Nedjo

Adventures in Technical Writing

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Throughout twenty years of contributing to open source software, writing has been a key focus and source of engagement

The Last Poem

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

An experimental scripted poem written for Technoculture, an online journal of technology in society. Press the button to begin.

Elemental

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

From Canadian Literature 251 Poetics and Extraction.

The Lido

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

They are both gone now, the timeless oldworld couple who used to sell expired food / in their perennial Broadway storefront open only on Saturdays

Elegy for David Britt

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

An elegy for my friend David Britt, written in the days after his opioid-related death.

The Processed Word

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dialogue with a machine, in four parts.

about

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m a grandparent, poet, technologist, sometime activist, and a settler living on Salt Spring Island, unceded territory of the Quw’utsun Tribes (Cowichan), Spune’luxutth (Penelakut), BOḰEĆEN (Paquachin), MÁLEXEȽ (Malahat), SȾÁUTW̱ (Tsawout), W̱JOȽEȽP (Tsartlip), and W̱SIḴEM (Tseycum) Nations. My pronouns are he/him/his. Arts I’ve always been active in the arts and often melded arts with activism and community engagement. A few highlights: Mounted a solo mock epic in verse, “The Trois-Rivieres Tales,” for the Victoria Fringe Festival, reprising it in Vancouver and on Salt Spring.

Pearl Pirie Interview, 2022

Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Part of a series of check-ins poet and publisher Pearl Pirie did with poets she’s collaborated with or published over the years, this wide ranging 2022 interview includes lots of details on Nedjo’s recent artistic work.

Guide for New ActivityPub Implementers

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

ActivityPub is a specification aimed at supporting free and open social media alternatives. When I first started working with ActivityPub, I found there was a lack of good introductory information about the specification and how to use it. To fill this need, I wrote a guide to help new implementers get up to speed with the ActivityPub specification and how to build projects with ActivityPub support.

For the Birds

Wed, 24 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Sponsored by Salt Spring Arts, we welcomed spring with this evening dedicated to the inspiration of birds, from Kwakiutl Raven Clan legend to performance poetry, from multi-part harmony to songbird calls.

Castle on a Hill

Sat, 30 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

An alternate history of Craigdarroch Castle in Victoria, BC.

Emily's Caravan

Sat, 30 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

A ballad for Emily Carr.

My Utopia Is DIY

Sat, 30 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

My friend Glenys Verhulst and I were doing the feature at a Victoria poetry and music venue and needed to submit bios. This song is a riff on her bio, which was full of DIY goodness.

Sleepwalking Nation

Sat, 30 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

O sleepwalking nation, arise in your ranks.

A tribute to Leonard Cohen

Sat, 22 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The spring after Leonard Cohen died I worked with Salt Spring Arts executive director Yael Wand to organize an evening of poetry and song celebrating his life.

Review in Gulf Islands Driftwood, 2016

Wed, 04 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Review in Gulf Islands Driftwood: Solo Trois-Rivières Tales Show Delivers Full Package. Humour, politics, and rhyme meet in Nedjo Rogers Show.

Remember Paul Phillips

Fri, 04 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Paul Phillips was a longtime community activist in the Fernwood neighbourhood of Victoria, BC.

A Country In Between

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Written for performance, the two pieces that make up the chapbook A Country In Between celebrate gender diversity in literature and history, with stories of the “master mistress” of Shakespeare’s passion and Joan of Arc, gender rebel.

Blackberries

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

In 2017, working closely with librarian Karen Hudson, I coordinated a project that produced a chapbook bringing together poetry from featured presenters and open mic poets from the Salt Spring Library Poetry Open Mic.

Breathe In the Difference

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

From the chapbook In Air/Air Out on the theme of air.

Broken Rhymes

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Communities in Resistance and the Art of Solidarity

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

In 2014 I was one of the organizers of a beautiful arts project honouring communities impacted by and resisting Canadian mining projects.

Community mapping

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Working with local artists, I did community engagement, cartography, and design for a set of neighbourhood maps in Victoria.

Drupal in the Age of Surveillance

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Based on interviews with key informants on privacy, security, and surveillance, this article explores the relationship between free software and personal digital rights.

error

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sorry, an error occurred with your contact submission.

Long Story Short

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The story of a longshoreman and a short order cook, one of a 100 winning microfiction entries for of 100 words each.

Renewal Scourge

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The different afterlives of Mohamed Bouazizi and Mark Duggan. First published in Poetry 24.

Saltfest!

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

In 2019 I organized and hosted this mini-festival of the performing arts on Salt Spring Island.

Testament

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

We are all Rufina Amaya / lone survivor of the massacre of December, 1981

thanks

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thank you for your submission.

The Trois-Rivières Tales

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

I premiered this solo mock epic in verse at the Victoria Fringe Festival in 2014 then reprised it in Vancouver and Salt Spring Island in 2017.

Will the Revolution Be Drupalized?

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Against the dominant capitalist models, free software suggests an economy and society where collaboration rather than competition is the core paradigm and where use value trumps profit maximization. But there’s trouble in paradise.

YourSeanceInVerse.com

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Where the dead speak in rhymes! Join in the seance and watch out for demons as a call centre employee channels first a character from Shakespeare’s sonnets and then the Greek goddess Persephone.