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Ellipses Thinking...
by The Ordinary Podcasting Network
Ellipsis Thinking lives at the heart of creative life. It invites us to park judgement and perfection, to drive curiosity towards possibility. The ellipsis, alone amongst punctuators holds space for the future…those three dots…build the perfect bridge from where you have been and are now, to where you are next meant to be... Greg Dowler-Coltman, arts educator, theatre director and now executive coach, is fascinated by how creativity shows up in us all. Through conversations with people actively engaged in their own creative adventures, those who identify as artists and those who choose to experience life through an artistic lens, we shed light on relationships that shape and inspire us as we meet the challenges, discoveries, and learnings we make when we courageously invite our creative spirit forth.
Episodes
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53. Dan Riskin - Always Curious
Whether wearing the hat of scientist, educator, journalist, speaker ... or even entertainer, Dan Riskin has always been committed to bringing science and the natural world to life for others and doing so by bringing his wide-open curiosity to the game. Dan's desire to help people tap into the…
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52. Anne Wheeler - Just Keep Growing
While acknowledging that part of being in a stage of life where she is both conscious and intentional about sharing her wisdom, Canadian film icon, Anne Wheeler, joyfully continues to learn every day and in every way; the belief that we keep going when we keep growing. Anne's storytelling palette...
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51. Hannah Beach - Play is Where We Discover Ourselves
In her daily life and professional path, Hannah Beach has always been drawn towards the bubble of play. She is deeply committed to the idea that "play is where we discover ourselves". Travelling the country, as educator, author, emotional health consultant or keynote speaker, Hannah channels her...
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50. Cosette Justo-Valdéz - To Inspire
Whether from the podium surrounded by the swell of musical notes brought to life by an ensemble of artists in front of her or in the rehearsal hall exploring and honing possibilities fully alongside an ensemble of musicians or kneeling in conversation with a young audience member who sees in her,...
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49. Rachelle Krieger - A Child's Sense of Wonder
Joyful, curious and optimistic by nature? Absolutely! New York based artist Rachelle Krieger firmly believes that there is something to learn in all situations and through her bold and vibrant, colour-filled and playful visual art she expresses her ever present wonder with the world unfurling all...
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48. Anne Lindsay - Instrument as Voice
Inspiration has a way of coming swiftly and if fortunate to be in the right place and time it may be received by an open and available imagination. Such is the experience of Anne Lindsay, who clearly relishes these moments when the voice that arrives invites her to lift up her violin and…
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47. Tamar Griggs - A Beautiful Journey
In the summer of 1968, when Tamar Griggs was studying art and dance in New York City, she accepted an invitation for a short sailing holiday in the Mediterranean. Much to her surprise, that brief respite would lead to a year at sea, complete with a shipwreck on the coast of Spain before…
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46. Marty Chan - Putting One Foot in Front of the Other
Putting one foot in front of another is what Marty Chan learned many years ago, when as a child of hard working immigrant parents, who prioritized chores and help at the store over homework, became anxious that he wasn't at the same reading level as his peers, leading him to develop imaginative...
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45. Dr. Sian Williams - Opening Space for Possibility
While most of my podcast guests share their identification as artists and creators, I remain committed to including within that ensemble, conversations with people who feel the fire of creativity within themselves and encourage it's light and warmth to be expressed on a daily basis, personally…
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44. Josh Languedoc - Unpacking What We Are Carrying
In the case of his first formal play, Rocko and Nakota: Tales From the Land, theatre artist Josh Languedoc has come to realize that while the play was first produced in 2018 professionally, he had been carrying in pieces for many years, being unpacked and revealed gradually along the way. Josh, a...
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43. Jenna Rodgers - Practice and Preparation
The role of mentor suits Jenna Rodgers' love of partnership whether she's sitting alongside a playwright in the supportive role of dramaturg, as the leader of an artistic ensemble somewhere in the midst of bringing a story to the stage or in the past few years as a mother of two, learning how to...
