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Category Archives: The Lunchbox

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Special snack of news, music, happenings around town, topic-of-the-day, historical moment, interviews, and whatever is on our mind?

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Unpack your lunch and pack your mind! Join us Monday through Friday at noon for this hour-long round-up with a rotating cast!

Or feel like having Lunch for Dinner? Then check out the sometimes-podcast version of the show.

Notable Acts 2024 (The Lunchbox Interview)

Posted on 2024-07-22 by encaf1 Posted in The Lunchbox

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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Richard Hornsby: NB Summer Music Festival (The Lunchbox Interview)

Posted on 2024-07-19 by encaf1 Posted in The Lunchbox

My guest today was Richard Hornsby. He is (among many things) the Director of Music at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton and Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the New Brunswick Summer Music Festival.

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Connor Fox (The Lunchbox Interview)

Posted on 2024-07-17 by encaf1 Posted in The Lunchbox

My guest today is Connor Fox, a talented local guitarist who plays lead guitar with Fredericton legends The Hypochondriacs. He joins me in studio to talk about his first solo release, Music Room, and about his life growing up with a guitar in his hand.

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The Lunchbox Interview: Ysabelle Vautour & Cass Maz (Artists in Residence)

Posted on 2024-06-27 by encaf1 Posted in The Lunchbox

My guests today are Ysabelle Vautour and Cass Maz, two of the artists in residence in the Barracks Casemates this summer.

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The Lunchbox Interview: A Sea of Gold and Burgundy

Posted on 2024-06-06 by encaf1 Posted in The Lunchbox

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)

Posted on 2024-06-05 by encaf1 Posted in The Lunchbox

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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The Lunchbox Interview: Jeff Patch (Free To Grow)

Posted on 2024-06-05 by encaf1 Posted in The Lunchbox

My guest today is Jeff Patch, songwriter and core member of the band Free To Grow. Jeff stopped by to drop of the fresh new album Along For The Ride, so I asked him to sit in for a while and tell me about where the album came from and how it was made.

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The Lunchbox Interview: Wil Robertson (Basic Income NB)

Posted on 2024-05-31 by encaf1 Posted in The Lunchbox

My guest today is Wil Robertson, the founder of Basic Income New Brunswick. He joins me to talk about the idea(s) of Basic Income, the impact it could have, and some ways it could be implemented.

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Lunchbox Interview: Jim Merkel, “Saving Walden’s World”

Posted on 2024-05-28 by encaf1 Posted in The Lunchbox

My guest today is activist and filmmaker Jim Merkel, who’s recent documentary is called Saving Walden’s World.

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The Lunchbox Interview: The Communist Party of Canada

Posted on 2024-05-16 by encaf1 Posted in The Lunchbox

My guests today are Liz Rowley, Leader of the Communist Party of Canada, and Ivan Byard, the General Secretary of the Young Communist League.

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The Lunchbox Interview: The History of Palestine

Posted on 2024-05-16 by encaf1 Posted in The Lunchbox

My guests today are three people with a much better, deeper and more personal understanding of the complicated and terrible history that has lead to the current situation between Palestine and Israel. My guests, in addition to the other organizations they have been involved with, are all organizers with Fredericton Palestine Solidarity as well.

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The Lunchbox Interview: Ashley MacIsaac

Posted on 2024-04-26 by encaf1 Posted in The Lunchbox

Legendary performer Ashley MacIsaac dropped by the studio to chat with Sofi and Mark. In town after supporting the Johnny Cash Tribute: San Quinten Revisited, he is also appearing at a pop-up show at The Cap tonight (April 26) at 5pm.

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The Lunchbox Interview: “Moonshot” by Herbert the Cow Productions

Posted on 2024-04-25 by encaf1 Posted in The Lunchbox

My guest today is Corinski Nowlan of Herbert the Cow Productions. He’s been busy writing and performing in his own creative universe, his Nootopia, and the latest play is called Moonshot.

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The Lunchbox Interview: Allison Fitzgerald (Kids Help Phone)

Posted on 2024-04-25 by encaf1 Posted in The Lunchbox

Kids Help Phone has helped an innumerable number of young adults and youth to cope with overwhelming emotional, traumatic and sensitive moments in their lives, serving as a neutral, supportive listener as they lay bare their problems and feelings.

