All shows which are special, maybe even indescribable.
My guest is Fawn Parker, newly-minted Poet Laureate of the city of Fredericton. Fawn joins me to talk about their process for writing, the novels they have written (and the new one just released), and their job as the Poet Laureate.
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My guests today are Erin Russell and Jake Martin, two of the primary folks featured in the main stage productions of this year’s NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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My guest today is activist and filmmaker Jim Merkel, who’s recent documentary is called Saving Walden’s World.
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After a hiatus, it’s grand to be back with The Barry Awards, our annual celebration of the great work and contributions of our members. This year’s ceremony was held at the auditorium of The Charlotte Street Arts Centre on the evening of April 2. It was great seeing so many of the members gathered to celebrate their own!
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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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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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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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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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.
My guests today are from the last Theatre UNB production of the season, Caryl Chruchill’s “Mad Forest”.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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