Nine Rails Arts podcast

In Episode 29 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, we gather around the virtual picnic table to discuss Vida, Muerte, Justicia / Life, Death, Justice, an exhibition of twenty-four Latin American and Latinx contemporary artists whose work responds to relevant themes in relation to social and racial justice. The exhibited artists offer local, national and international perspectives through multiple disciplines including painting, sculpture, photography, installation, performance, digital art and more. Vida, Muerte, Justicia / Life, Death, Justice is presented in partnership with Weber State University's Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery and is curated by Jorge Rojas and María del Mar González-González. We are joined by co-curators, Jorge Rojas and María del Mar González-González, as well as OCA executive director, Venessa Castagnoli, and the gallery director of WSU's Shaw Gallery, Lydia Gravis. Hosted by Todd Oberndorfer and produced by R. Brandon Long. Don't miss an episode of The Banyan Collective's Nine Rails Arts Podcast, as host and arts advocate, Todd Oberndorfer, explores what it means to be an adventurous creative. Hear the stories of Ogden's Nine Rails Creative District, recorded from the Banyan Collective studio, located in The Monarch Building in the heart of the creative district.

In Episode 28 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, we sit down at the Banyan Studio picnic table to discuss Social Undistance, an interdisciplinary exhibition and contemporary dance experience at Ogden Contemporary Arts Center that explores how shared isolation and limited physical connection impacts the human experience.   Featuring photographer Cam McLeod in collaboration with Tawna Halbert and the Ogden MoveMeant Collective, Social Undistance layers photography and videography with human movement in ways that speak to our increased reliance on technology as a means of personal connection.   We are joined by Cam McLeod; Kelly McLeod, Ogden MoveMeant Collective Director, Tawna Halbert; and OCA Executive Director, Venessa Castagnoli. Podcast produced by R. Brandon Long.   Don't miss an episode of The Banyan Collective's Nine Rails Arts Podcast, as hosts and arts advocates, Todd Oberndorfer, Cam McLeod, Jake McIntire, and Shane Osguthorpe explore what it means to be an adventurous creative.   Hear the stories of Ogden's new Nine Rails Creative District, recorded from the Banyan Collective studio, located in heart of the District and home to artisans, designers, and creatives, The Monarch Building.              

In Episode 27 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, we gather around the Banyan Studio picnic table to reflect on the beautiful new Ogden City Public Art murals created by fine artist and muralist Don Rimx. We are joined by Don Rimx, Kesia Ramos, Spear Torres, Lorie Buckley, Kelly McLeod, Dylan Totaro, and hosts Todd Oberndorfer, Cam McLeod, Jake McIntire, and Shane Osguthorpe. Produced by R. Brandon Long. Don't miss an episode of The Banyan Collective's Nine Rails Arts Podcast, as hosts and arts advocates, Todd Oberndorfer, Cam McLeod, Jake McIntire, and Shane Osguthorpe explore what it means to be an adventurous creative. Hear the stories of Ogden's new Nine Rails Creative District, recorded from the Banyan Collective studio, located in heart of the District and home to artisans, designers, and creatives, The Monarch Building.

In Episode 26 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, we had a great night on the patio of Ogden's Lighthouse Lounge chatting with local musicians (The Proper Way's) Scott Rogers and Shane Osguthorpe, and SLC photographer Natalie Haws (Beehive Photography), about the upcoming Season 2 of their popular music documentary series, Ogden City Limits.  Don't miss an episode of The Banyan Collective's Nine Rails Arts Podcast, as hosts and arts advocates, Todd Oberndorfer, Cam McLeod, Jake McIntire, and Shane Osguthorpe explore what it means to be an adventurous creative. Hear the stories of Ogden's new Nine Rails Creative District, recorded from the Banyan Collective studio, located in heart of the District and home to artisans, designers, and creatives, The Monarch Building.

In Episode 25 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, we’re joined by Venessa Castagnoli, Executive Director of Ogden Contemporary Arts. OCA creates and shares globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advanced arts programing. Ogden Contemporary Arts Center is an exhibition space and contemporary art center in the historic Monarch building at 455 25th Street in Ogden. Don't miss an episode of The Banyan Collective’s Nine Rails Arts Podcast, as host and arts advocate, Todd Oberndorfer, explores what it means to be an Adventurous Creative! Hear the stories of Ogden’s new Nine Rails Creative District, recorded from the Banyan Collective studio, located in the District’s epicenter and home of artisans, designers, and creatives, The Monarch Building.

