Masala Canada - Saturday, December 31st 2011

Conversations with Scott Taylor, Michael Lewis, and Farzana Doctor

MASALA CANADA with WOJTEK GWIAZDA

On this edition of MASALA CANADA (originally broadcast April 9, 2011) I talk to former Canadian soldier and now journalist Scott Taylor about his television documentary “Afghanistan: Outside the Wire”. Produced for Canada’s privately owned public affairs and parliamentary cable TV network CPAC.  It’s an attempt to bring the point of view of Afghans to a Canadian audience.

Toronto painter Michael Lewis shares with us his vision and his images, what one reviewer described this way: “Michael Lewis’s grimly funny paintings evoke the great economic unravelling”. We talk about his approach, his themes, and the new approach he’s now undertaken. He was one of the featured artists at the Art Gallery of Mississauga’s “Sorting Daemons – Art, Surveillance Regimes, and Social Control” exhibition.

And Toronto author, psychotherapist and activist, Farzana Doctor talks about her new novel, “Six Metres of Pavement”. It’s about a middle aged South Asian man in Toronto, almost destroyed by tragedy, who finds his life changed by a Portuguese-Canadian widow, and a young queer South Asian woman, who’s the age of his dead daughter.

WEB LINKS:

Afghanistan: Outside the Wire documentary – here

Esprit de Corps magazine – www.espritdecorps.ca

SAN music and info – www.myspace.com/sanmusictm

Michael Lewis paintings - www3.sympatico.ca/mlew

Art Gallery of Mississauga – www.artgalleryofmississauga.com

Chin Injeti music and info – www.myspace.com/chininjeti

Farzana Doctor website – www.farzanadoctor.com

Six Metres of Pavement webpage – here

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