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FAITHNET  OCTOBER NOVEMBER 2009

For bookings please contact Faith Nolan at : nolanfaith@yahoo.com  or   agent Ted Dyment at EMAIL:  ted@altermedia.ca .  

DO THE RIGHT THANG

Sistahs Brothers Trans I send you my thanks and love for the work you do for your solidarity  as we move together onward towards a better world. We  as activits humanists must never forget who we are and where we stand in this  class race  and gender struggle, this division  is the mod  de operada of the  capitalist system. We must continue to stand  side by side together in solidarity with the most oppressed. Not in front  but side by side "for only when our most oppressed rise so then do we all" quote Angela Davis.

Faith  at benefit  organized by Amber- Benefit for Native Sister  Carolyn Connolly- Murdered at Sherbourneand Jarvis last September . Another sister murdered in this epidemic of 520 murederd dissappeared Native SISTAHS  over the past four decades which remain unsolved. 

Rally for GOOD JOBS NOW  in Toronto I'm chanting singing in a truck with PAMELA  LEVI

PRIDE MARCH Faith is HEAD  DYKE TAKE BACK THE  NIGHT  MARCH  with   Pamela Dogra ETT Union  TAKE BACK THE NIGHT WITH THE CUPE FREEDOM SINGERS

4309  Rally for  benefits for CUPE york partime Assistant professors  on University where a women was assaulted by a Toronto Police Officer

OCCASIONS TO  COMMEMERATE COMING UP

DECEMBER 6th Memorial Montreal Massacre

DECEMBER 12th International Human rights DAY

January 26th martin Luther Kings Birthday

BLACK HISTORY MONTH February

Faith- GIGS ( please contact my agent Ted Dyment at EMAIL:  ted@altermedia.ca for bookings etc..)

OCT. - NOVEMBER WEEKLY BI-MONTHLY

CUPE Freedom Singer rehearsals

Central East Womens Music  THERAPY Program

Nelson Mandela School  Music Program

Central North  Women Music Program

October 20th CUPE FREEDOM SINGERS perform at the  No to free Trade  tour with Maude barlow and Sid Ryan ( CUPE  Ontario president)

Faith Nolan

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Saturday, June 27
12 “ 1 pm
Walker Court
Free with admission

As part of the AGO's Pride programming, Faith Nolan social justice activist (Honoured Dyke to lead the 2009 Dyke March) will be performing a set in Walker Court. Faith Nolan was born in Halifax of African, Miqmaq and Irish heritage, has released 14 CD's to date. Her music is her political work [ firmly rooted in being working-class, a woman, African-Canadian and queer.

DYKE MARCH At 2pm JUNE 27th ( CHURCH and Hayden Street )please join me  to sing and  dance away at The Dyke March with your banners. noise makers for social justice. Our struggle continues. 

June 25th  Queering the Blues  9pm Libido  fundraiser for Dyke March Gladstone Hotel  ( toronto Queen and Dufferin) 

June 25th 6pm  Parkdale 10th Pride Celebration with The Freedom Singers -Parkdale  Centre Queen west of Dufferin

Check out TURTLE ISLANDS the first   recorded reggae calypso labour  music  by the CUPE  Ontario Freedom singers -20% of proceed donated t to  strike fund and social justice  the rest supports  costd of CUPE Freedom singers Contact( fhahn@cupe.on.ca)

TOWARDS EQULITY ,OUR STRUGGLE CONTINUES. LOVE FAITH

                   FAITH NET  DECEMBER 2008

Faith Nolan PO Box 690 Stn P Toronto, Ont.Canada  M5S 2Y4 Email : faith@nexicom.net 

Dear Sisters, Brothers, Transfolks, all of we who walk the path towards making social justice. We  know by our lives this is not only possible  but we have seen and been part of the change to a better world.Thank you for the work you do, yours in  solidarity and love. open for gis and new CDs see bottom contact excuse my  spelling and grammer Please see : events listed: gigs : needs? 

DECEMBER 6TH NATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE AND ACTION ON VIOLENCE AGAINST
WOMEN SATURDAY DECEMBER 6TH
REGENT PARK COMMUNITY CENTRE
1PM-3.30PM 203 SACKVILLE GREEN-ORGANIZED BY THE TORONTO WOMEN OF COLOUR COLLECTIVE AND CUPE 4308

PHOTO BY ANNE DE HAAS

NOVEMBER

November 3rd and November 17th  Singing  Elementary teachers of Torornto Rehearsals 7pm 427 Bloor St west Trinity St. Tauls(Torornto) if you are a member of ETT  or an  educational worker please come out and join us,we focus on multicultural  and social justice music , contact me;

November 4th: Benefit for women in jail-Purple Rooster Peterboro

November  TUesday 3rd, 1.pm and Tuesday November 17th  Sistering singers , open to all women at Sistering 962 Bloor St.West(at Dovercourt) 416.926.9762

November,5th, 6th,13th,19th CUPE  Ontario rehearsals ,Local 4308 , Local 4400, LOCAL 3903  if you are a CUPE member and would like to join CUPE Ontario song drum group, please contact me:

