Episode 18 - The Rain City Chronicles Experience

Click here to listen to episode 18 of the People's Program Project.

One of the things I've been working hard on recently is a storytelling night called Rain City Chronicles. We had our first event on December 1st at Little Mountain Studios. It was a great success. We've got nothing but really positive feedback and it seems like the city is ready for this kind of thing. We plan on doing it every season so the next one should be in March. This special episode of P3 features stories by CBC Radio 3's Grant Lawrence, who talked about his first experience with a pacific octopus...


Rain City Chronicles co-organizer and freelancer writer Karen Pinchin, who talked about her first time getting in a car with a stranger...


Sex guy and Manhussy's Cam MacLeod, who talks about the first time he realized girls go crazy when you've had sex with them...


Talent Time's Paul Anthony, who talks about his first parentless road trip...

And me. I told a story about the first time I sang with Belle and Sebastian on stage...


Music is by Basil Waugh...


I'll try to have the second half of the evening out in podcast format by next week. In the meantime, enjoy!

Group Hug

A Steinberg, Finlason, Jacot, Lev co-production. Marie Pierre is an alter ego who's a hyper-sexual, androgynous Cirque du Soliel reject.

Illustration, voice, writing, animation and editing: Sarah Steinberg (Check out her other animations. They're funny and very observant.)

Marie Pierre Concept: Chris Jacot and Elianna Lev

Hair, makeup, wardrobe, photo direction: Matthew Finlason and Chris Jacot

Episode One and a little spiel

To listen to episode one, click here.

Welcome to the temporary web home of the People's Program Project. I'm going to be using this until my website, www.noneandonly.com, is ready to go.

For the majority of my adult life, I've been lucky enough to tell stories for a living. As a result, I've become obsessed with finding good ones. The People's Program Project (or P3 for short) is my attempt to do that.

The plan is to start local. All the people in my life are talented, funny, articulate and great storytellers. So my storytelling vault is pretty much endless. But the plan is to eventually start hearing stories from outside my little world, to truly make this program project that of the people.

So on the first episode we have three stories (and a really long intro and extro.) They are:

A Small Band in a Large Amphitheatre
A few years ago my friend's band was asked, seemingly out of nowhere, to spend a month opening for a ginormous band. I asked said friend, blind-item styles, about what it was like to tour with the biggest band in the world.

Never Been Caught Stealing
The story of a former retail manager who became obsessed with stealing from her own store.

Courage: Living Up to Her Name
The story of a recent reunion with my first baby.

There's a lot of people who helped put this podcast together. They are:

Aaron Beckum - He's the musical director of the show and all around very talented fellow. He's also one of the founders of the Amazing Alphabet People's Coalition. The podcast would be nothing without him.

Dave Shumka: A local comedian who hosts the consistently hilarious Stop Podcasting Yourself. Let's call him the technical director, because he taught me everything I needed to know about podcasting. He's a whiz.

Josh Wells and Amber Webber: Also known as Lightning Dust. They provided the sweet, beautiful theme song, Wind Me Up, with permission from their label Jagjaguwar.

Ben Frey: This mindblowingly talented artist designed the podcast's logo. Good thing he owed me a favour. You can check out more of his stuff here.

Steve Pratt: He's the director of CBC Radio 3 (which I used to freelance for) and a multimedia master who has been so generous with his time. If it wasn't for his encouragement, I'd never have even thought about starting a podcast.

Thanks so much for your interest and stay tuned. Drop me a line at noneandonly@gmail.com and let me know what you think.