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Jail House Blues: Sept 2013

 

D-OED Blues : A.K.A Dead Time Blues.mp3

free download:  enjoy the first recorded  song for the jail house blues

Hi

My name is Faith Nolan. For the the past six years I’ve been co-ordinating and collecting songs in my music workshops in two Ontario prisons. My new recording, a worthwhile project "I am a Prisoner", needs help to get done. As an independent singer songwriter for 30 years I spent time doing music for schools, unions, jails, countless benefits for AIDS, Homelessness, Anti-racism, etc… I have worked with Angela Davis, Odetta, Pete Seeger to name a few and been involved with music for women in jails for more than two decades. It is time to record this jailhouse music and I am asking for your help.

 

What is dead time?

Dead time is the time a person spends in jail before his or her bail hearing and time spent in jail after an unsuccessful bail hearing, but before a trial or sentencing hearing.

This type of jail is more accurately referred to as a pretrial custody centre. These places typically have less resources for the inmates than a prison or penitentiary, where an inmate will serve out a sentence. They are hubs, like an airport or a bus station, where people wait to figure out where they’re going next. The cells will typically be more crowded than in prisons or penitentiaries and there is little for the inmates to do. Rehabilitation programs and counselling services are non-existent or in short supply.

 

 

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Faith at OFL

Music is a place of healing through the music. When women sing and write they express truth and raw emotions. This sharing helps them be present and take a break from their troubles. These songs will help heal in times of trouble.

What I’m Looking For?

 

 

That is why I am asking your help with this 12 song Cd and digital recording + songbook, T-shirt project. I’ve estimated I will need around $3.500 and raising more I will be able to continue collecting and dispersing the words of the silenced, the neglected, the abused, the not seen or heard women, who are growing in numbers on our streets. The proceeds from sales will go to creating a fund to give women housing upon release from jail. This musical voice will be heard and a few women from jail will be out of the streets and most importantly that these lives and their stories are documented artistically in their own voices.

Please go to my website to donate to this project 

 

to donate Proof of Concept

Of course, I wouldn't ask you to contribute without having heard a note, so I'm making a full-length preview track from the album available to download for absolutely free.

www.faithnolan.org

many thanks , we"lallien, Ache, to a better world

 

Donate to the "I am a Prisoner" project.

Black History Month 2011: February 2011

Queering Black History 2011 Recipient: Faith Nolan

Read more about the Queering Black History Campaign and past recipients

Faith Nolan

Faith Nolan

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Faith Nolan is an award-winning singer-songwriter, film producer, and ardent advocate for social justice. Her music and politics are one in the same, both firmly entrenched in her experiences as a queer woman of African, Miq Maq, and Irish heritage raised in the working-class neighbourhood of Regent Park, Toronto. These experiences have instilled in her an immutable commitment to social justice education and to the eradication of oppression in all its forms.

Currently, Nolan is Founder and Director of numerous women’s choirs, including the Central East Correctional Centre Singers (Lindsay, ON), Central North Correction Centre Women’s Singers (Penetang, ON), Sistering Singers (Toronto, ON) for homeless women, and the Singing Elementary Teachers of Toronto. Alongside these and other musical projects, Nolan has produced a film about women in prison entitled Within These Cages. This film is emblematic of her tireless efforts to increase understanding of the links between poverty and incarceration, drawing explicit attention to the disproportionately high number of poor women—especially poor women of colour—in Canadian prisons.

Nolan’s artistic work is a testament to the capacity of music to serve as a powerful tool for cultural and political expression. In January 2010, her accomplishments earned her the African Nova Scotian Music Heritage award. Over the course of her career as a musician, she has recorded fourteen albums, the most recent of which, Hang on CUPE, was released in 2009.

Website: www.faithnolan.org
Email: faith@nexicom.net

 

Gigs and thangs Feb.2011: February 2011

 

FEBRUARY 14th ALL OUT  to the  RALLIES  across Turtle Island  END the murders  and disappearance of  over 563 + women
 
Feb 10th  Fraser Valley Jail ( Native Sistahood ) Dissapeared Murdered  Women NO MORE SILENCE
 
FEB 11th  Friday, February 11 -- Night of Music at W2 (151 W.Cordova) w/Bitterly Divine, Murray Porter, Faith Nolan, Little Hawk & more. Doors at 7 p.m. Given limited space, event is for the DTES community only. We invite DTES agencies wishing to reserve free tickets for their members to email us at endingviolence@bwss.org.
 
Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 8:00pm
Rhizome Cafe, 317 E. Broadway, Vancouver, 8 pm, Doors 6 pm Rhizome  Cafe Vancouver  ( Benifit  for  JOINT Effort  - women in jail support group) 
 
Feb 14th Rally / March  "NO MORE SILENCE "HIGHWAY OF TEARS " Vancouver
Monday February 14 -- 20th Annual Womens Memorial March. Noon in Carnegie Theatre for families, friends, and DTES residents, 1 p.m. March starts at Main and Hastings -- all welcome.  
 

