The Lunchbox Interview: Matt Watkins (Plein-Air Painter)

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Nature is dynamic and ever-changing, at each moment displaying a portrait of a landscape.

During the summer, the city of Fredericton is hosting numerous artists and crafters each week at the Odell Park Lodge, to practice their art for all to see. These artists come from a wide variety of disciplines, from painting and sculpture to basket-weaving and writing. From time to time, we’ll check in with these artistson the Lunchbox to find out what makes their art move them.

My guest today is Matt Watkins, a plein-air painter taking in the beauty of Odell Park during his residency. He joins me to talk about his approach to capturing nature by making smaller paintings with a small palette, and finding spots which he can look in any direction and find inspiration.

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New limited series: REVISITATION & For The Birds

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Starting Friday, July 12, two limited series will join the lineup:

  • REVISITATION (Fridays, 2pm-2:30pm): a four episode creative nonfiction series. The four episodes are an audio collage encompassing journal entries from November 2016 through November 2017, music in heavy rotation during that time, and songs created specifically for this show by Brookside Mall and Cedric Noel.
  • For The Birds (Fridays, 2:30pm-3pm): a new series which showcases our feathered friends (or foes). Topics of this show include: ecology, groups and species of interest (species at risk, threatened or endangered species), avian conservation, and responses to global climate change. This show is focused mainly on Canadian species, but there will be times where we will discuss birds from other countries and continents.

Mornings Are Hard // 2019-07-11

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Track Listing: 
1.) Krief – Tonight
2.) Winona Forever – Gazing
3.) Joyful Noise – On The Way
4.) King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Acarine
5.) Foreign Diplomats – Adopted Hometown
6.) The Belle Comedians – Margaret
7.) JD McPherson – Hunting For Sugar
8.) The Black Keys – Shine A Little Light
9.) Alice In Chains – Down In A Hole
10.) Audioslave -What You Are
11.) Necking – Still Exist
12.) Dumb – Don’t Sleep

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Matt Comeau LIVE in Studio D – CHSR Sessions

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Matt Comeau is a Mik’maq singer-songwriter from Elsipogtog First Nation. Through his music he’s able to tells stories of loss and gain from the perspective of a contemporary First Nation’s man.  Passionately combining politics and music together, during this edition of CHSR Sessions Matt Comeau is saying the things that we all need to hear. 

Song List:
1.) No Justice
2.) Witness
3.) Bad Dream
4.) Say It Ain’t So
5.) Sister

WEBSITE // CONTACT // FB // IG //

Credits:
Host: Denver Boreland
Recorded & Mixed: Colin Fowlie

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Her Turn // 2019-07-09

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Track Listing: 
1.) Zella Day – Seven Nation Army
2.) Kina Grannis – Chandelier
3.) The Pretty Reckless – You
4.) Jane Blanchard – Enemy
5.) Salomé Leclerc – Des Plumes et des Ombres
6.) Lala Lala – Destroyer
7.) Penelope Isles – Leipzig
8.) Beyries – The Pursuit Of Happiness
9.) Black Belt Eagle Scout – Soft Stud
10.) Wicked Vices – Sinkin’
11.) Ian Sweet – Hiding
12.) Veruca Salt – Eyes On You
13.) Pale Lips – I’m A Witch
14.) Tush – To Darnelladon (And Beyond)
15.) Wangled Teb – darkplaceV2.3

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Mornings Are Hard // 2019-07-10

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Track Listing: 
1.) John Mayer – Queen of California
2.) Ariel Posen – How Long
3.) Colin Fowlie – Compel You
4.) Robert Plant – The May Queen
5.) Kylie Fox – Ravens
6.) Death Cab For Cutie – When We Drive
7.) The Franklin Electric – I Know The Feeling
8.) Hein Cooper – Hijack
9.) Milk & Bone – Ride or Die
10.) Bleum – Visit
11.) Spoon – No Bullets Spent
12.) Hollerado – Days Without Sugar
13.) Sloan – The Other Man
14.) The Raconteurs – What’s Yours Is Mine

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Homemade Jams // 2019-07-08

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Track Listing: 
1.) Internal Night – Your Own Truth
2.) Tortue – Homecoming
3.) Sexghost – Dead Girl
4.) Matt Mays – Drive On
5.) Mrs. Hippie – Blood In The Streets
6.) The Ray Finkles – Dan Tweedie
7.) Absolutely Free – The Endless Scroll ft. Carl Didur
8.) Cursees Connect – In The Meadows
9.) The Slate Pacific – Jenn’s Not Going To Make It (Sean One Mix)
10.) Shadow – Used To Love (The Rain)
11.) Jane Blanchard – Were In Love

The Lunchbox Interview: Lois McDonald-Layden (Felt Artist)

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There are ancient techniques for creating art, many of which would benefit from a few modern tools to revitalize them again.

