In this presentation by Michelle Sylliboy, part of the TIA House guest speaker series, Sylliboy talks about her multimodal arts background, including poetry, photography and fine arts, and her research and work in Mi’kmaq hieroglyphics.
For more information about this episode, speaker's bio and show notes, please visit:
https://www.tiahouse.ca/1932-2/

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Episode 18 Michelle Sylliboy: Ancestral Language, Indigenous Archives, and Poetry

In this interview, Ian Kinney talks about their book Air Salt. The experience of falling from the seventh floor influenced Kinney’s trajectory of writing.  For more information, bios and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-19-paul-meunier-interviews-ian-kinney/

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Episode 19 Paul Meunier Interviews Ian Kinney

In this interview, Joshua Whitehead will be talking to Jordan Able about timely and crucial topics. For more information and the Bio of the speakers, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-20-joshua-whitehead-interviews-jordan-abel/

Episode 20: Joshua Whitehead Interviews Jordan Abel

In this Part 1 interview, Marjorie Rugunda and Sonnet L’Abbé discuss the book Sonnet’s Shakespeare. For more information and bios, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-21-marjorie-rugunda-interviews-sonnet-labbe-part-1/

Episode 21: Marj interviews Sonnet L’Abbé _Part 1

In this Part 2 interview, Marjorie Rugunda and Sonnet L’Abbé discuss how Sonnet’s Shakespeare engages with poetic practices. For more info, bio and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-21-marj-interviews-sonnet-part-2/

Episode 21: Marj interviews Sonnet_Part 2

In this interview, Marc Herman Lynch and Kawika Guillermo discuss the significance of a person’s name - through family histories and relationship, in writing and publication - and how this relates with authorship. For more info, show notes and bios, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-22-marc-herman-lynch-interviews-kawika-guillermo/

Episode 22: Marc Herman Lynch interviews Kawika Guillermo

In this interview of Weyman Chan by Marc Herman Lynch, their conversation takes the shape of dichotomies and productive, generative tensions that exist between two seemingly disparate points. For more information, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-24-marc-herman-lynch-interviews-weyman-chan/

Episode 24: Marc Lynch Interviews Weyman Chan

In this interview, Anne Stone discusses her novel Girl Minus X (2020) and what it was like writing a ‘science fiction’ narrative, featuring a sci-fi virus that attacks memory, and how this resonates in our contemporary context amidst the global pandemic. For more info, bios and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-25-rebecca-geleyn-interviews-anne-stone/

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Episode 25: Rebecca Geleyn Interviews Anne Stone

In this interview, Robert Majzels discusses his latest novel, Kharlamov’s Ankle: A Utopian Fantasy. Majzels speaks to the breadth of social, cultural, political, and philosophical considerations that inspire his work. For more information and speakers' bios, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-26-ryan-stearne-interviews-robert-majzels/

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Episode 26: Ryan Stearne Interviews Robert Majzels

In this episode of TIA House Talks, Marjorie Rugunda interviews Juliane Otoniya Okot Bitek. They talk about timely subjects. For speakers' bios, show notes and episode description, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-27-marjorie-rugunda-interviews-juliane-okot-bitek/

Episode 27: Marj Rugunda interviews Juliane Okot Bitek

In this Interview of Suzette Mayr by Mahmoud Ababneh, the conversation situates itself firmly in the academy. For more info, speakers' bio and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-28-mahmoud-ababneh-interviews-suzette-mayr/

Episode 28: Mahmoud Ababneh Interviews Suzette Mayr

In this interview, Liz talks about her book Letter in a Bruised Cosmos. The conversation also focuses on ...
For more information, bios and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-29-paul-meunier-interviews-liz-howard/

Episode 29 Paul Meunier  Interviews Liz Howard

In this interview of Ian Williams by Paul Meunier, the conversation focuses on Disorientations, Williams’s latest book that considers the impact of racial encounters on ordinary people. For more info, show notes and Bios, please visit: https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-30-paul-meunier-interviews-ian-williams/

Episode 30 Paul Meunier Interviews Ian Williams

In this interview, Sharanpal Ruprai and Aruna Srivastava touch on many important BIPOC actors in the Canadian literary scene, both living and passed away … For more info, please visit

Episode 33 Aruna Srivastava interviews Sharanpal Ruprai

Join us for this special edition TIA House roundtable, in memory of the late Lee Maracle. For more information, speakers' bios and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-34-remembering-to-re-member-lee-maracle/

