About this podcast
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
The newest 20 of 111 episodes
- 521: You're All in the Band · 48 min · Season 5 Episode 21Hundreds of students. 45 minutes. One stage transformed into a musical playground of ukuleles, harps, cellos, turntables, melodicas, guitars, steel pans, and voices raised in…
- 520: Rainbow Dreams, Part Two · 45 min · Season 5 Episode 20One of LuminoCity’s describers, JJ Hunt, tags along with Ramya Amuthan as they explore, appreciate, goof off, and run around in a human hamster wheel. The Rainbow Dreams series…
- 519: Last Words: Talking in Cemeteries · 36 min · Season 5 Episode 19In this episode, you’ll hear JJ Hunt’s vivid primer description for Last Words: Talking in Cemeteries, a unique show that features honest conversations about the taboo subject of…
- 518: A Day at the Hub · 30 min · Season 5 Episode 18In this episode, Ramya Amuthan and JJ Hunt share with Christine their experience of visiting the 2025 Luminato Hub at Harboufront Centre. They also share on-location audio of the…
- 517: Terceradix Luminarium · 40 min · Season 5 Episode 17Like a cross between a womb and a cathedral, join JJ Hunt, Ramya Amuthan, and Christine Malec as they experience the one-of-a-kind installation, Terceradix Luminarium. More…
- 516: Immersed Debrief · 36 min · Season 5 Episode 16LuminoCity hosts Christine Malec, Ramya Amuthan, J.J. Hunt and technical producer Jacob Shymanski were all in attendance on June 7th for Immersed by Justin Gray. The show was an…
- 515: THAW · 52 min · Season 5 Episode 15A 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…
- 514: Night/Shifts · 50 min · Season 5 Episode 14When 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…
- 513: Rainbow Dreams, Part One · 35 min · Season 5 Episode 13What 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…
- 512: Celebrating Women: Curator Heidi Reitmaier Discusses Making History and Getting to Know The 52 Live · 50 min · Season 5 Episode 12Rebecca 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…
- 511: Immersed Pre-Show Primer · 48 min · Season 5 Episode 11LuminoCity’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…
- 510: Dandyism · 41 min · Season 5 Episode 10In this episode, Rebecca Singh learns about the fascinating history behind Dandyism with Theodore Walker Robinson, who himself is a dandyism connoisseur. Flamboyant, defiant, and…
- 509: LuminoCity Sits Down with Larnell Lewis to Catch A Glimpse of Quincy · 41 min · Season 5 Episode 9Rebecca 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…
- 508: An Oak Tree · 31 min · Season 5 Episode 8Is theatre supposed to be believable? Playwright and actor Tim Crouch fearlessly tackles that question in what some describe as his “experimental storytelling”. LuminoCity host…
- 507: Nigamon/Tunai · 36 min · Season 5 Episode 7Rebecca 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…
- 506: Where Do Stories Come From? · 31 min · Season 5 Episode 6In 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…
- 505: What the Day Owes to the Night · 51 min · Season 5 Episode 5How 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…
- 504: Tapping into Hans Christian Andersen: An interview with Rick Miller, co-creator of HANS: My Life in Fairy Tales · 31 min · Season 5 Episode 4Luminocity’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…
- 503: Red Like Fruit: Interview with Director Christian Barry · 28 min · Season 5 Episode 3In 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…
- 502: Queen of the Night Communion: The Value of Venue · 44 min · Season 5 Episode 2How 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…
