Erica Heilman’s podcast Rumble Strip encourages listeners to fall in love with strangers and to discover how we are often more alike than we are different. Recent episodes included conversations with Vermonters about class, produced with Vermont Public. In this Fall Festival video, join Heilman for a discussion on making the show and trying to build community in an increasingly divided society.

Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger made her “Stuck in Vermont” video series for 17 years, during an era when video journalism has exponentially grown in influence. Eva reflects on what lies ahead for this video series—and possibly for Vermont—in the coming years. Go behind the scenes into her video making process, hear about the importance of telling local stories, and even get some tips for making your own content.

Artist and scholar Ace Lehner has taken the motif of the barbershop and created a space for queer world-making through their installation and social practice performance piece, “Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure.” Lehner discusses how their piece reimagines and “queers” the traditional images and experiences of barbershops.