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Today we welcome CERBA's old friend and its National Board member - Mr. Piotr Dutkiewicz, to the IceBreakers Podcast. Piotr is a Professor of Political Science and former Director of the Institute of European and Russian Studies at Carleton University. He is also an author of 16 books and a current Valdai Club member, a group of forty world-renowned experts on Russia.

Piotr is sharing stories about his family, living and studying in Russia, moving to Canada, "Golden time" in Canada-Russia relations, teaching at Carleton University and the areas of prospective cooperation between our countries.

Related Links to the Episode

Carleton University

Valdai Club

Canada Russia Business Council 2021

Timeline:

00:00 Intro

00:40 Introducing Piotr Dutkiewicz

1:42 Cultural shock

5:13 Trademark of Russian culture

6:44 Three letters to Oxford, Berkeley or Queens

9:05 "Golden times" of European and Russian Institute  at Carleton

11:23 Deal with Russia "As Is"

13:33 Global challenges - global responses

16:57 Teaching at Carleton University

21:20 CIDA projects

24:17 Cooperate, not collide

28:31 What is Valdai Club Foundation?

33:19 What made Piotr a leader?

34:10 What does the future hold for Piotr

35:14 Conclusion

Icebreakers is produced by CERBA, an independent non-profit organization that promotes bilateral trade and investment between Canada and Eurasia. www.cerbanet.org

This week I talk about what it means to be an aspiring artist and how old-school gatekeepers sometimes fool us into believing that there's only one form of professional validation. I share some exciting news and announce that there won't be an episode next week because I'm on vacation baby!

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Baker’s Keyboard Lounge and, more recently, the Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe in Grosse Pointe Farms are famed venues for jazz in Detroit. But another venue played a huge role in that scene for decades: the Blue Bird Inn.

Located at 5021 Tireman on the city’s west side, the Blue Bird Inn was a major nexus of Detroit’s swinging post-war, pre-Motown jazz scene, a black-owned business that hosted the likes of Charlie Parker, Donald Byrd, John Coltrane and Miles Davis and playing a role in developing local talent like Yusef Lateef as well.

It’s been closed and abandoned for years. But after being purchased recently by the Detroit Sound Conservancy, it’s poised to make a comeback.

On today’s episode, we speak with DSC founder and director Carleton Gholz all about the past, present and future of the Blue Bird Inn. The nonprofit plans to seek more grant funding to renovate the buiding, with the goal of eventually reopening it as a jazz club and housing its own headquarters there as well.

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Caitlin Salvino is a recent 2017 graduate from Carleton University completing a B.A. Combined Honours in Human Rights and Transnational Law, and is the National Chair of OurTurn. OurTurn is a student-led organization working with 28 student unions and groups across 8 provinces representing close to 400,000 students. It was initiated through the publication of the OurTurn National Action Plan - a bilingual, adaptable, action plan to end campus sexual violence through a holistic response.