Hear Tell Podcast Training Program!
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Attention Artists, Arts Workers and Arts Organizations in Atlantic Canada! Are you interested in learning about podcasting? Visual Arts Nova Scotia has developed HEAR TELL, a 6 week online podcast training program tailored to meet the needs of those working in the arts in Atlantic Canada. Registration for this exciting program opens June 2!
The HEAR TELL program will include a series of live webinars and online presentations by podcasting experts as well as creative podcast producers. Participants may register for the full six week program package or they can choose to register for individual webinars ($35) and online presentations ($25).
Check out our new HEAR TELL digital resource guide here: https://visualarts.ns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Hear-Tell-Resource-Guide.pdf
Click the tiles below to register
Although some Hear Tell Events are now sold out, we have reserved spaces for BIPOC identified artists, arts workers and creatives. Please contact Eryn at podcast@visualarts.ns.ca for more information.
We are offering VANS members a 50% early bird artist discount on the cost of the HEAR TELL Full Program Package. Not a VANS Member? Purchase a membership here.
The HEAR TELL Full Program Package will include a six week series of ongoing webinars, online presentations and a final Q & A with podcasting experts. We are offering free registration to individual webinars and presentations to all who identify as BIPOC artists, arts workers and creatives. Please email Eryn at podcast@visualarts.ns.ca to receive a code to use at the checkout. Already registered and paid without using this code? Get in touch and we can issue a refund.
Because we want this program to be accessible to everyone, we don’t want the cost to be a deterrent in participating. Please email Eryn at podcast@visualarts.ns.ca if you would like to work something out.
FULL PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Sonic Sorcery: The practical magic of podcast production Part 1
Webinar with Veronica Simmonds
Tuesday, June 16, 7 – 8:30 pm (AT)
So you want to make a podcast, but where do you start? In Part 1 of this webinar, award winning podcast producer Veronica Simmonds will talk you through the process of preproduction using examples from shows she has worked on. She will guide you through the early decision making processes of how to define your format, shape an episode, book guests and prepare for interviews. After taking this course you should be well prepared to hit record.
Sonic Sorcery: The practical magic of podcast production Part 2
Webinar with Veronica Simmonds
Wednesday, June 17, 7 – 8:30 pm (AT)
Okay so now you have hours of tape, what do you do with it? In Part 2 of this webinar, award winning podcast producer Veronica Simmonds will talk you through the process of post-production using examples from shows she has worked on. She will guide you through the processes of organizing your tape, structuring your story and writing around your clips. She will also give a small introduction to sound design principles and an overview of how to best market your podcast once it is beautifully produced. After taking this course you should be well prepared to craft your audio into a special podcast and launch it in to the world!
Ready, Set, Audio: The basics of sound recording, editing and mixing for podcasts
Webinar with Jason MacIsaac and Luke Batiot from Village Soundcast Network
Tuesday, June 23, 2 – 4 pm (AT)
In this webinar, Jason MacIsaac and Luke Batiot of the Village Soundcast Network offer their expertise in audio production. Participants will learn different options for setting up a DIY recording studio for podcasting, and will also gain an overview of how to do basic sound editing, mixing as well as the exporting of audio files.
Getting it Out There: Strategies for Podcast Distribution & Discoverability
Webinar with Jason MacIsaac and Luke Batiot from Village Soundcast Network
Wednesday, June 24, 2 – 3:30 pm (AT)
In this webinar, Jason MacIsaac and Luke Batiot of the Village Soundcast Network will talk about the basics of podcast distribution. Specifically they will discuss: what is an RSS feed, what is an aggregator, how do you create discoverability online, and what are the options (from free to fees) for podcast platforms and software.
Here There And Everywhere: The making of a podcast by KINUK
Online Artist Talk with Ursula Johnson and Angella Parsons
Thursday, June 25, 7 – 8 pm (AT)
Presented for free as part of Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s Annual General Meeting
KINUK (artist duo Ursula Johnson and Angella Parsons) will trace their journey of creating Here There And Everywhere by talking about programming considerations and the technical components of designing a DIY broadcast studio. “We have a desire to engage with a broader audience, acknowledging that we are not the first to have these conversations, rather we are jumping in with our perspectives. It’s also an opportunity for us to continue to explore the same subject matters of our KINUK collaborations throughout the development of the podcast.”
