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Arts & Culture, July 8 – 12, 2024

Arts & Culture

This week, we catch up with The Steadies. We talk about The Beatles with music historian Piers Hemmingsen. We learn about a Ukrainian dance film called Mosquito’s Wedding. Author Jessica Waite tells us about her modern whodunit. And we ask photographer and filmmaker Luke Fandrich about his latest project.  

Monday, July 8 at 9:40am MT on Discoveries  

On Monday’s Discoveries, Leo Cripps catches up with Saskatchewan-based band The Steadies ahead of their show at the Calgary Stampede.  

Tuesday, July 9 at 5:40pm MT on Traffic Jams  

The NMC is launching a new exhibition celebrating the 60th anniversary of The Beatles arrival in Canada. Piers Hemmingsen, music historian and author of The Beatles in Canada: The Origins of Beatlemania, joins Lisa Wilton on Tuesday’s Traffic Jams to tell us more about it! 

 Wednesday, July 10 1:40pm MT on Thoroughfare  

Mosquito’s Wedding: the Movie is a new 3D dance experience from Edmonton’s Shumka Ukrainian dance company. The film is screening across the prairies, starting with Edmonton on July 14. Learn more about this cinematic dance production on Wednesday’s Thoroughfare with Tony King.  

Thursday, July 11 12:40pm MT on The Upload 

Jessica Waite‘s debut memoir is a witty yet deeply moving book, hailed as a “real-life whodunit.” Jessica joins Kate Stevens on Thursday’s Upload to tell us more about her tale of shocking secrets and betrayal.  

Friday, July 12 8:40am MT on Alberta Morning  

Photographer and filmmaker Luke Fandrich has an exhibition on now at the Esplanade that explores and celebrates his hometown of Medicine Hat. We’ll hear from this hometown hero on Friday’s Alberta Morning with Grant Stovel.