Workshop West, Local Holograms, and Goodbye to a Legend

We look at Workshop West's new artistic producer, bid farewell to John Murrell, and take a tangent through Star Trek to talk about city funding for virtual reality and other screen media.

Show Notes

Here are the relevant links for this episode:

Workshop West Playwrights' Theatre

• Heather Inglis is WWPT’s New Artistic Producer
• Vern Thiessen To Leave His Post
• WWPT Celebrates 40 Years

John Murrell

• Calgary Playwright John Murrell Has Died

Music in Edmonton 

• Salute to Holger Petersen, a man of many musical achievements

Edmonton Screen Media Fund

• Screen Media Fund Launches with $4 million to Support Edmonton Area Projects

One Thing We're Looking Forward To:

• Josh: Broadway Across Canada’s Waitress featuring young local actresses in Edmonton and Calgary 
  • Waitress Stirs Up Sentimental Story of Finding Oneself
• Kate: It’s Christmas! 
  • A Christmas Carol is new at the Citadel
• Katie: Two things! 
  • The Edmonton Pottery Guild annual show and sale: Mudslinging therapeutic for members of Edmonton Potters’ Guild
  • 30 Years of Starlite Room

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A weekly podcast about arts in Edmonton produced by Bottom Line Productions and published by Taproot Edmonton.