Embrace Your Voice
Online Presentation with Duane Jones
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Get Your Ships in Shape: Partnership & Sponsorship
Online Presentation with Maegen Black
Tuesday, June 30th, 2 – 3:30 pm (AT)
Note: There will be a Q&A following both presentations
Embrace Your Voice with Duane Jones
Podcasting is a diverse medium with an endless list of topics. This diversity also applies to the type of host and the overall voice of a podcast. Some shows feature hosts with big personalities and media training, some are far less formal and others are somewhere in between. In this talk we’ll examine some examples of different podcast voices, how I discovered the voice for the Art Pays Me Podcast and how you can develop the right voice for your show.
Get Your Ships in Shape: Partnership & Sponsorship with Maegen Black
The cost of producing a podcast can range from a few hundred dollars and a whole lot of time, to “the sky’s the limit” and a whole lot of time. With a good idea, a polished approach, and a bit of gumption, the Canadian Crafts Federation produced a slick ten episode run of the Citizens of Craft Podcast – where all expenses were covered through grants, sponsorships, and partnerships. Learn from our experience to plot out your creative approach to funding.
Art Criticism in Conversation: Evoking the Visual through Audio
Online Presentation with Sky Goodden
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Podcasting as Practice
Online Presentation with Lou Sheppard
Tuesday, July 7, 2 – 3:30 pm (AT)
Note: There will be a Q&A following both presentations
Art Criticism in Conversation: Evoking the Visual through Audio with Sky Goodden
Sky Goodden, Publisher and Editor of the international online art publication Momus, launched Momus: The Podcast in 2017, with her co-producer and co-host Lauren Wetmore coming on board shortly thereafter. In March 2020 it was named one of the top-ten art podcasts by The New York Times. In this presentation, Goodden will discuss this three-year trajectory, starting with her reasons for presenting a less formal version of art criticism – “criticism in conversation” – and pointing to the challenges and potential of discussing a visual medium in an audio format. She will also gesture to the thin field in which they’re operating – there is a real dearth of inventive contemporary art podcasting – and what that tells us about its concerns, challenges, and potential.
Podcasting as Practice with Lou Sheppard
Lou Sheppard will present their podcast project “What We Can’t Say in English,” which developed out of a community residency in Richmond, BC. Lou will talk about using podcasting as a medium for art-making, addressing some of its challenges and potentials. They will discuss how artists can incorporate podcasting into their studio practices, both as a means of creating work, and as means of engaging and extending practice.
Resource Sharing FTW: a conversation about the small town podcast
Online Presentation with Monica Lacey
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My Podcast Story
Online Presentation with Israel Ekanem
Tuesday, July 14, 2 – 3:30 pm (AT)
Note: There will be a Q&A following both presentations
Resource Sharing FTW: a conversation about the small town podcast with Monica Lacey
In this presentation, Monica Lacey (Executive Director of PEI’s artist run centre, this town is small) shares her thoughts and experience on resource and knowledge sharing in rural areas, and how that action helps everyone succeed. She will discuss this idea in relation to the small town podcast, a project where speakers share helpful tips, experience, and information for those working in arts administration. Lacey says “Through the medium of podcasting, we are able to share resources broadly, without an expiry date or the need for a specific commitment from listeners”.
My Podcast Story with Israel Ekanem
My Podcast Story with Israel Ekanem gives a bare-bones breakdown of how you can use the power of story to drive your podcast. With the rise of podcasting and the relative ease of starting one, it is easy to get lost in the noise. By using the power of story, you can not only boost your signal but find your tribe. You have a story to tell, let’s discuss the best way for you to share that story through your podcast.
Nothing to See Here: Spoken Word and Experiments in Audio Collaboration
Online Presentation with David Clark
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Podcast Wisdom: An interactive online discussion with a panel of podcasting experts
Online Expert Panel with Veronica Simmonds and Duane Jones
Tuesday, July 21, 2 – 4 pm (AT)
Note: There will be a 15 minute Q&A between David Clark’s presentation and the Online Discussion
Nothing to See Here: Spoken Word and Experiments in Audio Collaboration with David Clark
This presentation will look at the radio/podcast program Nothing to See Here, a project produced by David Clark as a case study in collaboration, improvisation, and community co-creation. For the past four years, this program has grown out of ongoing recording sessions at NSCAD University and has become a workshop for sonic explorations, storytelling, world-building, and writing for audio presentation. Clark will also discuss how this project fits into various experimental traditions and also explores the current state of radio broadcasting, internet streaming, and fringe podcast networks.
