Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 3 Extract: Ogden City Project Coordinator Sara Meess

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 3 Extract: Ogden City Project Coordinator Sara Meess

This Extract from Episode 3 features Sara Meess, a Project Coordinator with Ogden’s Business Development Department, who provides a behind the scenes history of how a Creative District is born. Leading the interview is Todd Oberndorfer Host of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, artist, and Outreach Manager & Advisor for the Weber State Department of Visual Art & Design. 

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Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 29 - Vida, Muerte, Justicia / Life, Death, Justice
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 29 - Vida, Muerte, Justicia / Life, Death, Justice

In Episode 29 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, we gather around the virtual picnic table to discuss Vida, Muerte, Justicia / Life, Death, Justice, an exhibition of twenty-four Latin American and Latinx contemporary artists whose work responds to relevant themes in relation to social and racial justice.

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 28 - Social Undistance
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 28 - Social Undistance

In Episode 28 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, we sit down at the Banyan Studio picnic table to discuss Social Undistance, an interdisciplinary exhibition and contemporary dance experience at Ogden Contemporary Arts Center that explores how shared isolation and limited physical connection impacts the human experience.

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 27 - Artist/Muralist Don Rimx (and company)
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 27 - Artist/Muralist Don Rimx (and company)

In Episode 27 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, we gather around the Banyan Studio picnic table to reflect on the beautiful new Ogden City Public Art murals created by fine artist and muralist Don Rimx.

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 26 - Ogden City Limits
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 26 - Ogden City Limits

In Episode 26 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, we had a great night on the patio of Ogden’s Lighthouse Lounge chatting with local musicians (The Proper Way’s) Scott Rogers and Shane Osguthorpe, and SLC photographer Natalie Haws (Beehive Photography), about the upcoming Season 2 of their popular music documentary series, Ogden City Limits.

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 25 - Venessa Castagnoli, Executive Director of Ogden Contemporary Arts
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 25 - Venessa Castagnoli, Executive Director of Ogden Contemporary Arts

In Episode 25 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, we’re joined by Venessa Castagnoli, Executive Director of Ogden Contemporary Arts. OCA creates and shares globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advanced arts programing.

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 24 - The Nine Rails Arts Plaza Design Team
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 24 - The Nine Rails Arts Plaza Design Team

In Episode 24 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, we’re joined by representatives from Sasaki, Union Creative Agency, IO Landarch and Ogden City, who make up the design team for the new Nine Rails Arts Plaza, an arts-based plaza in development on the SW corner of 25th St & Ogden Ave in Ogden, Utah.

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 23 - You Bet Your Black Ass, Broadway Divas-Only Edition
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 23 - You Bet Your Black Ass, Broadway Divas-Only Edition

In Episode 23 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, we sit down with the cast and crew of Good Company Theatre’s You Bet Your Black Ass, Broadway: Divas-Only Edition!

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 22 - Union Creative Agency Owner, Jake McIntire
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 22 - Union Creative Agency Owner, Jake McIntire

In Episode 22 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, we connect with designer, entrepreneur, social catalyst, and Union Creative Founder, Jake McIntire, to discuss his stakeholder-centered design agency, successful collaboration, and the origins of the Nine Rails Creative District.

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 21 - Craft Lake City Holiday Market
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 21 - Craft Lake City Holiday Market

In Episode 21 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, The Banyan Collective sits down with SLUG Magazine Executive Editor and Craft Lake City Executive Director, Angela Brown, to discuss the First Annual Craft Lake City Holiday Market in Ogden at The Monarch. We are also joined by Ogden City Ex-Councilwoman and Utah Foster Care Representative, Amy Wicks.

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 20 - Wade Kavanaugh
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 20 - Wade Kavanaugh

This episode includes an interview with 01 Arts Artist in Residence, Wade Kavanaugh with guest Scott Patria.

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 19 - Moscow Ballet's Nutcracker Soloist Mariia Yevdokymova
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 19 - Moscow Ballet's Nutcracker Soloist Mariia Yevdokymova

In Episode 19 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, Moscow Ballet Audition Director and Soloist, Mariia Yevdokymova, and Onstage Ogden’s Andrew Barrett Watson, join us in our new Monarch recording studio to talk about the upcoming Great Russian Nutcracker.

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 18 - Weber Arts Council Inaugural Playwright in Residency
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 18 - Weber Arts Council Inaugural Playwright in Residency

n Episode 18 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, Weber Arts Council’s Diane Stern and Kathryn MacKay, along with Dramaturg, Cole Stern, and Playwright, Daniel Rattner, sit down with us at The Argo House to talk about their inaugural Wasatch Playwright’s Residency program.

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 17 - The Proper Way Studio Visit
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 17 - The Proper Way Studio Visit

Join us for an uncensored session of back-and-forth questions, confessions and music in The Proper Way’s Old Post Office studio.

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 16 - Patriotic Pops Interviews LIVE from Snowbasin
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 16 - Patriotic Pops Interviews LIVE from Snowbasin

Episode 16 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast takes us to Mount Ogden for Utah Symphony’s Patriotic Celebration at Snowbasin Resort. Broadway superstar, Hugh Panaro, and Guest Conductor, Michael Krajewski, and more!

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 15 - Ogden Music Festival & Spike 150
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 15 - Ogden Music Festival & Spike 150

This episode includes an interview with Reba Nissen & Michelle Tanner of the 12th Annual Ogden Music Festival. We also an include an update from Visit Ogden’s Sara Toliver on this weekend’s Spike 150 event - including information on how to volunteer, and how to best participate in all the events.

