Hosted by Catherine Skinner · 🇺🇸 US · EN-CA · 16 episodes
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Soft Opening features intimate interviews with songwriters, poets, comedians, performers and visual artists who speak candidly about their personal experiences with creativity and resilience. Themes of recovery, grief, spirituality, wellness, sensuality, darkness, and the erotic unfold in each episode and safe space is created for artists to cultivate and showcase new work.
Catherine Skinner hosts Soft Opening, a arts show with 16 episodes published.
In this episode I sit in conversation with my dear friend, Paje Honor. Paje is a makeup artist, hair stylist, photographer, Human design and tarot consultant, and entrepreneur extraordinaire. Creativity just oozes out of
moon is a multi-disciplinary artist and creator living in the Niagara Region with roots in the Caribbean. In this episode, we dive into spirituality and the sacred as sources of healing and inspiration, the notion of div
In the following episode, I have the pleasure of a deep dive with Maja Bannerman, a published writer, poet, songwriter and performance artist who lives here in the Niagara Region. Maja shares her passion for stepping int
Steve Goldberger is a Genie award winning bandleader, producer, songwriter, and musician whose career has spanned over 50 years. In this episode, Steve shares his Musical origins within his Jewish Culture, learning by wa
Carl David Onofrio, or C.D. as he is more commonly known, is a prolific Niagara Falls, Canada based poet, performer, and songwriter in his creative life and a spiritual care provider in his professional life. I’m a long-
Joe Lapinski is a songwriter, producer, performer, and soundscape designer based in St. Catharine’s, Ontario. His fourth full length album ‘New Day’ was released earlier in 2025 and we sit down to talk about music and me
Eve Atoms is a Niagara Region poet, songwriter, spoken word, and experiential artist. In this soul-connected conversation, we visit so many topics that resonate deeply; motherhood and the necessity of self-care, balancin
Rick McLean is singer/songwriter who lives in the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada. He is Anishinaabe, Odawa Wolf Clan, with roots in Wikwemikong Manitoulin Island. Rick is also a professor of Indigenous Studies at Moha
In this episode, I sit down with Niagara Falls poet Courtney Tudman, who I discovered amidst the pandemic and whose work I quickly came to love as a source of incredible grounding and hope. Courtney and I have the most b
Katey Gatta is a singer/songwriter born and raised in Welland, Ontario here in Canada. These days, she’s performing under the moniker Sleepy Jean, turning out tunes that are best described as spaghetti western infused Am
The following episode deals with the subject of suicide. Please take any necessary care of yourself before listening. Aaron Berger is a singer/songwriter who was born in raised in Niagara Falls Canada. He's also one of t
James Owen Brown is a poet, spoken word artist, and songwriter who performs under the alias The Poetically Organized Entity, or the P.O.E. Our conversation looks at the roots of his lifelong love affair with words and rh
Laurel Minnes is an award-winning singer/songwriter who lives in the Niagara Region of Ontario Canada. She’s also the front woman for the post-modern harmonic choral collective Minuscule, an experience of music that is e
One of the topics that keeps coming up in Season One of Soft Opening is the importance of community. The opposite of community is social isolation which can lead to loneliness. Both have been found to have a significant
Brandon Agnew is a Niagara based singer songwriter who has a deep appreciation for the value of life. A shocking experience of grief in his youth led to his first moment of using creativity as a tool to bring community t
In a time when the media is drowning in images of war, greed, and oppression and an opioid and mental health crisis is unfolding in our city, how do we keep reaching for light? Soft Opening is a podcast recorded in Niaga
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Soft Opening is hosted by Catherine Skinner. The show is categorised under arts (health) and has published 16 episodes.
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