Episode 34: Remembering to Remember: Lee Maracle

In this interview of John Elizabeth Stintzi by Joshua Whitehead, the two authors reminisce about their time together in Winnipeg... For more info, show notes and speakers' bios, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-39-joshua-whitehead-interviews-john-elizabeth-stintzi/

Episode 39 Joshua Whitehead Interviews John Stintzi

In this interview, Amy LeBlanc discusses her prose and poetry writings. For more information about the author and the interview, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-40-ryan-stearne-interviews-amy-leblanc/

Episode 40: Ryan Stearne interviews Amy LeBlanc

Speaking with Mahmoud Ababneh, Bertrand Bickersteth speaks about his personal history and his research into Black histories that have been (and continue to be) neglected... For more information, show notes and bios, please visit

Episode 41 Mahmoud Ababneh interviews Bertrand Bickersteth

For more info, Bios and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-44-a-conversation-between-yilin-wang-and-isabella-wang/

Episode 44 A Conversation between Yilin Wang and Isabella Wang

In the first episode of this two-part interview, David Chariandy describes his writing process and as well his fraught relationship with narrative conventions... For more info, bios and show notes please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-46-shazia-hafiz-ramji-interviews-david-chariandy-part-1/

Episode 46: Shazia Hafiz Ramji interviews David Chariandy

In this interview, Fred Wah and Shuyin Yu discuss the conference, named after one of his first books, “Alley Alley Home Free,” For more information, bios and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-47-shuyin-yu-interviews-fred-wah/

Episode 47: Shuyin Yu interviews Fred Wah

In this conversation, Dania Idriss and Omar Ramadan talk about the tangled roots of language, translation, and history, how institutional money talks... etc. For more info, bios and show notes please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-48-a-conversation-between-dania-idriss-and-omar-ramadan/

Episode 48 A Conversation Between Dania Idriss And Omar Ramadan

In this interview, Mahmoud Ababneh talks with Kazim Ali on a number of pressing issues from the struggle to answer the question “where are you from?”... for more info, bios and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-49-mahmoud-ababneh-interviews-kazim-ali/

Episode 49: Mahmoud Ababneh interviews Kazim Ali

In this interview, Kim Fu and Ben Berman Ghan discuss Fu’s short story collection Lesser-Known Monsters of the 21st Century... For more info, bios and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-50-ben-ghan-interviews-kim-fu/

Episode 50: Ben Ghan interviews Kim Fu

In this interview, Parker discusses her experience as a PhD Student at The University of New Brunswick... For more info, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-51-marc-lynch-interviews-fawn-parker/

Episode 51: Marc Lynch interviews Fawn Parker

In this interview, Amy Leblanc and Sydney Hegele enter into generously powerful conversations about their creative practice ...
For More info, show notes and bios, please visit: https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-52-amy-leblanc-interviews-sydney-hegele/

Episode 52 Amy Leblanc Interviews Sydney Hegele

A few months ago, TIA House Talks published the first episode of an anthology series that showcased the creative work of a few of the authors our team has had the privilege of interviewing. For more info, please visit: https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-53-tia-house-reads-vol-2/

Episode 53: TIA House Reads Anthology Vol. 2

In this interview, Wakefield Brewster talks with Marc Herman Lynch about the origins of his various monikers such as... for more info, bios and show notes, please visit: https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-54-marc-lynch-interviews-wakefield-brewster/

Episode 54: Marc Lynch Interviews Wakefield Brewster.mp3

Jael Richardson talks about the beginnings of the Festival of Literary Diversity, popularly known as FOLD. She talks about the challenges of decentering whiteness... For more info, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-55-mahmoud-ababneh-interviews-jael-richardson/

Episode 55 Jael Richardson interviewed by Mahmoud Ababneh

In this episode, Warren Cariou and Marc Lynch discuss the relationships between land, story, memory, and history. They also talk about Indigenous masculinities, poetry as a form of discourse, and petrography as both critical and creative practice.  For more info, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-56-marc-lynch-interviews-warren-cariou/

Episode 56: Marc Lynch interviews Cariou Interview

For this final episode of TIA House Talks, Rebecca Geleyn and Mikka Jacobsen sit down with Larissa Lai to discuss the progression, transformation, and adaption of the TIA House Project over the last nine years. For more info please visit, https://www.tiahouse.ca/the-final-episode-57-rebecca-geleyn-and-mikka-jacobsen-interview-larissa-lai/

The Final Episode 57: Rebecca Geleyn and Mikka Jacobsen interview Larissa Lai

Show Notes

This interview of Chrystos by France Trépanier was recorded during a TIA House symposium called Wisdom Council in September 2019. Wisdom Council recognized the imperfect knowledge transmission methods of the colonial system, and particularly the ways it has tended to fragment non-Western knowledges and privilege the textual over the oral. Using a combination of traditional and contemporary practices, it brought together a small council of mostly BIPOC senior practitioners in the contemporary arts to sit in council over three days to discuss such topics as what our communities need now; memory and forgetting; care of elders in racialized communities; stories of the past, present and future; stories in cyclical time; community formations they’ve experienced; community formations they remember; how they understand the work that needs to be done; and practices and strategies that might be of use or interest in the present moment. This interview was recorded as part of the gathering's work.

