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Through the past couple of years, I've had the pleaure of meeting some inspiring creative people that I almost instantly click with. Paloma Dawkins is a bright, positive bouncing ball of a human being. She agreed to speak with me about her current projects and interests.

So, as an artist do you need a particular space to focus in on your ideas and start working?

Yup! I work at a space with a bunch of comic book artists most of the time but right now I am lucky enough to have a second work space just for animation at the NFB. It’s a psychological thing, I find I am more effective. I like to have a separate space for everything, like my bedroom has no computer because it’s just for sleep and whatever else (meditation, magic, etc).

How did you land a space at the NFB?

I applied for a yearly competition at the NFB made for Canadian auteur animators called Hothouse. I get to make a film using all their knowledge and equipment. Its actually a rare sort of program, it feels as if the entire film board is rooting me on. I don't know any where else I could get that sort of thing.

Is the film finished?

Not yet! December 2nd they say, I just started actually. Its gonna be good, though

What is the premise of your project?

It’s an animated exploration of movement, geometry and patterns found in nature. But I come from a cartoon background so it’ll be more of a fast paced colourful explosion of mother nature’s primordial soup! But it has a hidden structure and meaning which I hope people will be able to decipher.

Tell me more about your animations/ illustrations in the past few years.

Well I’ve been doing comics, illustrations and printmaking a lot in the past. I love doing zines and even bought a Risograph printer which I just haven’t given enough attention to because I got distracted by animation. I got into contact with Epic Meal Time and was going to animate their podcasts, but that didn’t pan out for whatever reason. Indigestion maybe. Instead, I got a small gig working with Deadmau5 and Imogen heap on a music video. It was really fun. I didn’t get a chance to study animation in school, so I pretty much force myself to rely on intuition to get around any issues. While I’m at the NFB I want to experiment a little, maybe do a little 3D. You know, take advantage.

Have you done any collaboration or work with/for Montreal based artists, or is your focus outside of the city? Why did you choose to live here?

I find this is a sweet city for cartooning, and the collision of languages is sort of fun to be in the middle of. I think that’s why I chose here, cheap rent to boot. Since being here I’d fallen in love with the music scene and I like to do posters and album covers for my musician friends. Like you, I think I did two Archery Guild posters. But my main plug would be for the internet. Collective consciousness and stuff.

Check out more of Paloma's work at : www.palomadawkins.ca

Hosted & Produced by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi

Stories by: Saturn De Los Angeles, Catlin Spencer & Brendan Adams

University of Toronto students have organized a rally Friday to protest against a literature professor’s negative comments about female writers.

According to the CBC, the comments made by the professor, David Gilmour ran on Hazlitt Magazine, an online publication.

Hazlitt staff says his comments ran unedited as he said that he was not interested in teaching books by women. Gilmour further explained to CBC that he is not equipped to teach female authors.

Miriam Novic, who organized the rally and started a Facebook page in protest with others, wants people to know that Gilmour is not representative of the university. She also wants Victoria College to seriously reconsider his continued employment.

The anti-Gilmour rally has been given the name “Serious Heterosexual Guys for Serious Literary Scholarship”, inspired by other comments Gilmour made about only being interested in heterosexual male writers.

Welcome to Midnight Love Affair's top picks of what's good & juicy at this year's POP Montreal festival happening from September 25th to 29th.

This is meant to make you smile and maybe even help solve some of those questions about what certain bands sound like, or what should I do on the Thursday? or maybe you were wondering what is happening! Take a listen and see what comes to mind. I decided to pick my favourites of this year and go day-by-day through the festival and play you what I think would be special - so get ready for a real mix of different artists of different styles from different places.

Tune in to Midnight Love Affair every Sunday at 10 PM EST only on CJLO 1690 AM!

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

Miracle Fortress (DJ SET) @ Nouveau Palais

Empress Of + DIANA @ Sala Rossa

Boyhood @ Quai Des Brumes

SAVAS @ Église POP Little Burgundy

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

Symposium: All Night Long: A Roundtable Discussion and Workshop about Night and Cultural Neighbourhoods in Montreal

Symposium: Sink or Swim: DIY Until I Die

Film Pop: A Band Called Death @ Centre Phi

Art Pop: d'Eon / Cory Arcangel @ Centre Phi

Miracle Fortress + Ramzi @ Parc de la Petite-Italie

Noni Wo @ Sala Rossa

CAMP @ Casa Del Popolo

Andy Boay + TOPS + Doldrums (DJ), Arbutus x UNO Showcase @ Cabaret Playhouse

Cadence Weapon (DJ SET) @ Nouveau Palais

Colin Stetson + Tim Hecker @ Theatre Rialto

Renny Wilson @ Balattou

Dresden Dresses + Calvin Love @ Église POP Little Burgundy

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

Renny Wilson + Karneef @ Empire Exchange

Caves @ Barfly

Karneef @ Casa Del Popolo

Pat Jordache + Freelove Fenner @ Divan Orange

Mozart's Sister + The-Dream @ L'Olympia

Majical Cloudz + Nacomi @ Sala Rossa

Mathematique @ Kathy & Kimy

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

Symposium: Shuggie Otis in conversation with Jamie Thompson

Puces Pop: Record Fair @ Ukrainian Federation

CAMP + Heat @ Divan Orange

Pat Jordache @ Parc de la Petite-Italie

Dishwasher @ Studio Breakglass

Brave Radar + Homeshake + Mavo + Freelove Fenner + Chevalier Avant Garde, Fixture Records Showcase @ Brasserie Beaubien

Factor @ Il Motore

Tommy Kruise + Black Atlass @ Le Belmont

Dent May @ Cagibi

Femminielli @ CFC

Killer Mike @ Cabaret du Mile-End

Miracle Fortress @ Rodos en Haut

Shuggie Otis + Each Other @ Theatre Rialto

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

Symposium: When Do You Say No? Defining a Career (A Conversation about Artist Management)

Puces Pop: Record Fair @ Ukrainian Federation