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In , when Marilyn Norry made the original request for stories from her friends (women actors in Vancouver), she said these stories would be published in a book. Here it is! 

My Mother’s Story: the originals

The first 39 mother stories written for My Mother’s Story. Even though the writers are all actors living in Vancouver, BC, it can be seen through these stories that their mothers come from the whole world, from most races, and, with birth dates that range from to , the history of women in the 20 century is told in their lives.

Our mothers experienced great wealth, crushing poverty, all forms of sanity, insanity, addictions, artistry, heartbreak and joy. In each story the daughter seeks to tell the truth without judgment, writing what she knows, what she doesn’t know, and what she thinks might be important.

There are tales of harrowing wartime escapes, arranged marriages, adoptions, joyous births, tragic deaths, joyous deaths, tragic births, and lives of exemplary service and of quiet desperation. These personal snapshots reveal that, contrary to popular belief, there is no such thing as a generic mother, or a generic woman. Each life is absolutely unique, following a distinct path of cause and effect, with some fate thrown in.

Through the clear voice of each writer, we see a myriad of primary relationships at play throughout each life and also glean facets of the mother/daughter relationship by what the daughter chooses to say about her mother, and what she chooses to omit.

All proceeds from My Mother’s Story: the originals go to Mothership Stories Society to encourage women and men around the world to tell the stories of their mothers.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8,

EarSighted Live Audio Description &#; a first in Canada!

It was the dream of Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture Artistic Director Geoff McMurchy, and Executive Director Rina Fraticelli to introduce Audio Description to theatres in Vancouver, and Canada. Which has resulted in EarSighted Live Audio Description first full season &#; 15 shows October &#; June with 6 greater Vancouver theatres.

What is Audio Description?

&#;Audio description brings the sets, lighting, costumes, and action of a theatre performance alive for blind and visually impaired audience members. Kickstart has trained a team of professionals who provide key action and other visual information, between the actor’s lines, through a wireless transmitter to a single earpiece worn by the recipient. Description begins 15 minutes prior to curtain, with an introduction to the overall production and design concept, and other programme notes&#;. Audio Describers preview the show times and write succinct yet descriptive notes.

How it all began

Audio Description for live events has been available in the USA for 3 decades, and began in Washington DC, and San Francisco, CA. You can read a brief history at the Audio Description Coalition website. It was one of the co-founders of the coalition, Deborah Lewis who would become the trainer for EarSighted. The Audio Description Coalition provides, training and professional development, guiding principles and codes of conduct throughout the USA, and now also Canada.

In I was employed by Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture to coordinate audio description and quite a journey it has been for all of us! In the spring of we put out a call for auditions, and received over 40 applications, from this talented pool we auditioned 15 people, and chose 8 for the training. Auditions were recorded to assess for natural aptitude and feedback was taken not only from those of us conducting the interviews, but also from trainer Deborah L

Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat, or simply Sagwa, is a educational Canadian-Chinese animated television series,&#;ideally aims toward children aged 5 to 8 years old, based on a book by Amy Tan, which aired on PBS Kids, produced by Montreal-based animation studio CinéGroupe and Sesame Street creator Sesame Workshop.

The series first premiered on September 3, , running for one season and 40 episodes. The series was cancelled on October 5, , but continued to air in reruns on all PBS affiliates until September and, as of , it remains aired on many channels internationally.

In , the series' theme music was posted on Buzzfeed and it went viral, reaching 14 million people within 10 days.

Plot[]

In the series, which is set c. during the late Qing Dynasty, Sagwa has fun in her day-to-day life while learning and teaching valuable life lessons about family obligations and loyalty.

Sagwa resides in a palace of a magistrate in China in what is assumed to be the modern-day Fujian provinces of the People's Republic of China and Republic of China (possibly during the late Qing dynasty, shown by the characters' clothes), as part of a royal family of cats who have the ability to write with their tails. She and her siblings, along with various other cats and Fu-Fu the bat, have adventures that are usually accompanied by moral lessons, as is typical with most children's series. However, one aspect that sets this show apart is its display of various aspects of Chinese culture.

Production[]

The series was developed and produced for television by David Ka Lik Wong and Leon G. Arcand along with executive producers George Daugherty and Michel Lemire.

Honors[]

The series won the Silver Plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival for Children's Film in , as well as winning a Outstanding Individual in Animation award for background artist Valery Mihalkov at the 29th Daytime Emmy Awards and a "TV Series - Family / Children" award at WorldFest Hou

Season of television series

The first season of Beauty & the Beast, an American television series developed by Sherri Cooper-Landsman and Jennifer Levin and very loosely inspired by the CBS television series of the same name, commenced airing in the United States on October 11, , concluded May 16, , and consisted of 22 episodes.

Beauty & the Beast's first season aired in the United States (U.S.) on Thursdays at pm ET on The CW, a terrestrialtelevision network, where it received an average of million viewers per episode.

Premise

Catherine Chandler, a law student, witnesses her mother being shot the same night she is saved from her mother's murderers by a supposed beast. Nine years later, and now working as a detective for the NYPD, a case leads her to discover that Vincent Keller, an ex-soldier believed to have been killed in action during military service, is actually alive. As Catherine gets to know him, she starts finding out more about her mother's murder and about who (and what) Vincent really is. At the same time, they get to know one another and eventually fall in love.

Plot

This season revolves around Catherine and Vincent trying to pursue a relationship together, whilst being hunted down by a top-secret government organization named Muirfield who want Vincent dead. Muirfield are revealed to have conducted a high-profile secret experiment on soldiers fighting in Afghanistan. These experiments resulted in every soldier becoming physically stronger and faster, hoping this would win the war quicker. But, something went wrong, as the entire force went out of control with their new abilities. The government gave orders to kill them all, but Vincent escaped and has been in hiding eve