Janet Rogers
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Author, Producer, WriterBiography
Janet is a Mohawk/Tuscarora writer from the Six Nations band in southern Ontario. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and has been living on the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people in Victoria, British Columbia since 1994. Janet works in the genres of poetry, spoken word performance poetry, video poetry, and recorded poetry with music and script writing. Janet is a radio broadcaster, documentary producer and sound artist. Her literary titles include Splitting the Heart, Red Erotic, Unearthed, Peace in Duress, and Totem Poles and Railroads.You can hear Janet on the radio hosting Native Waves Radio on CFUV fm. Her radio documentaries Bring Your Drum (50 years of indigenous protest music) and Resonating Reconciliation won Best Radio at the imagaineNATIVE Film and Media festival 2011 and 2013. Janet Rogers and Ahkwesase Mohawk poet Alex Jacobs make up the poetry collective Ikkwenyes which produced the poetry CD Got Your Back and won the Loft Literary Fellowship prize 2014. 2Ro Media Inc is the production company she and Mohawk media artist Jackson Twobears own and operate. They produced NDNs on the Airwaves, an experimental documentary about CKRZ fm Six Nations radio. Janet produced and launched a 6-part radio documentary series titled NDNs on the Airwaves focused on the current history of native radio in Canada, in February 2016.
Mush Hole Project, 2016
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grunt gallery Programming Archive (Artist)Related programs
Peace in Duress (Author)Peace in Duress (Artist)
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