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The More the Merrier with donna g

Film, Theatre and Arts-at-large coverage. Home base www.ciut.fm or CIUT 89.5FM Sundays 1-2pm (EST). You can find me on socials: FB/IG/Bluesky @tmtmwithdonnag

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tmtm 15 June 25 TIFF 2019 interviews w/Ricardo Darín...

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2025/06/16

Archival Episode: Revisiting TIFF 2019 Guests: Actor, Ricardo Darín ('Herioc Losers', Argentina), Director, Zaidah Bergroth ('Maria's Paradise', Finland) and Director, Grímur Hákonarson ('The County', Iceland)Out of the archives! These interviews originally aired in 2019 when my show was broadcast in the Tuesday overnight spot from 1-2 am. I've added new music by Soca Cypher ('HEAT') and Michie Mee ('Jamaican Funk'). Enjoy!ABOUT THE FILMS:Heroic

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tmtm 8 June 25 Guest: Writer/director Christine...

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2025/06/12

Christine McLean is a documentarian, broadcaster and academic based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This is her third episode for CBC's The Nature of Things. Entitled 'Dad Bods', it explores new research into the impact of fatherhood on male physiology.Description: "Scientists have since learned that the more a father is involved, the lower his T levels are. They’ve discovered dads, like moms, experience spikes in other hormones, like oxytocin, the “cuddling hormone”, when interacting with

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tmtm 25 may 25 Guest: Actor David Lopez on being a...

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2025/05/27

Fundraising is vitally important to keep CIUT 89.5 FM running and to ensure that I can continue to introduce you to fabulous people doing their thing in film, theatre and the arts-at-large. Please DONATE now and be sure to add The More the Merrier as the show you wish to support. I had the pleasure of chatting with actor David Lopez (see credits below) about his role as a swing for the Toronto production of the Tony Award-winning play, A Strange Loop. Don't know what a swing is? Not to worry

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tmtm 18 May 25 Inside Out/ Hot Docs Coverage: Colette...

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2025/05/20

Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival 2025 coverage with Colette Johnson-Vosberg about her film 'Unlabelled.' The film explores the diverse stories of three trans people with some surprising revelations.Hot Docs and Inside Out Films festivals overlap with my interview with director, Noam Gonick and producer, Justine Pimlott about their NFB film 'Parade: Queer Acts of Love and Resistance'. My guests join me to talk about their Hot Docs experience and looking forward to their Inside Out

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tmtm 11 may 25 Hot Docs 2025 Guests: SinaksenGuests: ...

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2025/05/13

Today's show features interviews with two National Film Board documentaries recently screened at Hot Docs, the Canadian International Documentary Festival. Both explore masculinity but are set in different parts of the country: director Sinakson Trevor Soloway's film Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man is set on a First Nations reserve in Alberta, while director Serville Poblete's short documentary King's Court, featuring subjects Marley Zion, Raymond Lawrence, and Stephen ‘SK’ Danso, is

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tmtm 4 may 25 Guests: Laurie Evan Fraser and Jacinto...

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2025/05/07

Laurie Evan Fraser, artistic director of the Upper Canada Choristers, and singer/poet Jacinto Salcedo, coordinator of Cantemos, join me to discuss their upcoming concert Venezuela Viva, celebrating Venezuelan choral music with African, Spanish, Caribbean, and Indigenous influences. Special guests include composer César Alejandro Carrillo, poet Laura Morales Balza, and La Petite Musicale of Toronto. The concert is on Friday, May 16, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. at Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Road,

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tmtm 20 april 25 Guest: Sarah Kambe Holland (Egghead...

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2025/04/23

Sarah Kambe Holland is the writer and director of a clever coming-of-age teen comedy called Egghead and Twinkie. In the film, Twinkie—freshly out of the closet—talks her best friend, Egghead, into stealing his parents’ car. The two then travel 500 miles to meet the DJ-ing woman who’s been sliding into Twinkie’s DMs. Needless to say, things happen along the way. Available on Demand April 29 (U.S. & Canada)Then 'Angel's in the Dark, an audio drama from the Wireless Theatre Company Limited

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tmtm 13 april 25 Guests Nik Sexton and Sean Dalton...

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2025/04/14

Award-winning director, Nik Sexton and Canadian Screen Award nominee, Sean Dalton (former drummer for The Trews) and I have a good chat about the film SKEET. SYNOPSIS: Fresh out of prison, Billy Skinner (Sean Dalton) returns to his transformed low-income neighborhood, now populated by Syrian refugees. Struggling to overcome his dark past, Billy forges an unexpected bond with Mo (Jay Abdo), a compassionate Syrian immigrant determined to build a better life for his family.Playing for one night only

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tmtm 6 april 25 Guest: Alphonso King Jr (aka Jade...

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2025/04/08

My featured guest today is the dynamic Alphonso King Jr. Alphonso is an HIV/AIDS activist and public speaker, aka drag queen Jade Elektra and aka DJ Relentless.Alphonso joined me to talk about Top Star Live 2025, his weekly Wednesday evening talent show, but our conversation veered off into other areas of his fascinating life and some interesting and personal LGBT+ history facts came to light.Later on in the show you'll hear a bit more from Alphonso from his appearance on Season 3 of Drag Heels

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tmtm 23 march 25 Guests: Karen Chapman (Village...

