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Who's buying a newspaper in 2024? Meet Kevin Klein, a politician, publisher, pretendian, and new owner of the Winnipeg Sun. Then, things get heated, as Jesse and Robert Jago discuss cultural boycotting at the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival. Are cultural boycotts a fair and effective form of protest? Time is almost up! Get 6 months of exclusive supporter benefits for just $2/month. Go to canadaland.com/join to become a supporter today. Host: Jesse BrownCredits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)Guest: Robert Jago Further reading: Would-be Manitoba newspaper owner not ruling out run for opposition party leadership - The Globe and MailKevin Klein says he's on a personal journey about his Métis identity - APTNMy error in judgement | Kevin Klein Pretendians [podcast]John Ivison: Eco-activist Liberal ministers could ruin a $300M lifeline for a struggling First Nation Jury hears 2021 Chicken Land shooting was by three men linked to ISIS | Toronto Sun Vancouver's PuSh Festival makes ‘difficult decision' to cancel Israel-set play The Runner to keep Palestinian artist in line-up - The Globe and Mail Transcript: Ezra Klein on Gaza, A.I. and the 2024 Elections - The New York Times Sponsors: Douglas, Article If you value this podcast, Support us! You'll get premium access to all our shows ad free, including early releases and bonus content. You'll also get our exclusive newsletter, discounts on merch at our store, tickets to our live and virtual events, and more than anything, you'll be a part of the solution to Canada's journalism crisis, you'll be keeping our work free and accessible to everybody. You can listen ad-free on Amazon Music—included with Prime. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Online petitions. Angry in-person meetings. An ultimatum. These are just a few of the events that lead to a Canadian play being pulled from Victoria's Belfry Theatre and Vancouver's PuSh Festival.The Globe's theatre critic, J. Kelly Nestruck, explains how this play – The Runner – wound up at the centre of a controversy about a war half a world away.Questions? Comments? Ideas? Email us at thedecibel@globeandmail.com

Consultations for a proposed floating bus stop in the north shore area of Vancouver took place last fall. Community reporter Amy Amantea has an update on the issue. She also tells you about a described performance of “Lorenzo” at the PuSh Festival in the lower mainland of Vancouver. From the January 17, 2024, episode.

On January 2, the Belfry Theatre in Victoria, B.C., announced it is cancelling a forthcoming production of The Runner, a one-man play—created by a non-Jewish theatre artist—that tells the story of an Orthodox Jewish volunteer who decides to help a young Palestinian woman instead of an Israeli soldier. The decision to cancel the production came after weeks of protests from anti-Zionists, including graffiti sprayed on the theatre's walls and a disrupted public meeting that was set up to facilitate a community dialogue about the play. While The Runner is still set to run as part of Vancouver's PuSh Festival (alongside a Palestinian work called Dear Laila), the Canadian play has disappeared from the archives of CBC's podcast about Canadian theatre, PlayME, opening up the question of whether art that tackles controversial subjects should be outright cancelled because of public outcry. In the opinion of the hosts of Culturally Jewish, The CJN's arts podcast, the answer is firmly "no". In our first episode of 2024, we take a deep dive into the play itself, the controversy surrounding its deliberately racist characters, the slippery slope of cancel culture and how this damages the relationship between Jewish arts workers and broader Canadian institutions. Credits Culturally Jewish is hosted by Ilana Zackon and David Sklar. Our producer is Michael Fraiman, and our theme music is by Sarah Segal-Lazar. We're a member of The CJN Podcast Network. To support The CJN and receive a charitable tax receipt, please consider a monthly donation by clicking here.

