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Voices of the Street: Honouring Indigenous Children & Motherhood
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For the final installment of the Voices of the Street podcast series, host Angel Gates invites Megaphone author Eva Takakanew into conversation about her powerful writings.
As longtime friends, Angel and Eva share and discuss pieces of writing that shine a light on the traumatic histories and ongoing impacts of the Indian Residential School system and the Sixties Scoop.
Eva reads her poem, 鈥淢y Mother鈥檚 Comfort,鈥� published in the 2021 Voices of the Street anthology, as well as her article, 鈥淭he truth must be told,鈥� calling for truth and accountability from colonial institutions.
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Angel Gates
Angel is aboriginal from the Haida Nation.
She is the proud mother of three amazing kids and has been a dog owner for five years. She is a passionate human being and activist always fighting for human rights or the environment. When she is not doing work with the Megaphone Speakers Bureau, she is an actress. She has been nominated for Best Actress twice. At night she likes to relax with a glass or two of vodka and smoke crystal methamphetamine.
Eva Takakanew
Eva Takakanew was born in Edmonton, Alberta and is from Thunderchild First Nation near Turtleford, Saskatchewan.
She is a descendant of Chief Poundmaker. Eva moved to Vancouver and lived with her biological mom until just after her first birthday and then was adopted at the age of two. Last July, Eva graduated with a diploma in family community counselling from Native Education College and hopes to one day work with youth. She also has aspirations to become a Native court worker. Eva loves to write and says it helps her calm her busy brain, which never seems to shut off.
Credits
Series Credits
Theme music by John Brennan
Extra music and sound effects by John Brennan and Helena Krobath
Sound engineering, editing, mixing and mastering by Paige Smith, Fiorella Pinillos and Kathy Feng
Show art by Kathy Feng & Paige Smith
Cite this Episode
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Gates, Angel. 鈥淰oices of the Street: Honouring Indigenous Children & Motherhood 鈥� with Angel Gates and Eva Takakanew鈥� Below the Radar, 丁香园AV鈥檚 Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, March 22, 2022. /vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/voices-of-the-street/165-angel-gates-eva-takakanew.html
About the Series
The 2021 Voices of the Street anthology, 鈥淚NSIDE we are all the same,鈥� jumps from the page in this special podcast series. For four Megaphone storytellers, poetry and prose from last year鈥檚 special literary edition are a starting point for exploring the themes that moved them 鈥� in a whole new form: audio storytelling.
Featuring interviews with writers and personal reflections on how their lived experiences merge with the themes of the text, this podcast series illuminates Voices of the Street in a new way.
The Voices of the Street podcast is a six-part series for Below the Radar, curated and hosted by participants of Megaphone鈥檚 Speakers Bureau.
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