Soft Opening
Soft Opening features intimate interviews with songwriters, poets, comedians, performers and visual artists who speak candidly about their personal experiences with creativity and resilience. Themes of recovery, grief, spirituality, wellness, sensuality, darkness, and the erotic unfold in each episode and safe space is created for artists to cultivate and showcase new work.
Episodes
6 episodes
Humbled to the Ground with Aaron Berger
The following episode deals with the subject of suicide. Please take any necessary care of yourself before listening.Aaron Berger is a singer/songwriter who was born in raised in Niagara Falls Canada. He's also one of the most generous a...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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53:54
Flowing Precisely with The P.O.E
James Owen Brown is a poet, spoken word artist, and songwriter who performs under the alias The Poetically Organized Entity, or the P.O.E. Our conversation looks at the roots of his lifelong love affair with words and rhythm, the harrowing expe...
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1:07:50
Learning Life Choreography with Laurel Minnes
Laurel Minnes is an award-winning singer/songwriter who lives in the Niagara Region of Ontario Canada. She’s also the front woman for the post-modern harmonic choral collective Minuscule, an experience ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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55:55
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Dealing With Social Isolation
One of the topics that keeps coming up in Season One of Soft Opening is the importance of community. The opposite of community is social isolation which can lead to loneliness. Both have been found to have a significant impact on me...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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6:37
Finding Ways to Share Goodness with Brandon Agnew
Brandon Agnew is a Niagara based singer songwriter who has a deep appreciation for the value of life. A shocking experience of grief in his youth led to his first moment of using creativity as a tool to bring community together, and this valuab...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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48:25
Welcome to Soft Opening
In a time when the media is drowning in images of war, greed, and oppression and an opioid and mental health crisis is unfolding in our city, how do we keep reaching for light? Soft Opening is a podcast recorded in Niagara Falls, Canada that ex...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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3:50