Chrystos is a Menominee poet and activist Chrystos born in San Francisco. In her work, she examines themes of feminism, social justice, and Native rights. She is the author of several collections of poetry, including Not Vanishing (1988), Dream On (1991), and Fire Power (1995). Chrystos’ work has been featured in the anthologies This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981, edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa) and Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology (1988, edited by Will Roscoe). With Tristan Taormino, she coedited the anthology Best Lesbian Erotica 1999 (1999). Bio taken from Poetry Foundation.

France Trépanier is a visual artist and curator of Kanien’kéha:ka (gonna gay ha) and French ancestry. She is currently guest curator at Open Space in Victoria. France is also co-director of the Primary Colours/Couleurs primaires initiative, which seeks to place Indigenous arts at the centre of the Canadian art system. www.primary-colours.ca. France co-authored with Chris Creighton-Kelly Understanding Aboriginal Art in Canada Today: A Knowledge and Literature Review for the Canada Council for the Arts. She is co-chair of the Indigenous Program Council at the Banff Centre.

16:13: Chrystos refers to Radclyff Hall’s The Well of Loneliness, Jonathan Cape, 1928. 

18:33: Chrystos discusses The Full Moon Collective (Women’s Collective)  

20:10: Chrystos references Audre Lorde, Beth Brant, Gloria Anzaldúa, Pat Parker in relation to kinship and writing. 

21:40: Reference to Nicholas C. Peroff’s Menominee Drums: Tribal Termination and Restoration, 1954-1974, The University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. 

23:20: Reference to Audre Lorde’s “A Litany for Survival” 

28:40: Reference to feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist Kate Millett

29:30: Reference to Violette Leduc’s La Bâtarde, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965. 

32:29: Reference to Chrystos’ Not Vanishing, Press Gang Publishers, 1988. 

33:05: Discussion of the oeuvre of Edward S. Curtis.

44:40: Reference to novelist and essayist, Richard Wright.

51:27: Reference to Chickasaw poet, essayist, and environmentalist, Linda Hogan.

TIA House recognizes the generous support of the Canada Research Chairs program and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. We also appreciate the support of the Faculty of Arts and the Department of English at the University of Calgary, where our offices are housed, as well as the guidance of Marc Stoeckle at the Taylor Family Digital Library. TIA House is run by Larissa Lai, Trynne Delaney, Rebecca Geleyn, Isabelle Michalski, and Joshua Whitehead. 

Our intro/outro music is “Monarch of the Streets” by Loyalty Freak Music.

Episode 4: France Trépanier Interviews Chrystos

Show Notes

This reading was recorded during a TIA House event featuring Doyali Islam in September 2019. DOYALI ISLAM is a 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize finalist, 2020 Ontario Trillium Book Award for Poetry finalist, and 2020 Pat Lowther Memorial Award finalist for heft (M&S, 2019), which CBC Books named as a best poetry book of 2019. Doyali has participated in CBC Books' Why I Write video series. She has discussed the value of silence on CBC Radio's The Sunday Edition; language, form, beauty, and empathy with Anne Michaels in CV2; and the relationship between poetry and the body on CBC Radio's The Next Chapter. Doyali spent a few years in North Bay, Ontario, and is a former Poetry Editor of Ottawa's Arc Poetry Magazine. She lives in Toronto, Canada. www.doyali-islam.com.

  If you enjoy this recording of Doyali Islam’s TIA House Talk, the poet has also been deep in conversation with Niall Munro over at Oxford Brookes Poetry Podcast (Episode 14).

Sound editing was done by Trynne Delaney, Daniel Zingaro, and Doyali Islam. 
Show Notes by Trynne Delaney and Doyali Islam. 

