Artslink

On Artslink this month, Misha Maseka is a filmmaker based in Calgary. She will have a short film called Not That Deep as part of the Calgary International Film Festival, Sept 22 to Oct 2.

After that will be an interview with the new artistic director of Vertigo Theatre Jack Grinhaus. He will be sharing what will be in the 2022/2023 season for mystery theatre.

To kick off the July episode, Nathan speaks with Executive Director Michele Gallant of the Calgary Fringe Festival.
Afterwards, Jeanne interviews one of the Fringe Fest Artists, Caroline Russell-King, about her performance 'Absinth Bourbon Vodka & Saki'
Tickets for the show can be found here: https://tickets.calgaryfringe.ca/event/366:66/366:848/

calgaryfringe.ca
The Calgary Fringe Festival runs from July 29th to August 6th in Inglewood.

Then, it's a chat with Abigail Stosky-Rahman, program coordinator for Nature Alberta about their upcoming Family Nature Nights: Brilliant Birds at Weaselhead park on August 3rd.

naturealberta.ca/family-nature-night-brilliant-birds

Be sure to check out the resources Nature Alberta provides to become a citizen scientist!
https://naturealberta.ca/citizen-science/

Artslink is now on the 4th Monday of the month.
Tune in to the show, which features an interview with playwright Cheryl Foggo, about her play 'Heaven' @lunchboxtheatre #yycarts

Then, Nathan plays excerpts from an interview with CJSW's own Sideshow Sid.
Catch his show, Diggin' in the Crates, every Thursday morning from Midnight-2am!

https://cjsw.com/program/diggin-in-the-crates/

For the May episode of Artslink, Jeanne speaks with Daniela Vlaskalic about her play 'Dora Maar: The Wicked One'.
It's part of the spring edition of the High Performance Rodeo:

https://www.hprodeo.ca/2022/dora

Then, Nathan covers the Calgary Maker Faire (May 14 & 15 @ the BMO Centre), by speaking with organizer Dean White (of Calgary Rocketry) & Presenter Rachelle Levigne (who makes beautiful bookart)

https://calgary.makerfaire.com/

https://www.beautifulbookart.ca/

First, Jeanne speaks with Makram Ayache about their new play, 'The Green Line'.

It runs until April 9th at The Big Secret Theatre:

https://www.artscommons.ca/whats-on/the-green-line?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Spotlight-March2022&utm_content=version_A

Then Nathan talks about a little-known 1975 film 'The Noah', as well as the 1960's work of Gerry & Sylvia Anderson & their regular composer, Barry Gray.

The Noah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzOQWUwO9sU

Most of the works of Gerry & Sylvia Anderson (Joe 90, The secret Service, etc.) can be found on The Internet Archive!

https://archive.org/details/01ThunderbirdsTrappedInTheSky

For the March episode of Artslink, it's an interview with Mélisande [électrotrad], who make Electronic Dance Music from traditional Quebecois folk songs.

Nathan is joined by Mélisande & Alexandre to talk about (and play) his favourite songs & ask about what they mean, to find out how they made their new album, and to let everyone know about a new video project they have just filmed!

https://www.melisandemusic.com/en/

The cartoon video for 'Ti-Pétard Allard':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVu4O8ISx6A

The documentary Mélisande mentioned, about the making of their last album, 'Les myriades' :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ05ismSpUg

For the February episode of Artslink, Jeanne speaks with Paloma Negra, who is a Mexican musician now based in Calgary.
Speaking through her translator, Paloma describes Mariachi style & her experiences in Alberta.

The video to her song 'Caray' can be found on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IibdELe7BMs

Then, Nathan talks Columbo with 'The Lieutenant' of columbophile.com about just what the show is, and what makes a great episode of Columbo.

columbophile.com is a fantastic place to watch & learn about the show, so here are a couple favourite pages:

https://columbophile.com/2019/11/17/the-proof-that-mrs-columbo-really-exists/

https://columbophile.com/2019/04/28/six-times-columbo-loses-his-cool-and-what-it-tells-us/

Please enjoy this expanded version of the original 30-minute broadcast.

On the first Artslink of 2022, Jeanne interviews local musicians 'Subliminal Rabbit' about their new album 'Ride or Die'.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/17DdNRm4P45JNW03AgOeE4

Then Nathan speaks with author Bruce Zawalsky about his book, 'Canadian Wilderness Survival'.

https://boreal.net/books/

Tune in Monday at 11 am & 8 pm, when Jeanne interviews Rohit Chokhani, the new artistic director at Alberta Theatre Projects.

https://albertatheatreprojects.com/whats-on/in-wonderland/

Nathan talks about two exciting & obscure finds from The Internet Archive..

First up is 'All About The Thing' by Robert Meaken, which can be found at:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080626083304/http://outpost31.com/media/All_About_The_Thing.pdf

Then, it's 'Ten Thousand Ways To Die' (1978 version) by Alex Cox:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190320135151/http://www.alexcox.com/freestuff/10000_WAYS_TO_DIE.pdf

Clare Preuss talks to us on the phone about "Men Express Their Feelings," a play about hockey players. Downstage Theatre will be back at Motel Theatre at Calgary's Arts Commons. Running from Nov. 12-14, 2021, you can check out the Downstage website for more information.

http://www.downstage.ca/mxtf-listening-parties

Then, Nathan interviews Lily Cai of the Calgary Justice Film Festival (formerly known as the Marda Loop Justice Film Festival), which runs from Nov. 18-21, 2021.

The films mentioned in the interview can be found at the following links:
"Black Jesus"

https://justicefilmfestival.ca/2021-cj-film-festival/blog-post-title-four-8bwf6

"The Line"

https://justicefilmfestival.ca/2021-cj-film-festival/blog-post-title-four-8bwf6-y4tmy-bjnzb-g8lsj-x3a8j

"Kimmapiiyipitssini - The Meaning of Empathy"

https://justicefilmfestival.ca/2021-cj-film-festival/blog-post-title-four-8bwf6-y4tmy