Voices Of The Street Trailer

Content Warning:
The stories in this series deal with difficult and sometimes traumatic topics. Please practice self care, stop listening and seek support if you need to. Help is available (links below)!

The 2021 Voices of the Street anthology, “INSIDE we are all the same,” jumps from the page in this special podcast series. For four Megaphone storytellers, poetry and prose from last year’s special literary edition are a starting point for exploring the themes that moved them — in a whole new form: audio storytelling.

Featuring interviews with writers and personal reflections on how their lived experiences merge with the themes of the text, this podcast series illuminates Voices of the Street in a new way.

The Voices of the Street podcast is a six-part series for Below the Radar, curated and hosted by participants of Megaphone’s Speakers Bureau. Created by Jules Chapman, Angel Gates, Nicolas Leech-Crier and Yvonne Mark, this series was recorded and produced on the lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Writers featured in this series include Dennis Gates, Elaine Schell and Eva Takakanew.

Tune in to hear from these talented storytellers as the series moves through immersive soundscapes, poetics and creative prose, and critical conversations about poverty, incarceration, Indigeneity and connections to home, land and relations.

Learn more about the Voices of the Street series and the storytellers: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/voices-of-the-street.html
and here: https://www.megaphonemagazine.com/podcast

Read the transcript for this trailer: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/voices-of-the-street-trailer.html

This series was produced with support from the City of Vancouver, BC Arts Council, SFU’s Community Engagement Initiative and SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement.

The podcast was developed through a mentorship program led by Helena Krobath. Special thanks to the storytellers and Voices of the Street writers, the supporting mentors and the audio production team from the Below the Radar podcast.

Mental Health Support:
Crisis Centre BC: https://crisiscentre.bc.ca/
Indian Residential School Survivors Society: https://www.irsss.ca/services
KUU-US Crisis Line: https://www.kuu-uscrisisline.com/
WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre: https://www.wavaw.ca/
BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services: http://www.bcmhsus.ca/

Credits:
Theme music by John Brennan
Extra music and sound effects by John Brennan and Helena Krobath
Sound engineering, editing, mixing and mastering by Paige Smith, Fiorella Pinillos and Kathy Feng
Show art by Kathy Feng & Paige Smith

ABOUT MEGAPHONE:
​​Megaphone changes the story on poverty by promoting social equity, amplifying marginalized voices and creating meaningful work. It produces a high-quality monthly magazine and annual calendar that low-income vendors sell on the streets of Vancouver and Victoria to earn income and build community.

ABOUT SPEAKERS BUREAU:
Megaphone’s Speakers Bureau is a public awareness program connecting audiences with speakers who have lived experience of drug use and overdose prevention.

Visit Megaphone online: https://www.megaphonemagazine.com/