We're teeming with award-winning podcasts!
We're over the moon to see six of our member podcasts come away with Canadian Podcast Awards, which were announced this week in Toronto.
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Here are our award-winning podcasts:
- Outstanding Kids & Family Series: That's a Thing?!
- Outstanding Music Series: Putting It Together
- Outstanding Sports Series: Tight Ends
- Outstanding News & Current Affairs Series: The Daveberta Podcast
- Outstanding Technology Series: Press Start to Join
- Outstanding Television & Film Series: Emily Missed Out
These join our 2019 winners — Cross-polliNation was named Outstanding Business Series, and The Bothy Storytelling Podcast was named Outstanding Arts Series.
Congrats to all of the winners, as well as our other nominees: 2 and Out CFL Podcast, anticulture with Josiah Sinanan, Modern Manhood, Ed - Conversations about the Teaching Life, Makeshift Stories, and The Read-Along.
Many thanks to everyone who voted, and to Podcamp Toronto for organizing these awards. If you have a podcast, get into their directory and onto their mailing list so you're ready when nominations open for next year's awards. They are set up so that a podcast can only win once in its category, so the competition will be different next year.
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Fill your queue with the latest episodes
Take a look at what our members have been up to over the past week.
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Teasing out some themes:
- Lots of health on the Learning list, with EPIC Podcast tackling readiness for COVID-19, Healthy Lifestyle Design exploring false heath claims, Girl Tries Life highlighting how to love your own body.
- We love a crossover, and we see a couple this week: Breanne Byrne of Emily Missed Out visited I Don't Get It to talk about a Beatles/Shakespeare mashup (Entertainment), and Linda Hoang of Don't Call Me a Guru told her story on Girl Tries Life (Alberta Stories).
- Four of our Canadian Podcast Award winners published this week: check out Tight Ends (Sports), The Daveberta Podcast (Alberta Stories), Press Start to Join and Putting It Together (Entertainment).
That's just a sample. Get the whole kit and caboodle in this week's roundup.
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Events
We're getting ready for a busy and productive iMedia — will you join us?
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Up your game with this two-day social media and digital marketing conference in Edmonton on March 13 and 14, emceed by Linda Hoang and Tyler Butler, the creators of Don’t Call Me a Guru. Ticket sales end on March 11.
Here are the elements that are particularly podcast-y:
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Tickets: Friday and Saturday pass: $325; Saturday conference pass: $285; Podcasting master class: $265
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More events
Until March 8: SkirtsAfire Festival — The Alberta Podcast Network is proud to be a media sponsor of this year’s celebration of women in the arts in Old Strathcona, Downtown Edmonton and Alberta Avenue. Enjoy theatre, music, dance, poetry and more!
Festival passes: $38
Tickets to The Blue Hour: $21 to $27 (get $5 off with the offer code panelfive)
Feb. 28: A Leap Day Eve Party — Some of the voices you hear on It’s a Conspiracy! are involved in this event featuring The Give Em Hell Boys with Jesse Jams and the Flams at Yellowhead Brewery. Some of the proceeds will go to the iHuman Youth Society.
Tickets: $20
Feb. 28 and 29: Andrew Scott — Hear the music of the multitalented Andrew Scott, co-host of It’s a Conspiracy!, at the Sherlock Holmes at West Edmonton Mall.
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Feb. 29: Podcast Brunch Club: Edmonton — Join Lisa Pruden of The Well Endowed Podcast and friends to nerd out about podcasts at The Nook. This month’s listening list is on nuclear power.
Free: Sign up
Feb. 29: River Valley Vanguard get-together — Members of FC Edmonton’s supporters’ group, which includes the hosts of Loyal Company of the River Valley and For Kicks, are going bowling to get ready for soccer season.
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March 1: Unpacking The Blue Hour — Following the Sunday matinee performance of The Blue Hour at SkirtsAfire, join Fawnda Mithrush for a live recording of I Don’t Get It, in which she will moderate a discussion with playwright Michele Vance Hehir, Amber Niemeier of the YWCA, Candace Fehr of CASA, Clare Gallant of the John Howard Society, Nikki Bernier-Singh of the Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton, and retired judge Andrea Moen.
Admission by donation
March 14: Self-Care Saturday: Writing Yourself into a Better Future — Join spoken word poet Miranda Krogstad at a workshop organized by Victoria Smith of Girl Tries Life to help you use creative journaling techniques to reflect, goal set and write yourself to a better future.
Tickets: $50
March 28: Metro Movie Party presents Magic Mike — German Villegas of Modern Manhood welcomes the crew from Kino Lefter to introduce and discuss the film Magic Mike at Metro Cinema in Edmonton.
Tickets: $10 to $13
March 29: Metro Cinema Movie Trivia — On the last Sunday of every month, Owen Armstrong of Metro Cinema Presents... Close-Up hosts a movie trivia night at The Tavern on Whyte.
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April 21: Alberta Podcasting Meetup: How to succeed at crowdfunding — Alexis Hillyard of Stump Kitchen will share what she’s learned in building a community around her YouTube channel, and we’ll discuss how to apply those lessons to podcasting. The event is in Edmonton; Kyle Marshall of Media Lab YYC will host a simulcast at Work Nicer Red Mile.
Tickets: $5 in Calgary, $10 in Edmonton
June 3-5: INVENTURE$ 2020 — Connect with brilliant minds and big ideas from around the world. Engage with ambitious startups, scaleups, influential investors, plus international thought and industry leaders in Calgary.
Tickets: Prices vary
Find more happenings involving our podcasters, sponsors or partners on our Events page.
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