Show notes below:   Talking Shit With Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Production www.taracheyenne.com Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: https://www.facebook.com/taracheyenneperformance Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music www.marcstewartmusic.com    © 2023 Tara Cheyenne Performance   Subscribe/follow share through Podbean and Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts and Spotify.   Donate! To keep this podcast ad-free please go to:  https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/13386   Links: https://www.thefranktheatre.com/   https://www.thefranktheatre.com/current-productions/how-black-mothers-say-i-love-you   Tickets: https://thecultch.com/event/how-black-mothers-say-i-love-you/   Maps of Utopia (In Development):   https://www.thefranktheatre.com/current-productions/maps-of-utopia   About Fay Nass: Pronouns: She/He/They   Fay Nass is the recipient of Gina Wilkinson Award 2022, a community-engaged director, writer, dramaturg, innovator, producer and educator. They are the Artistic Director of the frank theatre company and the founder/Artistic Director of Aphotic Theatre.  Fay has over 17 years of experience in text-based and devised work deeply rooted in inter-cultural and collaborative approaches. Fay's work often examines questions of race, gender, sexuality, culture and language through an intersectional lens in order to shift meanings and de-construct paradigms rooted in our society. Fay's work celebrates liminality and trans-culturalism, and blurs the line between politics and intimate personal stories. Fay's work has been presented at PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, SummerWorks Festival, Queer Arts Festival, the CULTCH and Firehall Arts Centre. Her readings and experimental work have been presented at various conferences and artist-run galleries in Spain, Berlin and Paris. Their co-creation project Be-Longing was part of the 2021 New York international Film Festival, NICE International Film Festival and Madrid International Film Festival. Their most recent credits include: co-creating Be-Longing (the frank theatre), co-directing Trans Script Part I: The Women (the frank theatre and Zee Theatre at Firehall Arts Centre), directing She Mami Wata & the Pussy WitchHunt (the frank theatre at PuSh Festival 2020), co-directing Straight White Men (ITSAZOO productions at Gateway Theatre), and dramaturgy for Camera Obscura (Hungry Ghosts) (the frank theatre & QAF). Fay holds an MFA from Simon Fraser University. Currently, they are doing the Artistic Leadership Residency at the National Theatre School of Canada. As an artistic leader and a practitioner, Fay has deep and involved relationships—both creative and organizational—with a wide spectrum of artists across generations and stylistic practices. As an educator and facilitator, their philosophy and pedagogy are rooted in anti-racism and anti-oppression.  About Tara: Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, is an award winning creator, performer, choreographer, director, writer, and artistic director of Tara Cheyenne Performance, working across disciplines in film, dance, theatre, and experimental performance. She is renowned as a trailblazer in interdisciplinary performance and as a mighty performer "who defies categorization on any level". Along with her own creations Tara has collaborated with many theatre companies and artists including; Zee Zee Theatre, Bard on the Beach, ItsaZoo Theatre, The Arts Club, Boca De Lupo, Ruby Slippers, The Firehall Arts Centre, Vertigo Theatre (Calgary).  With a string of celebrated solo shows to her credit (including bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, I can't remember the word for I can't remember, Body Parts, Pants), multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary bending ensemble creations Tara's work is celebrated both nationally and internationally.  Tara is known for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. She is sought after for creating innovative movement for theatre and has performed her full length solos and ensemble works around the world (highlights: DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, High Performance Rodeo/Calgary etc.). Recent works include a collaboration with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, empty.swimming.pool, (Castiglioncello, Bassano, Victoria and Vancouver), ensemble creation, how to be,  which premiered at The Cultch, and her solo I can't remember the word for I can't remember, toured widely, and her newest solo Body Parts has been made into a stunning film which is currently touring virtually. Tara lives on the unceded Coast Salish territories with her partner composer Marc Stewart and their child.

Arts Report comes to you on a Thursday morning for a special fill in featuring all PuSH Festival content! Zoie and Izzy interviewed the people behind the show Lotano+Istante. They also speak with Tom Arthur Davis, the interim Director of Programming for PuSH. Plus Ruby lists the shows playing during the last few days of the festival!

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This week on The Scoop, Karim focuses on new developments with Patry’s Davis Tannery proposal, followed by a major federal funding announcement for The Kingston East Community Centre. Then Chris shares an interview with the associate producer of The Kick and Push Festival, James Hyett.    

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The Kick & Push Festival launches this week offering 3 weeks of socially-distanced performances across Kingston, ON. Artistic Producer Liam Karry discusses this year's festival and how their mission of innovation continues amidst the pandemic.