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42. Jordan Hart - Letting Go
For the past decade, Toronto-based singer songwriter, Jordan Hart has been engaged in an adventure in letting go; no small task for someone who admittedly holds tightly to the controls every time he enters the studio. His tendency to lean towards the idea of perfection, has been anchored in a...
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41. Shelley Lepp - Why We Write
The transformative work of the Writer's Collective of Canada is anchored in the core belief in the power of seeing, hearing and inviting ourselves to know one another better. Shelley Lepp joined the WCC as a volunteer facilitator in 2018, then Co-Executive Director in 2019, and early in 2024...
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Season 4 - TRAILER
New Season Launches Oct 11
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40. Shannon Litzenberger - Artistic State of Emergence
Shannon Litzenberger is keenly committed to the exploration and rehearsal of new ways in doing and being in the practice of art and living. As a dancer and performance maker, her work explores our relationship to land, the politics of belonging, and the forgotten wisdom of the body. She...
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39. Stephen Nachmanovitch - The Art of Is
Stephen Nachmanovitch, an accomplished and classically trained violinist, has for years been espousing the life affirming power of stepping away from the notes on the sheet to explore the freedom of playing between, within and around the notes, of music, art and life as one beautiful composition....
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38. Brent Allan – Living Your Most Fabulous Life!
Brent Allan has always led with heart, art and a deep passion to make positive impact on the world he encounters. Drawing strength from his early personal experiences during the dark days of the HIV crisis in Edmonton, Toronto and Vancouver, Brent has come to be recognized globally as a highly...
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37. Vern Thiessen – In Search of the Untold Story
Vern Thiessen's curiosity is forever leading him to the untold story, inspiring plays that have embraced theatres around the world. Thiessen, one of Canada's most produced playwrights, a recipient of numerous awards and honours, including Canada's Governor General's Literary Award, for Einstein's...
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36. Gianna Vacirca – Play...Pasta...Possibilities
Throughout these conversations on the creative process, the idea of play features heavily. There's an incredible joy in the experience of inviting our imagination to a party of our own making and then hosting it as the guest of honor. If we believe that the innocent creative child we were when we...
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35. Fred Keating – Hosting An Open Mindset
Fred Keating has a long and multi-faceted career in theatre, radio, TV and film in character roles and as a host, motivational speaker and podcast producer/host. I consider Fred to be a dear friend and celebrate him as one of my personal mentors and as someone who left an indelible imprint on me…
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34. Karen Close - The Art of Creative Sage-ing
Throughout her career as an educator in Toronto and then Victoria, Karen Close aimed to inspire her students through literature and visual arts; she loved to witness young people become better able to articulate themselves and to share their understanding with others through their writing and art...
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33. Jan Alexandra Smith - "There I Am"...Finding Home Again
When a previous guest recently reached out to say that I simply had to speak with Jan Alexandra Smith, who in his words "is one of Canada's finest actors and directors", I thought, "what wonderful idea." For nearly 35 years, Jan has been stepping onto stages in roles that have entertained,...
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32. Roseanne Supernault - Story is Medicine
From early childhood as a member of the Whitefish Lake Atikameg First Nation in Treaty 8 territory, Roseanne Supernault has held the medicinal impact of story as a deep, core belief; one that guides and strengthens her in both life and art. In honoring her own storytellers, wisdom keepers…
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31. Christy Morin - The Alchemy of the Arts
Since 2005, Christy Morin has been the heart of Arts on the Ave in Edmonton, Alberta. Arts on the Ave actively celebrates its unique neighbourhood community north of the downtown core as "a place whose "personality" is vividly expressed through the arts; possessing a dynamic momentum, "an arts...
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30. Cynthia Jimenez-Hicks - Riding the Waves
For the past decade theatre artist, Cynthia Jimenez-Hicks has been surfing some incredibly wild waves, fuelling her love of what she refers to as creative chaos. Since graduating from the National Theatre School of Canada in 2015, she has appeared across North America on stages of all sizes,...
