Some Kinda Woman! Stories of Us
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Storyteller Caitlin Hicks, (playwright, performer, author, actor) describes the stories in these podcasts that explore the grief of life as well as the meaning, the humour, the redemption. The series features a variety of first-person character stories in a number of episodes from her international theatrical touring shows: Mother Love, Next of Kin, The Trouble of Christmas, The Life We Lived. Hicks will also share chapters from her novel," A Theory of Expanded Love". But here, she shares a short story from The Trouble of Christmas episodes, called Read Island Santa. The introduction to the series itself begins this podcast, so please listen, even if it's summer outside! The voices of Sunshine Coast residents and old timers, Cynthia Culbard Jones and Diana Culbard Peters are combined in this short about their first Christmas in the 30s at Read Island – so far away that Santa would never find them. And yet, a man named Mr. Green visits their school house on Christmas Eve and surprises everyone, ‘even the old bachelors'. It’s a charming story about the blissfully gullible time of being children.
Location:
Canada
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
Storyteller Caitlin Hicks, (playwright, performer, author, actor) describes the stories in these podcasts that explore the grief of life as well as the meaning, the humour, the redemption. The series features a variety of first-person character stories in a number of episodes from her international theatrical touring shows: Mother Love, Next of Kin, The Trouble of Christmas, The Life We Lived. Hicks will also share chapters from her novel," A Theory of Expanded Love". But here, she shares a short story from The Trouble of Christmas episodes, called Read Island Santa. The introduction to the series itself begins this podcast, so please listen, even if it's summer outside! The voices of Sunshine Coast residents and old timers, Cynthia Culbard Jones and Diana Culbard Peters are combined in this short about their first Christmas in the 30s at Read Island – so far away that Santa would never find them. And yet, a man named Mr. Green visits their school house on Christmas Eve and surprises everyone, ‘even the old bachelors'. It’s a charming story about the blissfully gullible time of being children.
Twitter:
@CateHicks
Language:
English
Contact:
604-886-3634
Website:
http://www.caitlinhicks.com/
Email:
caitlin@caitlinhicks.com
Episodes
A childhood like mine
2/21/2023
"Maybe my story can be a tiny beam of light in a large, dark cave," says Anneke Lucas in the podcast that begins to tell her story, from her book QUEST FOR LOVE.
"Elite pedophilia is the world’s best protected secret.
Duration:00:27:04
MeetingSebastian Unexplained Vertigo
1/16/2023
Your eyes cannot help but see what is here: the sight of someone like yourself
And then you think: How can this be? Is that really all the time there is left?
A chance encounter in the dark winter days of December 2022. A benevolent energy in a hospital room with snaking tubes and mystery signs, the face of a newborn and a lifetime of important people. All gathering for Sebastian. Except for the visitor, who is missing the opportunity to connect.
Duration:00:15:41
AlwaysPackACandle
11/24/2022
Naïve but adventurous, twenty-two years young and fresh out of university, Public Health Nurse Marion McKinnon accepts an assignment for a four day, multi stop, two-hundred mile trip from Williams Lake to Anahim Lake into the vast Cariboo-Chilcotin country of British Columbia. It’s December and the first snow has fallen across the land. The year is 1963. The weather forecast: twenty-two degrees below freezing.
The view is breathtaking and the roads treacherous.
And what if she gets lost? Or skids into a snowbank? In 1963, Marion is on her own in the wild but beautiful country, deep in winter - no cell phone, no two way radio. Just a chocolate bar and a candle . . . and the enthusiasm of her youth.
Duration:00:26:49
The Night Shift
9/21/2022
A flight attendant with 25 years seniority works through the early pandemic. An essential worker with close family ties and lots of friends.
Suddenly, her life is upended.
Duration:00:14:35
The Face of My Grandparents Killer
8/14/2022
BC author Claudia Cornwall’s discovered almost 30 years ago that she was descended from family murdered in the Holocaust by a Waffen SS Sargent named Arlt. The remaining details were shrouded in the mystery of her grandparents’ last moments, one historical May day in a forest in Minsk. 80 years after their death, Cornwall received their executioner’s first name, his photograph. And many unanswered questions.
Duration:00:20:10
31 days in 2022
7/14/2022
What happens to a robust 49-year old
with Omicron in a BC hospital in 31 days?
A Mother's account of her son's care in a British Columbia hospital between November 2021, and a few days before Christmas.
Duration:00:14:40
Nievelina, Mother of Twins
6/7/2022
At 19 weeks pregnant, a young Indigenous woman must make an excruciating decision - within hours - to save the lives of her unborn twins. "I remember being so afraid." This story has it all: fear, love, pain and alienation. Courage, community, and resilience. A generous, joyful storyteller.
Duration:00:32:37
I have been pregnant twice
5/18/2022
Forever changed by her two pregnancies, Amanda Snelson tells of the unpredictable and complicated process of 2 births. As part of the discussion around Women's Choice and Roe v Wade, Amanda's story introduces new considerations to the complex picture of individual soverignty over our bodies.
Duration:00:18:15
My Mothers Story
4/26/2022
My Mother's Story is a project that encourages everyone to write the facts of their mothers’ lives. It's a series of anthologies begun by Marilyn Norry. This is the story of DORIS, told by her daughter, Colleen Winton. My Mother's Story: Gone Too Soon is the latest anthology in the series and is now available.
