CiTR -- Arts Report

Lana and Serena talk about Shindig days one and two, with a little convo about buzzwords too. Featuring audio interview footage from Cherry and the Cherubs, Seeing Grey, Floating Faces, and The Exit Strategy!!

Serena interviews Wendy Van Riesen, textile artist and owner of Dahlia Drive. Catch her taking her bow at the Circle Craft Fair!

Serena, Miki and Amélie talk about Someone Like You, VIFF and Hello Dankness, and finally ageism!

Interview with local filmmaker Dale Bredeson about his upcoming film, East Van Rich!

Arts Report is in a bit of a liminal period, so this episode Serena talks about life, plays a few songs and welcomes in August!

Serena and Amelie chat about music festivals and Serena recaps Sled Island!

Ruby and Serena talk with Cherrykim and Ben about youtube poop and Cherry’s songwriting process, as well as a live studio performance and some unreleased songs.

Ruby, Serena and Aiden (the hero) share stories and even take a caller! Steve gives us a review of ‘the First Metis Man of Odesa’ and Izzie and Zoie interview VSFF contributors Jack and Clara about their films ‘When Will This Story End’ and ‘Debutante’ respectively.

Jillian Marks joins Ruby and Serena to promote her new song “The End.” Steve reviews the Cultch’s production of Body Parts.

Ruby Interview Cameron Mackenzie, director of Zee Zee Theatre’s Unexpecting. Kimara interviews Jim Smith about dance show Dada Masilo’s The Sacrifice.

This week’s episode sees Serena, Ava and Jeff in the studio! Lua interviews Kat Single-Dain, creator of Disco Inferno, and Steve reviews Paradise or the Impermanence of Ice Cream. Jeff tells us some fun/devastating facts, and we all talk about Jersey Shore!

This week on Arts Report Serena and Ruby hosted! Lua reviewed the play Sense and Sensibility. Jeslin reviewed the play My Little Tomato, and Elle Reviewed In My Body by DanceHouse. We finished with Kimara's interview with Ilhani Abdullahi, who is launching her comedy Not For Us.

Ruby and Serena co-host this week's episode on International Women's Day! You will hear a review from Silvana of the Polygon Gallery’s As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic. Then Ruby and Serena highlight some local shows happening in the city and talk about some of their favorite women.

On this week's episode we hear Kimara’s interview with Jim Smith from 'Broken Chord' Tells Forgotten History of The African Native Choir. Ruby interview’s comedy duo, Girl God about their upcoming show for the Just For Laughs Festival. Lua reviews The Cull and Steven Review’s Starwalker!

Arts Report brings you a very special Just For Laughs Comedy Festival episode! Vancouver's Just For Laughs Comedy Festival is happening from February 16th-25th at theatres all over the city. You can get your tickets at jflvancouver.com. Ruby interviews comedians Becky Robinson performing at the Rio Theatre on February 19th, Gianmarco Soresci performing at the Biltmore Cabaret on February 16th, and...

IT’S FUNDRIVE this week on Arts Report! We are trying to raise $20,000 for a new radio transmitter. We love CiTR so much, any amount helps. In this episode Evan interviews the director of The Wolves. Lua reviews Artclub’s Forgiveness. She also reviews Studio 58’s A Chorus line and interview’s Diane Speirs, the production's Musical Director, and Terrence Zhou, who is played Mike. We wrap up with Ki...

Arts Report comes to you on a Thursday morning for a special fill in featuring all PuSH Festival content! Zoie and Izzy interviewed the people behind the show Lotano+Istante. They also speak with Tom Arthur Davis, the interim Director of Programming for PuSH. Plus Ruby lists the shows playing during the last few days of the festival!

On today’s show Kimara and Phoebe joined Ruby to talk about some recent shows they saw. Kimara was entertained by Little Willy at the Cultch and Phoebe was touched by Leaving and Waving at the Polygon. We also heard a review of Amnesia at the Vancouver Playhouse from Lua, and Zoie’s interview with Fay Nas, co-creator and producer of The Cafe, showing at the PuSH festival! We are also releasing a s...

The first episode of 2023! Ruby interviewed Ingrid Hansen, who is one third of the comedy troupe The Merkin Sisters. The Merkin Sister’s new musical comedy album is out now! Lua interviewed Joshua Beamish of MOVETHECOMPANY whose dance show, Source Amnesia, premiered in Vancouver on January 13th. Then we wrap up with some exciting upcoming events happening in the city.

We are back with more VIFF coverage! On today's episode Ruby interviews Dean Fleischer Camp, director of the critically acclaimed film "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On." Fleischer Camp will be giving a virtual talk in Vancouver on October 7th as a part of VIFF Connect Talks. Ruby also speak to Canadian director, Marie Clements, whose new film "Bones of Crows" kicked off VIFF's 2022 programming this...

VIFF coverage begins! Arts Report kicks off our VIFF partnership with an interview with Alan Franey, VIFF's Director of International Programming. Live on the air Ruby interview Hayley Gray and Elad Tzadok, directors of "Unarchived," which will be screening at VIFF this year. We wrap up with Lua's review of "Peter Pan Goes Wrong" put on by the Cultch.

Arts Report is Back Baby! Kicking off the first episode of the new school year, Ruby Interviews the cast of CBC/Netflix's Fakes. We talk to the organizers and performers of the Vancouver Improv Festival. And get excited, because we announce CiTR and Arts Report's partnership with the Vancouver International Film Festival, specifically with the Norwegian Film, "Sick of Myself," dir. by Kristoffer B...

Today's show features two interviews, a review and some songs to change it up! We heard from Jacob Baldwin about the Eh! Comedy Festival for one of the interviews. Next up was with UBC Alum Daniel Curalli who is currently playing Shakespeare in Theatre Under The Stars' "Something Rotten!", he also will be understudying Farren Timoteo as Francesco Mantini in The Arts Club's "Made in Italy" which wi...

We started off today with an in-studio interview with Brandon Yan about the Queer Film Festival which was followed by an interview with Nicole Spinola that Dave Campbell from Eclectic Lunch (Fridays 12 pm!) did about Campcue, a theatre camp! Thank you to Dave for sharing this interview with us! We played Lua's review of White Girls in Moccasins which was recorded at the airport so excuse the backg...

Today's episode is filled with interviews! We kicked off with one with Anthony Lee, who told us more about Selfie which is being presented fully online. (Fun fact, this interviewed was shared on our soundcloud ahead of time so go check out our account to get interviews and reviews ahead of time!) Afterwards we had our only review of the week, Polygon Gallery's new exhibition called Ghosts of The M...