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29. Cassandra Lemoine – In Translation
For as long as she can remember, Cassandra Lemoine had been surrounded by pop music and show tunes. Inspired by the acclaimed Canadian tenor, Benjamin Butterfield during a master class he delivered at her high school, she soon found herself in a classical music program at the University of...
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28. Max Wyman – The Compassionate Imagination
Max Wyman's most recent book, "The Compassionate Imagination: How the Arts are Central to a Functioning Democracy" serves as an invitation to consider what might be possible, not if, but when we embrace culture, and creative imagination at the core of what it means to be a member of a thriving,...
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27. Leo Chan – Innovation
"Innovation = Transforming Ideas into Value" Leo Chan firmly believes that everyone is an innovator and his mission is to create space, opportunity and practice so that everyone might believe it to be true as well and then to make it so in their lives. Leo is a people and heart-first entrepreneur...
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26. Diana Hayes – Language of Light
Poet Diana Hayes has walked with grief for over 20 years since the death of her mother. The fact that both she and her mother, whom she remembers as her confidant, muse and dearest friend, were both facing a breast cancer diagnosis at the same time, added even greater complexity to her grieving...
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Season 3... Trailer
Season 3 - Oct 27, 2023
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25. Storyteller - Jeremy Schonfeld
Jeremy Schonfeld's powerful storytelling voice, reveals the heart of a man on a journey, vulnerably seeking to understand himself, his family and friends and his community. Weaving across the story-threads of Jeremy's musical tome, is his own deeply genuine exploration of fatherhood. Having been...
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24. The Magic of Awe - Zohreh Gervais
As a musician and producer of musical performances, Zohreh Gervais is fascinated by those all too rare moments within a musical performance, when an undeniably powerful, even transcendent experience occurred within audience members as they received the power of the art. It is her pursuit of these...
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23. Creating Worlds - Bob Bonniol
When Bob Bonniol's mother took him to the opening weekend of the very first Stars Wars movie (and then every Saturday for the next 20 weeks), something stuck. While he laughs at the memory, his obsession for all things Star Wars was hardwired as a child and this core memory, well seeded would...
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22. What Comes Next? – Christina Dempsey
Christina Dempsey studied in the professional division of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School while still in high school, after which she went on to graduate from the Juilliard School in New York City in 2005 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Christina's professional career included performing with…
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21. All of Me – Lisa Strogal
An in your bones belief that each of us can live, lead, learn and be our best version of All Of Me, is the powerful frame that anchors Lisa Strogal firmly through her unique frame of Whole Person Intelligence™. While we might think of harnessing the energies of which we as humans are a part of…
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20. A Dancer's Pilgrimage– Lolla Devindisch
Lolla Devindisch's life has been a creative quest to "live fully and authentically" and through it all, she has held a channel open, at first intuitive and then intentional; a space to more fully be at peace with the little girl who left her home at 7, left a life she loved and a father she…
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19. Raising the Spirits – John Ullyatt
On stages across Canada for over 30 years, John Ullyatt has been fortunate to build a career as actor, worthy of being considered by any measure, successful. He has played leading roles in multiple genres, singing, dancing and entertaining audiences while earning high praise and respect from his...
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18. From Mastery to Mystery – Krista Monson
For Krista Monson, a shift from mastery to mystery feels almost seismic as she has been committed to creating breathtaking, masterful performances of virtuosity on stages around the globe. For many artists, the work of creativity can often feel both precarious and dangerously precipitous...It's…
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17. Piece by Piece - Theo Harasymiw
If you live in Edmonton, Alberta, have been in any number of schools, community centres and places where people meet, you have likely passed by, hopefully admired some of Theo Harasymiw's visual art. She is best known for her large colourful, graphic, and often whimsical murals found all over the...
