{"id":42569,"date":"2016-12-09T17:38:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T21:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=42569"},"modified":"2016-12-16T09:49:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T13:49:24","slug":"radio-documentary-by-brock-prof-goes-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/12\/radio-documentary-by-brock-prof-goes-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio documentary by Brock prof goes national"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Brock Radio program\u00a0about francophone women in Niagara has been selected for national distribution, and will be heard next week on stations across Canada.<\/p>\n<p>CFBU 103.7 FM host Catherine Parayre \u2014 an associate professor in Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, as well as in Studies in Arts and Culture \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0produced the 28-minute segment for the national broadcast celebrating <em>Rendez-vous de la Francophonie<\/em>, an annual celebration of Canada&#8217;s membership in the Francophonie, which promotes the French language and its cultural expressions. The 2017 celebration takes place March 6-27 in communities across Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Parayre&#8217;s documentary has already aired on CFBU, and can be heard online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfbu.ca\/listen.php\">www.cfbu.ca\/listen.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The program\u00a0introduces listeners to five francophone women in Niagara whom Parayre interviewed last autumn:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lucie Huot speaks about the historic presence of francophones in Niagara.<\/li>\n<li>F\u00e9t\u00e9 Ngira-Batware Kimpiobi and Naf\u00e9e Faigou, both from the Association of Francophone Immigrant Women of Niagara (SOFIFRAN) speak about their immigration to Canada, what they have left in their native countries and what they like in Niagara.<\/li>\n<li>Rachel H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Amran, an artist from Montr\u00e9al, shares her efforts for a successful integration as a francophone artist.<\/li>\n<li>Clamen\u00e7 Prades relates her experiences since she first arrived from Austria.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For a list of national stations carrying the broadcast next week, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncra.ca\/rvf\">http:\/\/www.ncra.ca\/rvf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>La Francophonie is an international organization representing countries and regions where French is the first or customary language and\/or where a significant proportion of the population are Francophones and\/or where there is a notable affiliation with French culture. Canada is one of its 57 member states.\u00a0 The head of the organization is former Canadian Governor General, Micha\u00eblle Jean.<\/p>\n<p>The project is funded by La Fondation canadienne pour le dialogue des cultures, and in partnership with the NCRA through Canadian Heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Brock Radio documentary about francophone women in Niagara has been selected for national distribution, and will be heard next week on radio stations across Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,1],"tags":[4739,171,4740,4741],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42569"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42571,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42569\/revisions\/42571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}