June 2012 Archives

Saturday June 30, 2012

Edward Phillips and The Big Screen

Edward Phillips is a writer based in Vancouver who has a passion for film and especially for movies of an older vintage. He's going to be dropping by the studio to talk about some of his favourites and looking at what makes them stand the test of time.

This week, with the multi-award winning movie The Artist out on dvd Edward looks way back to the silent era and Grandma's Boy.

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Friday June 29, 2012

Featured Guests:

Conductor Arthur Arnold

Conductor Arthur Arnold divides his time between a busy conducting schedule in Europe - and his other backyard - Powell River.

He's right in the middle of two major musical events in the northern Sunshine Coast town, the Symphony Orchestra Academy of the Pacific and the International Choral Kathaumixw Festival.

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Friday June 29, 2012

Featured Guests:

Hop the Twig : CBC Short Film Face Off

Kyle Rideout's first outing as a film director is making a real splash.  Hop the Twig has been winning awards at festivals all over and is now a contender in CBC's Short Film Face Off.  Kyle dropped by the studio to talk about his film debut, along with young actress Emily Kozak who stars in the film.  It was her first film too!

Join the Hop the Twig Facebook page!

Later on Saturday you'll have the chance to vote to make Hop the Twig the winner!

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Thursday June 28, 2012

Featured Guests:

Author Deryn Collier

Local author Deryn Collier has a penchant for writing mystery stories. Although she always knew it was something she wanted to do, it took a lot of self-convincing and determination to pursue her goal. But now all that hard work has come full circle as she is now the proud author of the suspense novel 'Confined Space'.

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Thursday June 28, 2012

Featured Guests:

The Genius and Madness of artist William Kurelek

Curator Mary Jo Hughes says William Kurelek should be considered in the top 10 of Canada's greatest visual artists.  Yet his art is not as well-known as that of the Group of Seven or Emily Carr - iconic Canadian landscape artists - where Kurelek's work is full of people, narrative and often compared to Bruegel or Bosch.

William Kurelek lived 50 short, but prolific and turbulent years - from 1927 - 1977. He lived with serious mental illness, and spent 7 years in early adulthood in and out of psych wards.

A rare, major retrospective of his powerful paintings is on until September 3, at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, where I toured the exhibit and sat down for a chat with one of the show's 3 curators - Mary Jo Hughes.

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Tuesday June 26, 2012

Featured Guests:

Willow Yamauchi and memorial tattoos

There are many ways to commemorate a significant person or event in your life - including body art.

Willow Yamauchi shares the moving story of the tattoo that she and 12 family members got in honour of the sister she lost.

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Sunday June 24, 2012

Featured Guests:

Vancouver Chamber Choir

The Vancouver Chamber Choir has embarked on the third cd in their Music for Healing series. First they created Finding the Still Point and then Unexpected Gifts and now they are working on A Quiet Place. 

You can still get involved with the process too! You can sponsor a page, or part of a page, in the cd package and honour someone at the same time.  There is also a chance to purchase a limo from the choir.  Check the links on the VCC website and contact Laverne G'froerer for more details.

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Friday June 22, 2012

Featured Guests:

Designer Mita Naidu

Vancouver designer Mita Naidu doesn't believe fashion belongs in a 'cultural silo'.

She blends her Indian aesthetic with a western, multicultural sensibility - and the result is fashions have that 'wow' factor.

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Friday June 22, 2012

Chef Bruce:

Chef Bruce!

This weekend Chef Bruce Wood of Bruce's Kitchen pays tribute to a much respected Salt Spring Islander. 
John Wilcox was a long time farmer and volunteer on the Island and he will be sorely missed by so many friends and by all the people who have enjoyed his harvests.

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Friday June 22, 2012

Featured Guests:

Author Buffy Cram

I had such fun talking to author Buffy Cram when she dropped by the studio. I also really enjoyed reading her debut collection of short stories Radio Belly.  Buffy tackles some serious topics in these stories but does so with a very deft hand and a touch of magic realism.

Besides being a very talented writer Buffy Cram is a seasoned world traveller. This collection was inspired, written, edited, and revised while she was living in five or six different countries! 

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Friday June 22, 2012

Featured Guests:

Meet Poetess Mayaan Asmoucha

She's only just graduating from Grade 4 at Vancouver's Charles Dickens Elementary School - but young Mayaan Asmoucha is making a mark with her poetry.

Mayaan won first prize in the national Polar Expressions poetry contest, winning cash for herself and her school - but also the right to be published in a book of writing by young Canadians.

