CRATER CONVERSATIONS EP21: MATT HEITI

Welcome to another edition of Crater Conversations, a weekly show live on CKLU now on at a brand spanking new time Tuesday’s at 5PM! So, what exactly is the show all about? Join your host, Crater co-founder Jess, each week as we sit down with a local guest. We’ll talk about their projects, their passions, and the things they love about our little rock town! We’ll be sitting down with performers, entrepreneurs, community leaders – anyone with a story. Personal anecdotes, first inspirations, childhood follies, who knows where this will take us but we can’t wait to find out! Can’t catch the show on air? No worries, all our episodes will be posted online afterwards for easy listening. If you’re inclined to tune in live turn your radio dial to CKLU 96.7 or stream live at https://www.cklu.ca/. 5PM every Tuesday.

In early May, Sudbury had the pleasure of becoming home of the 20th Project Bookmark Canada plaque. The mission of Project Bookmark is to highlight specific locations that are featured in books set around Canada. Now displayed proudly outside of the iconic Townehouse Tavern you can find the plaque featuring a passage from Matt Heiti’s book The City Still Breathing. In his first novel Heiti takes us into the lives of 11 characters (perhaps inspired by a few Sudburians, but you’ll have to read it yourself to find out) all of them in some way connected to a mysterious body found on the side of the highway. Heiti is certainly no stranger to the written word, a playwright by trade his theatre pieces have been workshopped and produced across Canada. These works include Black Dog: 4 vs the World, Mucking in the Drift, BrokeDownTown and Plague. An active member of Pat the Dog Theatre Creation, Matt helps to facilitate opportunities for emerging playwrights and creative writers to hone their skills. Always looking for ways to innovate within Sudbury’s theatre community Matt also leads the way with Crestfallen theatre which specializes in immersive and often strange theatre experiences. Listen in to our full interview with Matt here and check out our Spotify playlist here.

“Standing on the red brick sidewalk outside the Nickel Bin, facing the tracks and train burping ash smoke into steel sky, Gordon thinks about the things he has lost—a long list ending with two boots. He tries to let it go. Watching the engineer, black-capped, swing into the Budd car—glacial steel surface. The car shunting. He tries to let it go. The brakes squeal and then—crash!—the cars impacting as the train reverses.” – from The City Still Breathing, by Matthew Heiti

Additional Tracks:

Curcuit – Shaky Stars

Maybe Tomorrow – Terry Bush