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The pursuit of a career in the mountains of British Columbia.

Nine years ago I made a conscious decision to leave my comfortable job at a software firm on Peel St. a few months after graduating from university for a career that made no use of my brand new degree, which only lasts half the year, makes a third the money and made no sense to anyone I knew.

This is about how I am living a life true to my own beliefs and how I didn’t let anyone’s point of view or my own failures stand in the way of me ultimately doing what I want to do in life.

Off the dome: An easy way to save the entire planet without reshaping or destroying the entire system.

I have here and now just singlehandedly resolved the ecological crisis which is killing the planet. It’s a simple solution which involves a whole lot of economists, accountants and educators doing the kind of number crunching I like to avoid, but before getting into it, let me lay down a few points.
The power you have over large industries to change their habits based on your buying power alone is small.

Nouveaux Vents, an evening of Manitowapan Productions showcasing Native contemporary dance choreograph, took place March 24th-27th at the MAI.  A cultural institution of interdisciplinary and intercultural artistic dialogue, the MAI is always up to something interesting. Manitowapan Productions, the brainchild of acclaimed dancer Gaétan Gingras, has as its mission to ‘create, promote and disseminate contemporary North American native dance performing forms’.  Nouveax Vents brought together four choreographers with as much in common stylistically as the diversity of their  indigenous roots.  Yet seamless scene changes allowed the disparate performances to perform practiced cohesion.

“Whatever you want to do, do it all the time. Once I learned that, there was no looking back.”  Phil Cohran

Trained in Missourri and Chicago, Mississippi-born Phil Choran is well-known for his trumpet stint with Sun Ra Arkestra, but less known for having mentored many Chicago-based jazz musicians, including his eight sons whom he would rouse out of bed hours before school to practice long notes on their horns. His influence continues to benefit those lucky enough to have heard the musical magnetism of groups like Ethnic Heritage Ensemble and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, both of which graced Montréal this March.  These two ensembles have something in common that local trumpet virtuoso Jason Blackbird Selman was quick to note when he announced their impending arrivals at his ongoing series Intimate Sky – something that Cohran himself has got a lot of too. That something is heart and soul.

Meet the Youth Delegate who are covering the Climat Change Conference directly from Copenhagen {click here for project background}

 

Aakash, UK

My name is Aakash. I am 15 years old, a member of the UK Youth Parliament, and I will be one of the Plan International delegation representing young people at the UN Climate Change conference in Copenhagen (COP15).

From as young as seven years old I have had an interest in climate change. When I learnt about deforestation and recycling, I insisted at home that we recycled everything that I got my hands on. I have come to understand the dire effects climate change will have on OUR generation so I am one of many fighting to save OUR planet.

With the eyes of the world firmly fixed on Copenhagen, and the hope that lies ahead for us all, the {warehouse} magazine will be publishing a first hand account of the action - as it happens - thanks to youth delegates who have been brought to COP15 by Plan International - http://plan-international.org/.

Reina, Indonesia

Hey, my name is Reihana, but everyone calls me Reina. I am 13year-old girl from Jakarta, Indonesia. Being a part of Plan's young journalist delegation for Copenhagen is important for me because climate change affects my life. Children who will inherit this planet should treat climate change significantly.

Karida, Indonesia

Hi! My name is Karida. I’m 15 and I live in Jakarta, where the people are really friendly. Jakarta is historical and multicultural, where it is very easy to see and learn other cultures. And multicultural means there is a variety of delicious food available.

Joseph, Kenya
I am Joseph. I am 12 years old, born in 1997. My country, Kenya, is experiencing the impacts of climate change.

Joining the delegation to Copenhagen is important to me because it will improve my knowledge on how the climate change has affected my country and the whole world.

Dita, Indonesia
Hi there! My name is Dita. I’m 17 years old and I live in Bangka Island, in Indonesia.

The place where I live now is in dangerous conditions. There are so many tin mining activities which cause serious damage in the environment. The tin miners just think about their today’s life. They do not care for their future generations.