Her winning entry was a poem about Valdes Island in the Gulf Islands off the BC coast - where her parents and grandparents have gone for the respite of nature for years.

As Sheryl discovered when Mayaan came in for a visit - this little poet has a soul that runs deep...

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Thursday June 21, 2012

Featured Guests:

Music for Healing

The Vancouver Chamber Choir is getting set to release the final CD in their 3 part series called Music for Healing.

The CDs are designed to accompany people facing serious life challenges.

And they've been used in palliative care, by physicians and families. Laverne G'froerer is the co-producer of the Music for Healing Series.

You can hear that conversation Sunday Jun 24 after the 7:00 am news.

 

Sunday June 17, 2012

Featured Guests:

Author Daniel Griffin

Daniel Griffin's new book Stopping for Strangers has been described as "sparkling" filled with "emotional complexity" and "strong, surprising and full of heart". 

It's a collection of short stories that delve into the
intricacies of family relationships. And it's been nominated for several major awards.

I enjoyed talking to Daniel about his writing and about how he is inspired by life with his three young children.

 

Sunday June 17, 2012

Featured Guests:

Vern Lambourne : Granville Island Brewing

Vern is the brew master at Granville Island Brewing.  He has some great tips for pairing beer and food. 

And he's offering some delicious recipes for pairing with some great Granville Island brews. You'll find them on the "read more" tab.
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Sunday June 17, 2012

Featured Guests:

Shadan Saul

A few years back Shadan Saul made a musical change of direction. She had been studying and singing jazz but decided that she really wanted to try opera.  So she began with the opera program at UBC and knew she had found where she was meant to be musically.

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Sunday June 17, 2012

Michael Juk on trumpet auditions

MIchael Juk is a long time music producer at CBC Vancouver.  His latest blog on the CBC Music site is all about trumpet auditions and includes some valuable tips for anyone about to undertake such a challenge!

 

Friday June 15, 2012

Cooking Club:

Stephanie Yuen : East Meets West

Stephanie Yuen has been hugely influential in the Vancouver food scene for years.  She has written about food for English and Chinese language newpapers, magazines and websites, appeared on countless radio and tv shows and is co-founder of the Vancouver Chinese Restaurant Awards.

Now she has finally created her own cookbook!  It's East Meets West: Traditional and Contemporary Asian Dishes from Acclaimed Vancouver Restaurants.  And recently we had Stephanie as a guest in the Cook Club at Books to Cooks to talk about her passion for food and about the new book.
You can hear her on Saturday just after 7:30 am.

 

Thursday June 14, 2012

Featured Guests:

Egan Davis - The care and feeding of garden containers

NXNW's Garden Guy, Egan Davis gives us the lowdown on how best to take care of our garden containers.

From the soil, to the water to the fertilizer, he covers it all.

 

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Wednesday June 13, 2012

Featured Guests:

Tears of Mehndi by Raminder Sidhu

"Tears of Mehndi" is the name of Raminder Sidhu's first novel. It explores the complex lives of people living in Vancouver's Little India. And is told through the perspectives of several women of different ages. Women caught between 2 cultures, struggling with tradition and western values.

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Sunday June 10, 2012

Featured Guests:

The Hammock Residency

Heidi Nagtegaal is an artist based in Vancouver who wanted to help fellow artists and so she came up with a unique way to do that.  It's called The Hammock Residency and CBC's Jennifer Chen went to Heidi's house to find out what the residency is all about.

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Sunday June 10, 2012

Featured Guests:

Rena Sharon and Arts of Conscience

I always love to have Rena Sharon as a guest in the studio. She is articulate and thought provoking and she is passionate about music and art and the role they play in our lives.

Rena is a pianist, a professor at UBC and more recently the founder of the Vancouver International Song Institute.  (which is so many things that it's best if you go to the website to find out all about it)

This year she has added a new component to the Institute.  It's called Arts of Conscience and so I asked Rita to come in to explain more about the idea behind this series of events.

 

Saturday June 9, 2012

Baker Byron Fry

Byron Fry never imagined he'd end up being a baker, but as it turns out he's at least the third generation in his family to take up the trade!
These days his mobile baker, Fry's Red Wheat Bread, has become famous on Vancouver Island for some very fine loaves! 
Broadcaster Gala Milne takes us for a visit to Byron's hand built, wood fired, bakery oven in Metchosin.

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Friday June 8, 2012

Lee Gass : Nurturing the Spirit of Creativity

 

Lee Gass is a master sculptor and a scientist, a hummingbird researcher and a teacher. He spends much of the year working in his studio on Quadra Island.