During the summer, the city of Fredericton is hosting numerous artists and crafters each week at the Odell Park Lodge, to practice their art for all to see. These artists come from a wide variety of disciplines, from painting and sculpture to basket-weaving and writing. From time to time, we’ll check in with these artistson the Lunchbox to find out what makes their art move them.

My guest today is Lois Mcdonald-Layden, a felt artist whose remarkable creation include birds, landscapes and even felt geodes. She joined me to talk about how felting works, her process for getting details into unruly material, and the meditative craft of felting.

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The Lunchbox Interview: Sarah Petite (Encaustic Painter)

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Right now, it often feels like everything is melting, but some people prefer melting for their art.

During the summer, the Fredericton Arts Alliance brings a pair of artists together in the Barracks to practice their art for all to see. These artists come from a wide variety of disciplines, from painting and sculpture to basket-weaving and writing. As each pair of artists comes in, we’ll be talking to them on the Lunchbox.

My guest today is Sarah Petite, who practices encaustic painting, where beeswax is mixed with pigments and used as a combination of paint and sculpture. She tells me how encaustic painting works, how her practice has changed over the years, and the work that she’s challenging herself with this week.

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The Lunchbox Interview: Laura-Beth Bird // Dustin Forbes (Shadow Puppet Theatre)

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In a world of incredibly detailed computer-generated realism, sometimes it’s good to remember that the imagination goes farther than realism could ever, and provides more meaning.

During the summer, the Fredericton Arts Alliance brings a pair of artists together in the Barracks to practice their art for all to see. These artists come from a wide variety of disciplines, from painting and sculpture to basket-weaving and writing. As each pair of artists comes in, we’ll be talking to them on the Lunchbox.

My guests today are Laura-Beth Bird and Dustin Forbes, a puppeteer and a dancer working to create shadow puppet theatre around the combination of children’s poems and the theme of trees. We talked about the kinds of puppetry that exist, the choice to do shadow puppetry, and the unique challenges and opportunities the medium offers.

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Mornings Are Hard // 2019-07-09

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Track Listing: 
1.) David in the Dark – Slap Happy
2.) Matt Mays & El Torpedo – On The Hood
3.) Radiohead – Bones
4.) Wicked Vices – Heroes
5.) Tallies – Mother
6.) Hollerado -Speechless
7.) The Flaming Lips ft. Mick Jones – Giant Baby
8.) Motherhood – Sweet Kid
9.) Fet.Nat – Patio Monday
10.) Saxsyndrum – Let Go
11.) PINEO & LOEB – Electrical Storm
12.) Julian Taylor Band – Take What You Need
13.) The Brooks – Live Free

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RFYL Episode – EarthHotBadEP076

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Run For Your Life! – the psychobilly rock show of zombie sharks

On this week’s episode, if we ignore it, it goes away!

This is NOT TRUE but fortunately refrigeration and alcohol both exist. I feel for anyone working outside in this weather.

Anyway, here’s a ton of heavy, fast, fun stuff with a few slower, winding stoner metal tracks just to change it up!

Playlist:
How I Find Stars – Damn Cargo
Living In Darkness – Statues on Fire
Simplify, Man – the black frame spectacle
See The Way – The Dyadics
Alligator – Reignwolf
Definite & Quick – Thera
Colour Me Intrigued – Cardinels
Turn To Grey – Elektric Mistress
Heavy Low – We Hunt Buffalo
On The Run – Striker
Light Bender – Gygax
Earth Gone Colder – SOTO Official

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Homemade Jams // 2019-07-05 w/ Heat $heets

