CRATER CONVERSATIONS EP31: UP HERE 4

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.

Up Here 4 has come and gone and not unlike their three previous editions have left us with some beautiful new murals as a memento! Over the weekend of August 17-19^th Sudburians and visitors alike were treated to a buffet of music and art for their sampling pleasure – possibly the best way to spend one of the last weekends of summer. As part of the festival we here at Our Crater were invited to take part in an Up Here takeover on CKLU featuring special festival programming all weekend long. First up we have Johanna Westby who we caught fresh off completing her beautiful mural on the wall of the VanHorne St Fire Station. We got some great insight into what goes into planning a giant scale mural and the inspiration for her design. Next we had the chance to speak with Karen Strain from Voices for Women who facilitated valuable training for Up Here staff and volunteers on bystander intervention and awareness. We learned some techniques to safely insert yourself if you notice someone in need of assistance, something we should all keep in mind year round. To wrap things up we threw it back to one of our early interviews with Shawn McLaren. He’s a familiar name around town, you’ll catch him performing stand up, shaking it with Sudbury Burlesque and even sometimes dressed up as his alter-ego Aunt Zelda for Dirty Bingo. He also has been hard at work on a film project he co-wrote and starred in THC+, a stoner vampire comedy that’s about as Sudburian as a Deluxe hamburger. Listen in to our special Up Here edition of the show here and check out our Spotify playlist here.

Additional Tracks:
Subways 1980 – Chandra