Historically-based, local & international voices:
Women’s life-changing stories
The end of November is the one year anniversary of podcast SOME KINDA WOMAN, Stories of Us! During COVID lockdowns and isolation, this podcast provided listeners with a rich connection to story, using a simple, intimate technology: one voice to an audience of one. Thirty six stories were recorded in Roberts Creek, eight illustrations were created and thousands of downloads have been listened to and shared.
The podcast features historically-based, local and international stories reflecting women’s life-changing experiences, many taken from theatrical plays written by Caitlin Hicks and directed by Gord Halloran. Ten illustrations were created by Halloran to capture the essence of each story.
The work is humorous and emotional, the characters outspoken, the issues and events in women’s lives from lighthearted Christmas stories to the exhilaration of a powerful birth, to losing a child to divorce, death, miscarriage, abortion. Podcasts in the series THE LIFE WE LIVED tell of physical, emotional and financial hardship as settlers of a harsh land.
The theatrical play and film SINGING THE BONES provides stories of women, birth, and motherhood in many of it aspects, all told from a deeply personal point of view. (Rachel is Born, Wind Water, Window to the Universe, She’s Not Screaming) Other stories capture hilarious characters who speak their minds (Six Palm Trees and Gertie!)
Two stories proved to be favourites with audiences. The first, A KNOCK ON THE DOOR, tells the tale of a hippie mother in Pender Harbor in the Seventies who wakes one winter morning to discover her 5 year old daughter is missing. Taken from a true story with many historical details. The final irony: on the day the podcast was uploaded, the mother who told the story, Lise Langlois, died in Sechelt, surrounded by loved ones.
By far, the most popular story, CHANGE GONNA COME is excerpted from Hicks’ second novel, KENNEDY GIRL, (soon to be published) and reflects the day Martin Luther King was killed, from the pov of a white teenager volunteering at the offices of Robert Kennedy’s Wilshire Boulevard campaign for President in 1968.
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