Imagitate the State
Ring That Bell - CBC outfront documentary “fuck cancer”
Originally aired on CBC radio Outfront on Monday, May 15, 2006
Ring That Bell
Carly Stasko
Producer: Carma Jolly
Carly Stasko has a small recording device she wears around her neck. She takes it with her everywhere, including to her many hospital visits and chemotherapy treatments. Carly was diagnosed with cancer at 27. She is dealing with it by keeping an audio diary.
Carly Stasko
Producer: Carma Jolly
Carly Stasko has a small recording device she wears around her neck. She takes it with her everywhere, including to her many hospital visits and chemotherapy treatments. Carly was diagnosed with cancer at 27. She is dealing with it by keeping an audio diary.
IMAGITATE THE STATE:
Imagitate your own Imagination with host Carly Stasko, Toronto-based but globally inspired artist, activist and educator.
In this podcast we will discuss and explore, play and pontificated on subjects such as pop culture, art, politics, psychology, education, healing, creativity, activism and community peace building as well as humor, sex, music, play and , Semiotics. Listen to Carly and her fascinating guests as we deconstruct and reconstruct reality in tasty audio tid-bits.
Carly Stasko is a self-titled Imagitator who agitates imagination
as a Toronto-based but globally inspired artist, writer, activist,
producer and holistic educator. Her most recent publication is a
chapter titled "(r)Evolutionary Healing: Jamming the Culture and
Shifting the Power", which has been published by Routledge in New Wave
Cultures edited by Anita Harris and which was developed out of a
workshop Carly presented at the UNESCO Earth Symposium. Carly is
interested in love, healing, jamming with culture, as well working and
playing towards environmental and social justice through education and
the arts. You might find her presenting workshops on media literacy
and indymedia activism in high schools and universities across North
America, working with communities for peace, dancing anywhere and
everywhere, planting seeds in abandoned lots with other guerilla
gardeners, dressed up like a white blood cell visualizing the immune
system with cancer patients, leading laughter yoga sessions in
shelters and community centers, experimenting with courageous
vulnerability or meditating on loving compassion under a tree.
Other publications include:
"Packaging Youth and Selling Tomorrow: Deconstructing the Myths of
Marketalkracy" co-authored with Trevor Norris in Corporations,
Children and Consumerism.
"Action Grrrls in the Dream Machine" in Turbo Chicks: Talking Young Feminisms
"How to Be Your Own Superhero: A Chronicle of Experimentation and
Fascination" in Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers and Freaks