In this episode, the Accessibility Collective review two events hosted by the PuSh Festival. Also, we look at Bell Let's Talk campaign and chat with the Executive Director of Vancouver Fraser branch of Canadian Mental Health Association, Michael Anhorn on MH and more. All this and hear some great music, so enjoy!

Welcome back to the Arts Report. On today's show we talked a little about what the PuSh Festival is and what we will be covering. We then heard an interview with one of the actors of Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story, Ben Caplan. After some ads and PSAs we highlighted the importance of Fundrive and some cool stuff that you can get when you donate certain amounts! We then talked about MOA and its importance, but better yet about their new-ish/current exhibition Playing with Fire: Ceramics of the Extraordinary. Spoiler alert: it is extraordinary! We then did an overview of a few different shows happening this and next week including: BERLIN: The Last Cabaret, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the Reel Causes presents Dosed at SFU Woodward's, and the super fin SMASH Comedy Festival. We finished the show with a reminder that the 3rd Annual Siloam Theatre Festival has open calls for artists until March.

Festivaldags igen, PUSH fyller 10 år och det firas med konserter runt om i länet hela oktober. Podcastbekantingen AKB (Anna-Karin Berglund) gästar oss och stämmer av och peggar upp för kvarvarande konserter. Dessutom får vi fina musikaliska preview för konserter och kommande album. Programledare i vanlig ordning David Holm & Viktor Zeidner. Låtar från avsnittet: Slim Vic live at Jordens undergång - PUSH Festivalen 2019 Västra Berget Söderhamn - Edit Oneohtrix Point Never - Boring Angel DJ Metatron - Oh Ah Kollektiv Turmstrasse - Sorry I Am Late (The Blaze) Alison Knowles ‎– The California Sandals Akufen - Skidoos DJ Life - Peia AKB - Svallvåg Här finner du Spotifyplaylisten med tillgängliga låtar som sänds i programmet, listan fylls på med nya låtar efter varje program: goo.gl/CUnvtY

In this episode of Life of Kingston, Michael Assheton-Smith spotlights Wolfe Island Music Festival artists in this first of a 2 part segment. He chats with Emilie Steele of Emilie Steele and the Deal, who talks about her most recent EP as well as the importance of the festival. After this, he also chats with Continue Reading

In this episode, The Accessibility Collective share their thoughts on some 2019 PuSh Festival performances and also play a few awesome songs by musicians with disabilities!Hosts: Alison, Nicole B, Clovis, Lidia and Deepi

On today's jam packed episode of All Access Pass we have interviews with Monica Germino who is a performer of the concert “Muted” at this year's PuSh Festival and Andrew Gurza, who is the star of the short documentary, “Picture This." Hosts: Deepi, Alison, Nicole, Lidia

“Are you a man? Were you born in Manchester? Do you belong here?” What appear to be three closed questions, requiring a yes/no answer can in fact be unpacked and answered in surprising and even conflicting ways. Electronic musician Andrew James Brooks used recordings of answers to these questions to produce Yes Man, a choral work that points a lens on gender identities, home and belonging. The piece uses digital signal processes to remix and unpick traditional binary notions of gender, psycho-geographical recording techniques to explore and subvert feelings of belonging and choral arrangements constructed from the voices of LGBTQ, refugee, homeless, and the diverse population of Manchester. Yes Man attempts to give voice to those who may not be so visible and uses sound to question the listeners perspective on their own place in the city. Yes Man is part of Push Festival 2019. More information can be found here  http://bit.ly/2Jj5W5L #DigitalSound #Identity #Home #Belonging #Manchester #Push2019 #HOMEmcr

Today's All Access Pass goes to PuSh Festival!! Featuring interviews with Accessible PuSh Coordinator, Anika Vervecken, as well as performers, Tony Diamanti, Liz MacDougail and Dan Watson from PuSh's "This is the Point".Hosts: Nicole, Alison, Lidia, and Deepi

