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Paula E. Kirman: Media & Communications Professional / Digital Content Specialist & Storyteller
Category: News
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In December of 2021, a friend sent me a few lines of poetry he wrote after witnessing an unhoused couple outside his building during the winter. I interpreted his words in the context of how he recently returned to Edmonton after living overseas for a number of years and had been living downtown, then moved…
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I am delighted and excited to announce the release of The Crow at my Bandcamp site. The songs include some of the ones I have been performing since 2007-ish at protests and rallies (and for which I have been getting many requests for recordings over the years), a few golden oldies (I wrote “Waves” when…
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I attended a Daughters of the Year reunion on November 24th, along with members of Canadians for a Civil Society (the organization that presents the Annual Daughters Day celebration) at Government House. Her Honour, the Honourable Salma Lakhani, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, addressed us with a speech and presented us with commemorative Daughter of the…
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In July of 2019, I spent two solid days at Tree Frog recording some of my songs with Bill Bourne at the helm and Miguel Ferrer on percussion. We intended to get back into the studio to finish the project after Bill got back from some tour gigs. Then the pandemic hit, and then . . .…
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MLA Janis Irwin dropped by Boyle McCauley News‘ AGM on November 8th to present me with the Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee Medal to honour my work as a with the paper and my documentary photography of Edmonton’s activist scene. I didn’t even know I had been nominated until Janis called me a couple of…
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I received some great news last week: Sprawlzine: The Election Almanac, a special publication of Calgary’s The Sprawl, received Silver for Best Editorial Package at the Alberta Magazine Awards. We also got Silver at the National Magazine Awards back in June.
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I was part of the team who worked on the Sprawl’s zine Sprawlzine: The Election Almanac last year – and we just won a National Magazine Award! We were awarded Silver in the “Best Editorial Package” category. I don’t know what to say, except to congratulate my fellow team members on this project, and especially…
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This article was commissioned by the website Interfaith Family (now 18 Doors) in 2009. It had been almost a decade since “Single Jewish Female: Dating Within the Faith” was published, and I was asked to write an update of what happened since. Now this article is over a decade old, and of course is out of…
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This article was first published on July 1, 2000 in Conversely, an online publication. Until the website vanished from the Internet around 2014 or so, this was easily the most popular article I had written to date. I would constantly get emails and comments, and I was even asked by another online publication to write…
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Originally published in the web-based publication Perihilion in 1999. The original version of the article is still available online, at the time of my posting this, here. The links in the original version no longer work, as most of the publications discussed no longer exist, so I have removed them here. Canadian Women Poets on…
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