Schedule

Welcome to VanPodFest! Hannah McGregor (Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda) and Andrea Warner (Pop This!) are here to get you oriented for the day’s events. Grab a coffee and your desired breakfast pastry, and meet some of your fellow podcasters.

Adaptations of podcasts continue to explode - developing into scripts, movies and digital series.

What does it mean to bet on yourself? That's what Hannah Sung, Garvia Bailey, and Nana aba Duncan did when they started Media Girlfriends, a podcast production company led by women of colour working towards more inclusion, diversity and perspectives in media. Between the co-founders, they have half a century of award-winning journalism and storytelling excellence with CBC, The Globe and Mail, Hot Docs, The Walrus Lab, Huffington Post, MuchMusic, RBC, Historica Canada and more.

The events of this summer (heat, fires, floods, storms) have brought home the reality of climate change like never before and the urgency of making media to address the crisis couldn’t feel greater.

With Liv Albert (Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby) and Laura Palmer (Island Crime).

So you’ve started a podcast, and now you need to figure out how to build an audience. Learn about the approaches that actually work from BC-based indie podcasters Liv Albert and Laura Palmer who have turned their passion projects into successful shows with massive fan-bases.

Co-presented by SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs