Arts And Older Adult Podcast : Episode 1 :: Aging, Older Adults And The Arts with Erica Botner

This podcast is a review of the many issues that affect adults in their older years, including myths and realities of aging, various types of aging, including cognitive, biological aging, social and emotional aging, some do’s and don’ts when it comes to working with older adults, and the role and benefits of creative expression in our later years. Albeit a huge topic, the discussion between host and teaching artist Louise Campbell and guest Erica Botner,  a program manager for seniors at the Community Health and Social Services Network, also known as CHSSN, and a lecturer on this topic at Concordia University.

Erica Botner is the Program Manager for Seniors at the Community Health and Social Services Network. She is also a Lecturer at Concordia University in Applied Human Science where she teaches courses in human relations, therapeutic recreation and aging. She has more than 20 years of experience working with seniors and caregivers in community and clinical settings and in planning, implementing and evaluating large-scale provincial programs.

Louise Campbell is a Montreal-based musician whose professional hats range from composer-performer and participatory arts facilitator to cultural mediator and Teaching Artist. Regardless of the hat she is wearing, Louise seeks to interrogate and renew the ways in which we make music and art by creating new works with everyone, regardless of age, ability, level of prior experience, or training. Louise works extensively as a Teaching Artist with ELAN ArtistsInspire and Culture in Schools, and as a cultural mediator with arts organizations such as Innovations en concert, Bradyworks, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, and the Opéra de Montréal.

Acknowledgements

Hosted by Louise Campbell, this podcast was recorded at ELAN’s Community Digital Arts Hub, with mixing and editing by Tyler Rauman. Music featured on this podcast was performed by the Jabbour Family Band featuring Rowan Jabbour on piano, Oscar Jabbour on fiddle, and Guillaume Jabbour on guitar and accordion. The pieces were recorded live in their Lower Laurentians home. The two pieces are Hommage  à Philippe Bruneau by Guy Loyer, and La Turlutte à Antonio Bazinet by Antonio Bazinet. Art featured on this podcast is by Kiran Ambwani.

This podcast was recorded at ELAN’s Community Digital Arts Hub, with mixing by the Tyler Rauman. Music featured on this podcast was composed, performed and produced by . This recording was made possible with the financial support of the Secrétariat aux relations avec les Québecois d’expression anglaise. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of ELAN or our funder.

Arts and Older Adults : Episode 1 :: Aging, Older Adults And The Arts With Erica Botner

Arts And Older Adult Podcast : Episode 2 :: Making Invisible Work Visible At The Centre des femmes d'ici et d'ailleurs

In this episode, photographer Kiran Ambwani and community organizer Stéphanie McConnell-Enright of the Centre des femmes d'ici et d'ailleurs join host Louise Campbell in a discussion on the variety of forms arts with older adults can take, and the implication needed on the teaching artist and community organization when planning and running programs for older adults, with a specific focus on their current project with a group of older women that looks at the invisible work of women.

To find out more about organizations and films referred to in this podcast, see:
Centre des femmes d'ici et d'ailleurs : https://cdfia.net/
Engrenage noir : https://engrenagenoir.ca/rouage/

Passionate about the visual documentation of people, things, spaces and moments, Kiran Ambwani is a visual artist based in Montreal, Canada. She specializes in photography based visual story-telling projects, cultural mediation, curation, art direction and photography workshop facilitation. Kiran has collaborated on several humanitarian projects with non-profits and community organizations here and abroad. Her work documenting the human condition, human rights issues and international aid has been diffused by various publications worldwide. Kiran has also participated in several group and solo exhibitions locally and internationally. Art and community engagement connect the various facets of her artistic practice. Kiran is a graduate of McGill University and the Dawson Institute of Photography.  For more information, www.kiranambwani.com.

Stéphanie McConnell-Enright is a community organizer working within community organizations since 2005, and at the Centre des femmes d'ici et d'ailleurs since 2008.  She facilitates various popular education activities and comittees such as the  Antiracist Committee and the current socially engaged art project with artist Kiran Ambwani.  She is a mother of 3 and member of a housing collective in Villeray.

Louise Campbell is a Montreal-based musician whose professional hats range from composer-performer and participatory arts facilitator to cultural mediator and Teaching Artist. Regardless of the hat she is wearing, Louise seeks to interrogate and renew the ways in which we make music and art by creating new works with everyone, regardless of age, ability, level of prior experience, or training. Louise works extensively as a Teaching Artist with ELAN ArtistsInspire and Culture in Schools, and as a cultural mediator with arts organizations such as Innovations en concert, Bradyworks, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, and the Opéra de Montréal.

