Chris Dyer's Creative Friends

In this 13th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his friend Barry Walsh (@realcity_veteran71)!  Walsh is a professional skateboarder and DJ based in Montréal.  
They talk about how they met, St Henri block parties, loft living, Barry's professional skateboarding career, skateboarding in Vancouver, the Richmond Skate Ranch, Marc Tison, the Big O, the Pipe Fiends book, saving the pipe, Cherry Bomb skateboards, Creation skateboards, Urban Ambush, the skateboard industry, '80's BMX culture, memorial graffiti pieces, EmbassyMTL, Dime, DJ'ing and collecting Vinyl and cassettes, reggae, inner-city Rastafarianism, relationships with herbs, boomboxes, painting ghetto blasters, and fatherhood.

In this 12th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his friend Auresia (@auresia)!  Auresia is a musician based in Montreal.  
They talk about how they met, treeplanting, living together in Montreal, how Auresia got into music, hitchhiking across Canada and discovering Montreal, making her first album, the Reggae River music festival in California and discovering Reggae music, recording in Jamaica, Reggae's positivity, different flavours of reggae, dark forces of the music industry, personal loss, Jah Goddess, recording in Cuba, escaping COVID, making a Ukrainian reggae album in Ukraine, making a career out of music, travelling in Morocco and further world explorations, international profiles, making and selling essential oils, teaching music, and 5G activism.

In this 11th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviewshis friend Kevin Ledo (@kevinledo)!  Ledo is a painter and muralist based in Montreal.  
They talk about Ledo's new studio in Mile End, his old studio at LivArt, how they met at En Masse, shared teachers at Dawson College, beauty in art, definitions of fine art, abstract art, projections for painting, irony in art and pop culture, living and working in Taiwan, working as a studio artist, switching to murals, brushes vs spray cans for murals, realism in mural art, Montreal's Mural Festival, travelling to Bhutan, Jordan and Lebanon, Miami's Art Basel, the Raw project (decorating schools), Indigenous portrayals in art, and huge murals of Leonard Cohen.

In this 10th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews the show's co-creator Ben Zion Jackson (http://rawzion.com)!  He is a filmmaker based in Montreal who has been Dyer's longtime video collaborator.  

In this 9th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his artist friend Leyla Ghobadi, aka Leyla is on Fire ((@leylaisonfire)!  She is a multimedia artist and DJ based in the Plateau hood of Montreal.  
They talk about her studio and the Plateau Mt Royal neighbourhood, horror movie props and Halloween, the band Alexisonfire, Leyla's Persian heritage, Miami Art Basel, her path of becoming an artist, working in marketing, interior design, real estate and modeling, as well as pricing art, working with epoxy, working with galleries, fraudulent art reprinters/bootleggers, teaching art, live painting at festivals, her infamous tryst (or lack thereof) with Kanye West, and world travel and art jams

In this 8th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews "En Masse" founder Jason Botkin!  Jason is a muralist and studio painter based in Montréal.  
They talk about his studio in Hochelaga, his journey from the USA to the Alberta College of Art and Design, his dreams of becoming a professional snowboarder, divorce and a new commitment to art, Montréal, living in Japan and studying ceramics, gallery art, the En Masse project Jason founded, their show at the Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal, the difficulty of enacting cultural activities during Covid, creating a new art marketplace, the role of galleries nowadays, finding ways to share wealth and resources in the community, street art and intramuralism, using paintbrushes for murals, the difficulty of finding masks for art creation, how to deal with less or no social media, the revival of street art and using it as a tool of emancipation, dealing with depression and an autoimmune disorder, psychedelics and other plant medicine, DMT visions, meditation, Jason's religious path from Christianity to Buddhism, Yogic studies, Scientology and beyond, and their personal perspectives on 2020.

In this 7th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his artist friend Adam Millward!  Adam is a painter based on the south shore of Montréal.  

In this 6th episode of the Chris Dyer's Creative Friends Podcast we get to meet Sake, who has been most prolific graffiti artist in Montréal for the last 26 years.  
They talk about graffiti, the meaning of Sake, Instagram, climbing, being chased, Kings and Queens, murals and drawings, Sake products, stealing from stores, eating healthy organic food, cilantro and garlic pills, toxic spray paint, and then go on a deep dive into Sake's political perspectives of our current world; wrapping it all up a little discussion on getting back to nature and doing art.

In this 5th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his artist friend Sloast!  Sloast is a studio and street artist based in Montréal.  
They talk about Satellite Studios on St Laurent Blvd, art jams, the Montréal street art community, what Sloast means and the importance of artist names, they address gender questions, pronouns, queer identify and gender expressions in art.  They talk about the mission of art, studying art history at McGill and NYU, activist professors, the Silence = Death movement, politics vs healing in art, defending freedom of speech, street art around the world, travelling to Colombia, Brazil and Armenia, the Armenian war situation, obsidian crystals,  and how Covid has affected her art.

In this 4th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his artist friend Adida Fallen Angel! Adi is a skateboarding visual artist and multimedia creator who has travelled the whole world from his original home in Israel and is now starting a family in Montréal.    
In this wide-ranging conversation they talk about his identify, spiritual living and angels, music, traveling in Europe, Israel, California, New York, the Laurentian mountains and Montreal, working as a VJ, singing in the band SpoonLicker, getting off drugs, winter in Canada, living as an Israeli, being evalutated by the Israeli Army, comparing insanity and disability, computer skills, Tel Aviv life, the Israeli situation, working at a skate shop in Israel, living in San Diego, California, living in Paris without knowing French,  living in Berlin, Love Parade and street art, studying art in Rotterdam, Flash website design, Street Art in galleries, living in NYC, Montreal, Struggling as an illegal artist, the music industry in Quebec, Adida's Wheat Paste project, The Fresh Paint Gallery, the Under Pressure and Mural Festivals, the theme of Love, spray paint and mural art, Winter and other impediments (COVID), adaptation and evolution, the drive to create, letting go and the impermanence of street art and impending fatherhood.