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Interview Archive
September 2007
September 30, 2007
Like many, Maura Hanrahan, is saddened by the sight of the Kyle in Harbour Grace. Derelict now, that boat was part of the proud coastal fleet that included The Effie, The Arglyle, the Clyde, The Dundee, The Fife, the Glencoe, The Home, The Invermore, the Lintrose and the Meigle.
The Coastal service brought everything to outports from supplies to teachers and doctors. In The Alphabet Fleet, Maura Hanrahan explores the political firestorm that erupted over the government deal for the boats and the happiness with which many newfoundlanders and
labradorians remember ships like the lonely Kyle.
Listen to this audio feature.
September 29, 2007
There's a new exhibit at the Rooms. It's called Tilting: Rugged Landscape, Strong People, Fragile Architecture. As part of that Museum exhibit: Susan Newhook will talk about the legendary Fogo Process: How film shaped the future of Fogo back in 1967. Back then, Fogo Islanders were faced with falling catches, high unemployment and the very real possibility of resettlement. With help from filmmakers and community workers, they made almost 30 short films that showed decision makers why they wanted to stay and how they planned to do it. They are still living and working on the island. Susan Newhook will be speaking about the Fogo Process this coming Thursday night at The Rooms. I reached her in Halifax where she teaches at King's College. I asked her about the Fogo Process...
Listen to this audio feature.
September 29, 2007
It's crunch time for the LSPU Hall. At a public meeting this week, Board Chair Bert Riggs shocked everyone when he announced The Hall needs 100-thousand dollars a year from City Hall to operate or it will shut down. CBC Arts producer Suzanne Woolridge was one of more than a hundred people at that meeting in the LSPU Hall Theatre. She joins me now.
Listen to this audio feature.
September 22, 2007
There's an iron lung on the cover of Michelle Butler Hallett's new book. The steel contraption appears early on in the novel. But it is also a metaphor for the way the health care system imprisons some people.
In "Double Blind" Hallett tells the story of a troubled psychiatrist Dr. and a dark time in the treatment of mental health.
Listen to this audio feature.
September 16, 2007
Kathleen Winter has written for the stage, she's created poetry, published a novella and two volumes of creative non-fiction; she's written pieces for children's television, for documentary programs and is well-known for Naturally, her Saturday column in the Telegram. Now Kathleen Winter will be well-known as the winner of the 2007 Metcalfe-Rooke award and the subsequent publication of her collection of short stories, boYs. Kathleen joined me in the studio and I asked her if the stories in boYs were linked thematically.
Listen to this audio feature.
The School of Music and the Folklore Department developed the interdisciplinary Music, Media and Culture Lecture Series in 2002. This year's series begins on Tuesday night with a talk given by Dr. Deborah Wong, a professor of music at the University of California, Riverside. Her topic is "An Ethnomusicology of Hope in a Time of Trauma." She joins me in the studio. Good morning, Dr. Wong.
Listen to this audio feature.
September 15, 2007
The Eden Mills Writers Festival is a well-known event staged annually in Guelph, Ontario. Writers from across the country meet, read, and entertain themselves and interested citizens - thousands attend. They have events for children, adults, participation ... there's even a jazz composer's workshop. And of course, there is a contest! The Eden Mills Literary contest. And this year, the winner is from Newfoundland. Drum roll, please, ladies and gentlemen ...
Listen to this audio feature.
American photographer Wendy Ewald arrived in Labrador on August 23rd this summer and left on September 3rd. That's thirty-eight years since she first visited Labrador as a seventeen-year old when she worked with Innu youth, helping them create photographs of their lives. She returned this year at the request of the Quebec Labrador Association. They wanted her to bring back the photos created in 1969 and to work on a new series for next year. Wendy Ewald now teaches collaborative arts at Amherst College in Massachussetts, but I asked her what brought her to Labrador the first time, in 1969?
Listen to this audio feature.