November 22nd Faith gigs with CUPE Drum song group performs at Trades conference (Hyatt=Toronto)

November 28th  Carribbean Cuban Relief Concert  CUPE song drum group at the Jamaican Canadian Association

SUPPORT   CUPE LOCAL 3903 WIN A FAIR CONTRACT AND SETTLE AT YORK ;CALL PRESIDENT MAMDOUH SHOUKRI 416.736.5200   AND TELL HIM  TO SETTLE FAIRLY

 CUPE  ONTARIO 4308 DRUM SONG GROUP photo by Kelly OSullivan (President CUPE4308)

SATURDAY DECEMBER 6TH
REGENT PARK COMMUNITY CENTRE
1PM-3.30PM 203 SACKVILLE GREEN SPEAKERS: Irene Ryner (C NH+ CUPE 4308), Belinda Longe (ETFO ), Ronnie Thompson (Dixon Hall)

Women's coordinating Committe Chile-Canada-Cuban Friendship Association,Coalition Against Phychiatric Assault,Pachamama Indigeoneous Womens group)

MUSIC + PERFORMANCE(s) CUPE ONTARIO DRUM SONG GROUP

NELSON MANDELA REGENT PARK GIRLS CLUB followed with OPEN MIC
Free lunch and refreshments served There will be an opportunity for any audience member to discuss .speak, share poetry music etc.. at a open mic session aft er greetings ... if you can
perform please let us know . Purple ribbons will be handed out
(EAST OF PARLIAMENT SOUTH OF DUNDAS ) ORGANIZED BY THE TORONTO WOMEN OF COLOUR COLLECTIVE AND CUPE 4308
 ENDORSEMENTS TO FOLLOW IF YO UR ORGANIZATION OR GROUP WOULD
 LIKE TO SPONSOR THE EVENT PLEASE CONTACT TWCC REP: maki@yorku.ca

DECEMBER

December 2nd Sistering Singers

DEcember 3rd and December 17th Singing  Elementary Teachers of Toronto Rehearsals @ 7pm 427 Bloor St West Trinity St. Tauls(Toronto) 

December 3rd,4th,11th CUPE Dreum song group

December 16th  womens  in jail gig

December 17th  women in jail gig

  CUPE ONTARIO  DRUM SONG GROUP AT CNH  singing for our lives : photo by Kelly O' Sullivan

BUY my new Cd  original"Mannish Gal" and set our genders free, support social justice  artists music and 20% goes to Sistering singing program support and  women in jail .contact:faith@nexicom.net

photo by Anne De Haas

FAITHNET JULY/AUGUST 2008

info/bookings/talk to me:faith@nexicom.net

Africville Reunion 2007 singing for  justice (power to the peeps ..aye) 

 Sisters, brothers, trans, comrades thank you all for carrying on the struggle to make a better world for us all ,thanks to all who help in  fundraising/donations (CUPE,local 4400. local 4308, CUPE Ontario,ETFO, EFRYE, Helen Kennedy,Kathleen Loftus, Pamela Dogra , SETT,forgive me if i forgot you ,metewintoq for keeping the music programs for sistering and the CECC alive  in solidarity and love you always ,Faith available for social justice  F.Y.I. my gig list

NEW CD- original tunes  released june 20th 2008  called  "MANNISH GAL" when you buy 100% independent  a part proceeds to women in jail group and sistering singers

Harrison Hot springs ( BC)July10th-13th

July 16th Downtown Eastside Womens Centre ( Vancouver)sponsored by Vancouver Folk festival

July 17th Frasier Valley Institute for Women(jail)gig with the Native  Women's Sisterhood sponsored by Vancouver Folk festival

July 23rd-28th :Africville Reunion Gig July 23rd 1pm  July 26th 3pm  at the big tent in Africville AKA Seaview Park,Halifax , NS

July 29th Sistering B-B-Que dufferin grave (Toronto) 1pm

August 3rd -10th Cuba

August 22nd-24th  anuual women of colour  activist retreat(burnt river)

September 1st Monday: Labour Day Parade  begins on University 10am Faith with CUPE Ontario drum song  and afro/calypso band

FAITHNET MAY JUNE 2008

Faith Nolan Singing  with Judy Dasilva :Grassy Narrows  Landrights

please forward widely  reply:                                                           Faith Nolan PO BOX 690 Stn P Torornto ONt. M5S2Y4                    EMAIL: faith@nexicom.net WEBSITE www.faithnolan.org

RALLY  for Native  Land Claims MAY 26th to May 29th Queen's Park

 BE THERE

Dear Sisters and Brothers , congratulations to all of the workers of the world this May celebrating our Labour : No one is Illegal for the struggle to win status for all, : CUPE Local 4308 Kelly O'Sullivan, Irene+ all the sisters who do PSW  work ,Ontario Sid Ryan and Fred Hahn for organizing   workers to recieve first time benifit , pensions and job security to personal servive workers. One sister was  84 years old and still working because she had no pension all those years. : BIG UP Campaign for land rights rally May 26th ay Queens Pk, : May Palestinian Solidarity Group:Happy May  Asian History Month:Mother Earth Day,: Happy Pride to all my Queer peers and our allies:Pastors for Peace   medicine to CUBA event : ETT EQUITY  Conference for Middle School Children : Big up  thanks to the  millions who carry on the work to make a better world.   wanna see me . Check out my gigs below ONE LOVE new CD" ONE WORLD" Available

