LuminoCity
Welcome to LuminoCity, a Luminato Festival podcast. LuminoCity enhances your festival experience in surprising ways with artist interviews, live-from-location coverage with rich audio description, behind-the-scenes content, and deep dives into festival themes and experiences. Tune in wherever you get your podcasts.
Music by Ty Simon.
Episodes
105 episodes
515: THAW
A colossal block of ice hangs suspended above Sankofa Square. On it, a solitary figure fights against time and heat, scrambling to protect what's already melting away. As sunset approaches, what will be left? Luminocity's...
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Season 5
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Episode 15
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51:59
514: Night/Shifts
When the city sleeps, Toronto comes alive in unexpected ways. Award-winning photographer Nadya Kwandibens captures the hidden world of the people who keep our city running through the night - transit workers, healthcare staff, entertainers, and...
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Season 5
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Episode 14
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50:10
513: Rainbow Dreams, Part One
What does a Rainbow sound like? Sonifications can help us with that question. Christine Malec interviews the creator of the Rainbow Dreams installations displayed in Downtown Toronto.Music by Ty Simon.
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Season 5
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Episode 13
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34:47
512: Celebrating Women: Curator Heidi Reitmaier Discusses Making History and Getting to Know The 52 Live
Rebecca Singh connects with Heidi Reitmaier, curator at the Museum of Toronto, to discuss the fascinating show taking place at the usually closed to the public, but beautiful Toronto City Archives. It’s opening its doors for The 52 Live. <...
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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50:07
511: Immersed Pre-Show Primer
LuminoCity’s Christine Malec and JJ Hunt combine in this episode to provide a primer for Immersed by Justin Gray. First, JJ gives us a detailed description of the many non-western instruments found in Justin’s compositions, then, {12:25}, Chris...
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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48:03
510: Dandyism
In this episode, Rebecca Singh learns about the fascinating history behind Dandyism with Theodore Walker Robinson, who himself is a dandyism connoisseur. Flamboyant, defiant, and timelessly cool - dandyism transformed resistance int...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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41:07
509: LuminoCity Sits Down with Larnell Lewis to Catch A Glimpse of Quincy
Rebecca Singh sits down with award winning and prolific musician Larnell Lewis. He shares his inspirations and experiences that have led him to his upcoming show, “A Glimpse of Quincy”. The show features world class musicians along with Larnell...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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41:07
508: An Oak Tree
Is theatre supposed to be believable? Playwright and actor Tim Crouch fearlessly tackles that question in what some describe as his “experimental storytelling”. LuminoCity host, Ramya Amuthan, sat down with Tim to better understand his un...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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30:57
507: Nigamon/Tunai
Rebecca Singh sits down with the artists behind the instillation performance, Nigamon/Tunai, which is featuring at this year’s Luminato Festival. Nigamon/Tunai Is described as an act of solidarity and a poetic manifesto against extractivism, la...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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35:51
506: Where Do Stories Come From?
In a quest to better understand the origins of stories, Rebecca Singh connects with her mother, Josefine, to look back at the folk tales of her home country, Germany.Music by Ty Simon.
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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31:21
505: What the Day Owes to the Night
How can someone who’s blind or low vision come to appreciate dance? It’s a complicated question but the panel Christine Malec assembled for this episode to tackle it is well equipped to answer it. We have professional dancers, a ballet expert, ...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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51:01
504: Tapping into Hans Christian Andersen: An interview with Rick Miller, co-creator of HANS: My Life in Fairy Tales
Luminocity’s Rebecca Singh sits down with award winning writer, director and performer, Rick Miller. He’s also a co-writer of HANS: My Life in Fairy Tales, a performance featured at this year’s Luminato Festival that celebrates the ongoing infl...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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31:25
503: Red Like Fruit: Interview with Director Christian Barry
In Red Like Fruit, Governor General’s Award-winning playwright Hannah Moscovitch crafts a gripping, provocative new work that unpacks power, memory, and complicity in the post-#MeToo era.Rebecca Singh sits down with Christian Barry, the ...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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27:30
502: Queen of the Night Communion: The Value of Venue
How often do you question the link between a performance and the venue in which it's taking place? Christine Malec, JJ Hunt, and Ramya Amuthan break down the undeniable importance of venue. To illustrate their point, throughout the ...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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43:49
501: Welcome to Luminato 2025
The same podcast you know and love is back as LuminoCity! In the first episode of season 5, Rebecca Singh leads the hosts in a reflection of land acknowledgements and what they mean to them, followed by an interview with Luminato Festival’s new...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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38:00
427: The R.A.V.E. Experience
One of the most intriguing, high-energy performances in Toronto’s early summer season was R.A.V.E., produced by Outside the March in association with Luminato Festival Toronto. As an immersive, participatory experience merging narrative and dan...
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Season 4
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Episode 27
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48:39
426: SPACED Audio Tour
This year Luminato is heading underground with a series of murals, paintings, and photographs adorning the walls of Toronto subway stations. SPACED, curated by Branded Purple, celebrates the notion that art can be found in every corner of our l...
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Season 4
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Episode 26
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58:28
425: LIVE at 360 ALLSTARS
Radio Lumi goes back on location to David Pecaut square for an amazing display of acrobatic skill and circus swagger with the internationally acclaimed 360 Allstars. To help describe the troupe’s outrageous BMX, breakdancing, and basketball tri...
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Season 4
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Episode 25
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48:20
424: LIVE at I Am From Reykjavik with Sonia Hughes
In I Am From Reykjavik, artist Sonia Hughes invites us to forge meaningful connections in unexpected places, and examine our relationship with time and space, by building and dismantling a small home in public places. To capture the da...
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Season 4
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Episode 24
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46:32
423: LIVE at Luminato in the Square
On Friday June 7, Luminato in the Square at David Pecault Square swung into action with the opening night of nine days of music, art, food, crafts, and that urban festival feel. JJ Hunt was on hand to describe the scene, with Christine Malec jo...
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Season 4
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Episode 23
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1:07:58
422: LIVE at the AGO with Miles Greenberg
Recorded live at the Art Gallery of Ontario on June 5th, 2024, this on location episode documents and describes Miles Greenberg’s RESPAWN, co-commissioned and co-presented by the AGO and Luminato Festival Toronto.With a microphone in ha...
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Season 4
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Episode 22
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1:10:11
421: Walker Court and RESPAWN
Miles Greenberg is a sculptor and performance artist based out of New York. His Luminato performance, RESPAWN, where he features as the primary performer, is a strikingly lengthy 7 hour durational performance piece inspired by first person shoo...
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Season 4
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Episode 21
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36:28
420: Afrikan Party
In this episode host, Theodore Walker Robinson Theodore interviews the world class Ivory Coast choreographer Oulouy about his career and the story of the dance crew Supa Rich kids ahead of their presentation of Afrikan Party at the Luminato Fes...
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Season 4
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Episode 20
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1:13:39
419: SPACED
Christine and JJ sit down to interview Duane Bobbsemple. Duane is creating installations to be displayed in Toronto's subway stations as part of this year's Luminato Festival. The trio reflect on the power, importance, and possibilities of the ...
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Season 4
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Episode 19
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21:13
418: How to Increase Participation in Interactive Experiences
Every year Luminato offers a long list of shows, concerts and public art pieces. Many of those experiences are interactive. Hosts JJ Hunt and Rebecca Singh tell us how we can participate more in these interactive experiences.Audio Descr...
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Season 4
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Episode 18
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39:15