Vi peppar upp årets PUSH Festival och bjuder på ett potpurri av musik från årets artister. En hel del ambient, mekanisk techno, cello m.m. PUSH arrangeras på Gävle Teater mellan 17-18-19 oktober. www.pushfestival.se Gäst är Anna-Karin Berglund som producerar festivalen. Låtar från avsnittet: Aina Myrstener Cello - Oriens Perseid - Klättervägg Fjäder - Venus Singular ft. Unniz - Kemistry Graham Dunning - Old hexagons borderland Pjusk - Blaff FRKTL — Hverfa af himni heiðar stjörnur TMRW - Wunderbaum Här finner du Spotifyplaylisten med tillgängliga låtar som sänds i programmet, listan fylls på med nya låtar efter varje program. https://open.spotify.com/user/slimvic/playlist/7mWNSTXPvSuz1jvozLMc40?si=lbxV5kTjQNqLEFDh7QGEZg

In this episode we listen to part two of our look into the MPA Society's MAD City exhibit, get an exclusive view into accessibility side of Vancouver's PuSh Festival and talk about the human rights case filed against St. Johns Ambulance. The Motivation, Power and Achievement (MPA) Society is is a non-profit organization supporting recovery for people with mental illness with social, vocational, recreation, advocacy and housing programs. Founded in 1971, MPA society celebrates its history in their MAD City exhibit. In part two we listen the rest of our conversation with founding member Patty Gazzola and Professor Megan Davis from York University who is the lead researcher in the society's MAD City project. We speak to accessibility coordinator Anika Vervecken about the PuSh Festival's active efforts to make sure many of their performances are accessible for a variety of disabilities. Following this, contributors Addyson and Sarah review the festival's production King Arthur's Night. Hosted by: Sarah, Sophie, Addyson and Dezy from the CiTR's Access Collective

To open the show, actor-director Frank Zotter and playwright Peter Takach swing by to fill us in on this year's Brave New Play Rites. Courtesy of Christine Kim, we have an interview with Julia Ullrich on Align Entertainment's production of Legally Blonde, as well as an interview with Deborah Pearson, the creator of the PuSh Festival's history history history. We close the show with correspondents Ileana De Soza and Lua Presidio, discussing the Arts Club's production of Jitters, the film Brasilia, the StoryHive webseries Luchador, Studio 58's The Skin of Our Teeth, and UBC Opera's La Cenerentola.

All Access Pass airs on this special hour to give listeners an exclusive look at the 2018 PuSh Festival with an interview from Accessible PuSh Coordinator Anika Vervecken and our review of the opening night of the production King Arthur's Night. Hosted by: Deepi, Dezy, Addyson and Sarah

An interview triple-header gives us an interview with Lawrence Lam, Jerome Loo and Mary Galloway for Vancouver Short Film Festival, Marcus Youssef for PuSh Festival feature King Arthur's Night, and Aidan Wright for UBC Theatre's She Kills Monsters, followed by a discussion on the same show with Correspondents Ileana De Soza and Shivangi Sikri.

HOME's Senior Theatre Producer Kevin Jamison returns to host our second stage podcast with Push Festival guests Samuel Ward from YesYesNoNo, Sarah McDonald Hughes from The Manchester Project and Young Identity member Damani Dennisur. Push Festival runs from Fri 12 Jan - Sat 27 Jan. Find out more here http://bit.ly/2wZ4uMQ #TheatrePodcast #Theatre #Podcast #Manchester #Art #Push2018

We're joined by first-time correspondent Shivangi Sikri discuss the Musical Theatre Troupe's 24-Hour Musical, with various digressions into the filmography of John Hughes and the mental state of Vincent Van Gogh, plus a couple of shout-outs to UBC Theatre's She Kills Monsters and the upcoming PuSh Festival.Hosted by Jake Clark.

