Flute: Jiajia Li
Percussion and voice: Nia Devetzis

acrostic (to alcides l.)

Kenny Wheeler Project performed by the CWP: artists’ collective

Kenny Wheeler Project Set II

Dedicated to the late jazz composer and musician, Kenny Wheeler. With grateful acknowledgment to Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development and Canada Council for the Arts for making this project possible.

Full Album Available at: 
https://www.cwp-artists-collective.org/kwp-album

I - To like - Zen | 2021 (Excerpt from Kenny Wheeler Project)

New Nation composed by jazz pianist and composer Michelle Grégoire, featuring the CWP core musicians with guest Aya Mhana on Oud. Performed live at Theatre 1308 on May 8, 2022 in Moh’kins’tsis, Treaty 7. With grateful acknowledgment to Canada Council for the Arts.

Performed by the Calgary Without Patriarchy: artists’ collective

Joanna Borromeo: Piano
Nia Devetzis: Percussion & Vibes
Jeremy Brown: Woodwinds
Shane Statz: Saxes
jacqs walker: Arranging & Bass

New Nation (composed by Michelle Grégoire) | 2022

Composed and Sang by Wendy Walker

Performed by the Calgary Without Patriarchy: artists’ collective

Joanna Borromeo: Piano
Nia Devetzis: Percussion & Vibes
Jeremy Brown: Woodwinds
Shane Statz: Saxes
jacqs walker: Arranging & Bass

Performed live at the CWP: smatter festival 
August 14, 2022 at Theatre 1308, Moh’kins’tsis/Calgary, Treaty 7 Territory

With grateful acknowledgment to Canada Council for the Arts

Fly like a Butterfly (composed by Wendy Walker) | 2022

Why should We Care? Was composed in honour of Marion Ashton. Her voice can be heard throughout the piece talking about the La Soufriere volcano eruption in St. Vincent (her hometown), in 2021, and why we in Canada, especially Calgary,  should care. 

Ms. Marion is the founder of SankofaYYC (a non-profit foundation dedicated to empowering youth to be agents of change in their communities through various art forms. She is also a revered community leader and advocate for social Justice. 

With Jason Cillo on electric guitar. 

Performed by the Calgary Without Patriarchy: artists’ collective

Joanna Borromeo: Piano
Nia Devetzis: Percussion & Vibes
Jeremy Brown: Woodwinds
Shane Statz: Saxes
jacqs walker: Arranging & Bass

Performed live at the CWP: smatter festival 
August 14, 2022 at Theatre 1308, Moh’kins’tsis/Calgary, Treaty 7 Territory

With grateful acknowledgment to Canada Council for the Arts

Why Should We Care?- For Marion Ashton (composed by jacqs walker) | 2022

Performed by the Calgary Without Patriarchy: artists’ collective

Joanna Borromeo: Piano
Nia Devetzis: Percussion & Vibes
Jeremy Brown: Woodwinds
Shane Statz: Saxes
jacqs walker: Composition & Bass

Performed live at the CWP: smatter festival 
August 14, 2022 at Theatre 1308, Moh’kins’tsis/Calgary, Treaty 7 Territory

With grateful acknowledgment to Canada Council for the Arts

Fool with No Voice, Featuring Calm by Audrey Lane Cockett (music composed by jacqs walker)| 2022

Ben Boskoff - tenor
Valerie Sly - horn
Ya-Ting Yang - piano

Poetry by Marissa Davis

We have always worn the end of the world as a skin. 
and that same world’s beginning.

Here, death takes the form of a filament 
of flame, as a thread of the substance of life.

Here, water, which understands 
neither demise nor origin,
leaks as from a beast’s breast—a clear dark

naive of salt’s staining, becoming now 
the touch making harps 

of the tender leaves’ backs,
becoming now rot’s provenance
and devourer of limestone. 

