RU125: WANDA CANTON on spoken word, rap, poetry, writing, music, mental health, social change

Wanda Canton is an artist, facilitator, consultant and researcher. She provides workshops, group courses and individual mentoring exploring how spoken word poetry, rap and creative writing can enhance mental health and social cohesion. She has worked across community projects, mental health services and forensic psychiatric hospitals. Wanda is particularly focused on providing creative sessions for marginalised communities and/or those working/living in challenging environments including statutory mental health and forensic services. https://www.wandacanton.co.uk Follow her at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wandacanton/ Wanda Canton is the host and producer of Three Ain't A Crowd podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/three-aint-a-crowd/id1525635893 Three Ain't A Crowd with Lady Unchained: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lady-unchained-poetry-prisons-racism/id1525635893?i=1000493059903 Three Ain't A Crowd with S. Alfonso Williams: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s-alfonso-williams-film-psychoanalysis-the-void/id1525635893?i=1000491413340 This episode is also available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/nfzm64mn4pQ Also mentioned in this episode: Emil Amos: https://pelagic-records.com/artist/emil-amos/ DJ Spooky: http://www.renderingunconscious.org/music/ru124-paul-d-miller-aka-dj-spooky-on-remix-technology-society-culture-politics/ Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists and other creatives & intellectuals about their process, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. http://www.renderingunconscious.org You can support the podcast at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Rendering Unconscious is also a book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019): https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 Vanessa Sinclair, PsyD is a psychoanalyst based in Stockholm. Dr. Sinclair authored Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: the Cut in Creation (Routledge, 2020), and recently edited the anthology Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019), as well as On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) with Dr. Manya Steinkoler. She organizes psychoanalytic events and conferences internationally and is a founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis. http://www.drvanessasinclair.net Intro and outro music and video for Rendering Unconscious podcast by Carl Abrahamsson: https://www.carlabrahamsson.com The track at the end of the episode is "Born To A Story" by Wanda Canton. Image of Wanda Canton: https://www.wandacanton.co.uk