Friday Special Blend
Friday May 30th, 2025 with Susan Johnston
Fallosophy: A conversation with memoirist Ardra Shephard, and DARC/Qu'Art Ottawa's Big Gay Screening.

Fallosophy: A conversation with memoirist Ardra Shephard, and DARC/Qu'Art Ottawa's Big Gay Screening. About Fallosophy: "A memoir based on columnist, fashion-show TV host, podcaster and MS advocate Ardra Shephard’s award-winning blog, Tripping on Air. Twenty-three-year-old Ardra Shephard is sleeping with the wrong guy, living in a crappy apartment, and spending money she doesn’t have on designer shoes, boozy brunches and weekends in NYC. She hates her office job, but it pays for the lessons she needs to make it as an opera singer. She isn’t thrilled about her current situation, but she isn’t panicked. She knows she’s got time! Making mistakes while you figure stuff out is what your twenties are all about. But then when a doctor tells Ardra she has MS, those two letters split her life into a Before and After." DARC’s Big Gay Screening June 4, 2025 6 PM EST Digital Arts Resource Centre (DARC) is excited to present our annual Big Gay Screening in partnership with Qu’ART! Glenn Nuotio, Tatum Thompson, and Karolina Krym will join us to talk about the event and about their films: SEVEN MINUTES IN THE CLOSET - The year is 1997 and the graduating class of Smitty Crest High School is celebrating with a game of seven minutes in heaven. After being paired together, teens Ryan and Ian begin to question each other’s intentions in the closet. Once they both come to the realization that neither wants to kiss the other, they use humour and 90’s nostalgia to get to the bottom of each other’s sexualities. PUT ON SOMETHING DANCE-Y - Mia wakes up one morning discovering that she is gay, so she decides to tell her boyfriend, close friends, and family about her sexual orientation through a coming-out party that she throws at her home.