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Episode 3 Mark Tara from Rainbow Country Talks with Emmy nominated filmmaker Vera Drew about her latest movie The People's Joker, an illegal QUEER coming of age comic book movie. I chat with South American director John Barker about his new dramatic thriller The Umbrella Man which premiered at TIFF22. Film critic Daniel Garber from Critic's Circle Shares his interview with Sam Soko and Lau...

Mark Tara (Rainbow Country), Daniel Garber (CIUT's Critic's Circle) and me repping CIUT 89.5 FM at #TIFF2022. EPISODE 2 I share my interview with Stephanie Johnes , director of Maya and the Wave . Mark Tara from Rainbow Country brings us Buffy Sainte-Marie Carry It On . Award-Winning Music producer Chris Birkett talks about this new DOC. His decades long working relationship with Buffy Sai...

My chat with director/writers Carolina Markowicz about her dark social satire, Charcoal , set in the countryside of Sao Paulo, Stephanie Johnes on her doc about Brazilian giant-wave surfer, Maya Ribeira in Maya and the Wave and Mbithi Masia about his Kenyan short film, Baba about systemic trauma and a little boy's magical way of escaping reality.

On EPISODE 1 Film critic Daniel Garber from Critic's Circle Shares his interview with Gaspar Noé director of 2015's Love. I share my 2021 interview with Jean Luc Herbulot director of Saloum. Mark Tara from Rainbow Country talks with TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey about what audiences can expect at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.

My interviews w/ John Barker dir #TheUmbrellaMen and v.t nayani dir #ThisPlace

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#TrojanGirlsAndTheOuthouseOfAtreus and some events happening in the #BloorStreetCultureCorridor

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 @luashayennedancecompany, which is producing the festival. Music featured on the show: Ahdri Zhina Mandiela (Black Woman), Comfort Iyase Ero (Kokodiko, the Dance Monster) and Lillian Allen (Freedom &a...

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 this fierce triumvirate of Carnival Women. Plus Cuban music by Juana Bacallao , Merceditas Valdes , and Jane Bunnett .

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 of Dusk), Na-ee-lah and nth degree ((Wordlife: Tales of the Underground Griots) and Four the Moment (In My Soul).

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 black composer of classical music, Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de Saint-Georges, born in Guadalupe, raised in France.

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 experiences Writer Heidy M of http://hyemusings.ca/ shares her #Sundance2022 picks and I share my thoughts on @wkamaubell doc, #WeNeedToTalkAboutCosby.

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/ joins me to suggest Halloween films for scaredy cats like me as well as some for folks who prefer the scarier stuff.

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 , happening at the Aga Khan Museum .

#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 @tmtmwithdonnag @ciutfm. 29 minutes in, hear my chat with @sistahlois about pandemic life as an artist.

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 Gyles about pivoting during the pandemic; James McNally , founder and programmer for Shorts That Are Not Pants Film Festival , about adapting the festival to a virtual one this year; and Lindsey M...

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 course his music. Hit me up @tmtmtwithdonnag (Twitter/IG/FB) about who you imagine when you hear his song, " The Way She Moves ."

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 reflects the humour brought about by their close relationship.

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 with Cedric Martin , Artistic Producer/cast and Kimberlee Walker , Education and Outreach Manager/cast about this slice of Canadian history. My second interview is with Rochelle Richardson , t...

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 United States of Poetry.