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Track Listing: 
1.) Marian – Same Town
2.) The Gregories – Show Your Teeth When You Smile
3.) Motherhood – Bird Chip ft. The Hypochondriacs
4.) Little You Little Me – By Rights
5.) CHIPS – Modern Days
6.) Sound Drown – Radio Song
7.) The Tortoise The Hare, and The Millionaire – Bad Girls
8.) Heat $heets – Not Real
Interview w/ Heat $heets
9.) Heat $heets – Hyde

TEM Ep. 32 Yr. 2: Finding Hope in the Dark

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Tour Itinerary:

First Stop:

“The best days of my life” by The Kyoto Connection off the album No Headphones Required

Club Electric:

“Be Alright” by Dana Jean Phoenix off the PixelDust
“Modern Shakedown” by Dear Rouge off the album Phases
“Fly Again” by Polemic Heart off the album Reactions

Chiptune District:

“Interstellar Good Times” by PROTODOME off the album CHIPFUNK
“Morning Shower” by Gruber off the album Pico-8 Tunes Vol.2
“The Western Rim” by National Broadcast Network off the album 7 Billion Volts

Future Hall:

“Dusk City” by Sugarcreamgenso off the Pinkuneon T?ky? daisandan
“All of My Time” by Seth Nova
“Frozen Rain” by Buck-P off the Fried Rice

VGM District:

“Menu Menuet” by Patrice Bourgeault off the Flinthook Original Soundtrack
“Hollow Faces” by Garoad off the Yuppie Psycho Original Soundtrack
“Spark of Hope (Blank Canvas)” by Lauren the Flute off the EXILE: A Tribute to Supergiant Games

Final Stop:

“Heart Discarded” by Which Witch is Which off the album Which Witch is Which

Got any suggestions for future tours?

Tweet me @ElectricMetCHSR
or
Email me electricmetropolis@gmail.com

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Homemade Jams // 2019-07-03

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Track Listing: 
1.) Wicked Vices – Heroes
2.) Young Satan In Love – Datin’ Satan
3.) Kral Majales – Floating Worlds
4.) SIRR – Sugarland
5.) Shadow – Broken Record
6.) Grand Theft Bus – Kite
7.) Mo Kenney – On The Roof
8.) Joyful Noise – Bertha
9.) Rich Aucoin – The Dream
10.) chillteens – Sweet Bay
11.) Port Cities – The Nights You Stay Home
12.) The Olympic Symphonium – Careful
13.) Some Dads – For The Record
14.) Dance Movie – Penny

Homemade Jams // 2019-07-02

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Track Listing: 
1.) Blue Lobelia – Beneath All Bloom
2.) Ladd & Lasses – Not Giving Up Yet
3.) Leanne Hoffman – What Remains
4.) Marian – Side Street
5.) Colin Fowlie – Sanctuary
6.) Quinn Bonnell – Running
7.) Jeremy Dutcher – Essuwonike
8.) Sleepy Driver – I Know You Know I Know
9.) sweetgoose64 – 180
10.) PINEO & LOEB – The Suburbs ft. Bowen
11.) Dumb – De Más (Vancouver, BC)
12.) Little You Little Me – Fields
13.) Deep Fryer – Jeremy

Her Turn // 2019-07-02

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Track Listing: 
1.) Boyhood – Luvbomb
2.) Praises – Love Unkind
3.) Cibo Matto – Beef Jerky
4.) Pale Lips – That Old Ghost Don’t Lie
5.) PIQSIQ – Kuugarjuk: Creek
6.) Tanika Charles – Tell Me Something
7.) Lady Gaga – Just Another Day
8.) LAL – Wildflowers
9.) Ivory Towers – Sand Witches
10.) The Marias – …Baby One More Time
11.) Lykke Li – Unchained Melody
12.) Jennifer Irving – Well Enough
13.) Pallmer – Knuckles
14.) Carmanah – Roots
15.) The Ault Sisters – Neutron Dance/ Axel F

Mornings Are Hard // 2019-07-01

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Track Listing: 
1.) Jamiroquai – Virtual Insanity
2.) Royal Canoe – Black Sea
3.) Stephen Malkmus – Viktor Borgia
4.) King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Sense
5.) Tame Impala – Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
6.) Tanika Charles – Long Overdue
7.) The Revivalists – Change
8.) The Black Keys – Run Right Back
9.) Mauno – Vampire
10.) Pottery – The Craft
11.) The Dodos – The Durface
12.) Albert Hammond Jr. – More To Life
13.) Muse – Pressure
14.) les Païens – Pas Ton Char

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Donate your used books to CHSR!

