My___on Mondays

Episode 189: My Abundance and Scarcity

Mary K Johnson is an artist, designer, and experimental gardener. She sat down this week with Matt Bunk to discuss scarcity mindsets, barter systems, and building equitable communities. You can learn more about Mary K's work and find references for a number of ideas she touched on here: A Creative Asset.

Episode 188: My Night Walks

Around the Block is a series collecting city sounds block by block. This week, three night walks: the Greenbelt, Garden City, and the North End. To submit a sound for this series, email matt@mingstudios.org.

Episode 187: My Love's Labour's Lost

Love's Labour's Lost is a play full of people forcefully stating their intentions and then instantly throwing them aside. This episode is a live recording of the first scene. The Boise Bard Players' production is touring the Treasure Valley 9/4 through 9/14. You can find more information at boisebardplayers.org.

Episode 186: My Uncomfortable Music

Courtney Majors is a Utah-based violinist who moves around a lot. She met Matt Bunk in her cousin's suburban Boise backyard to talk vulnerability in art, the Salt Lake City LDS temple, and leaving Utah.

Episode 185: My Network Built From Barbershops

John Wicks is an actor and director focused on amplifying the quiet voices. This week, he sat down with Matt Bunk to discuss making Black theater in a state full of white people and cows.

Episode 184: My Dark Night of the Soul

Andrew Nemr is preparing to tap dance for twelve hours straight. He and Matt Bunk met to discuss burnout, rest, and the choice to endure the night. The Dark Night of the Soul is a free event at TRICA, beginning August 8th at 7 PM and ending August 9th at 7 AM. You can find more about Dark Night here: https://www.darknightlive.com/.

Episode 183: My Idaho Snapshots

Ten vignette poems from Sydney Bergeson, a creative writer and actor based in Boise. Sydney writes about nature, urbanization, and coming to love a new home.

Episode 182: My Three Snakes (And Other Animals)

Calvin Udall is the proud owner of three snakes, two geckos, two cats, and an uncountable number of fish. He sat down with Matt Bunk to discuss what home means to animals and what it looks like to be a caregiver when you aren't being cared for. Companion to episode 181: My Marbles, Bill, and Marcie.

Episode 181: My Marbles, Bill, and Marcie

Two essays and a poem from Calvin Udall. Calvin Udall is a poet and prose writer who is inspired by the interconnectedness of all things. Exploring pencil work, watercolors, and designing aquascapes and vivariums, he hopes to capture the beauty in the relationship between the natural world and the human condition. These three pieces are about his animals.

Episode 180: My Attempt to Thwart the Coronation

Hunter Hill is a writer and actor based in Sacramento, California. This week, a live recording of his performance at Address Book. His piece Puss-in-Suit is written as a modern companion to the 1611 masque Oberon the Fairy Prince by English dramatist Ben Jonson.