Acknowledgements

Hosted by Louise Campbell, this podcast was recorded at ELAN’s Community Digital Arts Hub, with mixing and editing by Tyler Rauman. Music featured on this podcast was performed by the Jabbour Family Band featuring Rowan Jabbour on piano, Oscar Jabbour on fiddle, and Guillaume Jabbour on guitar and accordion. The pieces were recorded live in their Lower Laurentians home. The two pieces are Hommage à Philippe Bruneau by Guy Loyer, and La Turlutte à Antonio Bazinet by Antonio Bazinet. Art featured on this episode is by Kiran Ambwani.

This podcast was recorded at ELAN’s Community Digital Arts Hub, with mixing by the Tyler Rauman. Music featured on this podcast was composed, performed and produced by . This recording was made possible with the financial support of the Secrétariat aux relations avec les Québecois d’expression anglaise. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of ELAN or our funder.

Arts and Older Adults : Episode 2 :: Making Invisible Work Visible

Arts And Older Adult Podcast : Episode 3 :: Intergenerational Listening at Avoca Bridge

In this episode, musician and sound artist Guillaume Jabbour and lifelong learner Barbara Radford-Alfonso join host Louise Campbell in a discussion on the variety of forms arts with older adults can take, from the perspective of a teaching artist and an older adult who seeks out arts programming. A specific topic of discussion is Guillaume's intergenerational audio project on Avoca Bridge in which Barb participated.

To find out more about organizations and films referred to in this podcast, see:
EngAge: 
Concordia’s ACT Lab: https://actlab.ca/
Avoca Bridge Stories Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/guillaumejabbour/sets/les-recits-du-pont-davoca-avoca-bridge-stories/ 
Storymap of the hamlet of Avoca, Municipal Regional County of Argenteuil: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/1d49af892cbb4873823f8bc892642e04

Guillaume Jabbour (he/him) centers his practice around sound, research-creation and community engagement. He recently completed a master’s degree in media Studies and is continuing as a doctoral fellow in Communication Studies at Concordia University in Montreal, QC. Guillaume’s research explores soundwalking and deep listening practices as means of fostering intergenerational and community connections. As a musician and community sound artist, he performs and facilitates workshops with older adults and youth, exploring the beauty and power of sound. Guillaume lives with his wife, fellow community Artist and photographer Tanis Saucier, and two teenage children in Gore, QC.

Barbara Radford Alfonso is a lifelong learner, with a passion for audiobooks, sometimes two at once, ancestry research, and photography, her creative hobby. A breast cancer survivor, mom of twin daughters, and grand mom of two delightful granddaughters, Barbara lives in the Lower Laurentians with her husband of 52 years.

Louise Campbell is a Montreal-based musician whose professional hats range from composer-performer and participatory arts facilitator to cultural mediator and Teaching Artist. Regardless of the hat she is wearing, Louise seeks to interrogate and renew the ways in which we make music and art by creating new works with everyone, regardless of age, ability, level of prior experience, or training. Louise works extensively as a Teaching Artist with ELAN ArtistsInspire and Culture in Schools, and as a cultural mediator with arts organizations such as Innovations en concert, Bradyworks, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, and the Opéra de Montréal.

Acknowledgements

Hosted by Louise Campbell, this podcast was recorded at ELAN’s Community Digital Arts Hub, with mixing and editing by Tyler Rauman. Music featured on this podcast was performed by the Jabbour Family Band featuring Rowan Jabbour on piano, Oscar Jabbour on fiddle, and Guillaume Jabbour on guitar and accordion. The pieces were recorded live in their Lower Laurentians home. The two pieces are Hommage à Philippe Bruneau by Guy Loyer, and La Turlutte à Antonio Bazinet by Antonio Bazinet. Art featured on this episode is by Tanis Saucier.

This podcast was recorded at ELAN’s Community Digital Arts Hub, with mixing by the Tyler Rauman. Music featured on this podcast was composed, performed and produced by . This recording was made possible with the financial support of the Secrétariat aux relations avec les Québecois d’expression anglaise. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of ELAN or our funder.

Arts and Older Adults : Episode 3 :: Intergenerational Listening at Avoca Bridge

❤️‍🔥😈 MDEMIXXE 2025 HARD TECHNO + SCHRANZ MIX: Ben Techy - What Is What

In episode 364 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his garage reflecting on the small and big things that impact on the everyday engagement we all have with photography.