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 14 - Russ Adams of Ogden Uncon
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 14 - Russ Adams of Ogden Uncon

This episode includes an interview with Russ Adams of Ogden UnCon, Ogden’s untamed and unconventional pop culture convention on June 7-9.

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 13 - Indie Ogden & the Co-Op
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 13 - Indie Ogden & the Co-Op

In this episode we have ***BREAKING NEWS*** from Mikaela Shafer, Founder & Purveyor of the independent and well-established media arts community resource that is Indie Ogden.

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 12 - Montana, Motorcycles, and The Monarch - A Conversation with Thaine Fischer of Fischer Reagan Enterprises
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 12 - Montana, Motorcycles, and The Monarch - A Conversation with Thaine Fischer of Fischer Reagan Enterprises

This episode includes an interview with Thaine Fischer, Managing Member of Fischer Reagan Enterprises and Hard Hat Tour Guide of the Monarch Building in the center of the Nine Rails Arts District in Ogden, Utah

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 11 - Laying Tracks for the Transcontinental Sesquicentennial Celebration
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 11 - Laying Tracks for the Transcontinental Sesquicentennial Celebration

With the connection of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific, along with other rail lines that went north and south of Ogden in the following years, Ogden was designated in 1874 as the junction location of the two railroad companies, earning it the nickname “Junction City.”

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 3 Extract: Ogden City Project Coordinator Sara Meess
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 3 Extract: Ogden City Project Coordinator Sara Meess

This Extract from Episode 3 features Sara Meess, a Project Coordinator with Ogden’s Business Development Department, who provides a behind the scenes history of how a Creative District is born.

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 10 - The Corner
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 10 - The Corner

In honor of Episode 10 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, our house band The Proper Way gifted us with a new opening ditty, which revealed an uncensored glimpse into 9R host Todd Oberndorfer’s childhood. This episode features a conversation with Lorie Buckley, Derek Williamson, Regina Esparza, and Joel Kitamura; representatives from Ogden City Arts, Culture & Events’ new Information Kiosk/Café, The Corner.

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 9 - Illuminate
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 9 - Illuminate

Episode 9 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast takes us to Salt Lake City for Utah Arts Alliance’s second annual Illuminate Light Art & Technology Festival.

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 2 Extract: Conductor Randall Craig Fleischer
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 2 Extract: Conductor Randall Craig Fleischer

Utah Symphony Guest Conductor, Randall Craig Fleischer, in our Van Sessions #TanVan mobile studio, at Snowbasin Resort for Ogden Symphony Ballet Association’s Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald concert under the stars.

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 8 - Relative Truth / NEXT Ensemble’s Amahl
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 8 - Relative Truth / NEXT Ensemble’s Amahl

Episode 8 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast features an interview with Collin Noortmann Chandler, Mark Seawell and Chris Miller, the artists behind Eccles Community Art Center’s November exhibition, “Relative Truth.”

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 7 - Dia De Los Muertos / Tutulli & WSU Ballet Folklórico
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 7 - Dia De Los Muertos / Tutulli & WSU Ballet Folklórico

Our first bilingual podcast! We spoke with Maria Salgado with WSU Ballet Folklorico and Leon Araujo, owner of local cafe Coffee Links to chat about the upcoming Mexican Holiday, Dia De Los Muertos, along with Irimelva Reyes, director of Tutulli Ballet Folklorico.

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 1 Extract - Lorie Buckley, Ogden City Arts Coordinator
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 1 Extract - Lorie Buckley, Ogden City Arts Coordinator

Interview with Ogden City Arts Coordinator, Lorie Buckley. Why a community should focus on the arts, Mayor's Awards in the Arts, First Friday Art Stroll, Ogden Twilight, and the new Nine Rails Arts District.

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 6 - Argo House / BalletX / Carrie Myers
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 6 - Argo House / BalletX / Carrie Myers

This episode includes an interview with James Argo of Industrial Art & Design and Jake McIntire of Union Creative Agency. We also spoke with Philadelphia-based BalletX Associate Artistic Director, Tara Keating, along with Dancer, Richard Villaverde.

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 5 - Ink Dwell Part 2 / LITerally Podcast Reading
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 5 - Ink Dwell Part 2 / LITerally Podcast Reading

Nine Rails Arts #Podcast Ep 5, w/Ink Dwell's WSU Hurst Artist-in-Residence, Jane Kim, & adventure journalist, Thayer Walker, WSU Dean of Arts & Humanities Scott Sprenger, & Matthew Choberka, Chair, Department of Visual Art & Design. Plus a LITerally reading, and a duet from NEXT Ensemble.

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 4 - Ink Dwell Part 1
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 4 - Ink Dwell Part 1

In Ep. 4, we are joined by the founders of Ink Dwell studio, science illustrator & muralist Jane Kim and adventure journalist Thayer Walker, as well as painter assistants, Laura Macias, Ash Ferlito and Fiorella Ikeue, to discuss Ink Dwell’s Migrating Mural campaign.

Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 3 - Birth of a Creative District with Ogden City Project Coordinator Sara Meess / The Proper Way
Nine Rails Arts Podcast Ep. 3 - Birth of a Creative District with Ogden City Project Coordinator Sara Meess / The Proper Way

In Episode 3, we we chat with Ogden City Business Development Project Coordinator, Sara Meess for a behind-the-scenes look into the making of a Creative District. We also party on the porch with The Proper Way!

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