COASTERS

Diwali, Sunshine Coast-style

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 21:15:30 GMT

Even though it’s one of the most significant festivals on Earth, there’s never been a public celebration of Diwali on the Sunshine Coast. That is, until friends Sushma Dass and Sarah Dhillon got an idea to throw party.

Show Notes

Read about the Sunshine Coast’s first Diwali in Coast Reporter
Listen to Abhishek Khosla’s music via Facebook
Listen to Aamin Khosla’s music via Instagram
Sushma and Sarah are looking for volunteers for next year. Contact them at secheltdiwali@gmail.com
Songs in this episode include Greyleaf Willow, Frank and Poet, and Sage the Hunter by Blue Dot Sessions
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Episode 3: The Independent Order of Marbled Murrelet Detectives

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 14:47:09 GMT

Thirty years ago, a fish scientist, an amateur ornithologist, a 12 year old and a German student volunteer walked into some very old woods on the Sunshine Coast. Then they made history.

COASTERS is a podcast miniseries about community and the small stories that define us. Taking place on the Sunshine Coast, BC, territory of the shíshálh and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nations.

Show Notes

Paul Jones wrote The Marbled Murrelets of the Caren Range and Middlepoint Bight

Maria Mudd Ruth wrote Rare Bird: Pursuing the Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet

Learn more about Kim Nelson’s contributions to the study of marbled murrelets

Marbled murrelets are also linked to Clayoquot Sound protests

Coast News story about marbled murrelets and the Caren Range

More about Volker Bahn’s research

Alan Burger’s contributions to the study of marbled murrelets

Credits

Marbled murrelet field recordings by Thomas G. Sander from the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

3-Square-Miles is a documentary produced by Suzanne Wilson for Coast Cable 11

Varied thrush sound effect by BBC Sound Effects

Music by James Bowers, Blue Dot Sessions and Volker Bahn

Special thanks to Dr. Alan Burger and Steve Sleep for research and archival help

Rachel Sanders, Lorna Richards and Sean Eckford assisted with story

Website and graphics by Laura Service

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TRAILER: The Independent Order of Marbled Murrelet Detectives

Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:45:33 GMT

Thirty years ago, a fish scientist, an amateur ornithologist, a 12 year old and a German student volunteer walked into some very old woods on the Sunshine Coast. Then they made history.

Episode coming soon.

COASTERS is a podcast miniseries about community and the small stories that define us. Taking place on the Sunshine Coast, BC, territory of the shíshálh and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nations.

Music via Blue Dot Sessions

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Episode 2: Reading Into Little Free Libraries

Fri, 23 Dec 2022 22:03:16 GMT

Book exchanges have been around pretty much forever, but then in 2012 a movement was born. Now, hundreds of thousands of boxes filled with books are permanently affixed to people’s properties. Some love them, some cannot abide them. Some don’t get what the fuss is about. And from these premises was born an unironic investigation into a moral dilemma of questionable stakes: are little free libraries something we should be concerned about? And, why are they so popular, still?

Show notes

Jane Schmidt and Jordan Hale’s open-access article can be found on the Journal of Radical Librarianship website.
Little Free Library founder Tod Bol on Schmidt and Hale’s paper.
A link to Dan and Trina’s book bombing Facebook Group
The West Howe Sound Story, by Francis J. Van Den Wyngaert.

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TRAILER: Reading Into Little Free Libraries

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 05:48:40 GMT

About a year ago, Sophie tried to find out whether she made a regretful mistake installing a Little Free Library outside her home after learning from a friend of a friend that actually not all librarians are fans. It was a strange one: why would librarians put the shush on little libraries? Why are book exchanges even popular enough for librarians to have opinions about them? And so the journey began... Actual episode coming soon.*

COASTERS is a podcast miniseries about community and the small stories that define us. Taking place on the Sunshine Coast, BC, territory of the shíshálh and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nations.

*That's a promise!

Sound effects via Freesound.org

Music via Free Music Archive:

Ooh La La Boogaloo by Juanitos

Black Samba by Juanitos

Twilight Piano by Serge Quadrado

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Episode 1: Salvaging The Beachcombers

Sat, 15 Oct 2022 04:05:24 GMT

Ever heard of The Beachcombers?

If not, you were probably born after 1990. If you have, then, well, you’re old.

Kidding! Sort of.

The Beachcombers aired on CBC Television from 1972 to 1990, making it arguably Canada’s longest running scripted television series, ever. (Degrassi is the other contender.)

For some reason only the gods understand, CBC hasn’t run an episode since Dec. 12, 1990.

In the inaugural episode of COASTERS, producer Sophie Woodrooffe looks at the show’s impact on a town that will forever be attached to The Beachcombers, whether it wants to be, or not.

Editorial, sound and technical assistance from CANADALAND’s Jonathan Goldsbie and Tristan Capacchione

Intro and outro music by Blue Dot Sessions

Podcast cover art and website design by Laura Service

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COASTERS Trailer

Sat, 08 Oct 2022 07:34:54 GMT

Welcome to COASTERS, an independently-produced miniseries about the communities that shape B.C.'s Sunshine Coast, territory of the shíshálh and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nations.

Episodes drop autumn 2022. Subscribe or visit www.coasterspodcast.com for more information about the project.

Music by James Bowers, and; Aloscape 1, Discovery Harbor and Vulcan Street by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).

Podcast cover art by Laura Service.

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