Broad-WHAT?

Hello Broad-WHAT? fans, and thank you for joining us here for another amazing episode! This time we are traveling away from the lower mainland and off to the Big Apple itself with the lovely and incredibly (and I do mean incredibly) talented Blake Allen.

Blake is a totally new friend to me, and I was so incredibly excited to meet and speak to him. Blake is a composer and musician operating out of New York City, though he grew up in El Paso, Texas which he candidly refers to as “the Winnipeg of the south.” He’s been in the big city for over a decade now, and might I say, he’s killing it! Blake started music very early in childhood, learning piano from his mother and quickly realizing his passion extended beyond just a hobby, and was something that he could see himself pursuing. Since being in New York, Blake has done so much cool stuff - including working with the world famous Drag Queen Tina Burner. I don’t want to say too much more, because this is an absolutely amazing interview, and you should be listening to it, not reading a recap from me!

Check Blake out on his Instagram @blakeallenpresents or on his website www.blakeallen.org.

Hello Broad-WHAT? fam! Once again, I just want to say thank you all so much for your support and patience as we try to get ourselves back on a more consistent schedule. This week we are SO excited to bring you an interviee that has been a long time coming - Ben Pilger!

Ben is an amazingly talented and hard working artist, a self described “maker, actor, mover,” and the curator of APTPOP - a small art gallery here in Vancouver! We have known each other for many years now, starting all the way back in theatre school at Capilano University. Since then, I have followed Ben’s work and can only say that he is an incredible artist and someone that you should all do yourself a favour and check out. You can find him on Instagram @benpilger and his gallery @aptpop.

I hope that you all enjoy this week’s episode, and in case you haven’t noticed, we also have a special guest artist who has graciously agreed to step in while @emilienunez is on a much deserved vacation. Many thanks to @emmamarymckart for the amazing cartoon this week. Check her out on Instagram or at her website here: https://emmamarymckart.artstation.com/

See you next week!

Hello friends! Today is a very special episode for you that I made as a little Pride Month special. I did a bunch of research about queer people in various forms of media, and learned a lot of really interesting and exciting things about how far we've come, and how far we still have to go.

I hope you enjoy this, and happy Pride to all of you!

It’s finally here! After much ado, I am incredibly happy to present the long awaited interview with the one and only Emilie Nunez (aka my sista and the artist for this very podcast). Emilie is an incredibly talented artist, having ran a VERY successful Etsy shop for the past several years.

It was really fun to interview her, if a bit weird considering that I know everything about her already! That being said, she is so intelligent, kind, and loving in addition to her great talent. This one is unique, hilarious, insightful and very worth listening to in my humble opinion.

Thanks for your patience as we work to get out content more regularly. For now, please enjoy this week’s podcast with Emilie!

Hello, and welcome back to Broad-WHAT? Podcast! First of all, we would like to thank you all so much for your patience as we dealt with a particularly busy time.

We’re very excited to begin May with a special panel presentation featuring the lovely Sarah Mayfield, Ava Maria Safai, and Emily Matchette. These lovely folks are the writer, director, music director, composer, and producers of a brand new musical called “The Girl Next Door” which is premiering today at 2:00pm and running through to May 21st. Here is a link to their company website - Painted Fern Productions - where you can buy tickets for this awesome original show: https://www.paintedfernproductions.com/the-girl-next-door

Please stay tuned for another regular episode on May 13th featuring our amazing podcast artist - Emilie Nunez!

In the month of March, Broad-WHAT? is celebrating International Woman’s Day by dedicating our month's episodes to the amazing woman creating art and making waves in the arts and entertainment industry. Today is part 2 of a two part special celebrating Broad-WHAT?’s herstory, going back and revisiting powerful and inspirational stories from our some of our past alumni and their episodes. Of course we couldn’t feature every single guest, so let us know if you’d like to see more of these episodes in the future. Part 2 features segments of past episodes from Anna Kuman, Arthi Chandra, Cathy Wilmot, Cecilly Day, Eva Tavares, Jaycie Dotin, Katrina Teitz, and Shannon Hanbury. Here is part 2 of Broad-WHAT?’s herstory.

In the month of March, Broad-WHAT? is celebrating International Woman’s Day by dedicating our month's episodes to the amazing woman creating art and making waves in the arts and entertainment industry. Today is part 1 of a two part special celebrating Broad-WHAT?’s herstory, going back and revisiting powerful and inspirational stories from our some of our past alumni and their episodes. Of course we couldn’t feature every single guest, so let us know if you’d like to see more of these episodes in the future. Part 1 features segments of past episodes from Fairlith Harvey, Laura Fukumoto, Ali Watson, Arielle Ballance, Jennifer Lynch, Marissa Lyons & Lyndsey Britten. Here is part 1 of Broad-WHAT?’s herstory.

Hello once again friends! Welcome to the last episode of February 2022! I hope that you’ve enjoyed listening to these episodes half as much as I’ve enjoyed recording them.

This episode is really special and unique for our little podcast as we’re interviewing the lovely and amazing Trevor O’Rourke aka AutoHeartVan. Trevor is a local musician and high school teacher. Born in Winnipeg, Trevor grew up on Quadra Island, and came to Vancouver after graduating high school. He attended SFU upon arriving here, where he studied History and Latin Studies. Check out his music at: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2wwrL00A0joZiiQGhJWhVs

Thank you for following us through to the end of this month. We’re so incredibly excited to bring more to you in March.

Evie is originally from Perth, Western Australia. She has a professional background in running large electronic music events in Australia. She originally came to BC for Shambala, and felt the draw of the small town life. So after landing in Nelson she started working for the Kootenay Music Festival and the Tiny Lights Festival as well as doing the marketing for Arts Wells in Wells, BC. She wants to serve her community, and you can really feel that passion come through in our interview.

Thank you all so much for keeping up with us so far this year, and stay tuned for more amazing and exciting content coming at you for the rest of the year!

Hello Broad-WHAT? fans and welcome to our first regular episode back in 2022! It’s been a crazy beginning to the year already for everyone, so we’re especially glad to be back and providing you with more content and interviews from our ever growing and fascinating local arts scene.

This episode is featuring a new friend of mine, David Underhill. David is a theatre artist currently living in Vancouver after graduating from Studio 58 in 2019. Despite being a born Vancouverite, David spent his childhood in Victoria, where he caught the theatre bug so to speak. He has been involved in the art and theatre community since he was in grade school, and that passion is still burning strong today. You may have seen pictures of David floating around Instagram (@underhilarity) which are equally likely to be selfies, screen grabs from recent film and TV work, and pictures of him busking as a living statue.

Needless to say, this is an amazingly interesting episode, so as always, I hope you all enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed recording it.

See you next week for another episode!