PITCHES:
Concordia:
- series of profiles on Concordia writers (all levels!)
- As a creative writing student, have lots of connections within the department and thus access to a lot of talent
- Curtis McRae and Josh Quirion (co founders of Yolk literary mag and grad students) Professors such as Mikhail Iossel, but most importantly students! Students who enter stories into magazines, who are working on novels, plays, poetry. From the published all the way down to street level artists writing poems on napkins
- Inspire students to keep writing -> importantly want to emphasize the diversity of writing content out there, of genre. Want to dispell any notions that you can't just write what you want -> serve as fuel for the literary fire!
Municipal:
- Longer piece on how the nature of "garage" music has changed.
- Montreal is famous for being a breeding ground for musical talent
- But are (especially young, but not exclusively) people still able to do this?
- How have changing economic realities warped who can ,say, pick up a guitar and start a garage band or afford actual recording equipment to rap over?
- Basically intersection of class, gentrification, and music scenes. Are music scenes only going middle class now? Are working class voices, whether in hip hop or rock, being sidelined by those who can afford equipment, etc?
National:
- Last year the National Gallery in Ottawa adopted a "rebranding campaign" called Ankose which seeks to "recenter Indigenous ways of knowing" regarding what content isexhibited in the gallery. Has this worked? What do Indigenous artists actually think about this? Is it just a lot of talk?