Amy Amantea is an artist, actor, advocate, and regular contributor to AMI Today! Amy recently celebrated the release of an audio play that she’s been working on for a few years called Disability Tour Bus.

Amy co-wrote the play that follows Shiloh, a young wheelchair-user, as they navigate their first day as a guide for “Funcouver Bus tours”. Working alongside longtime employee and relentless dad-joker, Hugh, Shiloh struggles to stick to the “funcouver” script when so much of “Canada’s most wheelchair-accessible city” is still so incredibly inaccessible.

People and politics collide until a new passenger, Tess, played by Amy Amantea, comes aboard and offers unexpected common ground. The tour must go on! Because there’s someone special waiting for Tess at the end. At least she hopes there is.

Highlights:

• Show Intro (00:00)
• Coming Up with Nisreen Abdel-Majid (00:18)
• Introducing Amy Amantea (3:17)
• Sample of “Disability Tour Bus” (6:56)
• Tess and other characters from “Disability Tour Bus” (12:00)
• Reception of “Disability Tour Bus” (19:57)

On today’s edition of AMI Today, Jacob Shymanski and hosts from shows on AMI Audio preview what’s coming up on the channel today!

Get the latest headlines from The Globe & Mail Today, Voices of the Walrus, and some tech news from Double Tap!

In the second half of the show, Jacob interviewed Amy Amantea. She recently released an audio play that she co-wrote titled “Disability Tour Bus.” Listen to that interview here.

Highlights:

- Show Intro (00:00)

- The Globe & Mail Today with Corinne Van Dusen (00:54)

- Voices of the Walrus with Amy Amantea (8:55)

- The Guardian Daily with Mike Ross (13:53)

- Double Tap with Steven Scott (19:33)

- Kelly & Ramya with Kelly MacDonald (27:41)

On today’s edition of AMI Today, host Jacob Shymanski speaks with contributors from shows on AMI Audio to find out what’s coming up on the channel today.

In the second half of the show Jacob speaks with Premee Mohamed, a Nebula award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. Premee is here to talk about her literary award-winning series, The Annual Migration of Clouds. You can listen to that interview here.

Highlights:

• Show Intro (00:00)
• The Globe & Mail Today with Corinne Van Dusen (1:07)
• The Guardian Daily with Mike Ross (7:18)
• Double Tap with Shaun Preece (15:39)
• Kelly & Ramya with Kelly MacDonald (21:32)