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Jowi Taylor
Jowi Taylor is a multiple award winning writer and broadcaster best known for his long-running CBC Radio program Global Village, the Peabody Award winning radio series The Wire: The Impact of Electricity on Music and its celebrated companion series: The Nerve: Music and the Human Experience.
His independent Six String Nation multi-media project centered around a guitar built entirely from pieces of Canadian heritage, combines Jowi's various fascinations including music, media, community-building and the intersection of Canada's history and multicultural identity.
Performance & Workshop
Multi-Media Special Heritage Project:
Six String Nation
6-12
www.SixStringNation.com

“….. To celebrate the people and stories of a country from the roots to the trunk rather than the other way around: and to encourage us to tell that story to ourselves and the world through music – the language that Canada speaks just about better than anyone else in the world."  Excerpt from the Goals of the Six String Nation Project
Through a multimedia presentation, award winning journalist and radio producer, Jowi Taylor invites students and teachers to lend their voices and become citizens of the Six String Nation as he presents the making of the Voyaguer – the guitar made of over 60 pieces of Canadian history and heritage from across Canada - a metaphor for the many voices that have come together and form a Canadian identity, a legacy to our history as a nation. In addition to the presentation, students are invited to join the thousands of people from all walks of life to be photographed holding/playing the guitar.

30-minute address is available on its own, in conjunction with collaborative songwriting, story or interdisciplinary workshop projects, and or includes an opportunity for students/teachers to be photographed with the Voyageur individually or in groups.

Keynote presentation
  • 500 +
  • 35 minutes
  • $800
  • Keynote plus photo opportunity
  • Full day
  • $1,400
  • Curriculum link: Social studies, Canadian History, Media Studies.
 Jowi's book Six String Nation: 64 pieces, 6 strings, 1 Canada, 1 Guitar is available from Douglas & McIntyre.