HYBLA MINUTE

Guest: Councillor Bongo, Whitney Ontario

Election Fever is back - and are you enthusiastic yet?  Bongo is!  A municipal councillor from Algonquin South(Whitney) is back to and this time to talk about what it takes to campaign in rural Ontario and what he's planning for the upcoming election. Hopefully after listening to the podcast, you'll run, you'll get involved, you'll vote. You'll get engaged. Bongo and I talk about a lot of things and the Municipal Election Quiz? He won it easily! Listen up for some inspiration, some laughs and some good vibes when we need them. 

LINKS

Bongo Facebook

Bongo's Blog

2022 Municipal Candidates' Guide (Ontario) 

Music: Holizna CC0, Waiting on a Train

NEW SEASON! NEW START! 

Guest: Tim Porter, Artist Director and Founder of Tweed and Company Theatre

Taking inspiration from the show business motto, "the show must go on!"  Hybla Minute is back! And this time it's all about the show as it concerns Bancroft's Village Playhouse. Under the new direction of Tweed and Company Theatre and its Artist Director, Tim Porter, the Village Playhouse is undergoing many good changes and we talk about them and also how the pandemic effected, not only Tweed and Company, but theatre in general. With the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel (we hope), theatre is a wonderful way to gather again and fall under the magic of everything theatrical. With an ambitious and exciting season ahead of them and the what the plans for the new theatre, Bancroft has gotten a lot sexier. 

And there is a quiz and a giveaway. We're excited to announce that the winner of the free ticket to see local hero opera soprano Hannah Crawford perform is JOEY SHULMAN!  So excited that Joey won, because he's mentioned in the podcast - big news!

And the Quiz. I can't believe I won! Tim did his best, but it was a gratifying win all the same. Here are the questions that Tim didn't get and I had to look up later. 

1) Dora Mavor Moore 

Mavor is her name before she married. It's not a middle name.

2) The oldest theatre in Canada according to Wikipedia: 

The Royal Alexandra Theatre, commonly known as the Royal Alex, is  a theatre in Toronto, Ontario, located near King and Simcoe Street.  Built in 1907, the 1,244-seat Royal Alex is the oldest continuously  operating legitimate theatre in North America. The Annapolis Basin in Nova Scotia served as the cradle for both French and English language theatre in Canada. Théâtre de Neptune, performed in 1606, was the first European theatre production in North America.

The tradition of English theatre in Canada also started at Annapolis Royal.  In Fort Anne, Nova Scotia, plays were produced for Prince of Wales' birthday. George Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer was produced on Saturday, 20 January 1733 to celebrate the birthday of Frederick, Prince of Wales. 

The music from today is a piano roll version of Scott Joplin's The Entertainer. Because? Thank you for listening to Hybla Minute and thank you to my guest Tim Porter. Great to be back!

ADDED BONUS -

Roy, Dolly The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Tim: Pippin

RATTLING THE CAGES: "So You Want to Have a Bylaw?"

GUEST: Councillor Bongo

MUSIC: Italian Dub Community

A roadside zoo has come to town, and it's as easy as pie if there is no bylaw to regulate it. Ontario is the only province without legislation around the ownership and care of exotic animals. In some municipalities in Ontario, owning a tiger is easier than having chickens. In fact, way easier. If there is no bylaw, you could keep a tiger, lion, zebra or any other exotic animal in your backyard with no regulations as to the height of the cage for example. You'd need a bylaw for that. So what is a bylaw and how do they happen?

Councillor Bongo, from the municipality of South Algonquin breaks down how bylaws come to be and how to understand what they are - Councillor Bongo makes municipal politics sound fun, and if not fun, at least accessible with clear and plain English. We break it down, chat it up and Councillor Bongo takes the Hybla Minute "Is This a Real Bylaw Quiz" and does a great job. 

With Hastings Highlands very own Tiger King of the North Drama unfolding before our eyes, knowing what a bylaw is and how it comes to be is helpful and useful information. This show is a great resource for people interested in municipal politics and how the system works.

