The Scene of the Scene

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The Scene of the Scene episodes

September 18, 2019 26. Massive Attack: Mezzanine XX1.
We saw Massive Attack perform on their tour celebrating the 20th (or so)
anniversary of their most critically acclaimed album,
Mezzanine.
The band played all the songs from the album, as well as—well, but wait, that
would be spoiling it for people who are going to see the tour. So listen to
the episode to find out more.
Michael and
Chris recorded this conversation in a park
right after the show.
17 min
May 22, 2019 25. Shanawdithit.
We saw Shanawdithit ,
a new opera produced by Tapestry Opera and Opera
on the Avalon, about the woman who was long
considered the last Beothuk. She is also the main source of what little we
know about the Beothuk, an indiginous people of Newfoundland who were the
victims of ethnocide.
Michael and
Chris were excited to see the opera and talk
about it afterwards.
Show Notes.
Tapestry’s page on “The World of the
Beothuk”.
An overview of the
Beothuk and
their disappearance from Heritage Newfoundland.
Michael Crummey: River Thieves.
Shanawdithit wIll be performed in St. John’s on June
21st.
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27 min
May 13, 2019 24. Otello.
We saw Otello, the Verdi opera,
at the Canadian Opera Company. Did we enjoy this classic
tale of false friends and toxic masculinity?
Chris and
Michael shared their thoughts immediately
after.
13 min
May 05, 2019 23. Buddha in Africa.
We saw Buddha in Africa
(Nicole Schafer, 2019), a documentary that looks at an orphanage in Malawi,
run by Taiwanese Buddhists. The film focuses on one interesting young man,
Enock, who has grown up learning kung fu and wanting to be the next Jet Li.
But now that he is becoming an adult, will he head off with his classmates to
Taiwan for university, or stay to find his roots in Malawi?
Chris,
Lochin, and
Manish saw this fascinating
documentary as part of Hot Docs 2019.
24 min
April 30, 2019 22. Leftover Women.
We saw Leftover Women (Hilla
Medalia & Shosh Shlam, 2019), a documentary now playing at the Hot Docs
Festival. This movie follows several women in China
who are facing pressures—from family, from friends, from society, and from the
government—because now that they are in their late 20s and early 30s, they are
in danger of being considered “too old” to be married.
Chris,
Lochin, and
Kirsty explore their
reactions to the movie after the screening. How does it compare to the
pressures we’re more familiar with for young women to get married? How did it
get such intimate shots? Is anything getting lost in translation?
18 min
April 29, 2019 21. La Bohème.
We’ll be going to the Hot Docs festival soon, don’t worry, but first: More
opera! Puccini’s La Bohème
(performed by the Canadian Opera Company) is the classic
story of a young woman who dies amongst the artists of nineteenth-century
Paris. Did it make Michael weep? Was Chris all cynical about it? Only one way
to find out!
18 min
February 22, 2019 20. Così Fan Tutte.
Opera season continues! We saw Mozart’s Così Fan
Tutte, performed at the
Canadian Opera Company. Young lovers are tested with some
cruel, nonconsensual pedagogy, which means this counts as a fun, comic opera.
Chris and
Michael will let you know if the music and set
design makes up for the plot.
19 min
February 11, 2019 19. Elektra.
We saw the Canadian Opera Company’s performance of
Richard Strauss’s opera
Elektra! She had a
bad day.
But did Chris and
Michael have a good time? Listen to find out!
29 min
January 21, 2019 18. PodCon 2.
We went to PodCon 2! We saw some live podcasts, went
to some workshops on how to make podcasts, and met other podcast fans. And we
recorded a live episode of The Scene Of The Scene about PodCon at PodCon! We
have said the syllable “pod” too much.
Chris,
Michael, Alex,
and Sarah talked about how it was going.
Recorded at the LiveU Recording Studio at PodCon 2. (Thanks!)
(Small, meaningless correction: Sessions were an hour long, not 90 minutes.)
20 min
November 24, 2018 17. The Price of Everything.
We saw The Price of Everything
(Nathaniel Kahn, 2018), a documentary about the art world. It focuses on some
of the artists, collectors, gallerists, historians, and especially the people
at the auction houses who make the art world the money-crazed scene it is (or
is understood to be) today.
Afterwards Chris and
Michael had a chat about art and late capitalism
but mostly art.
Kahn’s older documentary is My
Architect. One of the less well
known artists we mention is Larry
Poons.
29 min