FEB. 17th - OISE  with Elementary Teachers of Toronto  Student  Conference 

 

ANY WOMONS BLUES -JUNE 21st @519Church 2013 : June 2013

ANY WOMONS Blues night '

DYKES ON MICS.

JUNE 21 st 7.30 pm

519 Church St

Come Out- Celebrate and love dyke culture + continue the movement for equality for all- have pride - be proud- support proud dyke artists -be an ally ...

Camp Sis presents a fundraiser . proud

ANY WOMON’S BLUESNIGHT- a dozen + dykes on mics , bands , dancers, spoken word, burlesque drummers, all nations

Camp sis presents Friday June 21st 7.30pm 519 Church CELEBRATE PRIDE WITH PROUD DYKES IN CONCERT a concert fundraiser to build and keep camp sis free for wimin and trans

tickets at Glad Day Books $20.

Pay what you can at door

ANY WOMONS Blues night 'come out- celebrate dyke culture + continue the fight for equality for all- have pride - be proud- support

june 2013

ANY WOMONS BLUESNIGHT -DYKE PRIDE: May 2013

ANY WOMONS Blues night '

DYKES ON MICS.

JUNE 21 st 7.30 pm

519 Church St

Come Out- Celebrate and love dyke culture + continue the movement for equality for all- have pride - be proud- support proud dyke artists -be an ally ...

Camp Sis presents a fundraiser . proud

ANY WOMON’S BLUESNIGHT- a dozen + dykes on mics , bands , dancers, spoken word, burlesque drummers, all nations

Camp sis presents Friday June 21st 7.30pm 519 Church CELEBRATE PRIDE WITH PROUD DYKES IN CONCERT a concert fundraiser to build and keep camp sis free for wimin and trans

tickets at Glad Day Books $20.

Pay what you can at door

FaithNET: house for sale DEC. 2012: December 2012

 COUNTRY HOUSE FOR SALE

bedrooms-

 4piece  bath

-2 floors- 2 patios –

2 decks upstairs –

16x20 screen –

wood stove/ electric heat –

satelite tv - high speed internet -washer/dryer includes  

20 acres on year round  road  

1 shed  2 cabins ( handypersons dream) only 2 hours from Toronto

( KAWARTHAS)

across from  crown  land  very private -5km from kin mount 5 minutes walk to  Burnt River

a great   getaway for artists  nature lovers- asking 209k

contact : faith@nexicom.net 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Book your Black History Month with Faith in February Afro Can m: December 2012

Faith Nolan

African Canadian History Through Music
Concert or Workshop

Musician singer songwriter Faith Nolan has been writing and performing songs about Afro Canadian history since the early 1980's. Her album 'Africville', traces African Canadian history from slavery (1642) in Canada through the end of Nova Scotia¹s Africville in 1969. This album and songbook with art by Grace Channer can be found in libraries, community centers, schools and universities across Canada and the United States. Government and non government organizations around the country celebrate Afro-Canadian history in the month of February. This concert workshop celebrates and educates about the history featuring Faiths original  story songs  and discussions about  freedom seekers  Afro Canadians like VIola Desmond, ( Nova Scotias Rosa Parks)  Mary Ann Shadd, John Ware and Americans like Soujourner Tuth and Harriet Tubman. Song stylings reflect the historical development of the African Diaspora such as drums, call and response, folkblues, jazz and reggae , Faith sings  and plays  guitar, harmonica and tambourine at the same time. She also will be  playing banjo and  ukelele tunes.As well as touching the heart this workshop is  musically fun  and educational .

Faith Nolan

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Faith Nolan is an award-winning singer-songwriter, film producer, and ardent advocate for social justice. Her music and politics are one in the same, both firmly entrenched in her experiences as a queer woman of African, Miq Maq, and Irish heritage raised in the working-class neighbourhood of Regent Park, Toronto. These experiences have instilled in her an immutable commitment to social justice education and to the eradication of oppression in all its forms.

Currently, Nolan is Founder and Director of numerous women’s choirs, including the Central East Correctional Centre Singers (Lindsay, ON), Central North Correction Centre Women’s Singers (Penetang, ON), Sistering Singers (Toronto, ON) for homeless women, and the Singing Elementary Teachers of Toronto. Alongside these and other musical projects, Nolan has produced a film about women in prison entitled Within These Cages. This film is emblematic of her tireless efforts to increase understanding of the links between poverty and incarceration, drawing explicit attention to the disproportionately high number of poor women—especially poor women of colour—in Canadian prisons.

Nolan’s artistic work is a testament to the capacity of music to serve as a powerful tool for cultural and political expression. In January 2010, her accomplishments earned her the African Nova Scotian Music Heritage award. Over the course of her career as a musician, she has recorded fourteen albums, the most recent of which, Hang on CUPE, was released in 2009.

