CiTR -- Arts Report

...Myriam Steinberg, Farhaven and Fuyubi Nakamura...So many interviews in this episode! We started off with Serra's interview with Myriam Steinberg about her graphic novel "Catalogue Baby: A Memoir of (In)fertility" which is about Myriam's journey trying to have her rainbow babies! You can buy the book at cataloguebabynovel.com We continued the show with Eva's interview with Farhaven who is a local band from Vancouver and they have a new album called Matchstick. We also played their song Hypothetical Girl before the interview so that should give you an idea of how cool their music is! Afterwards, we had a shout-out to Pi Theatre. They have 2 productions coming up in February and March and you should check them out at pitheatre.com! We finished off today's show with Phoebe's interview with Fuyubi Nakamura who is the curator of MOA's new exhibition "A Future for Memory", this interview/segment is structured differently than the others so make sure to listen to it!

Timestamps:
Interview with Myriam Steinberg 5:59
Interview with Farhaven 21:18
Shout-out 43:20
Interview with Fuyubi Nakamura 45:59

Today's show is our Fundrive episode! Fundrive is the one week every year we ask for your donations so that we can keep CiTR local and be able to provide a platform for alternative and independent voices! If you can, please donate at citr.ca/donate , no donation is too small! Also, we're having silent auctions so check them out on CiTR's instagram account!
Today's show began with a shout-out to a new exhibition at MOA, "A Future for Memory". We continued with Silvana's review of "I Swallowed a Moon Made of Iron". Afterwards, Serra had her interview with Jim Smith, the artistic and executive director of DanceHouse about Digidance. We finished off the show with Niko's review of "Mansfield Park".

Timestamps:
Shout-out to A Future for Memory 4:14
Review of I Swallowed a Moon Made of Iron 6:34
Interview with Jim Smith 20:26
Review of Mansfield Park 40:50

This week's show was filled with music! We started off with our shout-outs to Inter- Multi- Trans- Call for Video Submissions and Arts Club Theatre Company's audio productions. The audio productions will be releasing periodically until April so check them out! We then continued the show with Silvana's review of Rumba Calzada, presented by the Shadbolt Centre, Silvana said she was dancing while watching it so you might want to hear this one! After an ad and psa break we were back with a song from Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata which is written by Veda Hille, Bill Richardson, and Amiel Gladstone and Serra was lucky enough to talk to Veda Hille about it. After the interview, we were back with more songs from the Craigslist Cantata! If you like these songs, you might want to hear the rest, you can buy the album Do You Want What I Have Got? Songs from A Craigslist Cantata at vedahille.com or at bandcamp! Also keep an eye out next week for a review :)

Timestamps:
Shout-outs 2:19
Review of Rumba Calzada 10:28
300 Stuffed Penguins 20:51
Interview with Veda Hille 25:54
Noodles 49:19
Bus Boyfriend 52:33

Today's episode started with an interview Eva did with Amy Kazymerchyk who is the curator of the Western Front's exhibition "Thought, Outside". Besides the exhibition, they also talked about podcasts Amy has been on so give them a listen after ours! After this interview, Silvana did her review of Polygon Gallery's "Alternative Gazes". We continued with another review, Serra talked about "She Sells Sea Shells" that's being put on by the United Players of Vancouver, watch at unitedplayers.com until February 14th! Lastly Serra talked a little bit about West Coast Chamber Music's latest concert "Trio of Trios". They were kind enough to let us play two of the pieces played at the concert, Wolf Moon and Thunder Moon by the Canadian composer Heather Schmidt. They are planning on having more concerts so keep an eye out at westcoastchambermusic.com

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/western-front-archive/podcast-1-laiwan-and-melinda-molineaux-in-conversation-with-amy-kazymerchyk
https://soundcloud.com/western-front-archive/podcast-2-craig-berggold-and-susan-stewart-in-conversation-with-amy-kazymerchyk
https://unitedplayers.com/watch-online/
https://westcoastchambermusic.com/programs-2020-2021/

Timestamps:
Interview with Amy Kazymerchyk 2:22
Review of Alternative Gazes 20:10
Review of She Sells Sea Shells 34:55
Review of Trio of Trios 43:33
Wolf Moon 47:37
Thunder Moon 53:28

We started off today's show with an interview with Sarah Rodgers who is the director of "She Sells Sea Shells", a play being put on by the United Players of Vancouver. All performances are available to watch online between January 22nd and February 14th! Buy tickets online at unitedplayers.com We continued with a couple of shout-outs: Shout out to Trio of Trios, The Polygon's Curator Talk, STRIDE Burnaby Arts Festival and Vancouver Opera's podcat "Offstage". To finish off the show, we had another interview! We spoke with Dr. Amy Parent about her project (RNL) that aims to revitalize Nisga'a language. You can get more information and contribute at amyparent.ca if you would like to!