Avsnitt #32 - PUSH festival special live på Fico store (del 2) En podcast av och från Lamour Records inspelad i Gävle. Med primärt fokus på blandade moderna härliga sound och bra snack om elektronisk musik and beyond. Stort tack för att ni lyssnar. Med Viktor Zeidner & David Holm. Avsnitt 32 spelades in live i samband med PUSH festivalen inför publik på Fico store i Gävle. Gäster i detta avsnitt Johan Henriksson, Robin Forest samt David Lehnberg. Låtar från avsnittet: Rampa - Bimma (Original Mix) DJ Rashad - Let It Go LEHNBERG - Anfall Krush - House Arrest (The Beat Is The Law) Här finner du Spotifyplaylisten med tillgängliga låtar som sänds i programmet, listan fylls på med nya låtar efter varje program. https://open.spotify.com/user/slimvic/playlist/7mWNSTXPvSuz1jvozLMc40

Avsnitt #32 - PUSH festival special live på Fico store (del 1) En podcast av och från Lamour Records inspelad i Gävle. Med primärt fokus på blandade moderna härliga sound och bra snack om elektronisk musik and beyond. Stort tack för att ni lyssnar. Med Viktor Zeidner & David Holm. Avsnitt 32 spelades in live i samband med PUSH festivalen inför publik på Fico store i Gävle. Gäster i detta avsnitt Emma Sörensen/Catterfly, William Reidler, Philip Sterner, David Lindgren, Anna-Karin Berglund/AKB samt Simon Sandman. Låtar från avsnittet: Lisa & Kroffe - Las Vegastaden NDV - Spine Pressure (Catterfly Remix) Mystic Order - Artificial (Mix 1) Happy Mondays - Hallelujah (Club Mix) Kiasmos - Blurred Här finner du Spotifyplaylisten med tillgängliga låtar som sänds i programmet, listan fylls på med nya låtar efter varje program. https://open.spotify.com/user/slimvic/playlist/7mWNSTXPvSuz1jvozLMc40

All Access Pass sat down with Anika Vervecken. Vervecken is the Accessible Coordinator for Vancouver's PuSh Festival. Episode hosted by Connie and Dezy from the Access Collective.

Preview Shindig Semis Night 2. Push Festival, Radio Art and stuff.

Trigger Warning: Drugs (i.e. weed, heroin). We digress straight off the bat into all things pop culture which is quite unlike us but that is why our show today can be described as a mixed bag! After an in-depth review of the Arts Club's Mary Poppins the Musical, we do a shout-out for a returning production in Vancouver, STOMP! And follow-up with a review by one of our newest Arts Reporters who went to go see the accredited film, Old Stone (SPOILER ALERT). Taking a look back at this year's Fringe Festival, we get even more excited about what's ahead (pssst, it's PUSH Festival)! A mixed bag of fun for our listeners until we come back with fresh new material in 2017!Correction: 'Happy Birthday Guadeloupe' was a song that premiered back in 2011 but was only uploaded to YouTube many years later.

