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Tar Sands Songbook on Tour
Touring the Trans Mountain Pipeline from November 20-30, 2023
Nov 12, 2023 • 
Tanya Kalmanovitch
Seven Ways to Tell the Truth About Oil
Breaking the oil and gas industry's hold on the arts and my personal history.
Apr 12, 2023 • 
Tanya Kalmanovitch
"Forging New Paths" in the Early Pandemic
Two 2020 essays by Ryan Muncy and me on how old lessons from music can still save us. How sometimes it's not enough to imagine: we have to instigate…
Mar 26, 2023 • 
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Skull Defect
Feb 7, 2021 • Tanya Kalmanovitch
Music and Money
Apr 4, 2021 • Tanya Kalmanovitch
Reprise: “How Quitting Music Made Me An Artist”
Feb 26, 2023 • Tanya Kalmanovitch
Music and Climate Emergency
Apr 25, 2021 • Tanya Kalmanovitch
In which I return with more questions than answers
Mar 29, 2021 • Tanya Kalmanovitch
The Ethical Musician
Jan 1, 2021 • Tanya Kalmanovitch
Nothing Compares 2 U
Remembering Ryan Muncy, the spring of 2020, and his lessons about how to survive a new normal.
Mar 19, 2023 • 
Tanya Kalmanovitch
On Teaching Entrepreneurship
When the word is both a wound and its medicine, we must remember that there is always an alternative.
Mar 12, 2023 • 
Tanya Kalmanovitch
The Homunculus
When I quit playing music and took up psychology, I began to see how my brain, my body, and my life were all three bent to the shape of music.
Mar 5, 2023 • 
Tanya Kalmanovitch
Reprise: “How Quitting Music Made Me An Artist”
An essay originally published by 21CM, July 2018.
Feb 26, 2023 • 
Tanya Kalmanovitch
Surgiversary Two
“Live in the layers, / not on the litter.”
Feb 17, 2023 • 
Tanya Kalmanovitch
Week 2.2 Preamble: The song has a job
About the past 19 days, and why it's not enough to let the music do the talking.
Mar 14, 2022 • 
Tanya Kalmanovitch
Week 2.1 Preamble: Magical Thinking About Music
If music makes the world a better place, then why are things so bad?
Feb 19, 2022 • 
Tanya Kalmanovitch
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Making music in a post-truth world.
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