Podcast Wisdom: An interactive online discussion with a panel of podcasting experts
Online Expert Panel with Veronica Simmonds and Duane Jones
During this interactive panel discussion, participants will have the opportunity to ask Veronica and Duane about all things related to podcasting. Bring your questions, queries and quandaries to this session and learn more about how to launch a successful podcast project into the digital universe.
PRESENTER BIOS
Veronica Simmonds is an award winning radio documentarian/podcast producer/audio artist based in Toronto, Canada. Described by THIS Magazine as a “Sonic Sorceress,” her documentaries have aired on CBC, ABC, BBC and Radiotopia. Her audio art work has aired in a weather observatory in France, a hair dryer in Pittsburgh, and a grain silo in Norway. She got her start in Halifax at the community radio station CKDU 88.1 on her show Braidio, where she braided hair live on air. She currently works at the CBC where she has produced the critically acclaimed podcasts Sleepover, Alone: A Love Story, and Tai Asks Why.
Learn more about Veronica Simmonds and her work in radio and podcasting here.
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Jason MacIsaac is a co-founder/co-producer of the Village Soundcast Network, one of Atlantic Canada’s leading podcast networks. The Village Soundcast Network has produced such original podcast series as: What Happened To Holly Barlett, The Food Podcast with Lindsay Cameron Wilson, Lens Me Your Ears, The Coast’s 25 X 25, Back Home: A Music Nova Scotia podcast, Less Than Live with Kate Or Die, Turning A New Leaf and many more, including limited run podcasts for the ECMA, FIN film festival and AFX-the animation festival of Halifax. Jason has been a guest speaker and judge at the Atlantic Podcast Summit for the past two years.
Luke Batiot is a graduate of the NSCC Recording Arts program and the chief engineer at Village Sound since 2012. In addition to engineering hundreds of podcasts over the years, Luke also does executive production, sound design and original music composition for a variety of podcasts. Luke has been a guest speaker at the Atlantic Podcast Summit for the past two years.
Learn more about Jason and Luke and their work at the Village Soundcast Network here.
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KINUK is the recent artistic collaborative duo of Ursula Johnson and Angella Parsons. Johnson and Parsons first met at the Nova Scotia College of Art& Design in 2001 and married in 2011.
Parsons describes KINUK as:
We explore the romantic interpersonal relationship on a different plane – the public versus private. We play with taking the benign, everyday conversations and experiences from our shared space privately and push that into the public realm and play with the boundaries of public versus private. We enter into a broader dialogue historically with other performance artist duos who have explored similar themes – relational aesthetics comes in there…
The things we’re interested in: we’re playing with kind of sameness, how we connect, we all connect with a sameness, how that becomes a foundation for how we’re connecting. But then we identify difference – whether through language, culture, worldview, and the performances or sorry the art, its more the art… the art that we make becomes….
Johnson describes KINUK as:
…well we talk about all different types of art – we talk about performance art, sculpture, culture, economics, gender and we talk about our relationship to each other and how we operate or work within those constructs as individuals but also together as a couple. We often have a similar perspective when it comes to values of sociological, political or even often philosophical ideologies and we look at what, or how we relate to one another in this world that we live in and we often ask if other couples or individuals have similar conversations and then we think of all kinds of art projects that could explore dynamics of spaces or situations and wonder if it would resonate with other people because we wonder if they think the same things.
Check out this interview with KINUK and Rosanna Deerchild on CBC’s Unreserved here.
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Duane Jones is an experienced Graphic Designer and Artist and the founder of Art Pays Me, a lifestyle brand and podcast that advocates for people pursuing a life of creativity, purpose and abundance. Duane is also Records and Information Manager for the Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine.
Duane has been nominated for a Best of Halifax award twice for fashion design and once or podcasting while co-hosting a podcast called Changing the Narrative. The Art Pays Me podcast was also recognized in the New & Noteworthy section of iTunes when it debuted in 2019.