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There’s a certain magic involved when getting lost in a good book. They can take you to a new world and introduce you to new friends, some of whom you’ll keep with you for the rest of your life.

CHSR is putting a twist on borrowing books from your friends by hosting a Blind Date With A Book event late this summer. We’ll be bringing books wrapped in paper with descriptive keywords, or a couple sentences stating why the previous owner loved the story. Then you’ll get to comb through the collection to hopefully pair yourself with a new adventure!

But first, we need your gently used books!
Over the next few weeks you can drop your book donations off to CHSR and we’ll prepare them for the event! Event details are coming, but don’t worry, we’re pairing it with great coffee downtown.

And if you’re an enthusiastic book reader perhaps consider joining CHSR’s book club, Readful Things, which is resurrecting this fall.

HitG 019: Player Responsibilities

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A roleplaying game is a collective experience. That doesn’t just mean that everyone benefits, but also that everyone contributes.

But what do players bring to the table besides playing their characters? We dig in to that, to give an idea of the mental as well as physical things someone needs to bring in order to help the entire game go better.

Hosts: Mark, Chris, Anita, Don

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RFYL Episode – PassionEP075

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Run For Your Life! – the psychobilly rock show of zombie sharks

I decided to go backwards this time and spin all the genres I normally play in circles. So, we start with some dance / disco and spin towards the low and lazy summer music before picking up again into the heavier side of things.

I even got a bonus track in this week! Though the playlist likely got a little cut off on the hour – this episode will be in full if you download it here! Gotta like that! (There’s no hidden messages at the end and this is not a jebait)

Playlist:
Take Care Of U (feat: Lydia Persaud Music) – TWRP
Badass Girlz – ProleteR
Philadelphia – Dorothy
Waiting For Something – Diemonds
Keeper – Reignwolf
The Wire – Kilmore
The City – Arcane Saints
Cold Blooded Killer – The Standstills
Storm Song – Public Animal
High Fantasy / Something So Familiar – Gygax
Afterglow – SOTO Official
Wrathchild – Infrared
Ugly At Times (ft That Handsome Devil ‘s Godforbid) – Kemo The Blaxican

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!earshot // 2019-06-25

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Hour One: 
1.) Blessed – Pill
2.) Jamila Woods – Betty (for Boogie)
3.) Mavis Staples – Never Needed Anyone
4.) Absolutely Free – Currency (ft. US Girls)
5.) Vampire Weekend – Unbearable White
6.) Big Thief – Betsy
7.) Pallmer – Blueprint (Bonus Track)
8.) Rich Aucoin – The Self
9.) Lungbutter – Flat White
10.) Doomsquad – Dorian’s Closet
Interview with The Hypochondriacs
11.) The Hypochondriacs – Highway Number 2 ( Bonus Track)
12.) Wintersleep – Forest Fire

Hour Two:
13.) Flying Lotus – Takashi
14.) Charlotte Cornfield – Storm Clouds
15.) Orville Peck – Big Sky
16.) PUP –  Bare Hands
17.) Cate Le Bon –  Mother’s Mother’s Magazines
News headlines with Exclaim Magazine’s Calum Slingerland
18.) DenMother – Dearest Cousin, Light of my Heart (Bonus Track)
19.) LAPS – Lingua Franca
20.) Pottery – The Craft
21.) Mac DeMarco –  All Of OurYesterdays
22.) Black Mountain – FD 72
23.) Dumb – Don’t Sleep

Mornings Are Hard // 2019-06-27

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Track Listing:  
1.) PINEO & LOEB – Digital Love
2.) PINEO & LOEB – The Suburbs
3.) Grand Theft Bus – Don’t Go Say That
4.) Paper Lions – Travelling
5.) Foals – In Degrees
6.) Luscious Jackson – Here
7.) Semisonic – F.N.T.
8.) Garbage – #1 Crush
9.) The Raconteurs – Somedays (I Don’t Feel Like Trying)
10.) Hozier – Dinner & Diatribes
11.) John Mayer – Vultures
12.) Bend Knee – Catch Light
13.) Kalle Mattson – Ten Years Time

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