Q with Tom Power

Tracey Emin is one of Britain’s most provocative artists. She’s known for turning sex, trauma, heartbreak and her own messy life into boundary-breaking art. But after surviving aggressive bladder cancer and major surgery, her relationship with her body — and her art — has fundamentally shifted. Spanning nearly 40 years of work from My Bed to her latest paintings, her retrospe...

As a kid in Montreal, Emily Hampshire (Schitt's Creek) was so self-conscious about performing that she’d only sing and dance inside her closet. She’s since gone on to become a six-time Canadian Screen Award winner best known for her role as Stevie Budd on the hit CBC comedy series Schitt’s Creek. Now, she’s joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the new series VisionQuest, ...

So Faint’s Hannah Georgas and Lyn Heinemann have known each other for nearly two decades, but they only recently became creative collaborators. Hannah is a multi-Juno-nominated artist (including two nods for songwriter of the year) and a member of Broken Social Scene, while Lyn is a newer face in the music industry who wrote her own music while working in health care. They jo...

From Tommy Lee to Donald Trump to the Winter Soldier, Sebastian Stan isn’t afraid of disappearing into a role. In his new film, Fjord, he plays a Romanian father in Norway fighting to regain custody of his children. Sebastian joins Tom Power to discuss acting in his native language for the first time, drawing on his own immigrant roots, and how the role reshaped his perspecti...

Alyssa Martin is an award-winning Canadian choreographer known for blending modern dance with humour, surrealism and absurdity. Her new full-length piece, Landslide, makes its world premiere this month at Toronto’s Fall for Dance North Festival, where she’s this year’s artist-in-residence. Alyssa joins Tom Power to share her “elevator pitch” for modern dance, the punk ethos b...