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2025/03/25

Award-winning writer and director, Karen Chapman shares her journey of making 'Village Keeper', a family drama set in the Lawrence Heights community in Toronto, and why it was important for her to add a sense of hope to the film. 'Village Keeper' focuses on a grieving widow struggling to protect her kids from neighbourhood violence while dealing with her own buried trauma. The film opens in Cineplex Cinemas March 28, 2025.Kevin Matthew Wong is a Hakka Chinese-Canadian theatre

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tmtm 16 March 25 Guests: Directors Laurie Townsend (A...

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2025/03/18

I'm reunited with two documentary filmmakers today. I first interviewed director Laurie Townshend (A Mother Apart) along with her subject Staceyann Chin last year at Hot Docs. In this chat, the spotlight is on Laurie's journey as a filmmaker, the travels of her documentary, and the role of mothering.A Mother Apart follows the journey of award-winning poet and performance artist Staceyann Chin as she looks for answers about her mother who abandoned her as a child. The film captures the

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tmtm 2 March 25 Guest: Rosamund Small (Performance...

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2025/03/05

I chat with playwright and actor Rosamund Small about her latest work, Performance Review, presented by Outside the March Theatre Company. The solo performance explores some of the difficulties women experience in the world of work.Then, I'll have a focus on Beah Richards in her own words. If the name sounds familiar, she is best known to the general public for her Oscar-nominated role as Sidney Poitier's mother in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Besides being a movie actress, Beah

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tmtm 23 Feb 25 Guest: Abigail Whitney (MacBitches) +...

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2025/02/25

I'm welcoming back for the second time actor, playwright, director, and international model Abigail Whitney.The last time she was here, we talked about the show The Noose, written by renowned Haitian playwright Frankétienne, starring Edmond Clark as Polydor and Louco St. Fleur as Pyram—two Haitian men from different social levels living in a small New York apartment during the '80s. The play ran at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in October 2024.Abigail joins me this time to talk about

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tmtm 16 Feb 25 Guest: Alica Hall, Exec. Dir. Nia...

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2025/02/18

Alica Hall, the Executive Director of Nia Centre for the Arts shares some of the incredible programs they offer to Black youth, artists, and the community at large. She’ll also highlight some exciting upcoming events.Plus a Black History Month segment featuring a mix of poetry, dub poetry, spoken word, and music by Black women.

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tmtm 9 Feb 25 Guest: Award-winning Actor, Peter...

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2025/02/12

Award-winning actor, Peter Fernandes talks about his journey as an actor and playing 'Juicy' in Fat Ham. Fat Ham by James IjamesA Canadian Stage Production Feb 15 - Mar 9, 2025 https://www.canadianstage.com/A bold and hilarious reimagining of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy. Helmed by celebrated Canadian director Philip Akin – who directed last season’s hit production of THE LEHMAN TRILOGY – FAT HAM features an exemplary cast led by beloved actor Peter Fernandes as Juicy with David Alan

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tmtm 2 Feb 25 Guest: Illustrator, Deena Pagliarello...

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2025/02/06

Artist, Deena Pagliarello aka Deena Draws joins me to discuss her journey from Fine Arts to Illustration, shares some educational tools for emerging artists in the field, and talks about showcasing her work at Comic Cons.Then another wonderful audio presentation from The Wireless Theatre Company with 'Time Travel Inc' by Peter Davis. A new employee gets some on-the-job training about a new technology. Music: Kellylee Evans 'Questioning my path' and I dip into the archives with

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tmtm 26 Jan 25 Guests: Director, Alison Duke,...

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2025/01/28

In this episode, I'm joined by director Alison Duke of Oya Media, who shares insights into her work on the documentary Bam Bam: The Sister Nancy Story. The film explores the life of reggae legend Sister Nancy and dives into the story behind her breakout hit, Bam Bam, the most-sampled reggae song in history.I’ll also talk about the powerful film Hard Truths, written and directed by Mike Leigh and starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets and Lies) and Michelle Austin. The story follows two sisters

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tmtm 19 Jan 25 Guests: Amélie Martyn (Other Desert...

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2025/01/20

I have back-to-back interviews with Amélie Martyn, a young producer working on the play Other Desert Cities, running from January 22 to February 2, 2025, at Alumnae Theatre.After that, I'll be catching up with Alphonso King Jr. about his new community project, Pink Cinema, a series of screenings of 2SLGBT films curated by popular vote, launching with The Ritz on January 20, 2025. We also tease February's screenings and chat about his other community initiatives, Mingle and Poz Planet

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tmtm 5 Jan 25 Guests: Soprano Denise Williams (Ahmal...

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2025/01/07

Soprano, Denise Williams and I chat about the reducing space for the Arts in schools, founding No Strings Theatre to fill the gap and the upcoming concert Ahmal and the Night Visitors on Jan 11, 2025 at Lawrence Park Community Church. Performances at 3pm and 7 pm.Then regular contributor, Heidy M, arts and culture writer and founder of Hyemusings.ca shares her take on Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door; the award-winning Latvian animated feature, Flow; then we exchange thoughts on Robert

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tmtm 29 Dec 24 Guest: Jennifer Adcock on In With the...

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2024/12/30

I have the pleasure of chatting with writer/director Jennifer Adcock about Discovery networks' In With the Old, where she chronicles the journey of sibling duo Edward and Kathi Peill as they transform UNESCO's 140-year-old Lunenburg Schoolhouse into modern condo units, all while preserving its rich history and significance to the local community.Then, stick around for an old-time radio episode of Our Miss Brooks starring Eve Arden (oldwaveradio.com). Get ready for some laughs!

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