Vancouver Podcast Festival announces its return for one-day online event November 20
Guests talk climate change, diversity, and movie adaptations
The Media Girlfriends talk about starting a podcast production company in the middle of a pandemic.
THE VANCOUVER PODCAST Festival has announced it will return online for its fourth annual event.
The lineup this year will be concentrated into a singe-day fest on November 20, with a focus on education, with two networking events, two masterclasses, and two roundtables.
Media Girlfriends, a podcast production company with an emphasis on diversity, will host a masterclass called Why We Started A Podcast Company In A Pandemic. It features founders Hannah Sung, Garvia Bailey, and Nana aba Duncan, who share a half a century of journalism and storytelling experience with CBC, The Globe and Mail, Hot Docs, The Walrus Lab, Huffington Post, MuchMusic, RBC, Historica Canada, and more. They’ll discuss their origin story, share insights, and answer questions about reimagining new futures in media.
The second masterclass is titled Building an Audience for Your Indie Podcast, featuring BC-based indie podcasters Liv Albert (Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby) and Laura Palmer (Island Crime).
Elsewhere, look for a panel called Podcasting Climate Change, in which podcasters discuss talking about the climate emergency in ways that move beyond the despair and disaster coverage of the mainstream media, touching on ideas of climate justice, Indigenous sovereignty, and de-colonization. Below The Radar’s Am Johal hosts. The other panel is The Expanding Universe of Podcasting with Kelly&Kelly, addressing the explosion of adaptations of podcasts into scripts, movies, and digital series. Think Hollywood adaptations like Homecoming, Dirty John, The Shrink Next Door, but also ways for local podcasters to get in on the action. Kelly&Kelly’s Lauren Bercovitch hosts special guests Paul Bae and Allison Brough.
For podcast creators, fans, businesses, and other attendees looking to connect further with the community, the Vancouver Podcast Festival will kick off the day-long program with a VanPodFest Virtual Welcome and end the day with the VanPodFest Virtual Happy Hour hosted by Hannah McGregor (Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda) and Andrea Warner (Pop This!). These events will provide a fun online hangout opportunity for attendees and guests to get to know each other.
Festival passes go on sale October 22 at $25, via vanpodfest.ca. (The Podcasting Climate Change discussion is free to the public, with registration.) The podcast fest is produced by DOXA Festival.
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