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16. Thinking Through Doing – Miranda Lucas
At the heart of Miranda Lucas' PhD in human behaviour and evolution lies her curiosity in understanding how people engage with visual art, and what physical and social affordances public art galleries use (or lack) to encourage a deeper human experience, one that can lead to curiosity and...
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15. Reigniting a Creative Life – Dennis Garnhum
At the outset of the pandemic, writer and theatre director, Dennis Garnhum found himself facing a crisis of confidence and the despair that so many artists around the world were experiencing when their primary venues for creative expression went dark. Garnhum, who has directed theatre and opera...
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14. The Taming of the Weasels – Beth Graham
Award winning actor and playwright, Beth Graham, has come to know the voices of her inner critic(s) well, having adopted the term Weasels to capture the sometimes playful, more often threatening nature of such characters to the creative temperament. She was so familiar with the nature of her own...
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13. Paying Attention - Katharine Weinmann
As someone who loves to walk, wander and wonder, Katharine Weinmann travelled to Spain last fall to walk the famed Camino de Santiago. Our conversation touches on her actual Camino experience and more so, how she has found inspiration to continue to live life artfully with a true Camino spirit.…
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A Trailer & A Tribute - Season 2 Preview
Ellipses Thinking... will return on Wednesday Jan 25. In this special Season 2 preview host Greg Dowler-Coltman offers listeners, a sense of what he and his guests will explore this season. As well as paying tribute to his friend and coach Bruce McLeod.
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Bonus - Off the Shelf - Julia Coltman
Julia Coltman is the host of "OFF THE SHELF", the newest podcast from the Ordinary Podcasting Network. On this special Bonus episode of Ellipses Thinking... She shares her love of literature and why she decided to launch a podcast book club!
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12. Finding North - Lena McKenzie
In Lena McKenzie's words, she "inherited a fabric of beliefs, woven by generations of women…a fabric that tells stories of not just one family line, but a constellation of them." Her memories of the bond forged between her mother from the Philippines and her paternal Grandmother, from…
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11. Soulflame - Lance Cardinal
Deep integration of past and present as we dream forward and design our collective future…that is one of the many things that is on the mind and in the heart of Lance Cardinal. Lance is a multi-disciplinary creative professional and proud member of the Treaty 8 Bigstone Cree Nation. His family...
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10. Ways of Knowing - Nicole Schafenacker
Nicole Schafenacker, lives her life in a constant state of ellipsis thinking. Her work as an interdisciplinary artist and researcher has always existed in the liminal spaces between; a space of curiosity in which the unknown is the only way we can ever truly be discovery-ready. She sees in art…
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9.Embracing the Void - Owen Brierley
Facing the challenge of choosing a focus for his PHd thesis in Computational Media Design, Owen Brierley felt the panic we so often feel when the canvas feels too blank, too wide open…But almost immediately he found himself drawing courage from the voice of a mentor dating back nearly 3 decades,...
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8. Spinning the Muse Into Music - Emily & Samantha Schultz
Sister/Singer/Songwriters Emily & Samantha Schultz continue to discover, (sometimes uncomfortably) the power of vulnerability in shaping and maturing their artistic voices. Over the years, I have witnessed them carve out and navigate the complicated relationships that are demanded of artists and...
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Ellipsis Thinking lives at the heart of creative life. It invites us to park judgement and perfection, to drive curiosity towards possibility. The ellipsis, alone amongst punctuators holds space for the future…those three dots…build the perfect bridge from where you have been and are now, to where you are next meant to be... Greg Dowler-Coltman, arts educator, theatre director and now executive coach, is fascinated by how creativity shows up in us all. Through conversations with people actively engaged in their own creative adventures, those who identify as artists and those who choose to experience life through an artistic lens, we shed light on relationships that shape and inspire us as we meet the challenges, discoveries, and learnings we make when we courageously invite our creative spirit forth.
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