Nantali Indongo

Nantali Indongo is CBC's Arts & Culture contributor and host of The Bridge. Follow her on Twitter @taliindongo.

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How the Haitian Revolution inspires Stanley Février's art and unwavering calls for justice

Multi-disciplinary artist Stanley Février is driven to be disruptive voice in the art world, using his work to call for justice and freedom for all and even going as far as yelling —literally — outside of Quebec museums, demanding for better representation on their walls and offices. He speaks with Nantali Indongo on this week's episode of The Bridge.
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Breaking down 'the Olympics of womanhood' with Montreal filmmaker Eisha Marjara

Eisha Marjara discusses why her films have centered on women for the past 25 years and shares the latest on her upcoming feature-length, Calorie, about mother-daughter relationships, family secrets and the culture wars for first-generation Canadians.
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This Montreal artist bridges divides through collaborative art

Concerned with questions around social justice, pretty much everything Veronica Mockler does is collaborative and often with people who are not artists. Her motivation is to use art to contribute to how we can all do better at living with our differences, starting with ours right here in Quebec society.
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Atif Siddiqi releases new music and a documentary as their own kind of PSA on sexual assault

Atif Siddiqi, a gender-bending performer and singer known as Tranie Tronic, was one of the first South Asian queer performers in Montreal frequenting the city's ballroom and drag scenes of the mid-90s. Their most recent work, a full-length album and documentary film, are very personal projects, focused around a sexual assault that Atif survived in 2018. Although the perpetrator was never charged by Montreal police, Atif turned to art to find resolution and healing for themselves, and to educate and inspire other survivors.
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Corneille wishes his first album and those of many other French R&B singers came out today

The ADISQ gala will be awarding artists in the 'French R&B/Soul' category for the first time since its creation, this year. One of the key voices in making that happen is none other than Cornelius Nyungura, better known to music lovers around the world as Corneille. We speak with him about his journey and the significance of this moment for R&B and Black culture in Quebec.
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Singer Kim Richardson was 19 when she won a Juno Award for R&B music

You've probably seen her on stage as a backing vocalist with some of Quebec's biggest music stars, and you've probably heard her voice on their albums. We go down memory lane with singer Kim Richardson to talk about how she continues to navigate the music industry, and R&B/Soul music's influence in Quebec.
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Quebec is about to give R&B its flowers at the ADISQ Gala

For the first time in 45 years, there will be a French R&B/Soul category at Quebec's mainstream music award night - L'ADISQ! Widney Bonfils, a chair with Canadian Black music collective ADVANCE, joins us to talk about the advocacy work behind this decision and his determination to expand Black representation beyond studios and stages.
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Building a sense of belonging through art with Quebec's Journées de la culture

Michel Vallée is at the helm of Culture pour Tous, the arts organization behind 'Journées de la culture,' a three-day event offering free arts and culture activities across Quebec. Vallée joins The Bridge host Nantali Indigo to share his perspective on the significance of the event.
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Inuk artist Jason Sikoak knows all of the words to Kermit the Frog's song 'Rainbow Connection'

While Jason Sikoak is making art, they listen to a playlist that includes "Rainbow Connection" by Kermit the Frog from The Muppet Movie - a hit from his childhood. The song is about manifesting dreams, something that Jason started to do more frequently when many of their teenage dreams of becoming an artist started to come true more than 20 years after he first hummed the tune as a kid.
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SMS For Location: Bringing back the conversation with Montreal's Moonshine

Summer is wrapping up but Montreal’s partying is still in full swing. One group that knows how to have fun is Moonshine. Beyond being an after-hours party, for Pierre Kwenders, Hervé 'Coltan' Kalongo and DJ San Farafina, Moonshine is a part of the city's African and Afro-Diasporic club culture.