In Episode 24 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, we’re joined by representatives from Sasaki, Union Creative Agency, IO Landarch and Ogden City, who make up the design team for the new Nine Rails Arts Plaza, an arts-based plaza in development on the SW corner of 25th St & Ogden Ave in Ogden, Utah. The plaza, scheduled to open October 2021, will be home to a variety of arts events with maximum flexibility – from intimate concerts and live performances to film screenings and art installations. Don't miss an episode of The Banyan Collective’s Nine Rails Arts Podcast, as host and Arts Advocate Todd Oberndorfer explores what it means to be an Adventurous Creative! Hear the stories of Ogden’s new Nine Rails Creative District, recorded from the Banyan Collective studio, located in the District’s epicenter and home of artisans, designers, and creatives, The Monarch Building.

In Episode 23 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, we sit down with the cast and crew of Good Company Theatre’s You Bet Your Black Ass, Broadway: Divas-Only Edition! "Back for a second version featuring some of the most talented Black women in Utah's musical theatre scene! With roots in Vaudeville performance, and the syncopated rhythms of Ragtime and Jazz, modern Musical Theatre owes a great deal to the innovations of Black folks. You Bet Your Black Ass, Broadway: Divas-Only Edition is a cheeky, vibrant, songful celebration of this history." - Good Company Theatre

In Episode 22 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, we connect with designer, entrepreneur, social catalyst, and Union Creative Founder, Jake McIntire, to discuss his stakeholder-centered design agency, successful collaboration, and the origins of the Nine Rails Creative District. Don't miss an episode of The Banyan Collective’s Nine Rails Arts Podcast, as hosts Todd Oberndorfer & R Brandon Long explore what it means to be an Adventurous Creative! Hear the stories of Ogden’s new Nine Rails Creative District, including those of the district’s epicenter & home to artisans, designers & creatives, The Monarch!

In Episode 21 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, The Banyan Collective sits down with SLUG Magazine Executive Editor and Craft Lake City Executive Director, Angela Brown, to discuss the First Annual Craft Lake City Holiday Market in Ogden at The Monarch. We are also joined by Ogden City Ex-Councilwoman and Utah Foster Care Representative, Amy Wicks. This episode is sponsored by Union Creative Agency.

Interview with artist Wade Kavanaugh with support from Scott Patria of 01 Arts. 

In Episode 19 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, Moscow Ballet Audition Director and Soloist, Mariia Yevdokymova, and Onstage Ogden’s Andrew Barrett Watson, join us in our new Monarch recording studio to talk about the upcoming Great Russian Nutcracker, coming to Weber State University this Thanksgiving. This episode is sponsored by Union Creative Agency. Don't miss an episode of The Banyan Collective’s Nine Rails Arts Podcast, as hosts Todd Oberndorfer & R Brandon Long explore what it means to be an Adventurous Creative! Hear the stories of Ogden’s new Nine Rails Creative District, including those of the district’s epicenter & home to artisans, designers & creatives, The Monarch!

Episode 18 is currently in the editing bay. Podcast is scheduled to post at noon on Thursday, Sept. 20th. Please keep this tab open and refresh. We shall return. In Episode 18 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, Weber Arts Council’s Diane Stern and Kathryn MacKay, along with Dramaturg, Cole Stern, and Playwright, Daniel Rattner, sit down with us at The Argo House to talk about their inaugural Wasatch Playwright’s Residency program. This episode sponsored by Union Creative Agency. Don't miss an episode of The Banyan Collective’s Nine Rails Arts Podcast, as hosts Todd Oberndorfer & R Brandon Long explore what it means to be an Adventurous Creative! Hear the stories of Ogden’s new Nine Rails Creative District, including those of the district’s epicenter & home to artisans, designers & creatives, The Monarch!

Episode 17 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast takes you behind the studio curtain with The Proper Way’s Shane Osguthorpe, Scott Rogers and Carrie Myers and The Banyan Collective’s Todd Oberndorfer and R Brandon Long. Join us for an uncensored session of back-and-forth questions, confessions and music in The Proper Way’s Old Post Office studio. Special cam-eo appearance by visual storyteller and photographer, Cam McLeod!

Episode 16 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast takes us to Mount Ogden for Utah Symphony’s Patriotic Celebration at Snowbasin Resort. Broadway superstar, Hugh Panaro, and Guest Conductor, Michael Krajewski, along with Snowbasin Communications & Events Specialist, Megan Collins, and Onstage OgdenOutreach & Events Manager, Andrew Barrett Watson, join us on location in our Van Sessions TanVan mobile studio. Don't miss an episode of The Banyan Collective’s Nine Rails Arts Podcast, as hosts Todd Oberndorfer & R Brandon Long explore what it means to be an Adventurous Creative! Hear the stories of Ogden’s new Nine Rails Creative District, including those of the district’s epicenter & home to artisans, designers & creatives, the Monarch building.