  Photo credit: Véro Boncompagni   Check out the trailer of their new NFB film Ninth Floor making its world premiere at TIFF 2015.   Synopsis of Film It started quietly when a group of Caribbean students, strangers in a cold new land, began to suspect their professor of racism. It ended in the most explosive student uprising Canada had ever known. Over four decades later, Ninth Floor reopens the file on the Sir George Williams Riot – a watershed moment in Canadian race relations and one of the most contested episodes in the nation’s history. It was the late 60s, change was in the air, and a restless new generation was claiming its place– but nobody at Sir George Williams University would foresee the chaos to come. On February 11, 1969, riot police stormed the occupied floors of the main building, making multiple arrests. As fire consumed the 9th floor computer centre, a torrent of debris rained onto counter-protesters chanting racist slogans – and scores of young lives were thrown into turmoil. Making a sophisticated and audacious foray into meta-documentary, writer and director Mina Shum meets the original protagonists in clandestine locations throughout Trinidad and Montreal, the wintry city where it all went down. And she listens. Can we hope to make peace with such a painful past? What lessons have we learned? What really happened on the 9th floor? In a cinematic gesture of redemption and reckoning, Shum attends as her subjects set the record straight – and lay their burden down. Cinematography by John Price evokes a taut sense of subterfuge and paranoia, while a spacious soundscape by Miguel Nunes and Brent Belke echoes with the lonely sound of the coldest wind in the world.   Mina Shum: Biography Born in Hong Kong and raised in Canada, Mina Shum is an independent filmmaker and artist. “I’m the child of the Praxis Screenwriting Workshop, Cineworks Independent Film Co-op, the Canadian Film Centre and working class immigrant parents,” she says. With Ninth Floor, a production of the National Film Board of Canada, Shum has written and directed her fourth feature film and first feature documentary. Her first feature Double Happiness (1994) – developed while she was resident director at the Canadian Film Centre – premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury Citation for Best Canadian Feature Film and the Toronto Metro Media Prize. It went on to win Best First Feature at the Berlin Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Torino Film Festival. Following its American premiere at Sundance, it was released theatrically in the U.S. by Fine Line/New Line Features. It was nominated for multiple Genie Awards, Canada’s top film honour, winning Best Actress for Sandra Oh, and Best Editing for Alison Grace. Shum’s second and third features – Drive, She Said (1997) and Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity (2002) – also premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity was subsequently invited to both Sundance and the Vancouver Film Festival, where it won a Special Citation for Best Screenplay (shared with co-writer Dennis Foon). It was released theatrically in Canada and the U.S. Shum’s short films include Shortchanged; Love In; Hunger; Thirsty; Me, Mom and Mona, which won a Special Jury Citation the 1993 Toronto Film Festival; Picture Perfect, nominated for Best Short Drama at the Yorkton Film Festival; and most recently I Saw Writer’s Guild Award. Her TV work ranges from Mob Princess, a TV movie produced for Brightlight Pictures/W Network, to episodic directing on About A Girl, Noah’s Arc, Exes and Oh’s, Bliss, The Shield Stories and Da Vinci’s Inquest. Shum’s interests extend beyond film and television. Her immersive video installation You Are What You Eat was held over at the Vancouver Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Centre A, and her cinematic theatre piece All, created in collaboration with the Standing Wave Music Ensemble, was presented at the 2011 Push Festival. She has hosted sold-out events for the experimental Pecha Kucha program, and her Internet hit Hip Hop Mom was featured in Calgary’s official Canada Day celebrations. In 2004 she was invited to deliver the inaugural UBC/Laurier Institute Multicultural Lecture, entitled New Day Rising: Journey of a Hyphenated Girl, and in 2011 she was the recipient of the Sondra Kelly Writer’s Guild of Canada Award. She is currently preparing her next feature, Meditation Park.   Selwyn Jacob: Biography Selwyn Jacob was born in Trinidad and came to Canada in 1968 with the dream of becoming a filmmaker. It was a dream that wouldn’t die: he became a teacher and eventually a school principal but eventually chose to leave the security of that career to educate a wider audience through film. He has been a producer with the National Film Board of Canada since 1997. His early work as an independent director includes We Remember Amber Valley, a documentary about the black community that existed near Lac La Biche in Alberta. Prior to joining the NFB, he directed two award-winning NFB releases – Carol’s Mirror, and The Road Taken, which won the Canada Award at the 1998 Gemini Awards. In 1997 he joined the NFB’s Pacific & Yukon Studio in Vancouver, and has gone on to produce close to 50 NFB films. Among his many credits are Crazywater, directed by the Inuvialuit filmmaker Dennis Allen; Hue: A Matter of Colour, a co-production with Sepia Films, directed by Vic Sarin; Mighty Jerome, written and directed by Charles Officer; and the digital interactive project Circa 1948, by Vancouver artist Stan Douglas. Released in 2010, Mighty Jerome addresses issues of race and nationalism while paying tribute to Harry Jerome, one of the most remarkable athletes in Canadian history. The film went on to win multiple honours, including a Leo Award for Best Feature Length Documentary and the 2012 Regional Emmy Award for Best Historical Documentary.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our first guest was Lesley Telford. She is the recent winner of the 2015 Mayor’s Arts Award for an emerging dance artist. Lesley has worked with such esteemed choreographers as Jiri Kylian, Paul Lightfoot and Sol Leon. She came to speak about her dance piece in the upcoming Dances For a Small Stage - The Valentine’s Edition running from February 11 to the 14th at the Anza Club. More information at http://www.anzaclub.org/. Our second guest was Jeremy Berkman, UBC Music Lecturer, who came to talk about Downing’s Phantom of the Opera. On February 20 at 8pm, the Vancouver Bach Choir will perform composer Andrew Downing’s composition at the Orpheum. More information at http://www.vancouverbachchoir.com/. Also featured on this episode is Ashley Park's interview with Push Festival performer Gabriel Dahmoo (http://pushfestival.ca). Finally, we end off the show with a review of the production Boom and Eurydice by our very own Arts Reporters, Jake Clark and Brent Holmes.

