Talk Description to Me

17/12/2025

🎧 The Sounds of the Disability Holiday Festival 2025
This podcast contains some lovely music recorded live at the festival, but more stunningly, it contains an original short story by that Audio Describer and Raconteur of legend JJ Hunt. Filled with descriptive language, it tells the truly heart-warming story of two kids in Toronto in the 40s or 50s at Christmas. Set in and around the TTC Streetcar barns just south of St. Clair, now known as Wychwood Barns, it vividly recreates Toronto of an earlier time, and is just so delightful it’ll overflow your sweetometre in an extremely pleasing way. Its an instant classic that immediately earned its place in my very select collection of Holiday regulars. If you want to jump straight to the story, it begins at 23:11

It was all smiles and good-cheer at the Collective's annual Holiday Festival again this year. With gentle snow falling, and the scent of hot apple cider hanging thick in the air, friends in Toronto's vast and diverse disability community gathered ...

07/12/2025

🎧 Talk Description to Me episode 130, Christine and JJ's Year in Review
With the year coming to a close, and another batch of innovative accessibility projects under their belts, Christine and JJ look back on some of their favourite gigs from 2025. Join your old pals for this Year in Review episode, packed with lively conversation and description-rich clips from their other podcast projects, including Luminocity, The Disability Collective, the Described Toronto Podcast, and Describe Away. On the page you’ll find links to all our other work from the past year. Strap yourselves in; it’s a funky ride!

With the year coming to a close, and another batch of innovative accessibility projects under their belts, Christine and JJ look back on some of their favourite gigs from 2025. Join your old pals for this Year in Review episode, packed with lively...

09/10/2025

JJ and I are at it again, this time with Toronto's disability collective.
🎧 This month, The Disability Collective is mounting 20 Years Later: The (In)Accessibility of Ontario, a photography exhibition showcasing the shortcomings of the AODA (Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act). When Describer/Consultant duo JJ Hunt and Christine Malec were brought on board to write the visual descriptions, they proposed an experiment: instead of JJ writing the descriptions and Christine consulting, as usual, what if Christine (who
is Blind) wrote the descriptions using AI to gather visual information, and JJ (who is sighted) consulted to ensure accuracy.
In this episode, JJ and Christine discuss the challenges, advantages, and results of this unique, disability-led approach. This podcast page also has a link to the exhibit including text and audio of the image descriptions.
https://thedisabilitycollective.buzzsprout.com/2418018/episodes/17972759-reversing-roles-in-visual-description


This month, The Disability Collective is mounting 20 Years Later: The (In)Accessibility of Ontario, a photography exhibition showcasing the shortcomings of the AODA (Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act). When Describer/Consultant duo...

28/06/2025

LuminoCity podcast episode 519: Last Words: Talking in Cemeteries
I wonder if there’s a language that has a word for the joy one gets when one witnesses a beloved and respected colleague doing their best work.
In this episode, you’ll hear JJ Hunt’s vivid descriptions for Last Words: Talking in Cemeteries, a unique show that featured honest conversations about the subject of death; At nightfall in one of Toronto’s most historic cemeteries, JJ talks about what these spaces look like, and what it’s like to walk around in them. In the second part of the episode, JJ returns to one of his favorite cemeteries to bring us along on a stroll as he describes all the sights that make these places underrated gems in our shared urban landscape. A perfect tone and stereo recording make this a wonderfully immersive experience. 

In this episode, you’ll hear JJ Hunt’s vivid primer description for Last Words: Talking in Cemeteries, a unique show that features honest conversations about the taboo subject of death; all under nightfall in Toronto’s most historic cemeteries.&nb...

17/06/2025

🎺 Shouting out this LuminoCity podcast ep that’s a fantastic dive into the nocturnal life of Toronto, public art in its subway system, professional image description, and the growing role of AI as an on-demand describer in the Blind community. Listening to it myself, I learned more, even though I was there at the time! Such a treat to work with JJ.  Great content I must say.

When the city sleeps, Toronto comes alive in unexpected ways. Award-winning photographer Nadya Kwandibens captures the hidden world of the people who keep our city running through the night - transit workers, healthcare staff, entertainers, and co...

17/04/2025

JJ and I are at it again, this time as guest hosts on the March 17 edition of AIRA’s Airacast podcast. We’re Talking Starbucks, the visuals, how they work from a customer’s perspective, and how AIRA can help you as a Blind person make a visit there and get your fix with the help of an AIRA agent. Check it out here!

Education Podcast · Updated Biweekly · The official podcast of Aira, the visual interpreter service for people who are blind or have low vision. At Aira, we connect people, via our free app, to trained professionals who provide visual inf…

18/12/2024

JJ and I are tickled to once again be part of the Vocal Eye families holiday almost live event. It's always such a treat to chat with Amy, and this year will overflow with fun and creative content. I can also say that JJ and I will be debuting a story collaboration that has been absorbing my creative energy, and which I'm so excited to share. Hope you can join. 

VocalEye's festive year-end celebration with pals Christine Malec and JJ Hunt!

30/10/2024

I've been working on this project over the summer. It's description rich, designed with a Blind and Low Vision audience in mind. This is the final episode of the limited podcast series telling the story of a community garden and describing an urban park, along with my colleagues in the Described Toronto Collective, Rebecca Singh and Kaity Sanders. Check it out!

Hopewell Garden Audio Story Part 5
In this final episode of the Hopewell Garden Audio Story, Kaity, Rebecca and Christine talk together about climate action, hope, the value in all of us working communally, and how much we loved working on this project together. If you’re new to the project, this short listen is a fantastic summary of what we’ve done, and an invitation to listen backwards.
Image Description: A square with large yellow text that reads, "Described Toronto" and below it "PODCAST" in all capital letters, within a yellow rectangle. The title is layered on top of a photo of four diverse women standing side by side outdoors in front of a garden in a park. The woman at centre who is white speaks into a mic. She has a white cane strapped to her shoulder bag.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2368549/episodes/15967375

24/10/2024

Hi description users,
As a member of the Described Toronto Collective, I’ve been collaborating with Describer Rebecca Singh and Event Coordinator Katherine Sanders on a lovely limited podcast series telling the story of a community garden in Toronto. There’re interviews, descriptions of the park, and expert input on how to grow a garden literally and figuratively, and how to foster local pollinators and pollinator species. It’s delightful and inclusive. Here’s a link to episode 4, but I encourage you to check them all out.
Hopewell Garden Audio Story - Part Four
September is a poignant time in any garden. The season is changing, it's the harvest, and everything is gradually slowing down. In this time of natural transition, Rebecca Singh led a guided, described walk for members of Toronto's Blind and Visually Impaired community. And, Christine returned to once again talk with the gardeners about what they're up to, and to hear about life in the garden. From the look and feel of a New England Aster to parties in and out of the garden, this episode has a little bit of everything!
Image Description: A square with large yellow text that reads, "Described Toronto" and below it "PODCAST" in all capital letters, within a yellow rectangle. The title is layered on top of a photo of four diverse women standing side by side outdoors in front of a garden in a park. The woman at centre who is white speaks into a mic. She has a white cane strapped to her shoulder bag.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2368549/episodes/15932824