Nine Rails Arts podcast

In honor of Episode 10 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, our house band The Proper Way gifted us with a new opening ditty, which revealed an uncensored glimpse into 9R host Todd Oberndorfer’s childhood. This episode features a conversation with Lorie Buckley, Derek Williamson, Regina Esparza, and Joel Kitamura; representatives from Ogden City Arts, Culture & Events’ new Information Kiosk/Café, The Corner. Located on the corner of Historic 25th and Washington Blvd, The Corner is a small information hub for Arts, Events, Activities and Attractions in the Ogden/Weber area. Ambassadors of The Corner provide information to locals and visitors about area attractions, events, and venues. The Banyan Collective’s Nine Rails Arts Podcast explores what it means to be an Adventurous Creative in 2018. Through a partnership with Arts non-profit, Ogden First, we are also sharing the stories of Ogden’s new Nine Rails Creative District, including those of the district’s epicenter and future home to artisans, designers & creatives, the Monarch building.

Episode 9 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast takes us to Salt Lake City for Utah Arts Alliance’s second annual Illuminate Light Art & Technology Festival.

Our Van Sessions mobile studio, #TanVan, opens its doors to Programming Director for Utah Arts Alliance, Michael Christensen; Community & Performing Arts Manager for Utah Arts & Museums, Jason Bowcutt; Illuminate light-based artist, Justina Bonaventura; SLC-based Electronic Science Fiction Band, Conquer Monster’s Daniel Romero & Joshua Faulkner; and Executive Director of Utah Arts Alliance, Derek Dyer.

A special thanks to Ogden Symphony Ballet Association’s Andrew Watson for always making amazing connections.

And as always, an audio high-five and flickering lighter app to the best house band in all of podcastland, The Proper Way.

EXTRACT: Conductor Randall Craig Fleischer

In Episode 2, we had the chance to chat with Utah Symphony Guest Conductor, Randall Craig Fleischer, in our Van Sessions #TanVan mobile studio, at Snowbasin Resort for Ogden Symphony Ballet Association’s Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald concert under the stars.

Episode 8 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast features an interview with Collin Noortmann Chandler, Mark Seawell and Chris Miller, the artists behind Eccles Community Art Center’s November exhibition, “Relative Truth”.

We also sat down with NEXT Ensemble’s Executive Director, Susan Campbell, and Program Host & Artistic Advisor, Dr. Carey Campbell, to talk about their all-ages holiday opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors.

This episode includes bilingual interviews with the help of interpreter Ogden City Diversity Affairs Officer, Viviana Felix. We spoke with Maria Salgado with WSU Ballet Folklorico and Leon Araujo, owner of local cafe Coffee Links to chat about the upcoming Mexican Holiday, Dia De Los Muertos. We also spoke with Irimelva Reyes, director of Tutulli Ballet Folklorico, specializing in presenting dances from various regions of Mexico. 

We interview the coordinator behind everything arts within Ogden City, Lorie Buckley. 

This episode includes an interview with James Argo of Industrial Art & Design and, Jake McEntire of Union Creative Agency. We spoke with James and Jake in what they refer to as the “Fish Bowl” room on the second level of the newly renovated Argo House.

Argo House is described as a design colony located on 25th Street in the heart of Ogden’s Nine Rails Creative District. Tenants of the Argo House are varied in expertise and pursuits united through their passion for creativity.

Philadelphia-based BalletX, a premier contemporary ballet company featuring world-class dancers toured through Ogden thanks to the Ogden Symphony Ballet Association, and we able to chat with Associate Artistic Director, Tara Keating, along with Dancer, Richard Villaverde.

In Ep. 5, we go on campus to talk Ink Dwell’s Monarch Butterfly Migrating Mural at Weber State University’s Kimball Visual Arts Building. We sat down with Ink Dwell studio co-founders, WSU Hurst Artist-in-Residence, Jane Kim, and adventure journalist, Thayer Walker, as well as Aubrey Eckhardt, one of three art student interns assisting with the mural. Scott Sprenger, the dean of the Telitha E. Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities, and Matthew Choberka, the Chair & Professor of Art at the Department of Visual Art & Design, joined us for the conversation as well.

Ogden’s first Migrating Mural, discussed in Episode 4, is located at The Monarch building at 455 25th Street. Community members can view banner illustrations created by Kim at the Ogden Nature Center.

In Episode 4, we are joined by the founders of Ink Dwell studio, science illustrator and muralist Jane Kim and adventure journalist Thayer Walker, as well as painter assistants, Laura Macias, Ash Ferlito and Fiorella Ikeue, to discuss Ink Dwell’s Migrating Mural campaign and much, much more.

In Episode 3, we podcast from the heart of the Jefferson Avenue Historic District during the 125th Anniversary Celebration of the Eccles Art Center.

Ogden City Business Development Project Coordinator, Sara Meess, joins us for a behind-the-scenes look into the making of a Creative District.

We also party on the porch with Shane Osguthorpe and Scott Rogers of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast house band, The Proper Way, and discuss the satisfying art of balancing a day job with one's artistic pursuits.

The Banyan Collective’s Nine Rails Arts Podcast is a celebration of what it means to be an adventurous Creative in 2018. Through a partnership with O1 Arts, we will also celebrate The Monarch, the epicenter of the Nine Rails Creative District and future home to artisans, designers, and creatives of all types.

Episode 2 features Good Company Theatre founder, Alicia Washington, as well as the cast and crew of Green Day’s rock opera, American Idiot.

We also talk to Utah Symphony Guest Conductor, Randall Fleischer, in our Van Sessions #TanVan mobile studio, at Snowbasin Resort for Ogden Symphony Ballet Association’s Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald concert under the stars.

We then join Thaine Fischer, Managing Partner of the Monarch, and share a teaser of his hard hat tour of the 57,000 square foot building on 25th and Ogden Ave.

Where Arts and Culture summits the airwaves, this is the Nine Rails Arts Podcast. 

Hosts R. Brandon Long and Todd Oberndorfer, of The Banyan Collective - Arts & Adventure Podcasting Since 2010 - This episode includes an interview with Lorie Buckley, Arts Coordinator for Ogden, Utah, our home, and the home of an eclectic untamed history.

We also crashed the debrief meeting for Painted Streets, the pilot project for the Nine Rails Creative District. Tune into all things new within the Creative District by subscribing to the Ogden First Email Newsletter.

And finally, get acquainted with the Monarch Building, the arts nonprofit Ogden First, and we’ll properly introduce our Nine Rails Arts Podcast House Band, The Proper Way. 

All of this on the first episode of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast where we explore creative placemaking from the Nine Rails Creative District.