The Lunchbox CHSR

Some voices are iconic, and it takes a brave — and talented — artist to step into them.

My guests are vocalist Karine and musician Nadia Francavilla (and part of Atlantic Sinfonia), to talk about the upcoming performance of PIAF, a tribute to the incredible vocalist Edith Piaf.

PIAF kicks off a tour across the province with a performance in Fredericton at Memorial Hall on October 7 at 7:30pm.

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Most artists work with visible arts, but a writer‘s work lives in the mind, and often explores things that can exist no where else.

My guest is Jenna James, a musician, writer and student, working on a creative thesis project about “fools” appearing in popular culture.

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Artists often have to develop their mental eyes to transform their vision into process; sometimes, it also means thinking backwards, and in reverse.

My guest is Hayle Monroe, a printmaker and painter who was engaged in a new process (for her) of “reductive linocut printmaking”, where as each layer of the print is created, it destroys the previous one.

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Just because something is traditional, doesn’t mean it can’t do something entirely new.

My guest is Jessie Kehew, who spent her time in residence working with a miniature loom and a spinning wheel, working on a project that combined traditional methods with randomness.

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Art is often the task of removing everything that isn’t supposed to be there, and then reveling in the rest.

My guest is Andrew Robinson, who joined me on a windy day to talk about his process of moving from digital to analog when creating his images — in this case, a project focusing on sea creatures having lunch.

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Artists seem to love challenging themselves to doing something different — even stepping inside someone else’s shoes.

My guests are Ralph Simpson (master basket-maker) and Liz Demerson (ceramicist), two of the artists in residence for this summer’s Fredericton Arts Alliance program. I met them at the Barracks, where they were busy working on new things — in particular, doing each other‘s form of art, although “plants” still shone through as a consistent element.

You can see work from many of the artists who participated in this years residency on October 1 at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre from 5pm-7pm for the opening of the Residency exhibit.

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Every culture loves to laugh, and every generation has an opinion.

My guests today include Kabilan Shanmugaraja (writer, director) and three performers for the upcoming Annual Tamil Comedy Show. They join me to talk about the combination of comedy, improv and musical accompaniment that will form a hilarious debate about which generation’s music is better.

The Tamil-language comedy show is taking place on October 3 at the Ted Daigle Auditorium at 3:30pm. Tickets can be purchased at the Zeffy event.

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Floods. Tsunamis. Storms. Erosion. There are a lot of reasons that we might be concerned.

My guest today is Margo Sheppard, the President of the Fredericton Community Climate Hub. She joins me to discuss where the Hub came from and what it wants to do, as well as talk about the topic of the upcoming Panel Discussion: Climate Anxiety.

The free Panel Discussion on Climate Anxiety is on Thursday, September 24 at 530pm, hosted at Conserver House, 180 St. John St. It will be followed by the Hub’s Annual General Meeting for those interested.

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AI went from a scifi concept and limited research projects to daily life incredibly fast, but to we have to take a moment to understand it better?

My guest today is Dr. Mahtab Sarvmaili, the director of the new Responsible AI Lab at UNB. She joins me to talk about the goals and mandate for this new lab, including some of the varied issues that fall under the its purview: everything from ethic uses, explainable generated output, and subtle changes to embedded training data.

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Doing plays outside creates a certain amount of challenge and opportunity in equal measure.

My guests today are all involved with the numerous outdoor shows for the Taking It To The Streets portion of the 2026 Notable Acts Theatre Festival. Len Falkenstein, festival artistic director and co-director of The Rural Gap and The Anchor; Brandon Hicks, playwright for The Rural Gap; Hannah Crothers, playwright of Roped In; Goesta Struve-Dencher, director of Prom Prep and Demons; and Mimi Martin, who is again serving as technical coordinator for all the outdoor shows.

The join me to discuss the particular goals they had in mind for this year’s plays, how they can fit together on a single stage, and how to embrace the opportunity.

The Notable Acts Theatre Festival runs from July 22 to August 1, and the Taking It To The Streets shows are running nightly at 7:30pm at the courtyard of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery from July 26 through July 29.

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