GIGS

May 1st Mayday Gigs, Norm kacking tribute"Free Times"

May 1st  Mayday CP Canada Celebration "Greek Cafe

May 2nd Panel CAO  Mayworks : Labour Arts Faith with Minsook Lee, Karl Beveridge

May 3rd "Rally No One Is Illegal "Dufferin Grave Pk  Faith with Audrey Redman,Pamela Levi, Terina Miller, Pamela Dogra

May3rd Slam poetry  Jam at Concord Cafewith Cousin  poet singer -writer Shauntay Grant Faith with Pamela Dogra,Audrey Redman, Terina Miller, Pamela Levi

May 3rd Mayworks Festival Salutes  union singer Arlene Mantle  Faith with Pamela Levi, Terina Miller, Audrey Redman,Pamela Dogra , Musicians Kevin Barrett,Rachel Melas,Tim (drums) Marilyn lerner

May5th,12th,26   guitar lesson at 6.30pm SETT rehearsals 7pm singing teachers

May 9th Peace in the middle east demo (Charpters on bloor)

 May 14th  BIg UP to CUPE local 4308 singing  celebration with SETT of unionizing more personal support workersMay 21st,27th  CECC women prisoner  singing

May 22nd  ETT'S Asian Heritage Celebration with truth Taiko Drummers, SETT singers, Maden Dheer  at the  Steelworkers Hall  

May 26th Gladstone Muir : Black girls group  workshop

May 27th Sistering singing

JUNE   2nd ,9th,16th, 23rd SETT rehearsals

June 18th Pastors for Peace + Doctors without Borders gig for medicine for CUBA   TBA info email me back

June 10th,24th Sistering Singers

June 27th   Pride Stage - evening Women of Colour showcase

June 11th,25th CECC women prisoner music therapy

June 29th  Pride Parade  float with band + SETT singers with Elementary Teachers FederationOntario + Elementary Teachers of Toronto +_ Peel Teachers Federation

BLACK HISTORY MONTH FEB.2008

BOOK your Faith Nolan concert/ workshop 

Faith Nolan  Contact: Email :faith@nexicom.net ,  ph. 416.537.8194 ,www.faithnolan.org

Marie Joseph Amgelique Slave in Montreal in 1750’s	Viola Desmond ended segragetion in Canada	Faith Nolan-singer songwriter *singer*
Maxine Tynes Afro Scotian poet	Dionne BrandTrinidad born- poe/writer/educator t	Viola Desmond Her crime was this: when stopping in a town unfamiliar to her, she mistakenly sat in the locally known "whites-only" section of a theatre. Although she offered to pay the difference in ticket price to remain in her seat, she was arrested, convicted, and fined.

African Canadian History Through Music Conc ert 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 songs and discussions about celebrated Afro Canadians like Viola Desmond,Josiah Henson, Mary Ann Shadd, John Ware and Americans like Rosa Parks, Madame C Walker and Harriet Tubman. Song stylings reflect the historical development of the African Diaspora such as drums, call and response, Blues, jazz reggae and R&B. Concert : 45 minutes /unlimited participants Workshop: maximum 50 people

PO BOX 690 Station P Toronto Ontario Canada M5S 2Y4 faith@nexicom.net or 416-537-8194

African Canadian Civil Rights Music
Concert or Workshop

African Baptist churches formed throughout Canada and the United States were the birthplace of many of the songs of liberation in the struggle since slavery for equality. These songs became widely recognized during and after the civil rights movement of the 1960's . They became the vocal and lyrical representation of the movement to end state sponsored segregation and the goal of full equality and justice. This workshop covers a range of topics through song like -anti racism (Ride on the Bus with Me) gender equity (I Black Woman) commitment to struggle (We shall Overcome), to songs that aid in organizing and disseminating information (I'm On My Way)

Concert : 45 minutes /unlimited participants
Workshop: maximum 50 people

Blues Music

This workshop/concert takes us back to the beginning of the blues --sing along and learn west+south  African and south African songs  drumming  voice for singing and hands for clapping. Then Move through the early banjo blues music of the late 1800's, to the cotton picking blues of the 20th century, slide blues, twelve bar, urban style and the folk blues of the 60's. The music of Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Billie Holiday, E. Cotton Blues music is a base for understanding the development of North American musical styles the metaphors speaks of a realities of everyday life.

45-90min.

As I was biking through Kensington on Monday night, I came across something of a photo shoot. On the corner of Nassau and Augusta, a photographer from Xtra was snapping photos of a woman who with a guitar, harmonica and sweet voice was spreading soulful sounds through the streets of the Market.

The singer was Faith Nolan. Although she was about to pack up for the night, Faith was good enough to stick around and let me record one of her songs. Here it is along with a short Q&A.

Listen to the MP3 file

(Interview comes first. Then the song. Time: 9:54. 3.4 MB. That's the sound of Kensington and the Xtra reporter laughing in the background)