Monday Special Blend
Monday April 22nd, 2024 with Nathanael Newton, Maria Hawkins, Barb Gray, Chris White
Earth Day 2024!
Dr. Manns & The BSW Music Fund, Rick Smith Phd. & Plastic People, Bob Gernon, Tom McSorley & Canadian Film Institute
| Sunwheel Dance Bruce Cockburn - Speechless |
| Recap with Maria |
| We're In the Ditch Bob Gernon - |
| Dr. DaBeth Manns (Retired, TL Consulting International) provided the initial seed funding to establish the Winston-Salem State University Foundation's Belinda S. Womack Endowed Memorial Music Scholarship with beneficiary funds. This is an investment at one of the Historically Black Colleges/Universities (HBCU) in the United States of America. Special thanks to additional donors nationwide. Special thanks to local performing artists that participated in community benefit concerts and open-mic events. In perpetuity, dividends from the investment will support WSSU scholarship recipients during their academic journey.
As a supplemental fundraiser, Dr. Manns wrote, produced and published The H("i")pnotic and Chris Beatz Leath Experience. This independent music project consists of original spoken lyrics accompanied by an eclectic blend of lofi-neosoul sounds with contemporary smooth jazz sentiments and mellow funk vibes. Special thanks to Beats Arranger-Instrumentalist, Mr. Christopher Leath, a WSSU graduate. Belinda Staten Womack was a classically trained Mezzo Soprano performer and Certified Music Educator for nearly 40 years. A 1973 graduate of WSSU and a native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina USA, Maestra Womack retired as a music teacher from the Washington, DC public schools system having taught as well in North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland. This is the nation's first independent music project committing a portion of yearly proceeds, from a Limited Edition vinyl record, to an endowed memorial music scholarship fund at an HBCU. As well, the primary artists are HBCU graduates. https://bswnc.org/ |
| Rick Smith, PhD, president of the Canadian Climate Institute, the Canadian government's climate change policy advisor. Rick is the documentary’s Executive Director and he has a Ph.D. in biology
Documentary Film Screened for MPs & Delegates Before INC-4 Global Plastics Treaty Negotiation Multiple Visual Events Happening Downtown Ottawa April 21st - 23rd Microplastics aren’t just an environmental issue but are also an urgent health crisis. Only 10% of plastic has been recycled, the other 90% still exists somewhere on Earth degrading slowly into smaller and smaller “microplastics.” These microscopic particles drift in the air, float in bodies of water, and mix into the soil. Microplastics have been found inside the human body. The feature documentary Plastic People, by award-winning documentary production company White Pine Pictures, investigates the global addiction to plastic and the growing threat of microplastics to human health. Coincidentally, this year the theme of Earth Day, April 22nd, is PLANET vs PLASTICS. What: ● Visual events will happen in Ottawa from branded street teams with walking billboards to guerilla-style video projections on some iconic downtown buildings and a live artist painting on Earth Day outside 700 Sussex in the amphitheater outside Metropolitan Brasserie with some free-style rappers joining later in the day. ● Plastic People will be screened privately for delegates and members of parliament at the upcoming, critical, next round of United Nations negotiations for a new Global Plastics Treaty in Ottawa When and Where: Sunday April 21st 10 am - 1 pm Walking billboards will join the “March to End the Plastic Era” at the Centennial Flame walking to Shaw Centre 7 - 11 pm Video Projections - for exact location contact Mary Jelley Monday April 22nd 12 - 8 pm Live Artist Robbie Lariviere creating large scale canvases Outside Metropolitain Brasserie - 700 Sussex Street 5 - 6 pm Baba Brinkman & Dizzy Senze “Freestyle Rap Up” join Robbie at 700 Sussex 8 - 10 pm Screening for INC-4 delegates, policymakers, industry leaders and academia at the Bytowne Theatre 8:30 - 11 pm Video Projections - for exact location contact Mary Jelley Tuesday April 23rd 11 am - 2 pm Walking Billboards attend "Plastic Action Zone” at NAC 7-11 pm Video Projections -- for exact location contact Mary Jelley Available for interviews April 20 - 22: ● Rick Smith, Plastic People Executive Producer, pollution expert and best-selling co-author of “Slow Death by Rubber Duck”. The movie originated with an OpED Rick wrote for the Globe and Mail in which he tested his own body for microplastic particles. ● Ben Addelman, Plastic People director, also known for his work as a cinematographer, screenwriter and sound designer ● Ziya Tong, Plastic People co-director, science journalist and author |
| Barb Gray Will be interviewing Tom McSorley
Director of Canadian Film Institute. |
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