You've got the first draft of your play... or perhaps it's the third. The characters all have names ... and you've almost decided on the title. Now you need to find out if the thing's as good as you think it is. But where to turn? Help, it seems, is as close as the nearest mailbox or your computer. She Said Yes! Theatre Company has created Mail-Order Dramaturgy to satisfy your needs. Sara Tilley is the artistic director of She Said Yes!, she joins me in the studio.
Listen to this audio feature.
September 9, 2007
Fred Armstrong has been writing news stories, opinion pieces, and humourous columns for the industry in Newfoundland and Labrador for lo these thirty-five years. Inside every newscribe lurks a novelist with a story. In Fred the débutant's case, his premier novel, Happiness of Fish, describes a few years in the life of a newscribe in whom lurks a novel.
I began by asking Fred about the title, what does Happiness of Fish mean?
Listen to this audio feature.
Contained is the new exhibit in the Craft Council Gallery at Devon House in St. John's. Guest curator Gloria Hickey was asked to invite twelve artists to create work based on the concept of contained. Verb? Adverb? Condition? Safety? Danger? Removed or cut off? Welcome, Gloria.
Listen to this audio feature.
September 1, 2007
Apparently, anyone with a modacum of knowledge about left-handed guitars knows the name Lew Skinner. A founding member of The Ducats, this Port Aux Basques native has been playing and collecting left handed guitars for four decades. And his collection has piqued the interest of some very famous musicians, like Sir Paul...as in McCartney. Skinner recently opened a music store in St. John's. That's where Tom Ronan caught up with him to talk twang.
Listen to this audio feature.
Lew is open to discuss anything about his guitar collection as well as his left-handed drums and accordians at his new store. The St. John's Music Centre is located in the Eastgate Plaza on Portugal Cove Road.
September 2, 2007
Fans of Bernice Morgan's writing will be deeply satisfied this week when her newest novel comes out. It's called Cloud of Bone and it's published by Random House. The story is three separate stories that eventually knit together. The first is set in wartime St. John's, the second is the story of Shanandithit - the last of the Beothuks and the third begind in Rwanda. I started out by asking Bernice Morgan about the novel's structure. I asked her if she always intended to have the three stories spearate.
Listen to this audio feature.
September 2007
September 30, 2007
Like many, Maura Hanrahan, is saddened by the sight of the Kyle in Harbour Grace. Derelict now, that boat was part of the proud coastal fleet that included The Effie, The Arglyle, the Clyde, The Dundee, The Fife, the Glencoe, The Home, The Invermore, the Lintrose and the Meigle.
The Coastal service brought everything to outports from supplies to teachers and doctors. In The Alphabet Fleet, Maura Hanrahan explores the political firestorm that erupted over the government deal for the boats and the happiness with which many newfoundlanders and
labradorians remember ships like the lonely Kyle.
Listen to this audio feature.
September 29, 2007
There's a new exhibit at the Rooms. It's called Tilting: Rugged Landscape, Strong People, Fragile Architecture. As part of that Museum exhibit: Susan Newhook will talk about the legendary Fogo Process: How film shaped the future of Fogo back in 1967. Back then, Fogo Islanders were faced with falling catches, high unemployment and the very real possibility of resettlement. With help from filmmakers and community workers, they made almost 30 short films that showed decision makers why they wanted to stay and how they planned to do it. They are still living and working on the island. Susan Newhook will be speaking about the Fogo Process this coming Thursday night at The Rooms. I reached her in Halifax where she teaches at King's College. I asked her about the Fogo Process...
Listen to this audio feature.
September 29, 2007
It's crunch time for the LSPU Hall. At a public meeting this week, Board Chair Bert Riggs shocked everyone when he announced The Hall needs 100-thousand dollars a year from City Hall to operate or it will shut down. CBC Arts producer Suzanne Woolridge was one of more than a hundred people at that meeting in the LSPU Hall Theatre. She joins me now.
Listen to this audio feature.
September 22, 2007
There's an iron lung on the cover of Michelle Butler Hallett's new book. The steel contraption appears early on in the novel. But it is also a metaphor for the way the health care system imprisons some people.
In "Double Blind" Hallett tells the story of a troubled psychiatrist Dr. and a dark time in the treatment of mental health.
