however, if someone is coming from a remote community and leaving behind the lifestyle and people they’ve always known, it becomes very difficult to succeed academically. The issue lies in the fact that Aboriginal people who come from remote communities lose the support they’ve relied on their entire lives. <br />
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Brenda Small, Dean of the Negahneewin College at Confederation College in Thunder Bay gives perspective on the challenges faced by Aboriginal Canadians when attempting to pursue post-secondary education in a university setting in the following video, (at 9:15):</span></div>
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(By the way, check out 5:45 where Mimi Gellman talks about Jewish Aboriginals in Canada and the United States... I’ve never met someone of this mix but it’s cool to know they exist). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">With this knowledge, when I look back to my interview with students who were participating in the National Summer Science Camp for First Nations and Inuit youth, I am pleased to see these challenges were obviously considered when the program was designed. I remember Hunter Francis, a 14-year-old from Eel Ground First Nation in New Brunswick. He told me all about the wicked food he and the other students got to eat, and how much fun he was having with all the new friends he was making.<br />
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“Man, like, this camp is something else,” he said to me. <br />
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I am happy to see things like this program happening in my own province and around Canada, especially after visiting the Robert Houle exhibit last week and getting a glimpse into the dark and horrible things that have happened to Aboriginal people throughout Canadian history. <br />
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Not that the sexual abuse, torture, smothering of a culture, and all the other things that I will never understand or even pretend to can be reversed, but at least programs like this create hope for an educated and positive life for Aboriginal youth and the chance for Aboriginals and Non-Aboriginals to have an equal shot at an education in the future.</span></div>
kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09835229665831754674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4391256480333473207.post-15163033469343959762012-10-01T19:55:00.001-07:002012-10-01T19:55:37.235-07:00HOMETOWN GLORY<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Today the Journalism class I am in had a meeting with the editor of the community papers that are distributed around Winnipeg. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Each student got to choose what paper they want to write for (my friends Kirah and Cindy are writing for the <i>Times </i>with me - we all grew up/live in the North End of town and that is where that paper is distributed). I am pretty excited, actually. We have to contribute three stories by the end of the semester.<br />
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I am excited for this assignment because it got me thinking about community papers, and why they exist. The most obvious reason is that they are a way to keep people informed about what’s happening specifically in their neck of the woods, and to me it’s comforting to know that people would actually care to know about that.<br />
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It’s comforting because that means people want to stay informed about their surroundings, so in the bigger picture they must care about the state of affairs around the place that they live. You might be saying something like “well duh, Kristy. Obviously people care about stuff like that what’s the big deal,” (or maybe no one is saying that - it’s never safe to assume anything in journalism) but if someone did say that I would say back “the big deal is that people want to know what’s going on and if they know what’s going on they can change some stuff.”<br />
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Or they can get involved in something that is already working towards seeing change in the community, which is why I am happy to be writing for the North End paper. I want to contribute interesting stories about cool and positive things that are happenong in the North End of town - like youth centers that I know of operating around there and other initiatives that are taking place to see the neighbourhood improve and become safe and enjoyable for the whole community. <br />
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I see a lot of terrible stuff about the North End in the paper all the time so it’s cool to have the chance to seek out something positive and write about it in a space where people might actually read it and care. </span></div>
kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09835229665831754674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4391256480333473207.post-54430537570917066182012-10-01T07:42:00.002-07:002012-10-01T07:42:36.201-07:00HAPPENINGS
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Fan
support for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers is not unconditional. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Season
ticket holder Max Asper affirmed, without reserve, that whether he stays to
watch the end of the game depends on how well the Bombers play.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“If
they’re winning, I stay the whole time, but if they do something like what
happened today I leave early,” Asper asserted as he and friend Benjamin Lipson
deserted their seats on Oct. 22. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The
announced attendance of 30, 360 lessened during third quarter as both men,
alongside dozens of fans, split. The Bombers were losing to the Montreal
Alouettes with a score of 25-10.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“I
call myself a big Bomber fan but no one likes to see the Bombers lose,” Asper
declared while passing a hotdog cart outside the stadium.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">James
Dennis took a bathroom break when the Alouettes seemed certain to win. He does
not usually stay until the end if the Bombers are losing by a lot, however.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“I
have left quite often, even once at half-time, when they were losing badly.
