Creative or Die
Interview Series
Creativity isn't a career. It isn't a hobby. It isn’t a side-hustle. It isn’t a means to an end. Creativity is something older and more essential. To create is to be fully alive. This Series of conversations goes deep into that truth, sitting with local artists, musicians, and Creators in Victoria and Nanaimo - not after the work is done, but inside the process itself. The struggle, the obsession, the devotion, the release.
Brought to you by Host and Creator, Jordan Dack. Supported by Haus of Owl Creation Club and the Telus Storyhive On-Location Program.
“Dum creo, vivo”
Livestream Interview Series with Victoria’s
Creative Leaders
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Livestream Schedule
April 15, 2026 | 8-9pm pst
Patricia Sims
Filmmaker, Conservationist, Activist
In this episode of Telus Storyhive On-Location Victoria, we sit down with the founder of CanazWest Pictures and co-creator of World Elephant Day - a woman who has stared down the twin barrel of industry gatekeeping and wildlife extinction and refused to blink. This is a conversation about documentary filmmaking as a moral act, about what happens when you stop making content and start making testimony, and about why the camera is sometimes the most dangerous weapon in the room. Strap in. The elephants are listening. Produced by Haus of Owl in partnership with TELUS STORYHIVE On Location.
April 22, 2026 | 8-9pm pst
Jake Insley
Actor, Media Strategist, Filmmaker
Jake is an actor who learned to think like a strategist and a strategist who never forgot how to perform - and in an era where every founder is their own content studio and every artist is their own distribution channel, that combination is rarer than it sounds. This is a conversation about the creative life, about reinvention without apology, and about what it actually takes to stop chasing the industry and start building your own. Produced by Haus of Owl in partnership with TELUS STORYHIVE On Location.
April 29, 2026 | 8-9pm pst
Jessy Savage
Marketing Entrepreneur, Community Connector
In this episode of Telus Storyhive On-Location Victoria, we pull up a chair with Jessy Savage — Victoria's most community-rooted digital strategist, twice-crowned Face of Digital Marketing, and the kind of entrepreneur who donates her agency's hours to causes she believes in before she ever invoices a client. This is a chat about what happens when you build a creative business like you're building a neighbourhood — slowly, intentionally, with everyone's name on the door. Jessy is sharp, candid, and allergic to pretension, and this conversation will hit differently for anyone who has ever tried to do good work in a world that keeps asking you to do fast work instead. Produced by Haus of Owl in partnership with TELUS STORYHIVE On Location.
May 6, 2026 | 8-9pm pst
Eli Klein
Rabble-Rouser, Tastemaker, Storyteller
There's a version of this story where everything stops. Where the injury is the ending. Eli Klein chose a different story. In this episode of Telus Storyhive On-Location Victoria, we sit with a man who has stared down the scrambled wreckage of a traumatic brain injury and emerged more committed to community, more alive to the creative possibilities that exist on the other side of catastrophe. Eli is honest, funny, and incapable of self-pity, and this conversation will stay with you long after you close the tab. Produced by Haus of Owl in partnership with TELUS STORYHIVE On Location.
May 29, 2026 | 8-9pm pst
Victoria Clements
Producer, Entrepreneur, Connector
She started on stage at six years old and hasn't stopped performing since, except when she was producing, directing, casting, modelling, choreographing hair shows, schmoozing on a yacht with 400 film crew, running a Hollywood office, or building a Facebook community of 7,000 Victoria film industry professionals from scratch. In this episode of Telus Storyhive On-Location Victoria, we sit down with Victoria Clements, producer, events architect, entrepreneur, and founder of Posh Intertainment, for a conversation about what it actually looks like to spend five decades saying yes to every creative opportunity that walks through the door and somehow turning all of it into a coherent, thriving, utterly singular career. Produced by Haus of Owl in partnership with TELUS STORYHIVE On Location.
May 20, 2026 | 8-9pm pst
Kris Krug
Techartist, Cyber-Punk Anti-Hero from the Future
Twenty-five years ago he was building his university's first website. Today he's building the community infrastructure for BC's AI future - and somewhere in between he photographed Barack Obama, shot for National Geographic, and became the kind of person that both tech CEOs and underground artists call when they need to understand what's actually happening. In this episode of Telus Storyhive On-Location Victoria, we go deep with Kris Krüg. Produced by Haus of Owl in partnership with TELUS STORYHIVE On Location.
May 27, 2026 | 8-9pm pst
Jacqueline Perriam & Erik Abbink
Film Composers, Musical Partners
Most people watch a film and feel something - they just don't know why. Nine times out of ten, the answer is the score. In this episode of Telus Storyhive On-Location Victoria, we sit with Jacqueline Perriam and Erik Abbink - the Victoria-based composing duo behind Oak Bay Studios and the musical architects behind an impressive catalogue of film and television scores. This is a conversation about an often invisible art form, about the terrifying intimacy of putting music to someone else's vision, about what it means to build a creative partnership that is also a marriage, and about how you write a score in a week without losing your mind or your marriage. Produced by Haus of Owl in partnership with TELUS STORYHIVE On Location.
June 10, 2026 | 8-9pm pst
Nikky Ermineskin
Indigenous Rapper, Educator, Media Artist
The pain that Nikky turned into power, as a daily practice eventually became the foundation of a creative life that is genuinely changing the world for Indigenous youth on Vancouver Island. In this episode of Telus Storyhive On-Location Victoria, we sit with Nikky Ermineskin - rapper, audio engineer, and educator for a conversation about what it means to walk in two worlds without apologizing for either one. This is hip hop as medicine, as memory, as resistance, and as curriculum. Produced by Haus of Owl in partnership with TELUS STORYHIVE On Location.
June 17, 2026 | 8-9pm pst
Ron Thaler
Grammy-Winning Drummer, Producer, Entrepreneur
In this episode of Telus Storyhive On-Location Victoria, we sit with Ron "Blondie Boy" Thaler - three-time Grammy winner, 11-time Billboard chart-topper, studio drummer to Alicia Keys and Lana Del Rey, spatial sound pioneer, and New York music educator, for a conversation about what it actually costs to play at the highest level for thirty years and still wake up genuinely excited about what's next. Ron is one of those people who is simultaneously the most accomplished person in the room and the most curious, which is probably not a coincidence. Produced by Haus of Owl in partnership with TELUS STORYHIVE On Location.
June 24, 2026 | 8-9pm pst
Kemi Craig
Dancer, Visual Artist, Projection Artist
What happens when you stop asking permission for your body to exist in public space and start projecting it - literally - onto the walls of the city? In this episode of Telus Storyhive On-Location Victoria, we go deep with Kemi Craig - dancer, visual artist, projection mapper, Afrofuturist, and former City of Victoria Artist in Residence - in a conversation that moves between flamenco and film theory, between the personal and the political, between the body as archive and the city as canvas. Kemi makes art that insists on being felt before it is understood. This is a conversation about curiosity as a creative medium. Produced by Haus of Owl in partnership with TELUS STORYHIVE On Location.
July 1, 2026 | 8-9pm pst
Kyeren Regher
Poet Laureate, Writer, Arts Director
In this episode of Telus Storyhive On-Location Victoria, we sit with Victoria's seventh Poet Laureate, Literary force, Artistic Director of Planet Earth Poetry, and host of The Poet Laureate Podcast, for a sprawling, gorgeous conversation about what poetry actually is when you strip away the academia and the reverence and the fear. Spoiler: it's the thing you already feel but don't have the words for yet. Kyeren has the words. Produced by Haus of Owl in partnership with TELUS STORYHIVE On Location.