Duration:00:20:57
Cynthia Jones & The Union Steamship
3/13/2022
How would your life be different if you couldn't drive a car? If once a week, a steamship arrived at the dock with supplies to keep you going for the next week? If your husband and the father of your children came home on "The Daddy Boat" once a week?
Cynthia Jones Meets The Union Steamship at 1 AM tells of a much simpler time on the Sunshine Coast - when anyone could go out in a sabot and grab a fish with her bare hands, when hospitals were miles from each other, when most lived in float houses by the light of a kerosene lamp.
Duration:00:19:53
Wilderness Mother
2/16/2022
It’s 1980, two days from the summer solstice in the wild landscape of Northwestern British Columbia. Deanna and her husband, Jay Kawatski, tend their food garden carved out of the wilderness in the Ningunsaw Valley when Deanna realizes that their first child will be born very soon. The couple must hike difficult mountain & bog terrain through clouds of bloodthirsty mosquitoes for more than two hours to their cabin on Desire Lake. Deanna’s water breaks and she instantly goes into labour. This is the story of their unattended birth, heralded by a family of loons who serenaded them throughout the night.
Duration:00:16:25
We Got One!
1/28/2022
We Got One! celebrates moments that, whatever else happens in life afterwards, we have, as artists, in those moments, all the meaning we will ever need. It marks the Cinderella achievement of having been chosen, of having hit the bulls-eye on the dartboard of current social and artistic reality. We can now stand on the world stage and beam our happiness that we matter.
Duration:00:24:54
CORNUCOPIA DEC 21
12/20/2021
A magical story of friendship & creativity in a beautiful small town that inspired the creation of all Christmas songs & carols ever written. Two girls, a friendship over the years revisited on a dangerous frozen lake Christmas Eve. With musical backdrop of a jazz vocal quartet from The Sunshine Coast of BC - After Hours. A limited time broadcast / podcast celebrating the light at the Winter Solstice.
Duration:00:14:56
INTRO Xmas in Cornucopia 2021 515 PM
12/11/2021
CHRISTMAS IN CORNUCOPIA, the popular winter story about a town so beautiful it inspired songs and stories since 'time immemorial' will be made available as a podcast beginning on The Winter Solstice -- December 21st 2021 through Christmas Day, to celebrate the Winter Solstice and to bring light into our lives at the end of this Year of the Pandemic.
The story toured British Columbia and Washington state to excellent reviews, and was broadcast on CBC national and regional radio numerous...
Duration:00:06:10
Six Palm Trees
10/9/2021
Six Palm Trees is the journey of a family through the emotional landscape of their shared past. Annie Shea, the family clown, provides stand-up entertainment.Annie Shea, the family clown, provides stand-up entertainment. Annie Shea, the family clown, provides stand-up entertainment at a family reunion, where everyone has gathered to celebrate 24 years of life together.
“Funny and sad, powerful and whimsical, with mercurial mood changes and punchy humour. . . Six Palm Trees is more than a trip down memory lane . . it is a play (about) the price one woman paid to bear and raise 14 children. . . jewel of a play.”
-The Sooke Standard, Vancouver Island, B.C.
“A touching contrast between the comedy of sibling rivalry and the struggle for individual recognition in a large family.”
-CHQM - Vancouver
Duration:00:14:35
The Procedure
9/16/2021
High school graduate Teresa Feeney becomes pregnant from one encounter with a trusted priest Father Sully, who is leading a choir of students in a showcase of songs from the radical hippie production of HAIR. Annie Shea, herself from an enormous Catholic family where abortion is unthinkable, reluctantly becomes Teresa’s confidante. When Annie realizes Teresa is going to do what she desperately needs to do, she has to make a decision: Will she stand by her schoolmate and offer support during this dangerous, illegal procedure?
Duration:00:18:21
Magdas Odyssey
8/6/2021
What if you suddenly discovered that you had a twin? A person who grew beside you in your mother’s womb, whose heart beat right next to your own for nine months. A person identical to yourself, born on the same day to the same mother.
Suddenly, your questions are endless: Who are you? Where is she?
Duration:00:26:32
Mad Hatter
7/16/2021
Your father - a threat to national security? Imagine when men in heavy boots came to your home, your garden, to claim him. An introduction to the story of a family, during World War II, living with the abrupt loss and the mystery of their father.
Duration:00:22:36
GOING CRAZY
7/7/2021
"This morning, Lisa gave way to an anxiety she'd been stifling the past several weeks. She was afraid if she got behind the wheel of her red Toyota Tercel wagon, and drove onto the highway, she was going to give into the temptation she'd had lately to steer herself into a telephone pole."
Duration:00:13:00
Esters Wedding
6/17/2021
Gramma Ester flies from Wisconsin to California to help with a big family wedding in 1976. Flowers, frozen turkey, chocolate groom's cake. Guests fill the church with summer: pastels and hats, ties and shiny shoes. The congregation murmuring, waits. And waits. If the music would just start to play, if the bride would just walk up the aisle on Daddy's arm, everything else would be vanquished into fairy tale.
Finally, our mother: we can feel her slow step as she lifts each foot with all her available life force.
How could we be losing her like this?
Duration:00:26:07