Almost Live episode #223
In this Almost Live episode, Blind community member and friend of VocalEye, Christine Malec, joins us to share original stories and songs.
We’ll hear her National Federation of the Blind award-winning story, “A Wider Stream”, which transports us to 16th-century France. From there, we’ll settle into an 18th-century Viennese café with Blind composer and musician Maria Theresia Paradis, in Christine’s story “An Afternoon at the Café”. Finally, we’ll journey to a possible distant future in an urban park in Toronto in her story “The Song Garden”.
Along the way, Christine will also share a few original songs, weaving music between these imaginative travels through time and space.
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Guest Bio
Christine Malec is a member of Toronto’s blind community, and a consultant helping arts and science organizations to make their content more inclusive. She’s a podcast host, writer and storyteller. She’s also a musician who enjoys singing her heart out in Toronto’s subway system.
Christine Malec and JJ Hunt are the hosts of the podcast Talk Description to Me, where their discussions plunge into current events and topical issues to explore the content of important images, and help place vivid descriptions in their cultural context. Lively, hard-hitting, witty, vibrant, and fun, this is conversation with a view! www.talkdescriptiontome.buzzsprout.com
Christine Malec is honored to be the recipient of a Canada Counsel for the Arts Research and Development grant. Along with her colleague Michelle Coon, she travelled to Europe in March, 2026, to research the lives and work of Friedrich Dulon and Maria Theresia Paradis. They were contemporaries, classical musicians and composers who achieved renown in their lifetimes, who travelled to perform, worked hard at their art, and were both Blind. Christine’s interest is as a musician and storyteller.