This episode includes an interview with Reba Nissen & Michelle Tanner of the 12th Annual Ogden Music Festival. We also an include an update from Visit Ogden’s Sara Toliver on this weekend’s Spike 150 event - including information on how to volunteer, and how to best participate in all the events. It’s Festival Season, and we’re covering all the action right here on the Nine Rails Arts Podcast.

This episode includes an interview with Russ Adams of Ogden UnCon, Ogden’s untamed and unconventional pop culture convention on June 7-9. Russ Adams is an award-winning Special Effects Artist familiar to worldwide audiences for his work on Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge, the highly-rated SyFy Channel reality series. Russ quickly because a fan favorite on the show thanks to his quick wit and willingness to help his fellow contestants.

In this episode we have ***BREAKING NEWS*** from Mikaela Shafer, Founder & Purveyor of the independent and well-established media arts community resource that is Indie Ogden. We also chat with and the Comrades involved with forming a new all ages music venue, The Co-Op.

This episode includes an interview with Thaine Fischer, Managing Member of Fischer Reagan Enterprises and Hard Hat Tour Guide of the Monarch Building in the center of the Nine Rails Arts District in Ogden, Utah

This episode includes an interview with Sara Toliver, CEO & President of Visit Ogden and Kim Bowsher, Director of Ogden Downtown Alliance. Sara & Kim are helping to lay the tracks for the 2019 Transcontinental Railroad Sesquicentennial Celebration. With the connection of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific, along with other rail lines that went north and south of Ogden in the following years, Ogden was designated in 1874 as the junction location of the two railroad companies, earning it the nickname “Junction City.” 150 year's later, Ogden is celebrating this iconic event that with a reenactment of two steam locomotives meeting at Promontory Summit and the Ogden Union Station. This week we leave you with a little something from our Van Sessions archives: Naomi Harlan with her song, "The Wild Wild West."

This Extract from Episode 3 features Sara Meess, a Project Coordinator with Ogden’s Business Development Department, who provides a behind the scenes history of how a Creative District is born. Leading the interview is Todd Oberndorfer Host of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, artist, and Outreach Manager & Advisor for the Weber State Department of Visual Art & Design. Please enjoy this Extract, do share with a friend, & help us out, leave us a 5 Star rating & Review on iTunes, or if you’re a YouTube fan, please hit that subscribe button as to never miss any future Banyan Collective podcasts.

In honor of Episode 10 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, our house band The Proper Way gifted us with a new opening ditty, which revealed an uncensored glimpse into 9R host Todd Oberndorfer’s childhood. This episode features a conversation with Lorie Buckley, Derek Williamson, Regina Esparza, and Joel Kitamura; representatives from Ogden City Arts, Culture & Events’ new Information Kiosk/Café, The Corner. Located on the corner of Historic 25th and Washington Blvd, The Corner is a small information hub for Arts, Events, Activities and Attractions in the Ogden/Weber area. Ambassadors of The Corner provide information to locals and visitors about area attractions, events, and venues. The Banyan Collective’s Nine Rails Arts Podcast explores what it means to be an Adventurous Creative in 2018. Through a partnership with Arts non-profit, Ogden First, we are also sharing the stories of Ogden’s new Nine Rails Creative District, including those of the district’s epicenter and future home to artisans, designers & creatives, the Monarch building.

Episode 9 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast takes us to Salt Lake City for Utah Arts Alliance’s second annual Illuminate Light Art & Technology Festival. Our Van Sessions mobile studio, #TanVan, opens its doors to Programming Director for Utah Arts Alliance, Michael Christensen; Community & Performing Arts Manager for Utah Arts & Museums, Jason Bowcutt; Illuminate light-based artist, Justina Bonaventura; SLC-based Electronic Science Fiction Band, Conquer Monster’s Daniel Romero & Joshua Faulkner; and Executive Director of Utah Arts Alliance, Derek Dyer. A special thanks to Ogden Symphony Ballet Association’s Andrew Watson for always making amazing connections. And as always, an audio high-five and flickering lighter app to the best house band in all of podcastland, The Proper Way.

EXTRACT: Conductor Randall Craig Fleischer In Episode 2, we had the chance to chat with Utah Symphony Guest Conductor, Randall Craig Fleischer, in our Van Sessions #TanVan mobile studio, at Snowbasin Resort for Ogden Symphony Ballet Association’s Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald concert under the stars.