Website: www.faithnolan.org
Email: faith@nexicom.net

OCT. 31st 2012 CAMP SIS HALLOWEEN BONFIRE IN THE PARK : October 2012

CAMP SIS- Halloween  Bonfire your invited 

         Halloween  Bonfire/ Halloween Bonfire in the park

                Wed. OCT 31st 2012         

 

Dufferin Grove Park        6pm/10pm

 

(Walk the block and scare up some cash  to pay the tax…..and keep camp sis free and accessible to  women and trans)                        hand drumming  /Live music /marshmellows /hotdogs   /raffle and prizes

                                          all welcome 

Email; for  info. and or pledge sheet please contact :  camp_sis@yahoo.com or leave us a message .. check us out on facebook Camp Sis -mail us at

Camp Sis

351 Queen St. East  PO. Box 82575 Toronto. Ontario, Canada M5A 1T8

CAMP SIS MUSIC FESTIVAL AND RETREAT 2012: June 2012

CAMP SIS Wimin/Trans MUSIC FESTIVAL RETREAT

 August 17 to August 19th, 2012 at day/night - Minden , Ontario

  CAMP SIS  workshops, concerts, camping, spots. Friday to Sunday 
+SISTAHS=DYKES TRANS WEEKEND 
   WOMIN/TRANS-2s
 

Location: CAMP SIS 75 acres in Kawartha Ontario

Organization: CAMP SIS/ TWCC

Email: camp_sis@yahoo.

ca,

CAMP SIS Wimin/Trans MUSIC FESTIVAL RETREAT

August 17 to August 19th, 2012 at day/night - Minden , Ontario

 

Location: CAMP SIS 75 acres in Kawartha  

 

CAMP SIS RENO RUN/WAL/WHEEL JUNE 3rd 2012: May 2012

 CAMP SIS RUN/WALK WHEEL RENO

CAMP SIS RENO RUN /WALK /WHEEL Sun. June 3, 2012



                      10:00am until 12pm

HIGH PARK MAIN ENTRANCE Bloo all  welcome women  - trans - men- pe to this  wonderful walk run wheel event 


       

   

 

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CAMP SIS



please email camp_sis@yahoo.com for a

pledge sheet and more info and if you can volunteer or would like to join or wanna camp relax

CAMP SIS  

 

 

CAMP SIS

 

 CAMP SIS is a  community owned non  profit, grassroots Camp open to  women 

from all  communities. It came about in 1995   through the labour of the Toronto  MWIC. To date members of the Aboriginal +Toronto Women of Color  Collective  The TWCC/ INCITE   continue to keep the CAMP open. We are radical feminists of color advancing a movement to and for the rights of women, To that end  we work to keep  CAMP SIS  coordinated by WOC  and do  shared events  that seek to   keep   CAMP SIS  growing as a  safe  space  where we   create art ,   in all of its forms , organic gardening ,dialogue  towards ending violence against women , ableism, classism,  LBTQI  sexism in  our communities through direct action, events and grassroots organizing.

 

WHO WE ARE:

 

CAMP SIS   is coordinated by  aboriginal WOC ,  our  allies  are all women  who are grassroots activists,   organizers in  arts  education, unions, LGBTQ, womin’s orgs ..... We are currently looking for  womin to  join  in   gardening , building ,workshops, get materials, raise funds  and hang out  at CAMP SIS  this summer and fall if we can get the materials to get it  winterized. 

 

WHAT WE DO:

 

CAMP SIS is open  to  singles,groups, of women of color and their communities to  share the space . We wish develop political projects that address the multiple forms of  oppression  aboriginal and women of color experience in our lives, on our bodies, and in our communities.

 

  Some of our  projects include work with Voices of Positive  Women-  Joint Effort work with women in jails-  Stop violence against women - Aboriginal Womin’s Day-  Queer Black Womin’s day- Asian Womin’s History _ - NO MORE SILENCE-Stop the Murdered and Dissappeared Month-Decemeber 6th -Producing a women of color radio show, and other social justice movements, organizing rallies on street harassment,  offering  Camp Sis as a  safe space for  women and  children supporting communities to engage in community accountability strategies, and much more.

  

 

HOW CAN I GET INVOLVED?

 

CAMP SIS is excited to build a broad movement of   women  for peace, safety, and justice! Please  contact us  : camp_sis@hotmail.com  for more information. MAIL  CAMP SIS 351 Queen St. East P.O.box 82575 Toronto Ontario M5A 1T8 PH. 416.760.2169

CAMP SIS DANCE SAT.MARCH 10TH 519 CHURCH ST : February 2012

                      CAMP  SIS   

   IWD DANCE 2012

 SAT.MARCH 12TH 

     @ 7PM- 1.30AM

     519 CHURCH ST

( BALLROOM)

** BBBBUTCH BLUES BAND ** FAITH NOLAN, DAWNA ARMSTRONG,+

**BUTCH FASHION SHOW 

**DJ COZMIC AND 

**DJ VERLIA 

FUNDRAISER FOR CAMP  SIS  AND STOP THE  MURDERED + DISAPPEARED INDIGENOUS WOMEN  TICKET $20 OR PWYC  AT DOOR