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Send us Fan MailWelcome to the eight edition of NOW NOW.We’re recording this on Sunday, May 10th, 2026.My name is Charlotte Boye-Christensen, Artistic Director of NOW-ID, and the host of this podcast.Today, we’re shifting the format a little. Instead of a single voice guiding the episode, this is a conversation. Nathan Webster joins me, and together we’ll spend some time thinking out loud, touching on what it means to work closely with another artist, Nathan is a founding director of NOW-ID where he wears many hats. He was born in Vancouver and is an Architect who has worked in Western Canada and in the United States This conversation is less about arriving at clear answers and more about sitting inside the questions, following where they lead, and seeing what emerges in the space between two perspectives.So, this episode is a bit more open, a bit more conversational.

Send us Fan MailJavier Caceres is an architect and artist born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, and currently based in Vancouver, Canada. He is a designer at Public Architecture + Design Inc. Javier holds a professional degree in architecture from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV), graduating in 2011. Throughout his career, Javier has collaborated on architectural and design projects across Venezuela, Peru, Spain, Chile, China, and Canada, cultivating a practice enriched by diverse cultural and professional contexts. In 2015, he won first place in a national comic competition in Venezuela and became a contributor to El Universal's opinion section. Alongside his architectural work, Javier has continuously explored a wide range of artistic expressions — from graffiti and painting to comics and digital media — reflecting his multidisciplinary creative interests.

Send us Fan MailWelcome to this sixth edition of NOW NOW. We are recording this on Monday, January 19, 2026. My name is Charlotte Boye-Christensen, Artistic Director of NOW-ID and the host of this podcast.I am very excited to welcome dancer Yumelia Garcia as our guest today. Yumelia was born in Caracas, Venezuela, where she received her early training at the National Ballet School. She joined the National Ballet of Caracas at the age of 15 and was promoted to soloist just one year later. At 17, Yumelia moved to the United States, where she danced with the Milwaukee Ballet for ten years, followed by engagements with Ballet Florida, and later spent five seasons with the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago. I have had the wonderful opportunity to collaborate with Yumelia on several projects over the years, the first of which was a work titled Conversations, which I choreographed for the Milwaukee Ballet in 2002.

Send us Fan MailWelcome to this fifth edition of NOW NOW. We are recording this on Tuesday, December 16, 2025. My name is Charlotte Boye-Christensen, Artistic Director of NOW-ID and the host of this podcast.I am very excited to welcome Tonya Hartz as our guest today. Tonya is a Vancouver-based photographer and location scout with nearly 30 years of experience in the film industry. She has cultivated a deep understanding of both production requirements and the intrinsic value of a location's department’s creative contribution to the screen. Tonya has worked with exceptional artists across independent films, commercials, episodic television, and large-budget productions. Her work in both photography and location scouting is defined by intuition, creative vision, and a keen eye for storytelling.

Send us Fan MailWelcome to this fourth edition of NOW NOW. We are recording this on Friday, September 12th, 2025. My name is Charlotte Boye-Christensen, Artistic Director of NOW-ID and the host of this podcast.I am excited to welcome Jann Haworth as our guest today. Jann is an incredibly prolific British-American Pop Artist and a pioneer of soft sculpture. She is perhaps best known as the co-creator of the Beatles' 1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover, for which she won a Grammy in 1968. Jann's work is in museum collections all over the world, from the Tate in London to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington.Jann is an advocate for feminist rights, especially when it comes to the representation of women in the Art World.

Send us Fan MailWelcome to this third edition of NOW NOW. We are recording this on Friday, August 8, 2025. My name is Charlotte Boye-Christensen, Artistic Director of NOW-ID and the host of this podcast. I am excited to welcome Joel Richardson as our guest today. Joel Richardson is a Canadian Production Designer, accomplished artist, and a multi-platform storyteller. He is also a co-founder of the METIPSO PORTAL experimental media lab and an award-winning member of the Directors' Guild of Canada. Throughout his career, Joel has showcased his art globally. Joel's journey into the realm of Production Design commenced with Season 2 of Steven Soderbergh's "The Girlfriend Experience." In 2022, he embarked on a two-month trip to Kenya, where he applied his creative prowess as a Production Designer for his first feature screenplay, "Kipkemboi," which received a green light from Telefilm Canada and the CBC. 

Send us Fan MailWelcome to this second edition of NOWNOW. We are recording this on Wednesday, July 2, 2025. My name is Charlotte Boye-Christensen, Artistic Director of NOW-ID and the host of this podcast.I am excited to welcome Jesper Egelund as our guest today. Jesper is a Danish musician and composer. He co-founded the music ensemble FIGURA in Copenhagen in 1993 and is currently also the Head of programming at the renowned Royal Library, the Black Diamond, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Jesper has worked with NOW-ID on four projects since 2014. We are excited to invite him back to collaborate with us on a project premiering in Vancouver in September 2025, titled Neuroceros.

Send us Fan MailWelcome to this first edition of NOW NOW. We are recording this on Friday, June 13, 2025. My name is Charlotte Boye-Christensen, Artistic Director of NOW-ID and the host of this podcast.I am excited to welcome Mark Hofeling as our first guest. Mark is a production designer and an art director, and has designed and art-directed over 70 productions for film and television. Designing his first feature “Windrunner”  in 1995, amongst his credits are The High School Musicals, Disney’s Zombies, and The Descendants. He has worked on locations all over the world, from Barcelona to Toronto and Atlanta. Mark is also incredibly prolific in his creativity, having written books, designed furniture, created figurines, and produced podcast content.  Mark is a perceptive and brilliant observer of political events, placing current events within a broader historical context. He is also just wickedly funny and smart, and may be able to help us navigate this current political moment.