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Interview: Nadia Francavilla, Norm Adams (Contemporary Music Festival: Echoes)

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My guests today are Nadia Francavilla and Norm Adams, two of the organizers and performers of the upcoming annual edition of the Contemporary Music Festival. The theme for 2024 for is “Echoes”, and they reflect on what the pieces chosen challenge them to do, how they highlight the composers working today, and the thrill of live performance.

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Interview: Samaqani Cocahq (Songs from Finding Wolastoq Voice)

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My guest today is Samaqani Cocahq, a storyteller who shares and expresses her Indigenous life through music, words and performance. She joins me to discuss an upcoming TNB presentation of Songs from Finding Wolastoq Voice, an upcoming performance alongside Sisters of the Drum and Dawson Sacobie.

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The Lunchbox Interview: Terry Graff (Avian Cyborgs)

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My guest today is Terry Graff, a mixed-media artist who combines whatever he can get a hold of into complex, multi-layered, challenging artwork. He joins me to talk about an exhibition of his work, filling one gallery with works from his Avian Cyborgs series and the other gallery with a combination of different series, including his Covid Terror Series. Terry joins me to talk about his long history of art-making from combining found objects and found ideas, and his constant inspiration.

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The Lunchbox Interview: Jared Carney (Demonic Brilliance Film Festival)

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My guest today is Jared Carney, founder of the Demonic Brilliance Film Festival. This local festival celebrates the creepy, the odd, the horror movies and shorts. Jared joins me to talk about the appeal of horror movies, the origin and shape of the festival, and some of the featured films coming to screams near you.

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Notable Acts 2024 part 2 (The Lunchbox Interview)

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My guests today are all participants in this year’s NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival: Len Falkenstein (festival organizer; director); Alex McAllister (playwright: “Gargoyles”, “Animate Objects”; director: “Predormital”; actor), Cassandra Bullett (actor: Soda Noir), Mimi Martin (actor: Soda Noir).

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Notable Acts 2024 (The Lunchbox Interview)

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My guests today are all participants in this year’s NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival: Len Falkenstein (festival organizer; director); Olivia Onalundala (High School Playwright: “Little Rock”); Merrit Johnson (director: “Little Rock”, “Burden of Proof”); and Madeline Savoie (playwright: “Splinter, Winter, Bloom”; director: “Animate Objects”).

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The Lunchbox Interview: A Sea of Gold and Burgundy

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My guests today are Aaron Berger, Nathanial Goold and CD Onofrio, who are collectively known as A Sea of Gold and Burgundy. They join me to talk about the origins of the band of three harmonic, lyric-writing friends, how their music is made and what its like to return to the group after a hiatus of over a decade.

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The Lunchbox Interview: “Romeo & Juliet” (Bard In The Barracks)

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My guests today are all involved in one of this year’s Bard in the Barracks Shakespearean productions: Len Falkenstein (Grand Poobah of Theatre In Fredericton), Mary Walker (“Juliet”) and Alex Fullerton (“Romeo”). They joined me to talk about staging such an iconic play, and the fun of bringing these characters just over the edge.

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