Timestapms:
Interview with Sarah Rodgers 3:28
Shout-outs 28:46
Interview with Amy Parent 36:27

Happy 2021 and welcome back! On the first show of 2021 we had 2 interviews and a review. We started off today's show with Niko's review of Amahl and the Night Visitors that's produced by Vancouver Opera. Afterwards Phoebe had her interview with Norman Yeung who is the playwright and performer of I Know I'm Supposed to Love You. We ended the show with Serra's interview with Suzie LeBlanc who recently started in her position as the new artistic and executive director of Early Music Vancouver. Fun fact: Suzie is the first female artistic and executive director at EMV!

Timestamps:
Review of Amahl and the Night Visitors 4:44
Interview with Norman Yeung 20:50
Interview with Suzie LeBlanc 42:45

Today's show is our last episode until 2021! We started off with two shout-outs: Shout-out to Toque Craft Fair which is fully online this year! Check it out at toquecraftfair.com until December 6th! Also shout-out to the Vancouver Turkish Film Festival that will be happening fully online from December 16th until the 21st this year! They have 4 feature films and 10 shorts as well as a Q&A with the makers of the features, check it out at vtff.ca ! Our first review of the day was Olivia's review of RoundUp. Second and third review came from Eva, she talked about a feature film called 18 to Party and the Pack Ad concert. After Eva, Serra did her 2 reviews, both of which coincidentally have something to do with "The Scottish Play". She talked about Studio 58's hilarious Theatre: The Play and the Arts Club Theatre Company's The Twelve Dates of Christmas. You can watch both of them online! Go watch them, what are you waiting for? And with that, we are saying goodbye to 2020 and hoping you will be with us in 2021 too!

Time Stamps:
Shout-outs 3:31
Review of RoundUp 9:48
Review of 18 to Party 18:02
Review of the Pack Ad Concert 23:30
Review of Theatre: The Play 43:18
Review of The Twelve Dates of Christmas 51:55

Today's show had 2 reviews and 2 interviews! (and some shout-outs) We started off with the first interview for the new podcast "Art Heals". Serra talked with musician and composer Elaine Jo who is hosting and interviewing different artists for Art Heals. After this interview we had Olivia's review of a short film called "Old Dog". This review was followed by the second interview of the day that Niko did with Paul Pearson about Lunatic Engine. The last portion of today's show was Serra's review and the shout-outs. The review was of Mary-Louise Albert: Solo Dances/Past into Present that is part of The Dance Centre's Global Dance Series. You can stream the dance show from December 3rd until the 17th, tickets are only 10 dollars! Our shout-outs to the Whistler Film Festival, they have over 89 films and it's all online! WFF will be held through the whole month of December! Second shout-out to Wajd-Songs of Separation. You can stream this film until December 9th and join their live Q&A on December 5th at 11 am. Our last shout-out goes to Studio 58's audio play showcase! Listen to short audio plays on Studio 58's website until December 11th!

Time Stamps:
Interview with Elaine Jo 7:56
Review of Old Dog 21:55
Interview with Paul Pearson 27:00
Review of Mary-Louise Albert: Solo Dances 45:05
Shout-outs 55:27

We started with some shout-outs; shout out to Why Art? Why Now?, the VIDF Open Call for Submissions (apply until November 22nd!) and The Third Annual Podcast Festival (festival passes are 25 dollars!). Right after the shout-outs Serra did her review of The Red Priest (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye) that is being put on by United Players of Vancouver at Jericho Arts Center until December 6th! After a quick break we were back with Serra's review of LUNGS by Duncan Macmillan that is produced by Mitch and Murray Productions at Studio 16 until the 22nd of November! After Serra, Silvana reviewed Ridge which you can watch on the Chan Centre's website! To finish off, we had Serra's interview with Chelsea Goodman about her fantasy video gamed themes pilot "Epic Quest" which you can watch on the Fantasy Network's website for free.

Time Stamps:
Shout-outs 1:00
Review of The Red Priest (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye) 6:50
Review of LUNGS by Duncan Macmillan 21:42
Review of Ridge 30:00
Interview with Chelsea Goodman 42:50

This show was an interview sandwich! We started and finished off with an interview. First off was Serra's interview with Shelby Wyminga and Kerri Norris about the audio play Little Women which is an adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's book, it's produced by Far From The Tree Productions which is actually the production company of Shelby and her sister Joelle! Its debut is on November 14, 2020 and the ew episodes are every Saturday until December 19, 2020. You can listen on all podcasting platforms! In the middle of our sandwich was two reviews! Our new correspondant Olivia did her review of the short film Come To Your Senses and Eva reviewed Dee Daniles' performance at The Shadbolt. We finished off our show with Serra's interview with Michael Scholar Jr. who is the director of LUNGS, produced by Mitch and Murray Productions. You can catch LUNGS between November 13th and 22nd 2020.

Time Stamps:
Interview with Shelby Wyminga and Kerri Norris 2.35
Review of Come To Your Senses 21.00
Review of Dee Daniels 28.32
Interview with Michael Scholar Jr. 41.48