Get a glimpse of each episode, and learn more about our speakers!
EAT MY ART is a podcast series, featuring various individuals who share their own experiences in the arts from different disciplines. Their stories will look to engage and inspire listeners as they reminisce and share their artistic journey. We wish to enable our audience members, especially young adults, in opening up their possibilities towards the arts as both career and interest.
Our podcast series was released following our Podcast Launch event, which was on March 22 at the Ernest Balmer Studio. EAT MY ART will live on our website for streaming with transcripts available. The series is also be available for download on Spreaker.
EAT MY ART is a podcast series, featuring various individuals who share their own experiences in the arts from different disciplines. Their stories will look to engage and inspire listeners as they reminisce and share their artistic journey. We wish to enable our audience members, especially young adults, in opening up their possibilities towards the arts as both career and interest.
Our podcast series was released following our Podcast Launch event, which was on March 22 at the Ernest Balmer Studio. EAT MY ART will live on our website for streaming with transcripts available. The series is also be available for download on Spreaker.
PODCAST LINEUP
1 Mitchell Marcus
2 Casey Mecija
3 Meags Fitzgerald
4 Alan Stanbridge
5 Umbereen Inayet + Jeanne Holmes + Shannon Linde
6 Prom King, to be recorded live at our Podcast Launch
7 Leah Erbe, to be recorded live at our Podcast Launch
2 Casey Mecija
3 Meags Fitzgerald
4 Alan Stanbridge
5 Umbereen Inayet + Jeanne Holmes + Shannon Linde
6 Prom King, to be recorded live at our Podcast Launch
7 Leah Erbe, to be recorded live at our Podcast Launch
OUR SPEAKERS
Mitchell Marcus Mitchell is the founder and Artistic & Managing Director of The Musical Stage Company – Canada’s leading not-for-profit musical theatre company. Over thirteen years, under its previous name Acting Up Stage Company, The Musical Stage productions have been recognized with 53 Dora Award nominations, 10 Dora Awards and 10 Toronto Theatre Critics’ Awards. Outside of The Musical Stage, Mitchell was the Associate Producer for the inaugural six years of Luminato, twice the Creative Producer for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize, producer of the Dora Awards, and organizer for four years of It’s Always Something. Mitchell is active on committees that service the arts community and has held positions in the arts management departments at UofT and Ryerson University. |
Casey Mecija Casey Mecija is an accomplished multi-disciplinary artist, primarily working in the fields of music and film. She played in Ohbijou, the Canadian orchestral pop band, and recently released her first solo album, entitled Psychic Materials (2016). Casey is also an award winning film maker whose work has screened internationally. She is completing a PhD at the University of Toronto, where she researches art, media and cultural studies as they relate to queer diaspora. |
Meags Fitzgerald Meags Fitzgerald is a Montreal-based artist and an award winning illustrator, graphic novelist and stop-motion animator. Her talents also include improv comedy and live storytelling. Fitzgerald is the author and illustrator of the non-fiction graphic novel, Photobooth: A Biography (spring 2014) and the graphic memoir, Long Red Hair (fall 2015), both published by Conundrum Press. |
Alan Stanbridge
Dr. Alan Stanbridge is an Associate Professor in both Music & Culture and Media Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and in the Master of Museum Studies Program in the iSchool at the University of Toronto. He teaches undergraduate courses in Critical Issues in Music and Society, Jazz History, and Movies, Music and Meaning, and graduate Museum Studies courses in Contemporary Theories of Art and Culture and Issues in Cultural Policy and Contemporary Culture. Stanbridge has published numerous journal articles and book chapters in the fields of popular music, jazz history, museum studies, cultural policy, and cultural theory, and he is currently working on a book entitled Rhythm Changes: Jazz, Culture, Discourse, to be published by Routledge. He is a contributor to the Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, writing the main entries on Jazz and Postmodernism. Stanbridge has presented papers at conferences in Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Spain, Germany, Austria, Scotland, England, the United States, and Canada. |
Umbereen Inayet Umbereen Inayet is a National Award Winning Artistic Producer. With a Master's degree in Social Work from the University of Toronto and an Undergraduate degree in Cultural Anthropology and Women's Studies, Umbereen’s personal style is to bridge pop culture with contemporary art, using her roots in anthropology, culture, psychology and social work to inform her artistic producing practice. Umbereen is a playwright, whose work has been featured in major media outlets, and has been shown across Toronto with international shows in India. Umbereen is currently an Artistic Producer for Nuit Blanche Toronto, one of the largest free contemporary art events in North America. |
Jeanne Holmes
Jeanne Holmes joined the City of Toronto City following an extensive career in in the arts in Canada. Prior to her role as a Programmer in City Cultural Events, she was the Artistic Producer of the Canada Dance Festival, a national dance platform co-produced by the National Arts Centre in Ottawa; Producing Director of Dancemakers and the Centre for Creation in Toronto and the dance programmer at Harbourfront Centre where she curated the dance component of the World Stage performance series and was the Artistic Director of World Moves, Harbourfront Centre’s international dance season. Jeanne was curated by Christina Ritchie in Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2012 as part of the exhibition Bodies and Buildings, with the work All Together Now. She has worked with the City Cultural Events team in various exhibition, event execution and project management roles. |
Shannon Linde
Shannon Linde is an artistic programmer, independent curator, and artist. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University and a Master of Museum Studies from the University of Toronto. Prior to joining the City of Toronto's City Cultural Events programming team, she worked in various capacities with galleries, museums, and cultural institutions such as Jessica Bradley Gallery, Art Gallery of Mississauga, and Textile Museum of Canada. Shannon maintains an independent visual art and design practice, and is a member of Aisle 4, a Toronto-based curatorial collective that presents socially-engaged contemporary art projects in the public realm. |
Special Episodes |
Will be recorded live at our
Podcast Launch on March 22! Prom King
Prom King specializes in a fast committed style of improvised theatre, creating emotionally real characters in absurd worlds. Prom King focuses on playing at 110 percent and surprising each other on stage. Prom King has performed in many venues across the city. Their current production 'Follow the Light' plays at Bad Dog Theatre (875 Bloor St W) on April 20th. Leah Erbe Leah is The AFC’s first program manager. The AFC is the lifeline for Canada’s entertainment industry, providing short-term financial assistance to entertainment industry professionals whose health, housing, or ability to work have been jeopardized by an unforeseen emergency. Leah spent eight years as The AFC’s case coordinator, fielding calls and processing applications for assistance, before becoming program manager in 2016. Prior to her work at The AFC, Leah worked as a member representative at the Songwriters Association of Canada. Leah has performed as a solo act, with her band Smugshot, and with other bands and projects in and around Toronto. Her songs have been featured on "Dawson's Creek", “Party of Five”, and in several independent films; she has worked with producers and co-writers Mike Rocha, Luther Mallory (Crush Luther), and Haydain Neale (jacksoul). She also has extensive TV and film credits as a singer, including theme vocals for "Earth: Final Conflict" and the IMAX documentary "Under The Sea", and featured vocals for the IMAX films "Spacestation" and 2016’s “A Beautiful Planet”. |