7 episodes

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.

This Is Something Else: Consciously Eclectic Histories of the Arts Club Arts Club Theatre Company

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.9 • 35 Ratings

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.

    Episode 5: The Future

    Episode 5: The Future

    “We make and remake. So we are experts at this…like we are experts at creating things out of nothing.”

    • 1 hr 5 min
    Episode 4: Inside/Outside

    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."

    • 1 hr 2 min
    Episode 3: The Walls Have Stories

    Episode 3: The Walls Have Stories

    "That is called living your life. And coming to terms with what you carry inside of you.”

    • 1 hr 5 min
    Episode 2: The Event

    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?”

    • 53 min
    Episode 1: The Opening Chord

    Episode 1: The Opening Chord

    "A Canadian theatre history wormhole? Is that actually a thing?"  

    • 58 min
    Call 1-888-318-8628, ext, 278, to share your favourite Arts Club memories!

    Call 1-888-318-8628, ext, 278, to share your favourite Arts Club memories!

    This Is Something Else, an Arts Club podcast, explores the consciously eclectic history of Canada’s largest urban theatre company. And our host, Andrew Kushnir, wants to hear from you! Call 1-888-318-8628, ext, 278, with your favourite memories of the Arts Club—nothing is off limits. You might even be featured on the podcast, or on the Arts Club’s social media!

    • 1 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
35 Ratings

35 Ratings

GrantRamsay ,

Excellent!

Loved this! Extremely well produced!!

ZSoprana ,

Perfect pandemic listening

This podcast comes at the perfect time for despondent theatre-maker and theatre-lovers alike. While we wait to return, this love letter to the power of theatre with its humanity, debate and humour will keep us warm. Treat yourself.

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