At a time when our ideas and differences are being used to bring us further apart, can we as an island of people use these same tools to build us each up?
We are an island blessed with riches of resources, learning, arts, writing, music, wood work, hand work, gardens, scientists, multiple generations, and beauty.
Living on Cortes still provides an opportunity to appreciate that slower kind of learning… The kind for which we have had to work, so let’s get to work together.
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Previous Episodes:
The Big Three & Stories from the Archives
In partnership with the Cortes Island Museum and Archives, this Folk U features Jane Newman sharing news of the museum and stories of Spring from the archives. The second hour features Laurel and Donna curators of the upcoming Big 3 Exhibit opening soon at Wild...
Folk U Radio celebrates 50 with the Awakeneers
Folk U Radio celebrates 50 live shows on CKTZ 89.5 FM this Friday at 1 p.m. Please join host Manda Aufochs Gillespie and Cortes’s local musicians the Awakeneers (developers of the Folk U Radio theme song Think!) for live music and a peak “back stage” into the...
Chief Kevin Peacey: Making it on Cortes
Chief Kevin Peacey of the Klahoose First Nation presents Klahoose Success and Strong Leadership and answers neighbours questions. Then Colin Funk gives a brief update on the Cortes Community Economic Development Association and Carrie Saxifrage gives an update on the...
Environmental issues in small Vancouver Island communities
In this edition of the Folk U Radio’s Reporters Roundtable, our journalists talk about environmental issues in some small Vancouver Island communities. Ernest Hare, US star of Vaudeville, phonograph records, and radio, listens to the radio with headphones. Circa...
The Housing Crisis in rural/isolated and small communities
Folk U Radio’s Reporters Roundtable on CKTZ: where we go in-depth on today’s big issues from a small community perspective with the journalists that are researching and writing about them from within these communities. Today’s topic is the unique nature of...