We talk to Neema Bickersteth about her PUSH Festival show, Centruy Song and Lori Triolo of Motherfucker with the Hat.

Photo credit: Véro BoncompagniListen in today as these filmmakers, Mina Shum and Selwyn Jacobs, talk about Canada’s hidden history, implicit and explicit racism, why we need to listen to others and why they’re confident we can overcome our fears.Check out the trailer of their new NFB film Ninth Floor making its world premiere at TIFF 2015.Synopsis of FilmIt started quietly when a group of Caribbean students, strangers in a cold new land, began to suspect their professor of racism. It ended in the most explosive student uprising Canada had ever known. Over four decades later, Ninth Floor reopens the file on the Sir George Williams Riot – a watershed moment in Canadian race relations and one of the most contested episodes in the nation’s history.It was the late 60s, change was in the air, and a restless new generation was claiming its place– but nobody at Sir George Williams University would foresee the chaos to come.On February 11, 1969, riot police stormed the occupied floors of the main building, making multiple arrests. As fire consumed the 9th floor computer centre, a torrent of debris rained onto counter-protesters chanting racist slogans – and scores of young lives were thrown into turmoil. Making a sophisticated and audacious foray into meta-documentary, writer and director Mina Shum meets the original protagonists in clandestine locations throughout Trinidad and Montreal, the wintry city where it all went down. And she listens. Can we hope to make peace with such a painful past? What lessons have we learned? What really happened on the 9th floor?In a cinematic gesture of redemption and reckoning, Shum attends as her subjects set the record straight – and lay their burden down. Cinematography by John Price evokes a taut sense of subterfuge and paranoia, while a spacious soundscape by Miguel Nunes and Brent Belke echoes with the lonely sound of the coldest wind in the world.Mina Shum: BiographyBorn in Hong Kong and raised in Canada, Mina Shum is an independent filmmaker and artist. “I’m the child of the Praxis Screenwriting Workshop, Cineworks Independent Film Co-op, the Canadian Film Centre and working class immigrant parents,” she says.With Ninth Floor, a production of the National Film Board of Canada, Shum has written and directed her fourth feature film and first feature documentary.Her first feature Double Happiness (1994) – developed while she was resident director at the Canadian Film Centre – premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury Citation for Best Canadian Feature Film and the Toronto Metro Media Prize. It went on to win Best First Feature at the Berlin Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Torino Film Festival. Following its American premiere at Sundance, it was released theatrically in the U.S. by Fine Line/New Line Features. It was nominated for multiple Genie Awards, Canada’s top film honour, winning Best Actress for Sandra Oh, and Best Editing for Alison Grace.Shum’s second and third features – Drive, She Said (1997) and Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity (2002) – also premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity was subsequently invited to both Sundance and the Vancouver Film Festival, where it won a Special Citation for Best Screenplay (shared with co-writer Dennis Foon). It was released theatrically in Canada and the U.S.Shum’s short films include Shortchanged; Love In; Hunger; Thirsty; Me, Mom and Mona, which won a Special Jury Citation the 1993 Toronto Film Festival; Picture Perfect, nominated for Best Short Drama at the Yorkton Film Festival; and most recently I Saw Writer’s Guild Award.Her TV work ranges from Mob Princess, a TV movie produced for Brightlight Pictures/W Network, to episodic directing on About A Girl, Noah’s Arc, Exes and Oh’s, Bliss, The Shield Stories and Da Vinci’s Inquest.Shum’s interests extend beyond film and television. Her immersive video installation You Are What You Eat was held over at the Vancouver Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Centre A, and her cinematic theatre piece All, created in collaboration with the Standing Wave Music Ensemble, was presented at the 2011 Push Festival. She has hosted sold-out events for the experimental Pecha Kucha program, and her Internet hit Hip Hop Mom was featured in Calgary’s official Canada Day celebrations.In 2004 she was invited to deliver the inaugural UBC/Laurier Institute Multicultural Lecture, entitled New Day Rising: Journey of a Hyphenated Girl, and in 2011 she was the recipient of the Sondra Kelly Writer’s Guild of Canada Award.She is currently preparing her next feature, Meditation Park.Selwyn Jacob: BiographySelwyn Jacob was born in Trinidad and came to Canada in 1968 with the dream of becoming a filmmaker. It was a dream that wouldn’t die: he became a teacher and eventually a school principal but eventually chose to leave the security of that career to educate a wider audience through film. He has been a producer with the National Film Board of Canada since 1997.His early work as an independent director includes We Remember Amber Valley, a documentary about the black community that existed near Lac La Biche in Alberta. Prior to joining the NFB, he directed two award-winning NFB releases – Carol’s Mirror, and The Road Taken, which won the Canada Award at the 1998 Gemini Awards.In 1997 he joined the NFB’s Pacific & Yukon Studio in Vancouver, and has gone on to produce close to 50 NFB films. Among his many credits are Crazywater, directed by the Inuvialuit filmmaker Dennis Allen; Hue: A Matter of Colour, a co-production with Sepia Films, directed by Vic Sarin; Mighty Jerome, written and directed by Charles Officer; and the digital interactive project Circa 1948, by Vancouver artist Stan Douglas.Released in 2010, Mighty Jerome addresses issues of race and nationalism while paying tribute to Harry Jerome, one of the most remarkable athletes in Canadian history. The film went on to win multiple honours, including a Leo Award for Best Feature Length Documentary and the 2012 Regional Emmy Award for Best Historical Documentary. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Do you remember the Elevator Man at S&R? Have you had a memorable breakfast at Morrison’s? Found the perfect record at Brian’s Record Option? Remember when Chez Piggy came to town? Come take A Walk Down Main St. in Kingston Ontario with The Tale of a Town. This summer we visited Kingston Ontario as part of the inaugural Kick and Push Festival to gather main street stories and create a performance installation. www.kickandpushfestival.com www.thetaleofatown.com

