Podcast appearances and mentions of nancy payne

In our first "Understudy/Overstudy" discussion, we welcome Nancy Payne and Sarah Gise to the podcast!  Nancy understudied Sarah in Interrobang Theatre Project's Out of Love in 2019, and had to finish the run after Sarah broke her leg, literally.  We talk about that, and lots more!

The year 2019 marks fifty years since the Canadian government made its first, albeit limited, moves to decriminalize homosexual activity. LGBTQ2S+ history has only come to light relatively recently, but that doesn’t mean the history itself is new. Mark S. Bonham is a Toronto entrepreneur and philanthropist with a particular interest in this area. He recently spoke to Canada’s History features editor Nancy Payne. Their conversation took place while some construction was going on outside Massey College, where Bonham is a senior fellow. Payne started by asking him about how the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto came to be.

His star burned brightly but all too briefly, leaving behind both great art and a tragic story. Benjamin Chee Chee’s stylized Canada geese are instantly familiar to most Canadians, but the struggles the Ojibwa artist encountered throughout his life are less well known. Ernie Bies, who met Chee Chee more than forty years ago, spoke to Canada’s History features editor Nancy Payne about his friend.

In this episode, Nancy Payne, editor of Kayak: Canada’s history magazine for kids, speaks with Maureen Nevins, Music Archivist at Library and Archives Canada, about a song from a wildly popular musical comedy, and a beloved British tune performed by one of Canada’s most famous ensembles.

In this episode, Nancy Payne, editor of Kayak: Canada’s history magazine for kids, speaks with Joseph Trivers, Music Acquisitions Librarian, about a song that at one time served as Canada’s unofficial national anthem, and a song from a Norwegian play sung by a celebrated Canadian soprano.