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A Brazilian in New York (Ep. 38)

Guest: Glacuo Araujo

Music: Roy and the Blue Dot Sessions

LINKS

Glauco Araujo

Glauco on Instagram

Blue Dot Sessions

Blue Dot Sessions on Instagram

GOING BACK: What Home Means (Episode 37)

Music: Cullah

The  child of South Asian migrants, Kazim Ali was born in London, England,  lived as a child in the cities and small towns of Manitoba, and made a  life in the United States. As a queer, Muslim man passing through  disparate homes, he has never felt he belonged to a place. And yet, one  day, the celebrated poet and essayist finds himself thinking of the  boreal forests and lush waterways of Jenpeg. After 40 years away from  the place, Kazim returned to Jenpeg where he lived as a child while his  father worked on Manitoba Hydro’s Jenpeg Generating Station.

Kazim’s  return visit after those 40 some years away is documented in his book, Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water. The book is  beautiful – layered and insightful, part memoir, part history, part  journalism and at the heart of it is the history of the dam and a  history of broken promises to the Pimicikamak Cree of Cross Lake and the dam’s environmental toll on the land and the people.

LINKS

Kazim Ali's Wikipedia Page

His book, Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water.

ATPN's report on the Jenpeg Dam Generating Station and its impact on the Pimicikamak People

Map of Cross Lake, Manitoba and area

Cullah Music

Guests: Maya Septon and Owen Smith, SunRun Cafe & Bakery

Music: Chico Trullijio

After sitting empty for a year - the SunRun is back!

LINKS

SunRun Cafe & Bakery Facebook

SunRun Cafe & Bakery Instagram

Bancroft This Week Article about SunRun Cafe & Bakery

GUEST: Michael Erickson from Glad Day Bookshop and Glad Day Lit

MUSIC: Darren Hanlon

From up a Rickety Set of Stairs to the Accessible Glamour of Main Street, the history of Glad Day Bookshop is at the epicentre of queer history and plays an important role in shaping and creating an LGBTQ future. 

Michael Erickson is part owner of Glad Day Bookshop, North America's oldest surviving book store - that through necessity and through vision and hard work has become much more than a bookstore. A restaurant, lounge, cafe, dance space, event space - it has everything from activist planning meetings to drag queen brunch. Michael talks about the challenges Glad Day faces and how the pandemic has created new challenges but also an opportunity to take care of the community it cares for and supports. 

LINKS

Glad Day Bookshop Website

Glad Day Lit

Glad Day Bookshop Wikipedia Page

The Painting by William Blake that Inspired the Glad Day Logo

Darren Hanlon Website

...From 1997 and GAY to 2021 and QUEER!

Guests: Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan 

Music: God is Gay

Shawna and Lorri are Winnipeg-based performance artists whose work spans three plus decades. Their work is fuelled by the love of their community and their concern for social justice. In 1997, the art project they were working on, One Gay City, was banned! The mayor refused to proclaim Pride and homophobia was pushing back against the progress being made. Fast forward 23 years to 2021 and the posters that were too provocative in 1997 are up and proud and in the bus shelters they were originally meant to be exhibited in. Shawna and Lorri talk about their beloved Winnipeg and the climate in the 90s that played into that banning. They also talk about how their art and Winnipeg has changed, but one thing has remained clear throughout all this time. Winnipeg is one GAY city! Gay! Gay! Gay!

LINKS

Shawna Dempsey and Lorrie Millan Website

CBC News: Banned Art Project Depicting Winnipeg as a Queer Paradise Revived 23 Years Later about the 1997 project being banned and its reemerging in 2021.

Film: Lesbian National Parks and Services: A Force of Nature

Film: One Gay City: A History of LGBT Life in Winnipeg

Info on 2021 Art Project: One Queer City 2021 Art Project /School of Art / University of Manitoba