Sometimes whenever I leave the Bombers come back and win the game,” Dennis
said, stroking his beard and chuckling. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Such
was the case for Asper: with a final score of 26-25, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers
beat the Montreal Alouettes by a single point. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Canadian Football League (CFL) comprises eight teams from across Canada. It has
two Divisions; the East and the West, and after Saturday, the Bombers are tied
with the Alouettes for first place in the East Division because both teams have
now won ten games and lost six.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Darnell
Adams insists that a comeback similar to the one from Saturday’s game is always
possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“I
jingle my keys at people who leave the Bomber game early because it’s
disrespectful. You never know when they are going to make the best comeback in
sports history like they almost did a couple weeks ago against Montreal!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Adams,
a season ticket holder and amateur player in the Manitoba Major Football
League, contends that when fans walk out, the Bombers are not discouraged. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“It
motivates them, they play better. Not all the time but most of the time. That’s
what I like to believe in my heart of hearts.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<!--EndFragment-->kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09835229665831754674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4391256480333473207.post-17664993104173436712012-10-01T07:27:00.001-07:002012-10-01T07:27:51.034-07:00TO SOME, IT'S GARBAGE
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Harvey
Smith, Winnipeg city councillor for Daniel McIntyre, declared the Garbage and
Recycling Master Plan concerning for low-income Winnipeg residents and those on
a pension at yesterday’s council meeting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“I
am concerned about people on low income being able to afford this, people on
pensions,” Smith stated, the shake of his grasp evident as his coffee cup
quivered. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">He
was referring to an additional $50 Winnipeg residents will begin to see on
their water bills near the end of 2012; tax dollars that will help Winnipeg
rise from its current 15% diversion rate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Concern
was also expressed by Mynarski councillor Ross Eadie, who disapproved of the
sole dollar amount to be collected by all residents, regardless of income or
garbage production levels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“I
cannot vote for this garbage plan if we do not do it in a fair way,” he noted
minutes before the motion was passed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Residents
will receive bins for waste, and the plan orders a charge for bags additional
to those inside on top that tagged to water bills. While well-intentioned, it
remains questionable if the initiative will encourage a healthier environment
through increased recycling or merely provoke residents to eliminate waste in a
way that is harmful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Lucy
Morales-Katz, a Fort Rouge resident, is convinced the latter is underway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“I
believe the new plan will prove, for many people, to be more of an incentive to
discard garbage illegally than to recycle.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Charleswood
resident Jennifer Harris agrees, even citing an example.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“There
is a small field by Murray Avenue, north of Main Street; I’ve noticed a lot of
people already dump their garbage there and I feel that this will only increase
as people try to avoid paying extra.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Many
alternatives to the plan should have been considered, argued Harris’s husband,
Kyle Harris. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“During
fall and spring cleaning season, the city should create more places to drop off
grass and leaves to be composted, rather than simply charging for extra bags of
garbage.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jennifer
Harris nodded her head in agreement and commented on the indiscriminate nature
of a flat rate. She suggested census forms as an appropriate way to assign
increases in tax dollars to individuals of varying income and garbage
production levels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Census
forms should be used to determine how many bins should be allotted to different
households and the amount each household should have to pay.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Between 1980-88,
Iranians lived in the dark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Every day after
five or six o’clock it was all dark, and we should not have any lights on
because of the bombing. The enemies come and see if there is any lights
somewhere, they come and bomb that place,” said Azizeh Ferdowsi, 62.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ferdowsi, an
Iranian, entered Canada in 1988 with her husband, daughter, and son. The enemy
was Iraq: a country northwest of her home in Bushehr, Iran, that invaded in
September 1980 following the Islamic Revolution of the previous year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Canada was not
involved in the war and we did not choose to come here,” she explained. “We
were brought to Winnipeg as refugees.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In 1979, Iranians rallied
and protested an economic crisis that yielded high prices and food shortages
across the country. The public outcry became the Revolution, Hossein Bashiriyeh
wrote in The State and Revolution in Iran. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In The History of
Iran, Elton L. Daniel wrote the eight year Iran-Iraq war was over a number of
things, including an agreement Iraq made with Iran in 1975 about the border
between the two countries, the comfort Iran and Iraq offered the other’s
enemies during early 1980, and fear, ideology, and emotion in general.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ferdowsi does not
know what the war was about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I do not know why
it happened. And no result come of the war, but so many casualties from both
countries,” she said while studying a map of the world mounted upon the wall of
her office. “Many people from Iran’s side, we lost our homes, our kids, our
properties. Myself, I had a house, but we had to flee the city, we had to leave
everything behind: all the furniture, everything. We had to escape.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">A button pinned on
Ferdowsi’s shirt pictures two girls: they are her granddaughters. Both her
children are married now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“At that time my
son, 19 years old, he was ready to go to army. I didn’t want him to go to army.
