This week Amil let me stay home and be sick while she was the star of the show. Listen to her rockin' interview with Shira Leuchter and Sarah Teitel about their group show 'Bardbie' happening at the Engine Gallery as part of tonight's Scotiabank Nuitblanche Don't miss the slideshow presentations of great tales from literature and the bible illustrated in the medium of Barbie doll.



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This week Amil and I talked about the big Manifesto festival happening this weekend, Kaleidoscope and other great events happening around the city.

We also had a really interesting interview with Rhonda Corvese, curator of the Zone A section of theScotiabank Nuit Blanche event. She and Annie Macdonell one of the featured artists in the show talked about their concepts, natural disasters, bomb shelters and more.

This week's show is sponsored by the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche.



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This week Amil and I talked about theSmall World Music Festival and photographer Luis Jacob's latest show at the Birch Libralato Gallery featuring naked images of Keith Cole in the snow. Plus we gushed about all the other great theatre and arts openings happening around the city this week.

In addition, we had a great interview with the very well informed Shannon Cochrane, who is the Director of FADO and a local performance artist. She spoke to us about the show Art that Binds a performance arts extravanganza featuring many local Toronto artists which she curated for this weekend's Queen West Arts Crawl. Don't miss it.

This week's show is sponsored by the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche.



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This week Amil and I caught up and chatted about her perspectives on the Canadian arts scene in Europe, MOCCA's latest show 'Eat Food' plus the plethora of openings and season launches happening around the city. I also reported back on what the Gallery TPW and Trinity Square Video's joint show Grand Gestures was really like.

We had a fun little interview with acclaimed Illustrator and Toy Maker Gary Taxali, who's work you'll likely recognize as he has worked with many of the big wigs of the entertainment industry, can anyone say Rolling Stone.



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This week I co-hosted the show again with my friend Brandon Brophy, a SLS singer teacher and fellow podcaster. We chatted about home videos and Gallery TPW and Trinity Square Video's upcoming joint show called Grand Gestures by the 640 480 Collective - opening this Thursday.

Plus, we enjoyed a fun interview with our three guests from the Z*otz Collective, who talked about what it's like to work collaboratively on the same drawing and their current show at the G-plus Gallery running through til September 23, 50 Gladstone St.



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This week's show (after a minor technical glitch) I had a lot of fun with my guest co-host Brandon Brophy, a SLS singer teacher and fellow podcaster. We chatted about the Buskers Festival , Meagan O'Shea's Dance Like Nobodies Watching, a guerilla dancing in the streets event and Promises last two Cherry Beach parties happening this Sunday and next labour day weekend.

We also had the opportunity to interview Haema Sivanesan, Executive Director of the South Asian Visual Arts Collective and artist/photographer Ambereen Siddiqi about the latest arts/audio show and partnership with [[murmur]] called Big Stories, Little India. Audio & Art Installations: August 25th to September 8th, in Little India along Gerrard Street.



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