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The Lunchbox Interview: Theatre UNB presents “Mad Forest”

Posted on 2024-04-03 by encaf1 Posted in The Lunchbox

My guests today are from the last Theatre UNB production of the season, Caryl Chruchill’s “Mad Forest”.

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STU Lunchbox 2024 EP07: “TikTok Boom”

Posted on 2024-04-02 by encaf1 Posted in STU Lunchbox, The Lunchbox

If the U.S. Congress has its way, TikTok will be dragged into your desktop trash bin along with Netscape and My Space. Hosts Charlie Khosravi and Trevor Walker wonder how a social media app aimed at entertaining attention-span-lacking Gen Zers with dancing and lip-syncing become a threat to the free world.

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STU Lunchbox 2024 EP06: “Legends of Newfoundland & Labrador”

Posted on 2024-03-26 by encaf1 Posted in STU Lunchbox, The Lunchbox

Hosts Jonas May and Frey Blake-Pijogge visit the folklore and mythologies of their home province, exploring not only those passed down from the English and Irish, but discovering how the Inuit and Innu draw strength from beliefs that connect the spirit and animal worlds to our own.

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STU Lunchbox 2024 EP05: “AI in the workplace”

Posted on 2024-03-19 by encaf1 Posted in STU Lunchbox, The Lunchbox

So how does a generation known for a letter synonymous with sleeping adapt to technology that learns 24-7? Hosts Xaviar Johnson and Sean Cunningham examine how artificial intelligence is changing the workplace for the class of 2024.

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STU Lunchbox 2024 EP04: “Anatomy of a Champion”

Posted on 2024-03-08 by encaf1 Posted in STU Lunchbox, The Lunchbox

With his team primed for the ACAA championship tournament on the weekend, Ben Dool talked to his Tommie teammates, coaches, fans, and trainers to find out what separates a collection of good players from a championship team. (The Tommies lost in overtime to Mount St. Vincent in the final Sunday, March 3.)

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UNB Student Union Debates 2024

Posted on 2024-03-01 by encaf1 Posted in Elections, The Lunchbox

On February 21, candidates for the UNB Student Union election were invited to take part in a debate. Here’s an audio recording of the debate. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS | More

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The Lunchbox Interview: Theatre UNB presents “Post-Democracy”

Posted on 2024-03-01 by encaf1 Posted in The Lunchbox

My guests today are Finn Boehm (Director), Armin Panjwani (Actor: “Justine”), Caroline Coon (Actor: “Shannon”), involved in the Theatre UNB staging of Post-Democracy by Hannah Moscovitch.

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The Lunchbox/Real Life Survivor: Gerry Anderson

Posted on 2024-03-01 by encaf1 Posted in Real Life Survivor, The Lunchbox

Julie caught up with writer, producer, director, filmmaker, inventor, creator, graphic designer and father, Canadian born Gerry Anderson.

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STU Lunchbox 2024 EP03: Car culture: 1950-2050

Posted on 2024-02-27 by encaf1 Posted in STU Lunchbox, The Lunchbox

Can EVs really replace the roar of the gas engine by 2035 and be off the roads completely by 2050? Hosts Ben Ford and Wilfred Fraser look at what we might gain, but also what we might lose.

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STU Lunchbox 2024 EP02: International students or scapegoats?

Posted on 2024-02-22 by encaf1 Posted in STU Lunchbox, The Lunchbox

Is the honeymoon over between international students and Canada? On today’s STU Lunch Box, hosts Katherine Del Salto and June Horvath talk to students, recruiters and housing advocates about what needs to be done to ensure that Canada and Fredericton remain a magnet for multiculturalism.

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The Lunchbox/Real Life Survivor: Arthur Davis

Posted on 2024-02-16 by encaf1 Posted in Real Life Survivor, The Lunchbox

Life can be very hard when you are ill when you are young. But you can grow up to be amazing! For February, Julie spoke with Arthur Davis, who suffered as a child with severe asthma and bronchitis. Through faith, family and determination, he overcame those challenges to become an entertainer and educator, now delivering

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