Matt Damon on his new film Stillwater and writing again with Ben Affleck. Magician Penn Jillette on the misconceptions people have and real beauty of stage magic. Filmmaker Tracey Deer turns her memories of the 1990 Oka Crisis into the critically acclaimed film Beans.

The Halluci Nation duo Tim '2oolman' Hill and Bear Witness talk about changing the band's name from A Tribe Called Red and their new album One More Saturday Night. Karen Knox and Gwenlyn Cumyn talk about creating and starring in the web comedy series Slo Pitch, which is about a team of mostly queer women brought together on a beer-league softball team. Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo discusses the band's new orchestral pop album OK Human.

Oscar and Grammy-winning music producer Mark Ronson dives deep into his obsession with sound in the new docuseries Watch the Sound. Teri Hart and Kathleen Newman-Bremang join the Q Screen Panel to talk about two biopics: Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain and Aline, which is inspired by the life of Céline Dion. Daniel Monkman, also known as, Zoon talks about his Polaris Prize-nominated album Bleached Wavves. Actor LeVar Burton tells us why he wants people to listen to a story on his podcast LeVar Burton Reads.

Ted Lasso star Nick Mohammed explains why in an era of gritty storytelling and anti-heroes, true subversion is about making your audience smile. Music manager and Creation Records founder Alan McGee discusses his career in music and his new biopic, Creation Stories. Queer Eye's food and drink expert Antoni Porowski dishes on food, fame, and what it was like growing up in Montreal and West Virginia.

Comedian Cassie Cao, who's performed stand-up more than 300 times across Canada and written for Kim's Convenience, shares how it feels to finally get back to the stage at the Just For Laughs festival after a long, not-so-funny year. Drummer Bill Stevenson of Descendents talks about the band's punk rock origins and their new album, 9th & Walnut — a project that's taken 20 years to complete. Montreal singer-songwriter Patrick Watson introduces A Mermaid In Lisbon, the title track off his new EP of the same name. Emmy Award-winning actor Sonia Manzano talks about her decades-spanning role as Maria Rodriguez on Sesame Street, her all-time favourite muppet to work with and a new documentary, Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street.

Indie rocker Lucy Dacus discusses her highly anticipated third studio album, Home Video — a memoir of her coming-of-age in Richmond, Va., unrequited love, hard truths and church. Actor Alicia Vikander tells us why she wanted to be a part of The Green Knight, a medieval fantasy film based on the classic 14th century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Ballet dancer Siphesihle November details his journey, from his days performing hip-hop in South Africa to being a corps member of the National Ballet of Canada. Comedian Trevor Noah shares a playlist of songs that remind him of Soweto — a neighbourhood southwest of Johannesburg known for its vibrant street culture and its role in the struggle against apartheid.

Barenaked Ladies frontman Ed Robertson talks about the band's newly released 16th studio album, Detour de Force, and why he still worries when he makes a new record. On this week's screen panel, Teri Hart and John Semley discuss how late-night talk shows are adapting to the post-lockdown landscape, and share their reviews of HBO's much buzzed about series The White Lotus. Somali-born chef Hawa Hassan talks about her latest cookbook, In Bibi's Kitchen, which celebrates the food of regular grandmothers, each of whom live in or are from the eight African countries bordering the Indian Ocean.

On this week's Q This music panel, A. Harmony and Lisa Christiansen discuss two new documentaries, Summer of Soul and Woodstock 99, and the importance of the music festivals that inspired them. Gospel singer Mavis Staples explains why she feels she still has a lot of work to do when it comes to speaking out against bigotry in America. Musician Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave talks about guitars, his photo memoir and the state of political music today.

Actor Danny Trejo discusses his new memoir, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood, in which he opens up about surviving incarceration, finding sobriety, helping others and landing his first big film role. Television writer Joshua Safran, the co-creator of HBO Max's Gossip Girl reboot, talks about reviving the 2000s show for a new decade, and how the changing face of New York City and social media impacted his approach. Métis and Cree filmmaker Loretta Sarah Todd explains how she preserved Indigenous oral tradition in her film Monkey Beach — an adaptation of Eden Robinson's novel of the same name.

Musician Gary Kemp, a founding member of the '80s powerhouse group Spandau Ballet, talks about his first solo album in 25 years, which sees him reflect on his youth and how it connects to the person he is today. NASA robotics technologist Brendan Chamberlain-Simon (also known as Proud Father), discusses how he turned his career dread into a new album that tells the story of an astronaut experiencing the same dread in space. Writer, actor and director Michaela Coel shares how she turned personal trauma into art with her series I May Destroy You — a fictionalized story about the night she was sexually assaulted.