Earth waits for a fate to be written, re-written. 
rehashed caverns or the scattering 

of seedlings or the coastlines’ illustration 
or the elder trees pulled up by 
unfathomable leviathan roots 
this is a framework, not a violence.
the line is drawn at the question of will.

Charge splinters into noise, 
Noise scatters water, 
water traces the wind’s crest,

wind repatterns land, which
clasps what is given until taken back. 

The prairies have no fate. The forests, 
no fate. The rivers, none,

but that we make each the other’s 
cause and shelter. food and flesh. 

our labor is our consequence, 
and our consequence, our grace: 

like the organs of an animal, 
not one part of us 
may ever be pure of the other.

Strikes Storm

Calgary Without Patriarchy: QTs Podcast
Episode 1: “It's About More Than Pride Parades” (Janis Irwin)

Host: jacqs walker (they/it/he)
Guests: Akira Hesslein (she/her), Pete Klotz (he/him)

Recorded live on Treaty 7 Land, in Mohkinstsis/Calgary in October 2022.

With grateful acknowledgement to Canada Council for the Arts

Logo by Mike Hooves: https://www.mikehooves.ca/
Additional Art Work by Pete Klotz

All music by jacqs walker and the CWP: artists' collective unless otherwise noted: 
Skeleton by Set it Off, Girls by Girl in Red, Pray the Gay Away by Terri Lyne Carrington, Smile Like That by Esperanza Spalding

Show Notes: 

Michelle Robinson/Red Thunderwoman: https://www.nativecalgarian.com

Terri Lyne Carrington Jazz and Gender Justice: https://college.berklee.edu/jazz-gender-justice

Calgary Without Patriarchy: https://linktr.ee/cwp_artists_collective 

Marion Ashton, Founder of Sankofa YYC: https://sankofayyc.org/

RYAN CASSATA (RYAN): http://www.ryancassata.com/

Skipping Stone: 

Offers a welcoming, positive, and judgement-free space for anyone who identities as trans, transgender, non-binary, or gender diverse, as well as those questioning, exploring or looking to affirming their gender identity or expression. 
https://www.skippingstone.ca/

The Trevor Project: 

The Trevor Project provides 24/7 crisis support services to LGBTQ young people. Text, chat, or call anytime to reach a trained counselor. 
https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

Centre for Sexuality: 

For 50 years, they’ve been leading the way in the areas of sexuality, healthy relationships, human rights, gender identity, sexual orientations, equality and consent.
https://www.centreforsexuality.ca/programs-services/2slgbtq-programs/

Trans Lifeline: 

Trans Lifeline provides trans peer support for our community that’s been divested from police since day one.  and for trans people. 
https://translifeline.org/

Calgary Outlink: 

Calgary Outlink is a community-based, not-for-profit charity dedicated to providing support, education, outreach, and referrals for the 2SLGBTQIA+ and allied communities in Calgary, Alberta.
https://www.calgaryoutlink.ca/

BLACKLINE: 

Blackline provides a space for peer support, counselling, witnessing and affirming the lived experiences to people who are the most impacted by systematic oppression with an LGBTQ+ Black Femme lens

1-800-604-5841 

SPECIFIC TO EPISODE: 

TwiG: (This Week in Gender- Inspired by Tuck Woodstock and their podcast: https://www.genderpodcast.com/)

SOURCES: 
https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/governing-ucp-denied-application-for-calgary-pride-parade-while-other-parties-accepted-1.6015198
https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/trans-non-binary-community-alarmed-by-brian-jean-email-challenging-gender-identity-in-sport-1.6054929

 Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary 

(https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/beyond-the-gender-binary/9780593094655-item.html)

Pete's Picks: 
ALL TIME LOW: https://www.alltimelow.com/sleepwalking
SET IT OFF: https://setitoffband.com/

Akira's Picks: 
ASHLEY SHUTTLEWORTH: https://ashleyshuttleworth.com/
Girl in Red: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_in_Red

Kenny Wheeler Project Set II

jacqs walker (they/it/zey)