Don Hamilton, photographer, filmmaker & owner of The Listening Room

This week’s guest is also acting as our host. He is the lighting designer, photographer and filmmaker turned venue owner, Don Hamilton.

For this episode, Don invited A Line Around Your Thoughts to record at the Hamilton Studio, a former gym and auditorium in West Central that now moonlights as The Listening Room.

Since launching almost two years ago to the day, this roughly 200-seat venue has become a favorite destination for intimate music and theatrical performances — in part because of its great acoustics.

Don gets into the history of The Listening Room, the role that it fills in the community, his longer-term vision for the venue and why he’s often comfortable when flying by the seat of his pants.

Thanks to the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture for sponsoring this episode.

Additional thanks to Maono for providing one of their new PD200W wireless hybrid microphones as part of their #PodAnywhere campaign. It allowed us to have an entirely cable-free setup.