Dr.Grant Scott
After fifteen years art directing photography books and magazines such as Elle and Tatler, Scott began to work as a photographer for a number of advertising and editorial clients in 2000. Alongside his photographic career Scott has art directed numerous advertising campaigns, worked as a creative director at Sotheby’s, art directed foto8magazine, founded his own photographic gallery, edited Professional Photographer magazine and launched his own title for photographers and filmmakers Hungry Eye. He founded the United Nations of Photography in 2012, and is now a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, and a BBC Radio contributor. Scott is the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019), and What Does Photography Mean To You? (Bluecoat Press 2020). His photography has been published in At Home With The Makers of Style (Thames & Hudson 2006) and Crash Happy: A Night at The Bangers (Cafe Royal Books 2012). His film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay was premiered in 2018.

Scott’s book Inside Vogue House: One building, seven magazines, sixty years of stories, Orphans Publishing, is now on sale.

© Grant Scott 2025

A Photographic Life-364: 'Walker Evans is the GOAT, Being Liked and AI Prompts'

In this episode, a conversation with a Readings favourite, Diana Reid, author of the new novel, Signs of Damage. 

The Kelly family’s idyllic holiday in the South of France is disturbed when Cass, a thirteen-year-old girl, goes missing. She’s discovered several hours later with no visible signs of injury. Everyone present dismisses the incident as a close brush with tragedy. Sixteen years later, at a funeral for a member of the Kelly family, Cass collapses. The present and the past start to collide as buried secrets come to light and old doubts resurface. What really happened to Cass in the South of France? And what’s wrong with her now? 

A gripping tale of unravelling memories and moral ambiguities, Signs of Damage wrestles with the difference between understanding other people, and trying to explain them.

Diana Reid in conversation

In episode 234 Jo welcomes back Prof Adam Hart, who is professor of science communication at the University of Gloucestershire. Adam busts myths about marine life including bioluminescence, coral, seahorses, octopuses and dolphins.&nbsp; Jo also has a highlight from the 2024 Cheltenham Science Festival - her chat with Prof Mark Miodownik &amp; Prof Andrea Sella, about gases, microplastics, heat pumps and sweets.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Presented, produced &amp; edited by Jo Durrant. Music licensed from Purple Planet. &nbsp; Jo's website:&nbsp;&nbsp;

Ep 234 Prof Adam Hart Myth Busting Marine Life

❤️‍🔥💅 MDEMIXXE 2025 HARD TECHNO + SCHRANZ MIX: CRØ - Ravers Dont Want Redemption (Withecker Remix)

Since 1989, the North Carolina Heritage Awards have honored artists statewide for their contributions to the cultural lives of their communities. The Folklife program of the North Carolina Arts Council is pleased to announce the five artists/groups who will be presented with the 2025 awards on June 7, at a public ceremony in Raleigh. The honorees for 2025 are: Round Peak Guitarist, Chester McMillian; Lumbee traditional artisans, Herman and Loretta Oxendine; North Indian classical musician, Gaurang Doshi; Brasstown Woodcarver, Helen Gibson; and Gospel Quartet, The Glorifying Vines Sisters. For tickets and more information, visit pinecone.org.

Introduction music performed by Etta Baker.
Arts Across NC is a podcast by and about the North Carolina Arts Council.

The North Carolina Heritage Awards are back!

Join host Jane Wynne as she visits the Tulista Art Gallery in Sidney, British Columbia. This week Jane speaks Hanna Bendtsen Kynaston and Renato Berlanda. Their works are at the show entitled "Orchestrated by Nature."

ArtBeat S1E7 Hanna Bendtsen Kynaston Renato Berlanda

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The Readings Podcast is a celebration of books, reading and culture. Episodes are published weekly and include author interviews, event recordings, booksellers chatting about their favourite reads, industry insights, and more.

Arts Across NC is a podcast by and about the North Carolina Arts Council. Founded in 1967 with the democratic vision of "arts for all citizens," the North Carolina Arts Council sustains and grows the arts for the benefit of North Carolinians and their communities. Join us as we celebrate the rich history of the arts across North Carolina.

"To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It's a way of life." Henri Cartier-Bresson. 

Whatever your level of engagement with photography The Photographic Life Podcast explains the realities of working with and learning about the medium. Each week photographer, writer, lecturer, filmmaker, and BBC Radio contributor Dr. Grant Scott reflects on news, discussions, themes and issues surrounding the photographic community. This is a podcast for those who do not want kit reviews, photoshop techniques, marketing babble or camera talk. It is for those who want informed conversation about photography and life. Grant Scott is the founder/curator of www.unitednationsofphotography.com, a Senior Lecturer in Photography at Oxford Brookes University, UK, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained, The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography and New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography.

His documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay has been screened across the UK, and in Canada and the US. 

Podcast music: Written and performed by Laura Ritchie.

Jo is the presenter of the award-winning, independent, arts & science podcast Jo Durrant's Beautiful Universe.

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