All That Matters

We see little glimpses of artists’ lives through their work. But what’s in the neutral zone: the space between being at centre stage – having everyone pay attention to your work – and your regular l…

This week: Half Off. Why is attendance at the Art Gallery of Alberta only half of what it was when the new building opened, and what can they do about it? We speak with Edmonton City Councillor Andr…

This week: A 360 degree look at what it means to “make it.” We talk to The Wet Secrets’ Lyle Bell about all the puddles and hard work along the way from accidentally starting a band to playing the G…

This week: What do Stuart McLean and his CBC Radio show The Vinyl Cafe mean to Canadians?

You might have heard the rough news this winter that Stuart McLean has been diagnosed with cancer. While he …

This week: How do we deal with pioneers when their successors find their outlook passé?

Edmonton’s had fabulous drag kings and queens over the years. But as the cultural conversation around gender a…

This week: how do artists influence medicine – how do they play into how we heal each other? We have two stories, both looking at performance artists in the healthcare system. But they come from dif…

This week: What would you say… you do here? Inquiring minds want to know. So this week, we’ve devoted an entire episode to answering your questions about some of those arts jobs you’ve always wonder…

This week: who decides what good behaviour looks like, and what happens when the government tries to tell us what good behaviour is? We’ll take a look at the Advisory Board on Objectionable Publicat…

This week, the second of two FunDrive episodes recorded live at CJSR: what can art tell us about the future? We tiptoe out at night for Nuit Blanche, try to figure out why we love spoilers so much w…

This week, the first of two FunDrive episodes recorded live at CJSR: what art can tell us about the past? Author, rapper and broadcaster Wab Kinew will be speaking about his new memoir The Reason Yo…

This week: Gatekeepers. We talk to Weird Canada Executive Director Marie Leblanc Flanagan and Edmonton author Leif Gregerson about the tradeoffs for artists who want to go around labels and publishe…

This week we’re out of reach, off the map. What drives us off the grid? We talk to Marc Clarabut, who’s just embarking on a life in the wild near Ontario’s immense Algonquin Park. And we head to the…

This week’s episode is one of those old questions: what’s the point of suffering? We speak to Canadian author Marina Endicott about her pun-tastic novel Close to Hugh, and her characters’ struggle t…

This week: What’s authentic? Emmanuel Jal was born in South Sudan and became a child solider at the age of 7. He’s now become a global citizen through his work as an activist, hip-hop artist and sto…

This week: do you know your neighbours? We take a look at a long-standing Edmonton institution whose business is all about full exposure: the Chez Pierre strip club. And we ask how the Edmonton Folk…

This week: what do you do when you get to the end… and it’s not the end? We talk to Callahan Connor (aka rapper C-Command) about the frustrating charms of Super Mario Brothers. Then former Rent star…

This week: Boot Camp Poets. How could rap or poetry help inmates at the Edmonton Remand Centre find a different life, and what roadblocks might be in their way? This is the second half of a two-part…

This week: Boot Camp Poets. How do folks end up behind bars at the Edmonton Remand Centre – and how could rap or poetry help them find a different life? On this week’s show, we speak to inmates in t…

This week: what is art worth? We headed to Edmonton’s Found Festival to ask you to compare some famous and not-so-famous artwork we dragged along. And we speak to former street artist Jamie Law abou…