Duane has presented at The Canadian Conference on Medical Education, Podcamp Halifax, Halifax Pop Explosion, Social Media Day Halifax, Atlantic Fashion Week The Black Business Initiative Summit and hosted live events in collaboration with E3C (Creative Kick) and Soli Productions. He has also contributed to or been featured on, CBC, CTV, Global, The Coast, Halifax Magazine, News 95.5, Revision Path Podcast and Clients From Hell Podcast.
Check out Duane’s ART PAYS ME project here.
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With over 15 years experience in contemporary fine craft, Maegen Black has built a career from her passion. A graduate of OCAD University’s Material Art and Design program with a Bachelor of Design in jewellery and metalsmithing, she is now a full time arts administrator and advocate, as well as a freelance writer and curator, and the host of the Citizens of Craft podcast. In her full time position as the Director of the Canadian Crafts Federation, she works directly with professional craft organizations across the country to tackle collaborative projects, national networking, and advocacy for craft and culture at the provincial, territorial and federal level.
Check out Maegen’s work with the Citizens of Craft Podcast here.
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Sky Goodden is the founding Publisher and Editor of Momus, an international art publication and podcast that stresses “a return to art criticism.” Momus has been shortlisted for two International Awards for Art Criticism since its inauguration in 2014, and its contributors have been awarded nine Creative Capital Warhol Grants for Art Writers, and a Rabkin Foundation Award for Art Journalism. Momus published its first print compendium in 2017, and in that same year, launched its podcast, which has been named one of the top-ten art podcasts by The New York Times (March 2020). Goodden was the Artist-in-Residence at Montreal’s Concordia University in 2018-19, and holds an MFA in Criticism & Curatorial Practice from OCAD University, which has awarded her with an award as an “Alumni of Influence.” Goodden has published in Frieze, Art in America, Modern Painters, and Art21 among others.
Check out Momus: The Podcast here.
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Lou Sheppard is an interdisciplinary artist from K’jipuktuk/Halifax. They have exhibited in Canada and internationally, notably in the Toronto Biennial, in the Antarctic Biennale and the Antarctic Pavilion in Venice. Sheppard received the Emerging Atlantic Artist Award in 2017, and has twice been longlisted for the Sobey Art Award (2018, 2020) receiving an international residency award in 2018. In their current practice Sheppard uses processes of translation and metaphor to interrogate structures of power and performativity in data and language. Their work often leads them to collaborate with communities and with musicians, visual artists and performing artists. They are the current Branscombe House artist in residence with the city of Richmond, BC.
Discover more about Lou and their work here.
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Monica Lacey is a multidisciplinary artist, mother, and Kundalini Yoga teacher, as well as the Executive Director of this town is small inc, PEI’s artist-run centre. Awarded as a W. Garfield Weston scholar during her studies in Textiles and Photography at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, she continues to place service to her community and excellence in her work as top priorities. Monica has completed artist residencies in Canada and the US and her artwork is in public and private collections across North America. She lives in Charlottetown with her husband, daughter, and incredibly snuggly cat. The organization where she works, this town is small, is dedicated to fostering sustainability for contemporary arts practice on PEI through providing innovative, challenging programming and encouraging collaboration and communication among members of the artistic community and the community at large.
Check out the this town is small podcast here.
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Israel Ekanem hosts the Blackout Podcast writes, directs and produces Ataraxia and he is a storyteller. He was introduced to storytelling by his grandmother, Lydia and he fell in love with it. He believes that a story, properly told can change the world, one person at a time. He hopes to keep telling stories for as long as he lives.
Check out Israel’s Blackout Podcast & Ataraxia Podcast.
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David Clark is a media artist, filmmaker, and visual artist. His recent work includes The End: Death in Seven Colours, 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein, A is for Apple and Meantime in Greenwich. He has recently exhibited in Althea, Spain, at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin (as part of transmediale), and was included in the 2018 Biennale Nationale de Sculpture Contemporaine, in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. He has given talks at the Université Paris 8 in Paris, Cambridge University, and the Sundance Film Festival. He won the 2011 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Award in 2011. He teaches Expanded Media at NSCAD University.
Check out the Nothing to See Here podcast here.
