Category: Podcast

Episode 14 – Sister Sophia Kicks the Habit, with Lisa Randall

This week, we turn the mics on ourselves! Join us as we discuss our upcoming 2026 Fringe show, AI Campfire: Return, react to a surprise shoutout in Festivals Edinburgh’s new AI research report, and share highlights from our recent bilingual ecoscenography residency in Argentina.
Read more: Episode 14 – Sister Sophia Kicks the Habit, with Lisa Randall
Episode 13 – Emma Smallman on Drum & Bass Aerobics, Festival Wellbeing and Finding Your Happy Bass

This week, we turn the mics on ourselves! Join us as we discuss our upcoming 2026 Fringe show, AI Campfire: Return, react to a surprise shoutout in Festivals Edinburgh’s new AI research report, and share highlights from our recent bilingual ecoscenography residency in Argentina.
Read more: Episode 13 – Emma Smallman on Drum & Bass Aerobics, Festival Wellbeing and Finding Your Happy Bass
Episode 12 – AI Campfire [Return], a Festivals Research Mention and an Ecoscenography Residency in Argentina

This week, we turn the mics on ourselves! Join us as we discuss our upcoming 2026 Fringe show, AI Campfire: Return, react to a surprise shoutout in Festivals Edinburgh’s new AI research report, and share highlights from our recent bilingual ecoscenography residency in Argentina.
Read more: Episode 12 – AI Campfire [Return], a Festivals Research Mention and an Ecoscenography Residency in Argentina
Episode 11 – Chris Davis is The 40 year Old Ballerino

This is the big one. Episode 10 of Podcast 13, and Ian and Vanesa use the milestone to reveal the full 2026 Venue 13 programme: eleven shows across theatre, comedy, musical theatre, dance fitness, immersive digital performance, and workshops. Five world premieres. Ten of the eleven companies are making their Edinburgh Fringe debut. Seven productions…
Read more: Episode 11 – Chris Davis is The 40 year Old Ballerino
Episode 10 – The Full Venue 13 2026 Programme + Here in the Long Now by Isla Cowan

This is the big one. Episode 10 of Podcast 13, and Ian and Vanesa use the milestone to reveal the full 2026 Venue 13 programme: eleven shows across theatre, comedy, musical theatre, dance fitness, immersive digital performance, and workshops. Five world premieres. Ten of the eleven companies are making their Edinburgh Fringe debut. Seven productions…
Read more: Episode 10 – The Full Venue 13 2026 Programme + Here in the Long Now by Isla Cowan
Episode 9 – A Hydrogen and Solar Vegan Food Trailer at the Fringe: How You Can Help Make It Happen + Undertow by Keith Barker

Venue 13 is joining forces with Soft Serve Cartel and Renewable Energy Vendors to bring the Edinburgh Fringe’s first carbon-conscious vegan food trailer to the festival this August 2026—and we are launching a crowdfunding campaign to make it happen!
Read more: Episode 9 – A Hydrogen and Solar Vegan Food Trailer at the Fringe: How You Can Help Make It Happen + Undertow by Keith Barker
Episode 8 – Prague Quadrennial: Immersion, Infrastructure and the Scenography of the Unseen + Pond Life by Elyne Quan

Ian and Vanesa continue their UAE journey after World Stage Design 2025, reflecting on Ian’s NYU Abu Dhabi talk and exploring the university’s performance spaces. They also visit TeamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi’s vast immersive environment, sparking ideas about ecological and hybrid design, and share this week’s CCTA reading, Earth Duet by E.M. Lewis.
Read more: Episode 8 – Prague Quadrennial: Immersion, Infrastructure and the Scenography of the Unseen + Pond Life by Elyne Quan
Episode 7 – AI in Performance: From Malta to Toronto + The Project Hope by Catherine Banks

Ian and Vanesa return from two international conferences held at opposite ends of the world, both exploring the rapidly evolving relationship between artificial intelligence and the arts. Vanishing Acts: AI, Performative Knowledge and Sustainable Memory at the University of Malta,and the Creative AI Symposium at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Read more: Episode 7 – AI in Performance: From Malta to Toronto + The Project Hope by Catherine Banks
Episode 6 – We’re Back: Fringe Preparations, Cultural Futures and What’s Happening in Scotland This March + Laila and the Wolf by Hassan Abdulrazzak

After a brief winter hibernation, Podcast 13 is officially back in the studio! Ian and Vanesa have returned with renewed energy, a few more stamps in their passports, and a massive to-do list as we sprint toward the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Read more: Episode 6 – We’re Back: Fringe Preparations, Cultural Futures and What’s Happening in Scotland This March + Laila and the Wolf by Hassan Abdulrazzak
Episode 5 – A Venue 13 Carol: The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future 13 + Appealing by Paula Cizmar

In this special end-of-year episode of Podcast 13, hosts Ian Garrett and Vanesa Kelly reflect on an extraordinary year by borrowing a familiar seasonal structure: the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. The conversation becomes both a retrospective and a roadmap, tracing the revival of Venue 13, the ideas shaping its present, and the…
Read more: Episode 5 – A Venue 13 Carol: The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future 13 + Appealing by Paula Cizmar