Lee is going to be in Kelowna on June 9th at the Hildebrand Gallery in Kelowna for the opening of a show of his work and to give a talk titled Nurturing the Spirit of Creativity. 

You'll hear a bit of the surprising content of that talk on the show Saturday just after 7 am.

 

Friday June 8, 2012

Featured Guests:

New Emily Carr "Funny Book"

Emily Carr is arguably one of British Columbia's greatest artistic treasures. Recently an unknown illustrated story of hers, known as a "funny book," landed in the lap of the Royal BC Museum.

It's a charming series of illustrations and text that tell the story of an adventure she had with a friend in London in 1901.

Kathryn Bridge is an Emily Carr expert and curator at The Royal BC Museum who tells the story behind the charming book.

The "Funny Book will be part of an exhibition at the satellite gallery, Royal BC Museum at Wing Sang on East Pender in Vancouver starting next Thursday June 14.

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Thursday June 7, 2012

Featured Guests:

Owen Laukkanen - The Professionals

Owen Laukkanen graduated from the University of British Columbia's Creative Writing Program with a BFA and then took on his first writing job -- for a poker website.

After doing that for a while he decided it was time to get down to brass tacks and really write.

His first mystery novel is called
"The Professionals" and it's a real page turner.

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Thursday June 7, 2012

Featured Guests:

Susan Aihoshi - Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi

Susan Aihoshi's first booked is called "Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi." It's the latest in the Scholastic young adult series, "Dear Canada."

It explores the experiences of a young girl living in Vancouver in 1941 and what happens to her and her family after Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.

Susan did extensive research to write this book, including delving into her own family history.

You can hear that conversation after the 8:30 am News on Sunday June 10.

 

Sunday June 3, 2012

Featured Guests:

Gardener Egan Davis

Egan Davis has some tips for planting a garden where it's boggy!  Plus he has some suggestions for hardy plants, brightly coloured plants for other parts of your yard!

This is Iris setosa, one of the bog lovers!

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Saturday June 2, 2012

Featured Guests:

Corazon in Cuba!

Nelson choir Corazon is just back from a remarkable musical journey to Cuba. 

Corazon is a youth choir directed by singer Alison Girvan.  It's been named one of the town's official cultural ambassadors! The 67 singers range in age from 12-21.  In April 32 of the older members (15-21) took a trip to Cuba to meet other performing groups. to perform and to listen.

Broadcaster and choir manager Bill Metcalfe takes us along for some highlights of the trip.

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Friday June 1, 2012

Featured Guests:

June Goldsmith on Edward Elgar

Edward Elgar was considered the most British of composers - in both his Edwardian demeanor and in the classicly English style of his composition.

June Goldsmith gives us a lively look at the English school of composition - and Edward Elgar's life and contribution to that legacy.

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Friday June 1, 2012

Featured Guests:

Cellist Brian Yoon

Just back from completing a graduate music degree at Rice University in Texas, and snagging the top prize at the Eckhardt-Grammatte Music Competition (Strings) - Cellist Brian Yoon's career is on a high note.

The 25-year-old about to take up the position as principal cellist with the Victoria Symphony later this summer. He came into the studio to talk with Sheryl.

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Friday June 1, 2012

Featured Guests:

The Art and Life of Doug Cranmer

A powerful exhibit of the works of First Nations artist Doug Cranmer is currently on display at Vancouver's Museum of Anthropology.

Jennifer Kramer is the curator of the exhibit, entitled: 'Kesu - the Art and Life of Doug Cranmer'.

Come along on a visit to the Museum of Anthropology as she tours Sheryl through this powerful and story-laden exhibit...

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Friday June 1, 2012

Add category, Featured Guests:

Edible Flowers and Honey recipes with Chef Bruce!

