Podcaster-in-Residence

^{Photo by Sara Fleiszig}

About our Podcaster in Residence

Sara Geidlinger is the Vice President of Bonn Park Media Inc. Bonn Park Media shares real stories about real people. Specializing in video and audio production, Bonn Park Media has produced hundreds of episodes of its award-winning Bonn Park Podcast, supported by dozens of sponsors and advertisers. The company has released two documentaries to packed premieres, with two other films currently in production for release in 2023/2024. Sara brings decades of experience in telling powerful stories through film, photography, journalism, and community-building.

How to apply

Applications for the 2023 Podcaster-in-Residence program are now closed. Thank you everyone who applied. 

Only successful applicants will be contacted. 

One-on-one support sessions will take place in January 2024 at Central Library. 

About the Bonn Park Podcast

Bonn Park hosts Marshall Ward and Sara Geidlinger chat in-depth with fascinating people living, working, and creating in Waterloo Region. Each episode features a different guest, with artists, writers, experts, entrepreneurs, activists and other folk talking about their motivations, inspirations, and aspirations.

Marshall is a longtime newspaper columnist who has interviewed Hollywood celebrities and local characters; Sara is a photographer and filmmaker who loves to find out what makes people tick. Together, their show emulates the feel of sparking up a conversation with an interesting stranger in a park, which is how Marshall and Sara met (in Waterloo's Bonn Park) and discovered their shared interest in Waterloo Region's creative community. 

Listen to The Bonn Park Podcast and follow on instagram @bonnparkpodcast.

About An Unscripted Spectacle

Marshall is utterly obsessed with professional wrestling. Sara is utterly perplexed by professional wrestling. On each episode of An Unscripted Spectacle, Marshall and Sara talk with a different guest from the world of wrestling -- promoters, referees, journalists, and current and past stars of the squared circle -- to talk deeply about the strange magic of professional wrestling that has enchanted Marshall his whole life. Can they turn Sara into a fellow connoisseur of pro wrestling? She'll need some convincing.

Listen to An Unscripted Spectacle and follow on Instagram @unscriptedspectacle.

This contest is brought to you in partnership with the City of Kitchener's ImagineIt fund.