2nd show of 2015, on a clear cold West Coast evening. I had a lovely phone chat with Winnipeg-based songwriter Christine Fellows. (fun fact: she is an adjunct UBC professor and co-teaches a course in the Creative Writing Dept. with her partner John K. Samson) She'll be in town for the upcoming PuSH Festival. The rest of the two eclectic hours were filled with classic country, Balkan brass band, singer-songwriters young and old, and even an 11-minute suite about Laos. Whew! Enjoy, and hope you're warm and cozy..cheers, valfolkoasis@gmail.com

This lecture is presented in partnership with the PuSh Festival; January 18 - February 6, 2011. Volker Gerling’s flip-book cinema has quietly become legendary. Having walked some 3000 kilometres through Germany on foot, Gerling took photographs of people he met during his wanderings, creating portraits in the form of photographic flip-books. He met an old man who wanted to improve the world and almost starved in the process, a homeless woman who wished for nothing more than to see her children once again and a young woman who decided to change her life while on holiday. Gerling describes great, small, serious and quirky accidental encounters and, for a moment, brings his protagonists to life on the screen. They appear so life-like in fact, that the observer feels as if they have known the subject for years. On stage, Gerling flips through the photos underneath a video camera lens and projects the images onto a screen – recounting the stories of those who let themselves be photographed. These magical studies inspire gentle but profound reflection upon the transitory nature of the moment and the significance of interpersonal encounters. The piece, “Images move, when carried around/ Portraits in Motion”, has attracted a cult-following in Berlin and has been invited to participate at numerous international theatre festivals throughout Europe.