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Your daily arts, entertainment and pop culture podcast.🎙️ Hosted by @elamin.
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The devastating wildfires in Los Angeles have many thinking about why we aren’t seeing more #climatestorytelling on TV or film. @AllisonBegalman of @HollywoodClimateSummit and @BloombergGreen climate reporter Kendra Pierre-Louis discuss what’s keeping Hollywood from reflecting our environmental reality on CBC’s Commotion: https://shorturl.at/ihlFu
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Expectation vs. Reality of Making a Podcast …it’s not as easy as it seems! 🎧 . . . #podcast #cbc #cbcpodcasts #skit #expectations #reality #sabrinacarpenter #host #producer #expectationvsreality #funny #relatable #podcasts #creator #podcastcreator
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Had the best time on the final official tour stop for YOU DIDN’T HEAR THIS FROM ME!!!! I loved visiting Toronto and going on the radio and doing such a fun event with the @torontolibrary!! Baby’s first trip to Canada
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Arizona will be on @commotioncbc tomorrow morning at 10am to discuss the latest Hunger Games novel, and how dystopian literature helps us cope with our political climate.
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Representing autumn colours here with a Team Yellow chance meeting at @cbc_music / @cbcradio HQ. 💛💛💛💛 📸: @limelolo #yellow #cbcmusic #cbcradio #itwasallyellow
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ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?! In this clip from @commotioncbc with @elamin, @htranbui defends ‘Gladiator II’ from criticism, citing CGI sharks and horse-rhinos. What do you think, was ‘Gladiator II’ a slog or a perfect popcorn movie? @justsayrad #GladiatorII #Gladiator2 #movies #podcastclips #podcastrecommendations #Glicked
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Join us for the next #MasseyDialogues: The Art of Representational Storytelling with an all-star panel. This Dialogues will serve as a confluence of perspectives on storytelling, representation, and the nuances that come with addressing complex socio-cultural issues through art. Sarah Polley @realsarahpolley (#AcademyAward winning screenwriter, director, and actor), Bilal Baig @sortofbilal (creator/star of @cbc’s @sortof_tv ), and @farzanadoctor (author, activist and psychotherapist) have carved their own spaces in their respective industries while grappling with themes of identity, be it gender, queer-identity, cultural background, or the human condition at large. This event aims to create an open dialogue navigating identity and storytelling in the arts, bridging and blending the gap between impactful art forms including film, television, literature and poetry. Our panelists will be in conversation with author and host of CBC’s pop culture show @commotioncbc Elamin @elamin Abdelmahmoud delving into their artistic practices and journeys, thereby offering attendees a comprehensive understanding of their work through the mediums they use for expression and connection to audiences. Register to attend in person* for free (see the event calendar in our bio). Or watch the livestream on YouTube. #storytelling #art #representation #yyzart Thank you to Junior Fellow @adhithyakrishnan for creating this panel. *PLEASE NOTE: The location has changed to the Junior Common Room.*
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Don’t miss out on this rare opportunity to join NYT Best Seller author Gabrielle Zevin in conversation with CBC’s Elamin Abdelmahmoud on the occasion of the paperback release of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow! Date: Next Monday, July 8 Time: 7:00 pm Location: Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church Get your tickets now through a link in our bio 🎟️ Author Gabrielle Zevin and the bookcover of her book Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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NEW VENUE: Gabrielle Zevin will be joining us at a new location just down the street at Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St W. New York Times-bestselling author will sit down with Canadian audiences on Monday July 8 to discuss the novel with CBC’s Elamin Abdelmahmoud in an exclusive celebration of the paperback release of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. All tickets purchased before the venue change are still valid for this event. Claim yours at the LinkInBio.
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Due to the Cinema closure we will be relocating this event to a different venue. Ticket holders will be notified once it is confirmed. Tickets will go back on sale when the new venue is announced. The celebrated author of New York Times-bestselling novel, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin joins us for an exclusive celebration of the book’s paperback release. Winner of the Goodreads Choice Fiction Award and named Amazon’s Best Book of 2022, the novel tracks a story of love, friendship and video games—unlike any you’ve read before. Join us as Gabrielle Zevin sits down with Canadian audiences for the first time to discuss the novel with CBC’s Elamin Abdelmahmoud on Monday July 8 at 7:00pm. Add a book to your ticket order via LinkInBio! 📚 The cover of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and headshot of Gabrielle Zevin; Gabrielle Zevin on Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow; “The story of a friendship that waxes and wanes and evolves over the years, the kind that seldom gets depicted in fiction. Plus, it’s a love letter to video games.” —Celeste Ng, internationally bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere; Monday July 8, 7:00pm | Hot Docs Cinema
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It's CRAZY that after all those years I wrote for The Source Magazine I couldn't really get any significant Canadian rap coverage in the magazine, despite being a Toronto-bred journalist (Oh Canadaaa 🇨🇦, No Canadaaa 🤷🏾‍♂️). I certainly tried, but The Source was the No. 1 best-selling music magazine in America, and no one in the US really cared about Canadian rappers, and they arguably still don't - outside of a few exceptions like Drake, Tory Lanez, Kardinal Offishal, Pressa, NAV - so it was near miraculous that I was able to crank out a feature story on the rapper K-os about his album Joyful Rebellion, because my editor at the time (Kim Osorio) wanted to produce an issue that expanded the magazines coverage to artists that were making moves outside the US. Brooklyn's own, rapper Fabolous was the cover story for this issue and the exclusive story on Lil' Kim was like whoa 💸 Joyful Rebellion is now celebrating its 20th anniversary, and we just did a cool segment today on CBC Radio's Commotion show about it, so go check it out if you are a pop culture junkie (it's on the CBC website, and Spotify). This was also coincidentally my last feature story for the magazine, a rare Canadian hit, as I along with many writers had gotten tired of the scandals surrounding the magazine (see: Benzino), being paid late, and the energies around the magazine that were just not the same.The Source is still around, under different ownership, and is more web-focused for obvious reasons.
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my people on here will know that in the post elon-twitter era, i now do virtually all of my blog-style writing on insta story, which for better or worse is where i have the most fun engaging in conversation and debate and interrogation with friends and not-yet-friends. was a pleasure to jump on commotion this am and formulate something more longform about a topic and person i’ve been thinking about for a long time. the politics of kendrick lamar, his journey of self-creation and self-mythology re the manufactured narrative throughline connecting him and pac, and the framing of himself as an inheritor or pac’s legacy. as i said on my story, and repeat in this segment: tupac shakur is the descendant of an organization that went to war with the us government, and he behaved like it. his mother was one of the panther 21. his step father spent four decades in federal prison behind his activism. at 22 years of age, as one of the most famous men in america, pac was shooting at the police at the intersection of a major american city to stop them from beating on a black man he did not know. on the other hand, kendrick lamar, at age 37, is yet to hold a meaningfully dissident opinion or advocate a single position in public that could expose his brand to risk. he could not even bring himself to sign a ceasefire letter. radicalism is not a series of arts metaphors – it is work. and one does not get to hijack the moral capital of tupac shakur’s legacy, without committing themselves to the very basic work and risk associated with it. kendrick lamar, has, for me, sedimented into the culture as a preternaturally gifted rapper willing to feature the radical tradition in song & art, but none of it in life. a paragon, i think, of a broader crisis - counterinsurgency? - in the black arts world today. the 3rd clip in the carousel is what matters most. the unknown artist who used kendrick’s stage as a cipher for protest – connecting the american game to the nation’s military footprint abroad – has more in common w the legacy of tupac shakur than the 22x grammy winner whose cultural work requires the imprimatur of the national football league and roger goodell.
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