TIA House Talk: Doyali Islam at TIA House (transcript to come)  Recording Time Stamps  3:23 – Doyali’s opening remarks. (Note to Listeners/Readers: Not included in this recording or transcription is Doyali’s reading of her essay, “A Private Architecture of Resistance”, which she also read as part of her live TIA House Talk. You can find Doyali’s essay in The Manifesto Project, an anthology co-edited by Rebecca Hazelton and Alan Michael Parker.)  5:31 – The poetry reading begins. Doyali Islam reads the following poems:  5:42 — “letter” 6:47 — “the ant” 8:27 — “tending mint” 9:45 — And the BH Yael Documentary Even in the Desert is available here: http://www.bhyael.ca/even-in-the-desert
10:40 – “susiya” 12:37 — “vulva” 13:32 — “v” 14:52 — “moving day” 16:03 — “daniel” 17:02 —“bhater mondo”
18:17 –Doyali references the Syrian poet Adonis:https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/adonis 19:15 — “aries [the ram]” 23:26 — “poem for your pocket” 23:50 — more information on Miklós Radnóti is available through the poetry foundation here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/miklos-radnoti.
 24:52 – Q&A Conversation begins. 

You can read the transcript of the Post-reading Q&A Conversation transcribed by Doyali Islam on our website on Doyali’s podcast page at tiahouse.ca.

TIA House recognizes the generous support of the Canada Research Chairs program and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. We also appreciate the support of the Faculty of Arts and the Department of English at the University of Calgary, where our offices are housed, as well as the guidance of Marc Stoeckle at the Taylor Family Digital Library. TIA House is run by Larissa Lai, Trynne Delaney, Rebecca Geleyn, Isabelle Michalski, and Joshua Whitehead.

Our intro/outro music is “Monarch of the Streets” by Loyalty Freak Music.

Episode 5: Doyali Islam Reads at TIA House

This interview of France Trépanier by Aruna Srivastava was recorded during a TIA House symposium called Wisdom Council in September 2019. Wisdom Council recognized the imperfect knowledge transmission methods of the colonial system, and particularly the ways it has tended to fragment non-Western knowledges and privilege the textual over the oral. Using a combination of traditional and contemporary practices, it brought together a small council of mostly BIPOC senior practitioners in the contemporary arts to sit in council over three days to discuss such topics as what our communities need now; memory and forgetting; care of elders in racialized communities; stories of the past, present and future; stories in cyclical time; community formations they’ve experienced; community formations they remember; how they understand the work that needs to be done; and practices and strategies that might be of use or interest in the present moment. This interview was recorded as part of the gathering's work.

France Trépanier is a visual artist and curator of Kanien’kéha:ka and French ancestry. She is currently guest curator at Open Space in Victoria. France is also co-director of the Primary Colours/Couleurs primaires initiative, which seeks to place Indigenous arts at the centre of the Canadian art system (primary-colours.ca). France co-authored with Chris Creighton-Kelly Understanding Aboriginal Art in Canada Today: A Knowledge and Literature Review for the Canada Council for the Arts. She is co-chair of the Indigenous Program Council at the Banff Centre

Aruna Srivastava has spent many years working as an anti-racism educator in various community-based, arts, and academic contexts, focused in more recent years on the complexities and intersections of disability, illness, age, and trauma in this work. As a racialized arrivant/settler, who has been a guest in many Indigenous lands across the world, she has found a home for quite some time here in what the Blackfoot called Moh’kins’tsis in Treaty 7 territory. Aruna has in the past twenty years or so also been on a journey to work in alliance with Indigenous peoples; this has shown her better and wiser ways to work both within and against colonial structures, such as universities, arts institutions, and non-profit organizations. The work of (re)conciliation engages her specifically in that it requires storying and storing or archiving memory in many forms—and repudiates forgetting

7:44: France mentions the artist Alanis Obomsawin: nfb.ca/directors/alanis-obomsawin

11:09: France refers to the IntraNation Conference: http://cicac.tru.ca/proj_2.php

12:36: The gathering France talks about was called the Diversity and Francophonie Conference in 2005. See academia.edu/19126803/Conference_Report_Diversity_and_Francophonie

13:14: France names the politician Roméo Saganash: openparliament.ca/politicians/romeo-saganash

14:23: More on Cheryl L’Hirondelle’s work at: cheryllhirondelle.com/about.html. Shirley Bear is an artist and poet: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Bear

15:25: Aruna refers to the New Gallery in Calgary: thenewgallery.org

18:08: The piece France refers to is “Offerings”: offerings-offrandes.com. This website is part of a larger exhibition

28:51: France talks about her curated exhibition “The Time of Things.” For more, see comoxvalleyartgallery.com/exhibitions/time-of-things-the-continuum-of-indigenous-customary-practice-into-contemporary-art
 