I remember we had a clothing store. My husband and I sold our store and then we
give all the money to the smuggler to take my son to Pakistan, where he meet us
in 1986.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Her daughter was
merely two.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“While we still in
Iran, I had to go to the gas station to put gas in the car. There was a big
truck just running and my daughter was screaming because the noise- she thought
it was bombing.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ferdowsi blinks her
eyes as she remembers what happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I was screaming and
I was telling him ‘shut down your engine! Because you are just staying there
shut it down!’ Everyone was just looking for some gas to put in the car. If
something happen they can flee to another city.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="BodyA">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the dark one
evening, Ferdowsi saw the light of an explosive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I remember a rocket
came behind our building and many people were homeless there. They were killed.
And all the blood was all over our wall on the building. And it was really
scary, and we just screamed,” she shakes her head. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We screamed.”</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #0400;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<!--EndFragment-->kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09835229665831754674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4391256480333473207.post-25203736185219486802012-09-24T20:42:00.003-07:002012-09-24T20:42:52.816-07:00GATEWAY DRUG<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Journalism is more than only reporting the facts, contrary to popular belief.<br />
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It is a form of storytelling, and it takes skill to be able to decide which details are essential to the progression of the story, and which details are not. It also takes skill to be able to think on your feet when you don’t know what the story will be - which is mostly all the time, and the way it should be. <br />
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Those are only two of the many reasons I chose to major in Journalism in university/college, even though I have known since I was about nineteen years old that I want to write movies. <br />
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But I still get asked, and quite often, why I am going to Journalism school, why I interned at a newspaper this summer, and why I didn’t at least choose Media Production as my major if I want to work in film one day.<br />
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The answer is the same as what I said above: Journalism is a form of storytelling and it takes skill to be able to do it effectively. <br />
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If you think about it, Journalism is the perfect way to start out if you want to work in the movies like I do. You get to interview people every day, to start off with. By doing that, you get a sense of the way they speak, what makes them get emotional (in some cases), and the words they use to describe particular situations and events. If you are lucky and you are interviewing them face-to-face (which you should be, I am against telephone interviews for a whole bunch of reasons but I’ll save that for another time), you get to watch their mannerisms and facial expressions, too. <br />
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That material is very useful when developing characters and writing scripts. <br />
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I was thinking exactly that when this girl at the newspaper I was at got to interview this woman who had a complaint about the health care system. She was saying the craziest things, comparing health care workers to Nazis and all of that, and the best part was her photograph. She was so dramatic-looking: Liz Taylor eyebrows and beauty-queen style hair. She was wearing a huge white fur coat standing in a yard full of lawn gnomes and reindeer and pitchforks, and her brother was there, too. They might of even lived together even though they both looked well over 60. When my pal interviewed her for the second time she asked if the photographer was coming back to snap another pic.<br />
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“I will absolutely be available,” she said. “And that photographer, well he was real cute last time.”<br />
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See, that’s a perfect character for a movie. In fact, she already exists if you combine Elvira with Blanche Deveraux and add a little CC Bloom from <i>Beaches </i>to the mix. <br />
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Anyway, the point is that Journalism, I have found, can lead to many different things, because it is multifaceted and journalists are challenged every day to see stories from many perspectives. Those perspectives are called sources.<br />
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That may also be the reason why journalists can also, somewhat easily, transition to “the dark side,” also known as PR. Once they fine tune thier eye to seeing stories from different angles, they can easily imagine it from the perspective of the audience, which is an important skill to have when working in Public Relations. <br />
