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With Opened Mouths: The Podcast
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With Opened Mouths: The Podcast

Seasons 1 and 2
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With Opened Mouths: The Podcast
Seasons 1 and 2

We are back with a second season of With Opened Mouths: The Podcast, where we give artists, poets, performers, activists and curators a platform to speak about what motivates them to imagine new worlds. Subscribe now and join us every month as we listen to the sometimes-unexpected paths of these exceptional people.

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Episodes of the second season of With Opened Mouths podcast are be available online every month on Digital AGNES and distributed by our partners at CFRC  101.9 FM to popular podcasting platforms.

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Season 2

With Opened Mouths: Season Two Trailer
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With Opened Mouths: Season Two Trailer
With Opened Mouths: The Podcast is back for a second season January 2023!
One Person’s Uprising is Another Person’s Riot
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One Person’s Uprising is Another Person’s Riot
Qanita Lilla speaks with Winsom Winsom and Pamila Matharu about their artistic practices and the lasting bond they share.
Access as Kindness
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Access as Kindness
Lebanese Canadian actor, writer, and curator Yousef Kadoura speaks with Qanita Lilla about the diverse experiences and boundaries of performance in pursuit of accessibility.
Sweet Grass, Boiled Eggs and Table Manners
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Sweet Grass, Boiled Eggs and Table Manners
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Sweet Grass, Boiled Eggs and Table Manners
Spoken word poet, Billie the Kid speaks with Qanita Lilla about honouring stories as a living entities.
Manifesting Black Feminist Subjectivity
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Manifesting Black Feminist Subjectivity
Visual artist, Kosisochukwu Nnebe talks with Qanita Lilla about her artistic practice inspired by social theory and lived experience.
Imagining African Digital Futures
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Imagining African Digital Futures
Working at the intersections of tech and cultural heritage, Chao Tayiana Maina speaks with Qanita Lilla about her vision for African digital futures.
Drawing Power From Poetry
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Drawing Power From Poetry
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Drawing Power From Poetry
In this episode, poet Juliane Okot Bitek shares how stories have the power to transform who we are and how we situate ourselves in the world.
Travelling in a Multiverse of Hybridity
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Travelling in a Multiverse of Hybridity
Artist Rajni Perera speaks to Qanita Lilla about the interstellar travelers and the multiversal futurisms that inform her practice.
Outrageous Worldmaking from a Bright Yellow Kitchen
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Outrageous Worldmaking from a Bright Yellow Kitchen
In this episode, Emelie Chhangur, Director Curator of Agnes Etherington Art Centre speaks about worldmaking and her radical curatorial practice.

Season 1

The Hidden Museum
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The Hidden Museum
Listen to the inaugural episode of With Opened Mouths: The Podcast where host Qanita Lilla and Agnes's Collections Manager, Jennifer Nicoll visit the subterraneous terrain of the vaults
The Art of Black
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The Art of Black
In episode two of With Opened Mouths: The Podcast, Qanita Lilla chats with Jameel3DN, the artist behind the podcast music about his life journey and of developing his voice as a Griot (storyteller).
The Art of Black, by Jameel3DN
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The Art of Black, by Jameel3DN
Commissioned by Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2021

“The Art of Black” by Jameel3DN (2021) Lyrics

 [Intro]

Protect the fold

Yeah yeah

Protect the Fold

Protect the Fold

 [Verse 1]

As we fight to be heard

Black bodies in the earth

Creators of culture

Disconnected from birth

So we let them sell us worth

Sold us fables and it worked

So we masking pain cause it hurts

Black pain being hanged like some merch

They tell our story

But let us tell you first

We was stolen put on display

Taught a new language

Distorted our face what a shame

We was shinning

They wanted us in shade

They thought we would stay slaves

One chapter but this novel has many

You know first peoples really look like pennies

This bronze skin

This is what they envy

And the culture that’s within me

 [Chorus]

Know your worth sister

Protect the soul

Know your worth brother

Protect the fold

Know your worth Sister

Protect the fold

Know your worth Brother

Protect the Soul 

[Outro]

Today I was thinking

What it would feel like

To be outside this flesh

For my spirit to be flying high in the sky

Above the clouds

At the Doorsteps of heaven

Hm..

Freedom.

Yeah

Protect the soul…

Protect the soul…

 

Credits

Song Writer: Jameel “Jameel3DN’ McPherson

Producer: Elroy “EC3” Cox III

Commissioned by Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2021

 

Our Journeys Are Our Stories
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Our Journeys Are Our Stories
From shoe-making to working at Agnes, Sebastian De Line speaks with Qanita Lilla about what gives them their voice in their work as an artist and curator.
Intimate Recollections of Black Lives
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Intimate Recollections of Black Lives
In this episode, artist Oluseye talks with Qanita Lilla about his enduring ties to Africa, to black rubber and to things that give both pleasure and pain.
Soak Black Worry in a Bath of Black Laughter
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Soak Black Worry in a Bath of Black Laughter
In this episode of With Opened Mouths: The Podcast, Kingston raised spoken word poet Britta B. talks to Qanita Lilla about her work, mentorship and navigating a White world while growing up Black.
Embracing Synergies in Other Worlds
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Embracing Synergies in Other Worlds
Curators and artists, Amy Malbeuf and Jessie Ray Short talk with Qanita Lilla about how their expansive practice embraces new visions of Métis identity and aims to broadens our view of the known universe.
Bantering Toward Radically Liberated Futures
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Bantering Toward Radically Liberated Futures
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Bantering Toward Radically Liberated Futures
Jason Cyrus, Ezi Odozor and Qanita Lilla talk together about the creative processes of curating, researching and writing in the Canadian arts sphere.

Meet the Host

DR QANITA LILLA

Dr Qanita Lilla is Associate Curator, Arts of Africa at Agnes Etherington Art Center, Queen’s University situated on Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee Territory. At Agnes, Qanita cares for the Lang Collection of African Art and works with contemporary art practice from the diaspora to engage the African collection in the present. She is interested in the life and after-life of objects in collections, hidden histories, the representation of racialised minorities, and alternative practices of collections care. She has published in both peer-reviewed and popular publications, has contributed book chapters to anthologies and is the host of With Opened Mouths: The Podcast. Qanita is also Assistant Professor in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies in the Film and Media Department at Queen’s University.

Credits and Acknowledgements

With Opened Mouths: The Podcast is produced by Agnes Etherington Art Centre and is distributed in partnership with CFRC 101.9 FM, Queen’s University’s campus radio station.

Agnes thanks all of our fantastic guests who shared their stories and their practices with us through this podcast.

Season 1

Recorded at Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Production by Dr Qanita Lilla and Danuta Sierhuis
Episodes are edited and mixed by Chancelor Maracle, CFRC 101.9 FM
Original music by Jameel3DN, produced by Elroy “EC3” Cox III and commissioned by Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2021
The graphic for the podcast is created by Vincent Perez
The podcast is supported by the Justin and Elisabeth Lang Fund

Season 2

Recorded at CFRC 101.9 FM, Queen’s University 
Production by Dr Qanita Lilla, Danuta Sierhuis and Evan Wainio-Woldanski  
Original music by Jameel3DN, produced by Elroy “EC3” Cox III and commissioned by Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2021
Episodes are edited and mixed by Chancelor Maracle, CFRC 101.9 FM
The graphic for the podcast is created by Vincent Perez
The podcast was supported by The George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund, Queen’s University; the Justin and Elisabeth Lang Fund; and Young Canada Works Building Careers in Heritage, a program funded by the Government of Canada.
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