CBC Radio's DNTO Live in Vancouver hosted by Sook-Yin Lee at the York Theatre on Commercial Drive in Grandview-Woodland on March 25, 2015.
CBC brought their popular Winnipeg-based, Toronto-hosted DNTO (aka "Definitely Not the Opera") radio show to Vancouver for a special live show and taping. They brought me along for the ride as their local correspondent to share and document all the highlights from the night.
"Everyone has a story." That is DNTO's motto. For their trip to Vancouver, the team of producers focused on local storytelling and a theme revolving around "objects of affection". On this case, the items were as diverse as a long-lost chair, second-hand speaker, pair of platform shoes, and prosthetic leg. We witnessed how these physical objects bind us and our shared histories together through emotion and experience in many different ways.
CBC Vancouver journalist Jason D'Souza kicked off the high-energy affair with an amusing tale of an internship and finding the difference maker in a used, pawn shop speaker named "Mr. Rager" that would turn around the BC Lions' once losing season into a Grey Cup victory.
Hometown musical guest Jordan Klassen and his band injected the audience with a few vibrant musical performances bookended by his disastrously raucous story of auditioning for the doomed Broadway musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.
West coast storyteller Willow Yamauchi told a rousing yarn about growing up in Desolation Sound by way of Powell River and Lund and being reunited with her special, very sentimental (possibly "magical") chair after many moves and years past.
Singer/songwriter Christa Couture spoke of her rather inspiring battle with cancer during her youth, overcoming her own anxieties, embracing her prosthetic leg, and learning to dance. It was fun, empowering, and exceptionally human story.
Perhaps the standout of the night was actor/comedian Gary Jones' preposterous and amusing family story of an over eager teenager's first time driving while wearing 4-inch platform shoes, closing out the night. Clearly, those shoes were made for walking and not driving.
Host Sook-Yin Lee, herself a transplanted Vancouverite, of course told a few tales about her family (her father and sister joined her on stage), rescuing a moo moo from a neighbour's burning house, and transporting her family's heavy frying pan during her travels.
It was a fun, lively, and full night of west coast storytelling with many different raconteurs and tales of all kinds. Make sure to listen to all the stories for yourself (streaming here).
DNTO airs on CBC Radio One, Saturdays at 1:30pm. Download the podcast. Laugh and cry along.
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CBC brought their popular Winnipeg-based, Toronto-hosted DNTO (aka "Definitely Not the Opera") radio show to Vancouver for a special live show and taping. They brought me along for the ride as their local correspondent to share and document all the highlights from the night.
"Everyone has a story." That is DNTO's motto. For their trip to Vancouver, the team of producers focused on local storytelling and a theme revolving around "objects of affection". On this case, the items were as diverse as a long-lost chair, second-hand speaker, pair of platform shoes, and prosthetic leg. We witnessed how these physical objects bind us and our shared histories together through emotion and experience in many different ways.
CBC Vancouver journalist Jason D'Souza kicked off the high-energy affair with an amusing tale of an internship and finding the difference maker in a used, pawn shop speaker named "Mr. Rager" that would turn around the BC Lions' once losing season into a Grey Cup victory.
Hometown musical guest Jordan Klassen and his band injected the audience with a few vibrant musical performances bookended by his disastrously raucous story of auditioning for the doomed Broadway musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.
West coast storyteller Willow Yamauchi told a rousing yarn about growing up in Desolation Sound by way of Powell River and Lund and being reunited with her special, very sentimental (possibly "magical") chair after many moves and years past.
Singer/songwriter Christa Couture spoke of her rather inspiring battle with cancer during her youth, overcoming her own anxieties, embracing her prosthetic leg, and learning to dance. It was fun, empowering, and exceptionally human story.
Perhaps the standout of the night was actor/comedian Gary Jones' preposterous and amusing family story of an over eager teenager's first time driving while wearing 4-inch platform shoes, closing out the night. Clearly, those shoes were made for walking and not driving.
Host Sook-Yin Lee, herself a transplanted Vancouverite, of course told a few tales about her family (her father and sister joined her on stage), rescuing a moo moo from a neighbour's burning house, and transporting her family's heavy frying pan during her travels.
It was a fun, lively, and full night of west coast storytelling with many different raconteurs and tales of all kinds. Make sure to listen to all the stories for yourself (streaming here).
DNTO airs on CBC Radio One, Saturdays at 1:30pm. Download the podcast. Laugh and cry along.
More | YVArcade / On the Coast / This Is That / Year of the Carnivore
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