Film, Theatre and Arts-at-large coverage. Home base www.ciut.fm or CIUT 89.5FM Sundays 1-2pm (EST). You can find me on socials: FB/IG/Bluesky @tmtmwithdonnag
My chat with Helen Juvonen & Tyler J. Seguin about Chekhov Shorts @guildfestivaltheatre + Arts and Culture writer Heidy M (@hyemusings) and I discuss our response to #KingTutImmersive and chat about#…
My chat with the effervescent #LuaShayenne about the #YensaFestival a Celebration of Black Women in Dance (Aug 13-28). Lua is a dancer, choreographer, storyteller, dance instructor and the founder of…
Becoming a Queen doc interview with multiple award-winning Toronto Carnival Queen @joellacrichton and director/writer @chrisstrikes. Mother, Lou-Ann (right) and big sis, Mischka (bottom left) make up…
Black History Month 2022, honouring the ancestors through spoken word and music by Tiki Mercury-Clark (Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Roots of Gospel Music), Wall Matthews and Aleta Green (The Color …
My chat with Jamaican born, #Julliard trained pianist Alan Hobbins about his upcoming live stream concert on Feb 25, plus music by Antiguan-Canadian Denise Williams @operadenise and the first known b…
My chat with about her pieces written for Nourbese Philip "Zong" event, plus lessons she's learned over the years as a Black woman in the arts.
Alan and Karen Kaeja of Kaeja d'Dance discuss their new iteration of Moving Connections: Dancing Collected Stories. This new 2022 version will allow community members to create their own movement exp…
Happy 2022! 🎶💃🏽 Enjoy music from my personal soundtrack library.
My interview with Hazel Dupe about the Irish folk horror, You Are Not My Mother (dir Kate Dolan katedolan.ie) #YANMM (#MidnightMadness TIFF21) + arts and culture writer Heidy M https://hyemusings.ca/…
My chat with Nadine McNulty about Batuki Music Society's event, "Songs of My Mother: A Celebration of African Women," featuring Lorraine Klaassen, Djely Tapa, Mis Blandine, and Ruth Mathiang, happeni…
#TIFF21 Wrap. Roundtable discussion of faves with Heidy M hyemusings.ca Mark Tara marktara.com and Toronto film critic, Daniel Garber culturalmining.com.
My #TIFF21 interviews with directors Wi Ding Ho about the cast of his film, "Terrorizers" and Aga Woszczyńska about universal themes of prejudice in her film "Silent Land."
#TIFF21 Coverage! My chat with director, @neusballus about her Catalan comedy, #TheOddJobMen, and director, #JeanLucHerbulot about his genre shifting Senegalise "Southern," #Saloum.
My #TIFF21 chat with programmers Nataleah Hunter-Young (Black diasporic films) and Jason Anderson (Short Cuts: YYZ Edition) + Music by @jefkearns @motionlive @brownmanmusic @richunderhill
First @tiff_net interview in my new timeslot Sundays 1-2pm. Senior programmer, Steve Gravestock and I discuss several #NordicFilms and #CanadianFilms at #TIFF21 during the first half of @tmtmwithdonn…
Spoken Word, Music, Film and Theatre. During this special fundraising show, I chat with award-winning poet, speaker and writer Dwayne Morgan about When Brothers' Speak; award-winning indie musician G…
Alex Bird and the Jazz Mavericks recently launched their debut CD, "Whiskey Kisses." Alex is my featured guest for the hour. We talk about his being adopted from Romania, his darling Lola and, of cou…
My chat with Ian Bawa is bittersweet, as his father passed away a couple of weeks ago and never got a chance to hear it. Ian had a special relationship with his dad and the 3-minute comedy Strong Son…
I love audio and Canadian history, put them together and you have "Yellow Bellies", an audio drama by Theatre of the Beat about Canadian Mennonite conscientious objectors during World War II. I chat …
My chat with Belgian director, Leonardo Van Dijl about his short film STEPHANIE, which screened at TIFF20, plus music from albums, Jamaica to Toronto, Honey Drops, and poetry/spoken word from The Uni…