Today's show features interviews with two National Film Board documentaries recently screened at Hot Docs, the Canadian International Documentary Festival. Both explore masculinity but are set in different parts of the country: director Sinakson Trevor Soloway's film Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man is set on a First Nations reserve in Alberta, while director Serville Poblete's short documentary King's Court, featuring subjects Marley Zion, Raymond Lawrence, and Stephen ‘SK’ Danso, is set on the basketball courts of St. James Town in Toronto.

Music: Ndidi O 'Inside looking out'

Laurie Evan Fraser, artistic director of the Upper Canada Choristers, and singer/poet Jacinto Salcedo, coordinator of Cantemos, join me to discuss their upcoming concert Venezuela Viva, celebrating Venezuelan choral music with African, Spanish, Caribbean, and Indigenous influences. Special guests include composer César Alejandro Carrillo, poet Laura Morales Balza, and La Petite Musicale of Toronto. The concert is on Friday, May 16, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. at Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Road, Toronto, with a choral workshop on May 14. For more info: www.uppercanadachoristers.org

Frequent collaborator Heidy M joins me to discuss Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival. Heidy is an arts and culture writer and creator of hyemysings.ca. She is also a programmer for the the genre festival Blood in the Snow and. Rotten Tomato approved movie critic.

Sarah Kambe Holland is the writer and director of a clever coming-of-age teen comedy called Egghead and Twinkie. In the film, Twinkie—freshly out of the closet—talks her best friend, Egghead, into stealing his parents’ car. The two then travel 500 miles to meet the DJ-ing woman who’s been sliding into Twinkie’s DMs. Needless to say, things happen along the way. Available on Demand April 29 (U.S. & Canada)

Then 'Angel's in the Dark, an audio drama from the Wireless Theatre Company Limited. This Scrooge meets The Twilight Zone drama is about a boss from hell who may or may not learn for his past actions.

Music: 'Aerobics in space' by MayleeTodd