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I admire and respect journalists who are in it forever and continue to improve as journalists because they choose to stay in that career, but for me journalism is my gateway drug to crazier things, and I think I will have the skills to get there now only because I took this path. </span></div>
kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09835229665831754674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4391256480333473207.post-85054202927542025602012-09-17T19:46:00.001-07:002012-09-17T19:47:01.864-07:00I'VE NEVER BEEN GOOD WITH BOUNDARIES<div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Today in Journalism class, students engaged in a discussion about content that is, and is not, appropriate to show in the media.<br />
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The discussion happened after anti-semitic posters were posted in downtown Winnipeg, and used to target Mayor Sam Katz among other well-known Jews in the city (and some non-Jews, apparently). <br />
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I was surprised to learn some of my classmates agreed with the <i>Winnipeg Sun </i>and thought it was appropriate for a clear photograph of one of the posters to be published. That left me burning fuckin’ mad. My heart was racing throughout the discussion, and it took me a while to stop thinking about it when class ended. <br />
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One comment - that a reporter’s job is to report - kept repeating itself in my mind.<br />
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And I agree with that comment, but I also think reporters, in general, are responsible to report only information that will allow people to be “free and self-governing,” said a handout given to me in first year Journalism class. I suppose I can see how publishing a photograph of one of the posters would allow people to be free to make up their own minds about the content of the poster, but it would also leave others trapped - specifically, the people whose names appeared on the “list” on the poster.<br />
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It would leave them trapped by stereotypes and by no other choice but to be portrayed in a negative and racist fashion, even if only for two days (the number of days the <i>Sun</i> has run the photograph so far). And while not directly, it leaves others trapped by that racism too, because publishing the photograph perpetuates the message - even if that was not the intention of the media outlet.<br />
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I am now conflicted about Journalism and truth and boundaries. But I also gained a little bit of clarity, I guess.<br />
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For example, I am now thinking differently about the Youth Justice Act in Manitoba.<br />
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While interning at the paper (no, not the <i>Sun</i>) over the summer, I used to question why the names of youth who committed criminal acts were not published. Of course I thought I knew the answer, but I did not understand it as I understand it after the discussion today. <br />
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After today, I think their names are not published because it would only trap them if people at large knew their identity. They would become trapped by many of the same things the people on that list were temporarily trapped by - stereotypes, and in some cases, publishing their names could perpetuate ideas rooted in racism that, unfortunately, seems to exist in society already. <br />
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The difference is, of course, that the people whose names appeared on the list on the posters have not, to my knowledge, committed criminal acts. <br />
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Anyway, this is all to say that I now have a little bit more insight when it comes to forming an opinion on what is appropriate to publish. I still agree with the hand out on journalism I was given last year - that information published should allow people to be free and self-governing. However, it should be non-discriminatory, so to speak: information should, to the best of the media outlets ability, let everyone be free and self-governing. <br />
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Obviously there are exceptions to this rule, and no I am not saying that convicted serial killers and child molesters should remain anonymous, but I am saying that all parties should be considered when content is published, and in the particular case of the anti-semitic posters, one party was targeted, and the media only continued to target them by posting the content.<br />
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The end.</span></div>
kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09835229665831754674noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4391256480333473207.post-51507788986437208742012-09-10T19:54:00.002-07:002012-09-10T19:54:34.767-07:00TRUE OR FALSE<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">One thing I learned after working for a paper this summer: there is more room for truth in fiction than there is in writing that is supposedly fact.<br />
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I started to think that after one editor in particular began telling me the responses I should be getting from organizations in order to write any particular story, and even the quotes people should be saying. He was deciding the news, not discovering it. <br />
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Then I started thinking maybe it was just him, but as I had more hands-on experience I realized that no, it’s truly the nature of the newspaper beast. <br />
