This Is Something Else: Consciously Eclectic Histories of the Arts Club Arts Club Theatre Company
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This Is Something Else: Consciously Eclectic Histories of the Arts Club is a 5-part limited podcast series travelling through more than 50 years of Vancouver’s theatre scene and the making of Canada’s largest urban theatre company, the Arts Club. Created and hosted by documentary theatremaker Andrew Kushnir, and inspired by investigative podcasts like This American Life and Nice White Parents, the project takes a distinct approach to history—focusing less on dates and events, and casting an eye (and ear) to the complex relationships between people, places and big ideas. As Andrew puts it in his first episode: “This series is not a eulogy. It’s not a legacy project or promotional piece. It’s not the careful work of a historian or journalist. And it’s not a walk down memory lane either. This is something else.” Putting together multiple perspectives into conversation with one another—at times, in quirky ways—Andrew sleuths out how the past can speak to our present moment in as vivid terms as possible.
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Bonus Episode: The Long Run
"There's just this big open field that you're playing in."
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Episode 5: The Future
“We make and remake. So we are experts at this…like we are experts at creating things out of nothing.”
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Episode 4: Inside/Outside
"And a lot of people were stunned when I said that. Now, what I should also add is there were some other people who reached out to me...and thanked me for saying it."
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Episode 3: The Walls Have Stories
"That is called living your life. And coming to terms with what you carry inside of you.”
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Episode 2: The Event
“It blasted them open. That was the beauty of it. It blasted people open and they went: Whoa, what was that?”
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Episode 1: The Opening Chord
"A Canadian theatre history wormhole? Is that actually a thing?"