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Each year, CJSF partners with the Burnaby North Secondary School to provide Grade 11 and 12 students enrolled in the Music Production & Technology ACE-IT Industry Training Program job ready skills development and industry experience. Due to COVID, the students learned to create podcasts in lieu of doing live radio. Tune in for a youth perspective as they share areas of interests and reflect on topics that affect them.
The Chaos Theory: Our show is called The Chaos Theory. This is where we discuss past major events and how they have shaped our generation. We have group discussions on our topic and interview people whose lives have been shaped or affected by the events we cover.
Burn Vibes: Our show is named Burn Vibes, and we are a Vancouver group that focuses on interviewing artists based in the lower mainland. We discuss recent news and events in the local and virtual world of Vancouver's underground music scene. With helpful advice, tips, and secrets from our guests, we're a fun podcast that is worth tuning into
November 20, December 4, December 18, January 15, January 29, February 12
alternate bi-weekly with
The Red Room: Hello, and welcome to The Red Room! Throughout this series, we will interview two different age groups to compare and contrast their viewpoints and lived experiences. We are excited to share with you how these topics have evolved between the two generations. By tuning into our show, we hope you will become more knowledgeable about the major differences between consecutive generations!
Youth Voices: This podcast features interviews with producers about their work and how covid impacted them. Two people go out on a walk to discuss much of the same but on a more personal level. The importance of education and the current curriculum is questioned between two like minded individuals. One person starts a monologue about music theory and quickly jumps into other topics in a continuous ramble. Four hosts conducting four mini podcasts in one hour.
November 27, December 11, December 25, January 8, January 22, February 5

To Contact: Elaine Margaret Roach (E.M. Roach): egh@sfu.ca
The Radio Tales are personal narratives with lyrics woven throughout - that reflect the teller's lived experience. As woven lyrics are reflective of lived experience and memory fragments (within particular radio tales), lyrics become an extension of the writer's voice (LaBelle, 2006).
This collection of radio tales, Installment #1: The Collection of 27, were written and recorded as research for my graduate thesis* - and chronologically spans my life. These tales were broadcast on The Arts Edge (2015-2020).
* To access my thesis, Performing Identity at The Arts Edge: Developing Radio Memoir Through the Excavation of Living Inquiry (includes Radio Tales), https://summit.sfu.ca/item/20629
* To access article about my thesis, my process, my work in radio, by SFU Communication Associate, Allen M. Quinn, Signalling Resilience: Living Inquiry Through Radio Memoir, https://www.sfu.ca/education/newsevents/foe-news/2020/october-2020/signa...
Installment #1: The Collection of 27 (To listen to a radio tale, click on hyperlink below)
Radio Tale #1: The Ledge https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07112020
Radio Tale #2: You’re a Song https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07112020-0
Radio Tale #3: Bloodlines, Leylines & the Luck of the Irish https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07112020-1
Radio Tale #4: Downtown, The Great Escape https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07112020-2
Radio Tale #5: Loser’s Weep https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07112020-3
Radio Tale #6: David Cassidy, I Think I Loved You https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07182020
Radio Tale #7: Riding the Prairie Airwaves https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07182020-0
Radio Tale #8: Pardon Me if I’m Sentimental https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07182020-1
Radio Tale #9: Sixteen Candles & Four Girls on a Saturday Night https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07182020-2
Radio Tale #10: Who are You? https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07182020-3
Radio Tale #11: Rumors, Surprises & Little White Lies https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07182020-4
Radio Tale #12: On the Cover of Musical Influence https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07232020
Radio Tale #13: Falling Down the Rabbit Hole https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07232020-0
Radio Tale #14: He Called Me a Writer https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07232020-1
Radio Tale #15: Fries & Gravy and Three Songs for a Quarter https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07232020-2
Radio Tale #16: I Was Just Bad at Math https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07232020-3
Radio Tale #17: Boyfriends, Boxes and Books https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07252020
Radio Tale #18: Finding the Truth in Comedy https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07252020-2
Radio Tale #19: Settling or Settling Down https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07252020-0
Radio Tale #20: Just Until I Get My Bearings https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07252020-1
Radio Tale #21: Facebook, Fiction and the Trouble with Fame https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-08022020
Radio Tale #22: Revisiting the Prairie Homestead https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-08022020-0
Radio Tale #23: Me & Huckelberry Finn https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-08022020-1
Radio Tale #24: The Last Days of Country Music https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-08022020-2
Radio Tale #25: My Dad, the Story of a Life https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-08152020
Radio Tale #25B: Eggs on Toast https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-08152020-0
Radio Tale #26: Waking Up in Grad School https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-08152020-2
Radio Tale #27: The Path https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-08152020-1

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