Creative Colosseum Podcast

Join Allysia and Dave for a discussion with Humboldt crash survivor Ryan Straschnitzki and Lucas Frison of Prairie Cat Productions about their new documentary series called "We Were Broncos" (streaming now). This discussion spans Ryan's journey with high-level competitive sports following a significant spinal injury as well as his experience being filmed in a story about his life. We...

Join Dave and Allysia for an audio-only evening chat about the ways in which they have levelled up in life over the past handful of months. This conversation spans being a university professor (Dave), going to grad school for philosophy (Allysia), the wonders of Eurovision, songs that make us feel something, apprehensions about AI (and its uses), and much more. Follow us over on YouTube: Creative...

Join us with filmmaker Aaron Sinclair, who is a writer, director, editor, composer, sound designer, and who takes up a bunch of other roles besides. We talk about what is involved in making a feature-length film, how to source financing, thinking outside the box for unique film formats, and more. Check out Aaron's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aaronsinclair.film/ Check out his YouTube chann...

Join us for a special episode with our good friend Rob Hillstead, who works in the film industry in Vancouver, BC. He wears many hats as a film director, musician, producer, lighting technician, and more, and we talk to him about some of the ups and downs of working on prominent film sets. We also discuss his history with artistic activism, particularly seen in the full-length documentary "Ba...

Today's episode features Evie Johnny Ruddy, who introduces us to the Transgender Media Portal. They give us a peak into their artistic journey as a journalist, a walking tour creator, and an augmented reality artist and teacher. They also discuss the launch of the brand new Transgender Media Portal, which is a growing database that connects the user to transgender filmmakers and their works. E...

In today's episode, Dave and Allysia each share four tips for how to deal with writer's block, whether or not you're a writer - the expression applies just as easily to all of the creative arts. They discuss their own experience (or lack thereof) with writer's block, and share tactical strategies for dealing with it. This is an actionable episode, so let's get that abundance ro...

Join Dave and Allysia for a conversation with Alex of Alex Paul Artistry. The discussion includes the topics of being a pop singer, transitioning to entrepreneurship, finding a niche in the beauty industry, natural beauty, expression and appearance, gender norms in beauty, self-care for men, cosmetics and their therapeutic value as an art form, when an interest in beauty turns into an obsession, a...

In today's episode, Dave and Allysia discuss the chicken-or-egg problem of mental health and the creative arts. We get personal and talk about how creativity and music helped us through our own significant challenges, and also the ways in which creativity has exacerbated our mental health issues. We muse on why so many people in the arts seem to struggle with mental health issues, discuss self...

In this episode, Dave interviews Laura Psotka from Roman Empire Studios, and they nerd out about film audio. They discuss the boom and bust cycle of being a creative entrepreneur, doing tech surveys and shooting location audio, overdubbing, the state of the film market in Saskatchewan, Laura’s work in the film Resting Potential (with a featured clip), the “garbage in, garbage out” philosophy of au...

Join us as we count down from 10 to 1 and spotlight our favourite lyrical moments. We discuss particular lines or passages that resonate with us, and chat about the artists who wrote them. It was impossible to pick only five each, but them's the breaks. What are your favourite all-time lyrics? We highly recommend spending a few hours combing for your music collection to come up with your own l...

In today's episode, Dave chats with fellow Chilean Andrew Valdez, an actor based out of Saskatchewan. They discuss how they know each other, how Andrew got interested in acting, working on the film Talent, the realities of working somewhere that isn't a dominant film hub (like Vancouver or L.A.), and more. For more on Andrew, visit: https://andrewovaldez.com/ Andrew's demo reel: https:...

The age-old question creative people get asked, and ask themselves, is, "how does one make a living with art?" Dave and Allysia have both forged a creative path that has led to some economic success, so they get into the topic of money in this episode. They debunk popular advice slogans ("just follow your dreams and don't listen to anyone else," and so forth) and offer a mo...

Dave and Allysia chat with Sundance Robson and Karen the Krakken about transformation through sound. We discuss Dave and Sundance's music connection and their ill-fated performance, the serendipity surrounding Sundance and Karen's connection, Sundance's transformational journey, addiction, getting into gongs and sound baths, having no plan B, Souris Valley, transitioning from a good jo...

We (Allysia and Dave) have been writing songs for 20+ years. And not just songwriting alone in our basements (though there's been plenty of that), but in bands; music to be performed at shows and recorded on albums. In Dave's case, this includes music that has even won an award. Music and songwriting trends have changed a lot over the years, and in this episode we discuss how our approach...

Creative people - be they artists, musicians, entrepreneurs, comedians - can easily fall into "lone wolf" syndrome. This propensity to go it alone is even more prevalent today, because creatives have access to many more tools than the people of yesteryear (or, for Dave and Allysia, our past selves). In this episode, we discuss the important role collaboration has played in our lives, how we have c...