Rising Voices: Women Podcasting on the Arts
March 12, 2022 @ 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Tickets are Pay-What-You-Can and are available here.
COVID-19 POLICY: Proof of vaccination, proof of a medical exemption of vaccination, or proof of a negative pharmacy test within 72 hours, along with ID, will be checked upon entering the Westbury Theatre. Masks must be worn at all times, except when consuming food or beverages in the lobby while seated. Please note that proof of vaccination is not required to enter the ATB Financial Arts Barns Lobby, which houses the Fringe Grounds Café, the entrance to the Westbury Theatre, and SkirtsAfire’s art installation. Read more.
No Alcohol will be served at the Westbury Theatre during our festival events.
We invite festival patrons (as our respectful relatives) to hold a courageous space for Ayita, our MainStage Westbury production, by sitting with, and being present with an open mind and heart as did the ancestors of this land. There are medicines in the performance and in the lobby; works of art, stories and ceremony that require protocols and a clean space of no alcohol or substances.
Local voices in the podcasting sphere discuss how the format integrates with their own creative output, and gives rise to critical voices working in the arts. Hosted by Fawnda Mithrush. Presented by Alberta Podcast Network/YEGPodfest.
Featuring panelists:
RAYANNE HAINES
Rayanne Haines is the 2022 Regional Writer in Residence for the Metro Edmonton Federation of Libraries. She is the author of three books of Poetry, The Stories in My Skin (Self-published, 2013), Stained with the Colours of Sunday Morning (Inanna, 2017), and Tell The Birds Your Body Is Not A Gun (Frontenac, 2021) and four genre fiction novels. She is the host of the literary podcast Crow Reads, the Vice President for the League of Canadian Poets, and a member of the teaching faculty with MacEwan University. At Crow Reads, Rayanne Haines interviews intersectional writers, publishers, agents and editors with a focus on Alberta.
Rayanne Haines
MAKDA MULATU
Makda Mulatu is a writer and podcaster living on Treaty 6 territory in amiskwacîwâskahikan or Edmonton, Alberta. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in places like Glass Buffalo, Contemporary Verse 2, and Hungry Zine. Makda is the Media and Events Manager of Edmonton’s Glass Bookshop where she produces the podcast Glass Bookshop Radio. Alongside co-host Jason Purcell, she interviews some of Canada’s most exciting authors and publishers.
Makda Mulatu
SHEENA ROSSITER
Sheena Rossiter is an award-winning journalist, podcaster, and filmmaker. From 2013 to 2017, she was the Rio de Janeiro correspondent for Monocle magazine and a senior video journalist at DAZN. Before that, she was based in São Paulo, London, and Barcelona. Her audio and video work has been broadcast by the CBC, the BBC, and the New York Times, among others. She has produced various documentaries and podcasts, including “3 Siblings” (2018), the Storylines podcast, and The Deep Dive from The Walrus podcast. She’s the senior digital producer at The Walrus, and the co-founder of Dona Ana Films & Multimedia.
Sheena Rossiter
SAMANTHA HEES
Samantha Hees is an Edmonton podcaster and co-host of I Love This, You Should Too, a podcast about sharing the things you like with the people you love, regardless of how terrible you think their taste may be. Along with her fiancé Indy Randhawa, they discover each other’s favourite movies and books. In her spare time she enjoys reading, coaching cheerleading, and playing hockey.
Samantha Hees
FAWNDA MITHRUSH
Fawnda Mithrush has been at the executive director’s desk for LitFest desk since 2014, and has played General Manager for Theatre Network and the outdoor Freewill Shakespeare Festival. An award-winning podcast producer, she consults on arts administration and nonprofit management, is Program Director for the Alberta Podcast Network, and founder of YEGPodfest. Identifying as a Dedicated Booster of Edmonton’s arts ecology, she also is a proud fur-mom to two Labrador retrievers, an avid traveller, voracious reader, and darn good cook.
Fawnda Mithrush
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