Latest Ice rink Podcast Episodes

The beauty of shinny

RinkTalk Podcast - December 22, 2017 05:00 - 35 minutes
Photographer Brant Slomovic has an unmatched eye for capturing the joy and beauty of a game of shinny hockey on a frosty winter day. Listen as he tells Robert about his art, The Shinny Project, and the cultural importance of the outdoor rink. Then, minor hockey coach and backyard rinkmaker Ian Wi...

Rink Science

RinkTalk Podcast - December 15, 2017 05:00 - 44 minutes
In this episode, geographer Colin Robertson describes how data about backyard skating rinks collected through his RinkWatch project can help environmental scientists better understand the future impacts of climate change. Expert rinkmaker Michael Berube gives listeners the inside scoop on how to ...

Rinks of hope

RinkTalk Podcast - December 08, 2017 05:00 - 51 minutes
In this episode, Robert interviews three parents whose families face unique challenges, and learns how a backyard rink has played an important role in helping them meet those challenges. If this episode doesn't grab at your heartstrings, you're as cold and hard inside as a well-made rink in mid-J...

Art, rinks, and family

RinkTalk Podcast - December 01, 2017 05:00 - 33 minutes
In this episode, California-based, Winnipeg-born artist, sculptor, and professor Mia Feuer describes two of her amazing rink-inspired art installations. First up is 'The Decline of Outdoor Skate-ability', a giant 3D graph built in a Montreal park from hockey sticks, skates, and automobile taillig...

Not just for Habs fans...

RinkTalk Podcast - November 24, 2017 05:00 - 46 minutes
In this episode, Robert interviews musician, filmmaker and author Pete McCormack about his novel 'Understanding Ken', published nearly 20 years ago. Set in 1970s British Columbia, the book describes the travails of a boy coming to terms with his parents' messy divorce and Ken Dryden's unexpected ...

Brady Brady and the year you could build a rink in Vancouver

RinkTalk Podcast - November 10, 2017 05:00 - 47 minutes
Interviews about backyard rinks, outdoor skating, and shinny hockey. First, author, musician and CBC personality Grant Lawrence describes the backyard rink of dreams he built during the chilly Vancouver winter of 2016-17. He also discusses hockey bullying and his book 'The Lonely End of the Rink'...