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Consider when I have to report on a knife fight - the actual knife fight happens somewhere in Winnipeg. Then someone calls the cops, or the cops see it when they are on patrol. They break it up, and people have to file police reports and whatever, so they get a combination of ‘truths‘ and people generally saying what they think will keep them out of trouble. Then police media relations has to summarize the event into something they can report to the media without compromising the image of the cops. That’s when I give them a call and get the ‘story‘ which, at this point, is really just something derived from what might have happened, but who really knows. <br />
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And the paper is a business. The bottom line is to sell papers which makes me see journalism, or at least the side of it I saw this summer, as something that defeats it’s own purpose. I was under the impression before I did this internship that the point of reporting information is to provide people with something that would allow them to be ‘self-governing,‘ to make their own choices or at least have options. I feel as though there is an element of it to that, but mostly every media outlet just wants to be the fastest and that kind of gets lost in everything.</span></div>
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And there are a bunch of rules surrounding what you can and cannot say and I believe they all relate to political connotations, perhaps, and things I don’t really understand. And overall they relate to having ‘taste‘ or being politically correct or whatever. Apparently, I know nothing about taste (or so I was told on the fourth time I was talked to about the dress code). Anyway, at least in fiction, because you are making up stuff that is based on maybe your own experiences or someone else's, you can show ugly details and be really honest about the whole thing because in the end it’s just fiction, right? <br />
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You can say things that are not tasteful, but that are true. And while I don’t believe in ultimate truth, at least you can tell someone’s truth in a full way than try to partially tell everyones only to tell no ones at all.<br />
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That’s why I will be writing movies one day, not articles. </span></div>
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kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09835229665831754674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4391256480333473207.post-11522014046284329862012-09-07T04:36:00.002-07:002012-09-07T04:36:24.022-07:00IDENTITY CRISIS<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">On the evening of Tuesday, September 4, members and supporters of the Green Party of Manitoba gathered at Triple B’s and ate Bruschetta while awaiting the results of the Fort Whyte byelection. <br />
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It seemed as though most people who were speaking about the byelection throughout the day knew the PC candidate, Brian Pallister, was going to win, and he did. The riding has always been conservative, with Hugh McFadyen, PC garnering 5,594 votes in the last provincial election on October 4, 2011. The NDP candidate Sunny Dhaliwal was far behind him with 2,655 votes, and Liberal candidate Chae Tsai only got 710. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The Fort Whyte Green Party candidate, Donnie Benham, said he was not nervous, even when results were going to be in any minute. I believed that he was not afraid at all as I watched him casually walk over to the ATM to pull out some cash while some of the other people there, including party members, student journalists, and supporters waited in anticipation.<br />
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I started to think about why he would not be nervous and aside from what seemed to be the obvious near fact that he was not going to be elected, it occurred to me that being elected may never have been his goal in the first place. I suppose I started giving this more thought after James Beddome, the Leader of the Green Party of Manitoba, began speaking about awareness as the party’s central focus in the byelection.<br />
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“We want to make sure they know the Green Party is out there,” he said. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The Green Party, I started to think, holds the convictions and values of its members and supporters, and it sounded as though Beddome, and Benham, want to see the party’s identity bloom.<br />
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The idea of identity started going around in my mind even more when I found out, minutes later, that Pauline Marois of the PQ had been elected as Premier of Quebec. <br />
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I had gotten back from Montreal two days before and each time I walked by a sign of Marois’ face, I listened to my pal Erik, who is an Anglo, talk about Marois as the would-be worst thing to ever happen to Quebec. He spoke of coexistance and expressed disapproval at the prospect of separating from the rest of Canada, saying it would leave him no choice but to leave Montreal.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But then at night I would listen to Mado, my favorite Franco (and all time) drag queen discourage spectators from voting for Charest while performing her show, and denying her status as a Canadian citizen, claiming she is “Quebecois, and Quebecois only,” or something along the lines of that.<br />