Chef Bruce from Bruce's Kitchen on Salt Spring is back in this weekend to talk about recipes using edible flowers and honey! (Click on the 'read more' link for recipes)

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• October 2012
  • Sun., 21 – Pumpkin Beer with Matthew MacFarlane
     
  • Sun., 21 – Roots with Diane Morgan
     
  • Sat., 20 – M.G. Vassanji
     
  • Sun., 14 – Micheal Juk : Lena Horne
     
  • Sat., 13 – Annabel Lyon "The Sweet Girl"
     
  • Sun., 7 – Voices of BC - Maisey Hurley
     
  • Sun., 7 – Nettie Wild - Uninterrupted at VIFF
     
  • Sun., 7 – Cooking Clubs Oct. 10th at Books to Cooks
     
  • Sat., 6 – Blood Relative - Nimisha Mukerji at VIFF
     
  • Sat., 6 – Chef Bruce Wood - Thanksgiving
     
  • Sat., 6 – Wanting / Everything in the World
     
  • Thu., 4 – Joe Jackson
     
• September 2012
  • Sun., 30 – Underwear Donations
     
  • Sun., 30 – World Rivers Day
     
  • Sun., 30 – Cooking Clubs and Book Clubs
     
  • Sun., 30 – Janet Marie Rogers
     
  • Sat., 29 – Burgess Shale
     
  • Sat., 29 – A BC business owner says the key to success is community engagement
     
  • Sat., 29 – Puppetry and Astrophysics
     
  • Sun., 23 – The Book of Kale
     
  • Sun., 23 – Andreas Schroeder
     
  • Sat., 22 – Rodney Decroo
     
  • Sat., 22 – Working Gear Clothing Society
     
  • Sat., 22 – Michael Juk - I Got Rythmn
     
  • Sat., 22 – Doing the splits for Harry Potter
     
  • Sat., 22 – Annabel Lyon in the CBC Studio One Book Club!
     
  • Sun., 16 – Race to the End of the Earth - Jana Stefan
     
  • Sun., 16 – The Drummer Girl - Lauri Lyster
     
  • Sat., 15 – Kootenay Storytelling Festival - Barry Gray
     
  • Sat., 15 – Chef Bruce - Plums and Apples
     
  • Sat., 15 – Book List - Erin Balser
     
  • Sat., 15 – Irregardless: Humour in Contemporary Northwest Coast Art
     
  • Fri., 14 – Kat Thorsen and Intersections Media
     
  • Sun., 9 – Voices in the Park
     
  • Sat., 8 – Spice Goddess: Bal Arneson
     
  • Sat., 8 – The Taste of Ashes - Sheila Peters
     
  • Thu., 6 – When Quietness Came: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey With Schizophrenia
     
  • Sat., 1 – Sex Talk in the City coming to MOV
     
• August 2012
  • Fri., 31 – Taxidermy
     
  • Fri., 31 – One Book One Kootenay
     
  • Fri., 31 – Heroes!
     
  • Fri., 31 – Cue the Muse!
     
  • Thu., 30 – Artist Joe Average has a new canvas - photography!
     
  • Sun., 26 – Golf and Paolo's Signature Series
     
  • Sun., 26 – Cindy Pawlcyn's Supper Club
     
  • Fri., 24 – Figs!
     
  • Fri., 24 – Exploring Vancouver: The Architectural Guide
     
  • Fri., 24 – Cassius Khan and the festival of Indian Classical Music and Dance
     
  • Sun., 19 – Voices of British Columbia: Warren Crowe of Rossland
     
  • Sat., 18 – Singer-songwriter Dominique Fricot
     
  • Thu., 16 – The Big Screen with Edward Phillips - 'Some Like It Hot'!
     
  • Sun., 5 – Chef Bruce's Cherry Clafouti Recipe
     
  • Sat., 4 – Triple Wedding
     
  • Sat., 4 – Chef Bruce on Cherries
     
• July 2012
  • Sun., 29 – Dowco Triumph Street Pipe Band
     
  • Fri., 27 – Salt Spring Island Castle!
     
  • Fri., 27 – Here's looking at you - Casablanca! The Big Screen with Edward Phillips
     
  • Fri., 27 – London is Calling young BC actor Jesse DeCoste
     
  • Fri., 27 – Gardens with beauty and bounty...
     
  • Fri., 20 – Michael Juk - cbcmusic.ca and the new Soul feed
     
  • Fri., 20 – Courtenay Pollock : Tie Dye Artist
     
  • Fri., 20 – Egan Davies - Maple Trees and Disease
     
  • Thu., 19 – Ali Kazimi on the Komagata Maru
     
  • Thu., 19 – Introducing Alanna & Brianne!
     
  • Thu., 19 – Potter Denise Jeffrey
     
  • Sun., 15 – Michael Juk - Esperanza Spalding
     
  • Sat., 14 – Chef Bruce
     
  • Fri., 13 – The Big Screen with Edward Phillips - 'Dial M For Murder'
     
  • Fri., 13 – Kristine Theurer - The Java Music Club
     
  • Fri., 13 – Richard Hebda
     
  • Fri., 13 – Barbara Rayment
     
  • Fri., 13 – Chef Kelly
     
  • Sat., 7 – Windermere's Organic Garden
     
  • Sat., 7 – Graeme Pole
     
  • Sat., 7 – CN's Think Golf - Part 1
     
  • Fri., 6 – Author Colleen Butler on Head Injuries
     
  • Fri., 6 – Jordan Cash and Cartems Donuterie
     
  • Thu., 5 – Dr Stanley Coren : What do dogs taste?
     
