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Paula E. Kirman: Media & Communications Professional / Digital Content Specialist & Storyteller
Category: Featured
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Journalist wrote a profile for Alberta Native News, as an ally documenting many local Indigenous social movements. Through the Lens: Paula Kirman’s 21-Year Journey Documenting Edmonton’s Social Movements
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The soft launch/world premiere of No Secret Monuments took place on August 23rd at Beth Israel Synagogue. Read the story at Alberta Jewish News here.
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This film project I have been working on is getting close to finished! In spring 2024, Adam Bentley and I toured the Baltic states (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia) and Finland, where we exposed monuments to Nazis hiding in plain sight. We discovered a history-drenched frontier where, in our collective recent memory, this region faced two consecutive…
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Original Songs for Causes Album compiles Edmonton singer-songwriter’s protest songs. Paula Eve Kirman – Edmonton-based singer-songwriter, documentary photographer/filmmaker, and journalist – is known for breaking out her guitar at protests and singing an original song about peace, the environment, and housing. These are just some of the themes of the songs on the aptly-titled Causes,…
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I am excited to speak at the GROW Women Leaders Summit 2025! I am also looking forward to meaningful dialogue around equity and inclusion in the workforce. I’ll be offering some opening words on October 22nd as well as helping facilitate some breakout and round table sessions.
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My music video for the song “To All Who Are Concerned” has been selected by the Local Heroes Film Festival (presented by the the Edmonton Short Film Festival) for a special screening of films by women filmmakers on April 24 at 7:30 p.m. at Waffle Bird just south of Whyte Ave. The event is free…
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Last summer I was one of numerous peace activists interviewed by the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights as part of a project seeking to document the stories of older activists (sigh, LOL) in Edmonton for a digital portal of videos and curriculum for schools. I attended the project’s soft launch on March…
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Those who know me well know of my love for singer-songwriters from around the world. Around 30 years ago I developed an interest in French singer-songwriters, both from Quebec and France. It was back then when I discovered Gabriel Yacoub. His voice, words, and presence took me totally off guard and I became deeply attached…
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From August to November of 2023, I was a “Local Listener” with an initiative called Auricle, a partnership between InWithForward (a social design organization in Vancouver) and the City of Edmonton’s RECOVER urban wellness team. “Local Listeners” collected stories from Edmontonians about their experiences with transit and how these experiences connected to their well-being. “Edmonton…
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When Adam Bentley and I began exploring Nazi monuments in Edmonton, we created a film about the monument in St. Michael’s Cemetery that in part pays tribute to the The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) called A Monumental Secret. We then learned about the bust of Roman Shukhevych at the Ukrainian…