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“Who here does not speak French?” she asked in her thick and very sexy accent. “Oh, it’s okay to be retarded” she said when people raised their hands. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And that, too, is all about identity. Because while the Green Party of Manitoba was trying to bring theirs to life, the PQ and their supporters are trying to keep theirs from dying. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I was sad that Marois won, I guess, because even though it’s unlikely, I don’t want Montreal to leave from Canada. I love how it is now. But I guess I kind of get it because I’ve been to Israel so that gave me a sense of how it feels to really belong. When I got there, I was told a million times that I was home - simply because I’m a Jew. It was cool to see people from my ‘tribe‘ with their own land and their own language and their own way of life, and it was even more cool to know that my blood - my identity - entitles me to be a part of that. So I started thinking that, if I was a Franco, and I lived in a sweet place like Montreal, or Quebec in general, hell yeah I’d want to claim it for my own. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Anyway, I was also sad to see the official results of the Manitoba Fort Whyte byelection, which were the following:<br />
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Brian Pallister, PC got 3,626 votes<br />
Bob Axworthy, Lib. got 2,069 votes<br />
Brandy Schmidt, NDP got 739 votes<br />
Donnie Benham, Green Party got 113 votes<br />
Darrell Ackman, Independent got 19 votes <br />
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That means that NDP has 37 seats, the PCs have 19 seats, and the Liberals have 1 seat.<br />
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I was sad to see this because I will soon be at a place where I am going to want to build my own identity and it is hard to imagine that even if you believe your values are valuable and your perspectives give perspective, not everyone else will see that in you. Not everyone sees it in the Green Party, I guess. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Every vote for the Green Party is a victory,” said Benham, after he saw the results. “I am really happy with the turnout; 100 votes, that’s 100 people that want a more accountable government and a greener future for Manitoba.” <br />
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Those things that he said made me understand it definitely was not about winning or losing, and that’s something I will remember about the identity of the Green Party.</span></div>
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kristyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09835229665831754674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4391256480333473207.post-18968194183420973812012-04-10T08:43:00.000-07:002012-04-10T08:44:06.744-07:00A RAT'Z LAFF<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I saw <i>Dionysus in Stony Mountain </i>at the Rachel Browne Theatre on April 3. The play was complex and some reviews have referred to it as intellectual. It features a Stony Mountain inmate named James (Ross McMillan), who questions his psychiatrist's (Sarah Constible) role in the justice system. The play, which was written by Steven Ratzlaff, happens in two acts.<br />
<br />I left the theatre thinking it was a good thing it accommodates only a small audience because I don’t believe <i>Dionysus in Stony Mountain</i> will ever see a sold out performance. The language was complicated, and the sentences (sometimes passages) were lengthy. Many times James simply quoted Friedrich Nietzsche, a 19th century German philosopher who became of interest to James when he stopped taking his medication. I study playwriting at Prairie Theatre Exchange and I have learned it is unwise to make your audience feel stupid. While I did not necessarily feel stupid when I left, I did not feel like I understood the play.<br />
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I read that Ratzlaff is personally interested in Nietzsche’s work and I feel as though he used the play as a medium to expand on his own interests, theories, and ideas. When I try to see it from his perspective, it occurs to me that he may believe that theatre goers will significantly benefit from learning Nietzsche’s work, and some of his own ideas. Unfortunately, a playwright must write for an audience, not for oneself. I mean, I would love to write a play about my cat Dusty and the way she lets me hold her foot when she goes to sleep, and how I use Carbon by MAC to pencil in my eyebrows, and the gap between my two front teeth. Hell, I could even throw in some passages from Fran Lebowitz's <i>Metropolitan Life, </i>but those things are not interesting to everyone. Maybe cats, makeup, dentistry, and New York City generally interest people, but not my own personal thoughts on each one.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I am disappointed because the Canadian justice system and offenders are interests that I pursue outside of learning about them at school or in the news. Before seeing the play, I expected that there was a chance for theatre about this topic to provoke thought and maybe even action on behalf of the audience. </span></div>
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For me, it provoked regret that I did not stay home and watch <i>Monster </i>for the 31st time. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I should have stayed home with you, babe.<br />
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