SAY LA VIE Podcast
A Podcast to Give a Voice and Platform to English-Speaking Youth in Québec
Funded by Canadian Heritage, Y4Y Québec’s podcast, Say La Vie, aimed to bring visibility to the experiences, diversity, and culture of English-speaking youth in the province.
Our goal was to create a sense of belonging among English-speaking youth in the Québec society. This 10-part podcast series provided a platform for youth to share information on resources, training and networking opportunities, employment/career services, and arts/culture for English-speaking youth throughout Québec. Through Say La Vie, English-speaking youth took on leadership roles while inspiring their peers to become active members of society and engage French-speaking youth. Last but not least, Say La Vie aimed to mobilise the broader English-speaking community to address issues that impact its vitality.
Wondering how you can get engaged, or deepen your involvement, with issues that are important to you, even while the world is quickly changing?
Wondering how the pandemic has brought increased importance to community organising?
Join our new host Shin Ling Low as she meets with Faith Paré, Joanna Kanga, and Brayden Sonny White. Emerging from Québec’s rich grassroots culture, these youth leaders and organisers discuss how they adapted their tactics during the pandemic.
Listen to the Bonus Episode
Guest Links
Joanna Kanga: Black Girls Gather (They have a new bookshop, proceeds fund their activities!)
Faith Paré: Instagram & website ; VOLTA’s Instagram;
Brayden Sonny White: Facebook (Reach out to Brayden to get involved or donate to his cultural classes project!)
Mentions
The West Island Black Community Association: website
Rito Joseph: website
Produced and hosted by Shin Ling Low
Co-edited by Shin Ling Low and Nicolas Delgado
Outro song ("Roundabout") by Bryan Li: Instagram & website
Listen to All the Episodes
Meet the Team
Project Coordinators
Sampreet Arneja
Project Coordinator
Sampreet Arneja is an actor, filmmaker, and vocalist of a local Montréal punk band called Undefined. He currently studies psychology at Concordia University. Through his various experiences in the many creative scenes he has explored, he has fallen in love with Québec culture and his hometown of Montréal! Sampreet speaks 5 languages and has traveled to over 12 countries around the world. These experiences further impassioned him to explore, soak in new experiences, and meet many new people in order to hear their stories and see the world through their eyes.
Shin Ling Low
Project Coordinator & Host for the Bonus Episode
Shin Ling (they/she) is a multidisciplinary artist and facilitator, who loves expanding and finding new ways to connect, learn, and grow. Through co-founding an art collective and leading projects as a photographer and videographer, they have gained grounded knowledge in community organizing, leadership, facilitation/space creation, and anti-oppression - all skills they are excited to bring to the Y4Y table. In her free time, you can find Shin Ling drinking a cup of green tea on her couch reading graphic novels.
Advisory Committee
Linx Selby
Linx is a Canadian-Chinese/American writer and director raised in the Southwestern USA who has spent the past 8 years building a creative base between there and the city of Montréal, Canada. Sorting out her mixed identity and sense of 'home' are questions she answers through film and multimedia. Apart from a degree in cultural studies from McGill University, notable works include multimedia project, Tokyographie, 2014, "Tremor" short film (2012), (AmerAsia Festival 2014, Cold Call Productions Film Festival 2016), and Atelier Céladon art collective, of which she is a co-founder. Most recently she released Pueblo Mágico (2020), a documentary project about the lived experience of residents of her hometown along the US/Mexico border.
Houda Kerkadi
A graduate from Concordia University in Communication studies, Houda Kerkadi has been a proud community worker for the past five years. She is passionate about social equity, language, and education accessibility and loves to write about anything and everything in her free time.
Hannah Besseau
Hannah has been working in radio and podcasting since 2011. She is the host and coordinator of Dragonroot Media, a feminist media collective and radio show on CKUT 90.3 FM.
Cecilia Marangon
Cecilia is an Italian journalist and podcaster—with a deep interest in contemporary history and a background in foreign language mediation. Co-founder of the University newspaper at the University of Turin (Italy), Cecilia was a radio journalist for Mustar FM, community radio in north Hungary, and currently the producer of the Italian podcast Democrazia Portami Via.