Listen to this audio feature.
September 16, 2007
Kathleen Winter has written for the stage, she's created poetry, published a novella and two volumes of creative non-fiction; she's written pieces for children's television, for documentary programs and is well-known for Naturally, her Saturday column in the Telegram. Now Kathleen Winter will be well-known as the winner of the 2007 Metcalfe-Rooke award and the subsequent publication of her collection of short stories, boYs. Kathleen joined me in the studio and I asked her if the stories in boYs were linked thematically.
Listen to this audio feature.
The School of Music and the Folklore Department developed the interdisciplinary Music, Media and Culture Lecture Series in 2002. This year's series begins on Tuesday night with a talk given by Dr. Deborah Wong, a professor of music at the University of California, Riverside. Her topic is "An Ethnomusicology of Hope in a Time of Trauma." She joins me in the studio. Good morning, Dr. Wong.
Listen to this audio feature.
September 15, 2007
The Eden Mills Writers Festival is a well-known event staged annually in Guelph, Ontario. Writers from across the country meet, read, and entertain themselves and interested citizens - thousands attend. They have events for children, adults, participation ... there's even a jazz composer's workshop. And of course, there is a contest! The Eden Mills Literary contest. And this year, the winner is from Newfoundland. Drum roll, please, ladies and gentlemen ...
Listen to this audio feature.
American photographer Wendy Ewald arrived in Labrador on August 23rd this summer and left on September 3rd. That's thirty-eight years since she first visited Labrador as a seventeen-year old when she worked with Innu youth, helping them create photographs of their lives. She returned this year at the request of the Quebec Labrador Association. They wanted her to bring back the photos created in 1969 and to work on a new series for next year. Wendy Ewald now teaches collaborative arts at Amherst College in Massachussetts, but I asked her what brought her to Labrador the first time, in 1969?
Listen to this audio feature.
You've got the first draft of your play... or perhaps it's the third. The characters all have names ... and you've almost decided on the title. Now you need to find out if the thing's as good as you think it is. But where to turn? Help, it seems, is as close as the nearest mailbox or your computer. She Said Yes! Theatre Company has created Mail-Order Dramaturgy to satisfy your needs. Sara Tilley is the artistic director of She Said Yes!, she joins me in the studio.
Listen to this audio feature.
September 9, 2007
Fred Armstrong has been writing news stories, opinion pieces, and humourous columns for the industry in Newfoundland and Labrador for lo these thirty-five years. Inside every newscribe lurks a novelist with a story. In Fred the débutant's case, his premier novel, Happiness of Fish, describes a few years in the life of a newscribe in whom lurks a novel.
I began by asking Fred about the title, what does Happiness of Fish mean?
Listen to this audio feature.
Contained is the new exhibit in the Craft Council Gallery at Devon House in St. John's. Guest curator Gloria Hickey was asked to invite twelve artists to create work based on the concept of contained. Verb? Adverb? Condition? Safety? Danger? Removed or cut off? Welcome, Gloria.
Listen to this audio feature.
September 1, 2007
Apparently, anyone with a modacum of knowledge about left-handed guitars knows the name Lew Skinner. A founding member of The Ducats, this Port Aux Basques native has been playing and collecting left handed guitars for four decades. And his collection has piqued the interest of some very famous musicians, like Sir Paul...as in McCartney. Skinner recently opened a music store in St. John's. That's where Tom Ronan caught up with him to talk twang.
Listen to this audio feature.
Lew is open to discuss anything about his guitar collection as well as his left-handed drums and accordians at his new store. The St. John's Music Centre is located in the Eastgate Plaza on Portugal Cove Road.
September 2, 2007
Fans of Bernice Morgan's writing will be deeply satisfied this week when her newest novel comes out. It's called Cloud of Bone and it's published by Random House. The story is three separate stories that eventually knit together. The first is set in wartime St. John's, the second is the story of Shanandithit - the last of the Beothuks and the third begind in Rwanda. I started out by asking Bernice Morgan about the novel's structure. I asked her if she always intended to have the three stories spearate.
Listen to this audio feature.
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