We recognize the generous support of the Canada Research Chairs program and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. We appreciate the support of the Faculty of Arts and the Department of English at the U of C, where our offices are housed, and the guidance of Marc Stoeckle at the Taylor Family Digital Library. TIA House is run by Larissa Lai, Trynne Delaney, Rebecca Geleyn, Isabelle Michalski and Joshua Whitehead 

Our Intro/Outro music is Monarch of the Streets by Loyalty Freak Music, accessed from the Free Music Archive

Episode 7: Aruna Srivastava Interviews France Trépanier

This panel, entitled “How We Used to Do It: Anti-Oppression/Revolutionary Gatherings We Remember” featuring Chris Creighton-Kelly, Lenore Keeshig, and Lillian Allen was recorded during a TIA House symposium called Wisdom Council in September 2019. Wisdom Council recognized the imperfect knowledge transmission methods of the colonial system, and particularly the ways it has tended to fragment non-Western knowledges and privilege the textual over the oral. Using a combination of traditional and contemporary practices, it brought together a small council of mostly BIPOC senior practitioners in the contemporary arts to sit in council over three days to discuss such topics as what our communities need now; memory and forgetting; care of elders in racialized communities; stories of the past, present and future; stories in cyclical time; community formations they’ve experienced; community formations they remember; how they understand the work that needs to be done; and practices and strategies that might be of use or interest in the present moment. This panel was recorded as part of the gathering’s work.
For more, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-14-how-we-used-to-do-it-anti-oppression-revolutionary-gatherings-we-remember-a-wisdom-council-panel-with-chris-creighton-kelly-lenore-keeshig-and-lillian-allen/

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Episode 14: How We Used to Do It: Anti-Oppression/Revolutionary Gatherings We Remember

This interview of Richard Fung by David Garneau was recorded during a TIA House symposium called Wisdom Council in September 2019. Wisdom Council recognized the imperfect knowledge transmission methods of the colonial system, and particularly the ways it has tended to fragment non-Western knowledges and privilege the textual over the oral. Using a combination of traditional and contemporary practices, it brought together a small council of mostly BIPOC senior practitioners in the contemporary arts to sit in council over three days to discuss such topics as what our communities need now; memory and forgetting; care of elders in racialized communities; stories of the past, present and future; stories in cyclical time; community formations they’ve experienced; community formations they remember; how they understand the work that needs to be done; and practices and strategies that might be of use or interest in the present moment. This interview was recorded as part of the gathering's work.
For more info about the speakers and the episode, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-15-david-garneau-interviews-richard-fung-at-wisdom-council/

Episode 15: David Garneau Interviews Richard Fung

This interview, hosted by Mahmoud Ababneh, is a conversation with Ph.D. student Shuyin Yu and recent Master’s alumni Trynne Delaney from the University of Calgary, discussing systemic racism in the institution. “We Mean You” is a direct address to those complicit in systemic racism, with calls for action, allyship, and antiracism support. Mahmoud, Shu, and Trynne discuss institutionalized racism in direct and candid ways, addressing recent experiences at the university, and the perpetual challenges, frustrations, and hurtful pains imposed upon the Black, Indigenous, and BIPOC student community.
For more information and the full show notes, please visit: https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-16-we-mean-you-mahmoud-ababneh-interviews-shuyin-yu-and-trynne-delaney/

Episode 16: We Mean You. Mahmoud Ababneh Interviews Shuyin Yu and Trynne Delaney

The Insurgent Architects’ House for Creative Writing (TIA House) at the University of Calgary is a Canada Research Chair-sponsored initiative structured through the interactions of social justice, futurity, and innovative aesthetics in creative writing. Recognizing the instabilities of language articulated through the poststructural turn on the one hand, and the importance of embodied liberatory movements on the other, TIA House looks to a re-imagined concept of utopia to begin to imagine new forms and new creative practices embedded in a respect for the earth, Indigeneity, and for those inhabiting marginalized subject positions. Specifically, we take up David Harvey’s notion of the “insurgent architect” as a figure who desires and works for a better world, while constantly taking into account mutations, surprises and unexpected contingencies that can erupt on any level and at any moment. We live in and through speculative action, with a readiness to take risks that could undo us at any moment.

In practice, this means the embrace of many different kinds of writing practice including but not limited to: speculative fiction, ficto-criticism, innovative poetics, embodied writing, bio-text and non-standard forms of criticism.

Directed by Dr. Larissa Lai in the Department of English, TIA House serves to enable creative and critical discussion and production through a series of yearly events, readings, symposia, and roundtables. We plan to move into our new home on the 10th floor of the Social Sciences Building at the University of Calgary in 2015-2016.

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