Episode 8 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast features an interview with Collin Noortmann Chandler, Mark Seawell and Chris Miller, the artists behind Eccles Community Art Center’s November exhibition, “Relative Truth”. We also sat down with NEXT Ensemble’s Executive Director, Susan Campbell, and Program Host & Artistic Advisor, Dr. Carey Campbell, to talk about their all-ages holiday opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors.

This episode includes bilingual interviews with the help of interpreter Ogden City Diversity Affairs Officer, Viviana Felix. We spoke with Maria Salgado with WSU Ballet Folklorico and Leon Araujo, owner of local cafe Coffee Links to chat about the upcoming Mexican Holiday, Dia De Los Muertos. We also spoke with Irimelva Reyes, director of Tutulli Ballet Folklorico, specializing in presenting dances from various regions of Mexico. 

We interview the coordinator behind everything arts within Ogden City, Lorie Buckley. 

This episode includes an interview with James Argo of Industrial Art & Design and, Jake McEntire of Union Creative Agency. We spoke with James and Jake in what they refer to as the “Fish Bowl” room on the second level of the newly renovated Argo House. Argo House is described as a design colony located on 25th Street in the heart of Ogden’s Nine Rails Creative District. Tenants of the Argo House are varied in expertise and pursuits united through their passion for creativity. Philadelphia-based BalletX, a premier contemporary ballet company featuring world-class dancers toured through Ogden thanks to the Ogden Symphony Ballet Association, and we able to chat with Associate Artistic Director, Tara Keating, along with Dancer, Richard Villaverde.

In Ep. 5, we go on campus to talk Ink Dwell’s Monarch Butterfly Migrating Mural at Weber State University’s Kimball Visual Arts Building. We sat down with Ink Dwell studio co-founders, WSU Hurst Artist-in-Residence, Jane Kim, and adventure journalist, Thayer Walker, as well as Aubrey Eckhardt, one of three art student interns assisting with the mural. Scott Sprenger, the dean of the Telitha E. Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities, and Matthew Choberka, the Chair & Professor of Art at the Department of Visual Art & Design, joined us for the conversation as well. Ogden’s first Migrating Mural, discussed in Episode 4, is located at The Monarch building at 455 25th Street. Community members can view banner illustrations created by Kim at the Ogden Nature Center.

In Episode 4, we are joined by the founders of Ink Dwell studio, science illustrator and muralist Jane Kim and adventure journalist Thayer Walker, as well as painter assistants, Laura Macias, Ash Ferlito and Fiorella Ikeue, to discuss Ink Dwell’s Migrating Mural campaign and much, much more.

In Episode 3, we podcast from the heart of the Jefferson Avenue Historic District during the 125th Anniversary Celebration of the Eccles Art Center. Ogden City Business Development Project Coordinator, Sara Meess, joins us for a behind-the-scenes look into the making of a Creative District. We also party on the porch with Shane Osguthorpe and Scott Rogers of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast house band, The Proper Way, and discuss the satisfying art of balancing a day job with one's artistic pursuits.

The Banyan Collective’s Nine Rails Arts Podcast is a celebration of what it means to be an adventurous Creative in 2018. Through a partnership with O1 Arts, we will also celebrate The Monarch, the epicenter of the Nine Rails Creative District and future home to artisans, designers, and creatives of all types. Episode 2 features Good Company Theatre founder, Alicia Washington, as well as the cast and crew of Green Day’s rock opera, American Idiot. We also talk to Utah Symphony Guest Conductor, Randall Fleischer, in our Van Sessions #TanVan mobile studio, at Snowbasin Resort for Ogden Symphony Ballet Association’s Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald concert under the stars. We then join Thaine Fischer, Managing Partner of the Monarch, and share a teaser of his hard hat tour of the 57,000 square foot building on 25th and Ogden Ave.

Where Arts and Culture summits the airwaves, this is the Nine Rails Arts Podcast.  Hosts R. Brandon Long and Todd Oberndorfer, of The Banyan Collective - Arts & Adventure Podcasting Since 2010 - This episode includes an interview with Lorie Buckley, Arts Coordinator for Ogden, Utah, our home, and the home of an eclectic untamed history. We also crashed the debrief meeting for Painted Streets, the pilot project for the Nine Rails Creative District. Tune into all things new within the Creative District by subscribing to the Ogden First Email Newsletter. And finally, get acquainted with the Monarch Building, the arts nonprofit Ogden First, and we’ll properly introduce our Nine Rails Arts Podcast House Band, The Proper Way.  All of this on the first episode of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast where we explore creative placemaking from the Nine Rails Creative District.