The Deep Field

Returning as the High Performance Rodeo's official Listeners in Residence, The Deep Field is going undercover. With you from your front door to your theatre seat, to the bar and back home again - we're listening in on your night out. Blending on-site reporting with the up-close sounds of wild theatre, The Deep Field will capture, boost and remix the Rodeo audience. Come hear what we overhear.

If you’ve ever seen Michael Green do 'The Whaler,' you have every naked detail etched in your mind. It was wild theatre at its hilarious best — wet, nude, and undeniable. During the 30th Annual High Performance Rodeo - Calgary's International Festival of the Arts – The DFP Team were Listeners in Residence, recording on location, gathering your tall tales of Michael Green’s ‘The Whaler’. We borrowed your voices and built a chorus. A cacophony. A sea shanty. At a Listening Party of this episode, held on January 29th 2016, we celebrated YOUR remembrances, YOUR belly laughs, and YOUR voices shouting out “I AM THE WHALER!” one or two – or a hundred – times more.

In this short preview episode of our collaboration with the High Performance Rodeo, we chat with Tyler Longmire – animator of Renderrabbits. He may never have seen the performance in person, but he spent many MANY hours with The Whaler. Catch Episode 2 You Are Here Too: Recalling The Whaler in two short weeks!

Welcome to Season Two of The Deep Field Podcast. In our first episode, we celebrate the hidden, hard won and often hilarious skills, knacks, and know-hows that we all possess. Featuring the stories of a second-place aeropress world champion, a former Guinness world record holder, a high school drama class, a Governor General Award-nominated playwright, and a hive of busy bees. What's your secret talent?

In our final episode of the Sky Sounds series, we thought we’d try something a little different. Based on an interview with Boyd Nave – the resident ‘Butterfly Man’ at the Calgary Zoo – we bring you an original story called “Look Down” by local artist Ellen Close. In it, one species reaches out across the void to another seeking little more than a bit of understanding. This is the final episode of Season One of the Deep Field Podcast. We look forward to returning with new stories in the fall of 2015!

In part two of our Sky Sounds series, we turn our ears to the mysterious Ranchlands Hum: a near-subsonic drone that has been plaguing residents of the north west Calgary community for more than half a decade, without any explanation as to its cause. We speak to community association president and Ranchlands resident Terry Avramenko, as well as acoustic ecologist Dr. Marcia Epstein. Plus the Deep Field team heads out to the quiet suburban neighbourhood to see if a little bit of fieldwork won’t shed some light on the mysterious phenomenon.

In this first part of our 'Sky Sounds' series, we talk to local artist and musician Kenna Burima who has created a deeply personal composition for the Carillon in the Calgary Tower - the city's largest instrument.

A preview of our upcoming three-part episode "Sky Sounds." In collaboration with our friends at Arts Commons in downtown Calgary, we present a project that is part podcast and part sound-art installation.

In this Deep Field we dive into Section 27 of the Marriage Act, which requires a doctors note and guardian's permission for dependent adults to marry. We explore the romantic histories of Brodie and Gaelyn to see this law in action.

Ben Laird, the Chinook Centre Mall's resident Santa Clause gives us a peek behind the beard, and The Deep Field producing team encounter the mall's latest offer for Santa visitors to "better control their experience."

Col talks to Meags Fitzgerald, author and illustrator of the graphic novel Photobooth: A Biography.

Taped live at Alberta Theatre Projects Col talks to Christina Kramer and Dragana Obradovic, the inventors of Lavinian, the world's newest language. Lavinian was created for Governor General award winning playwright Nicolas Billon's new play Butcher. Nicolas joins the conversation as well.

Col sits down with Sarah Kerr, Calgary's Death Midwife.

The Deep Field is a podcast project by Verb Theatre, dedicated to discovering fascinating stories hiding in plain sight. Episode one welcomes Max Ciesielski, a resident of Calgary's the Drop In Centre, who gives a ground eye view of the week the D.I. was evacuated during the 2013 Calgary floods.