MARTIN CASTRO
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MARTIN CASTRO
Martin Castro lives and writes on unceded Coast Salish territory in British Columbia
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Two fresh projects for 2019
Two fresh projects for 2019

Some New Years’ Greetings, and updates on two projects coming out in the first months of 2019

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projectsMartin CastroDecember 31, 2018projects, film, poetry, writing, collaborating, New Washing Machine, Four PoemsComment
What is it that we ask of music?
What is it that we ask of music?

As I was writing, as I tried to distill the experience of listening to the record, I found myself listening. I mean really listening. I attempted to discern why one track or another drew my attention, or why it evoked a warm, welcome melancholy inside of me.

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Martin CastroSeptember 28, 2018music, feeling, human natureComment
Finding community by pressing ourselves together, a reflection on an independent book launch
Finding community by pressing ourselves together, a reflection on an independent book launch

Last week, on February 13, I tagged along to a reading hosted by Metatron. I’d never really been to these kinds of events in Vancouver, despite my presence in the writing community here in the Fraser Valley. What I found was striking.

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Martin CastroFebruary 21, 2018community, writing, zines, poetry, analysis Comment
Feature writing: Art in the Fraser Valley
Feature writing: Art in the Fraser Valley

What started as an inquiry into how students could go about displaying their work at the in-house gallery at UFV turned into a larger piece which detailed the journeys of student artists and the resources available to them.

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Martin CastroNovember 8, 2017visual art, UFV, long-form journalism, arts journalism, feature writing, Fraser Valley, The Cascade Comment
How I found myself as a writer through The Cascade
Martin CastroSeptember 11, 2017
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Martin CastroAugust 29, 2017Introduction, services, editing, writing, reviews, poetry, script, stories