  • Thu., 5 – Gardener Egan Davis
     
  • Sun., 1 – Voices of BC: Annie Levelton
     
  • Sun., 1 – Etsuko Needham - Sushi Chef
     
• June 2012
  • Sat., 30 – Edward Phillips and The Big Screen
     
  • Fri., 29 – Conductor Arthur Arnold
     
  • Fri., 29 – Hop the Twig : CBC Short Film Face Off
     
  • Thu., 28 – Author Deryn Collier
     
  • Thu., 28 – The Genius and Madness of artist William Kurelek
     
  • Tue., 26 – Willow Yamauchi and memorial tattoos
     
  • Sun., 24 – Vancouver Chamber Choir
     
  • Fri., 22 – Designer Mita Naidu
     
  • Fri., 22 – Chef Bruce!
     
  • Fri., 22 – Author Buffy Cram
     
  • Fri., 22 – Meet Poetess Mayaan Asmoucha
     
  • Thu., 21 – Music for Healing
     
  • Sun., 17 – Author Daniel Griffin
     
  • Sun., 17 – Vern Lambourne : Granville Island Brewing
     
  • Sun., 17 – Shadan Saul
     
  • Sun., 17 – Michael Juk on trumpet auditions
     
  • Fri., 15 – Stephanie Yuen : East Meets West
     
  • Thu., 14 – Egan Davis - The care and feeding of garden containers
     
  • Wed., 13 – Tears of Mehndi by Raminder Sidhu
     
  • Sun., 10 – The Hammock Residency
     
  • Sun., 10 – Rena Sharon and Arts of Conscience
     
  • Sat., 9 – Baker Byron Fry
     
  • Fri., 8 – Lee Gass : Nurturing the Spirit of Creativity
     
  • Fri., 8 – New Emily Carr "Funny Book"
     
  • Thu., 7 – Owen Laukkanen - The Professionals
     
  • Thu., 7 – Susan Aihoshi - Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi
     
  • Sun., 3 – Gardener Egan Davis
     
  • Sat., 2 – Corazon in Cuba!
     
  • Fri., 1 – June Goldsmith on Edward Elgar
     
  • Fri., 1 – Cellist Brian Yoon
     
  • Fri., 1 – The Art and Life of Doug Cranmer
     
  • Fri., 1 – Edible Flowers and Honey recipes with Chef Bruce!
     
• May 2012
  • Sat., 26 – John Lee Sanders
     
  • Sat., 26 – Peter Boychuk : Shelter from the Storm
     
  • Sat., 26 – Dave Morris : Photo Booth
     
  • Fri., 25 – Samantha Dickie : Fired Up!
     
  • Fri., 25 – Rayman Bhuller
     
  • Fri., 25 – Who's There: A celebration of Dr Peter Loeffler at UBC
     
  • Thu., 24 – Tiny Homes With Lloyd Kahn
     
  • Sun., 20 – Voices of BC : Guy Lawrence
     
  • Sun., 20 – May Day
     
  • Fri., 18 – Photographer Hua Jin
     
  • Thu., 17 – The Stage Manager
     
  • Thu., 17 – The Royal BC Museum celebrates the Diamond Jubilee in photos.
     
  • Thu., 17 – Egan Davis - Garden Guy digs digging!
     
  • Thu., 17 – Pianist Jane Coop
     
  • Sun., 13 – Armen Martirosyan with Inga and Anush Arshakyans
     
  • Sun., 13 – Leonard Cohen Haiku
     
  • Sat., 12 – Saying good-bye to Shirley Valentine
     
  • Sat., 12 – Narvaez Bay: Tidal Predictions for 2012
     
  • Sat., 12 – May Q. Wong: Cowherd in Paradise
     
  • Fri., 11 – Willow Yamauchi - Bad Mommy
     
  • Fri., 11 – Chef Bruce - Rhubarb and Asparagus
     
  • Wed., 9 – Samantha Reynolds - One Poem a Day
     
  • Mon., 7 – June Goldsmith - Musical Miniatures.
     
  • Sun., 6 – Chef Martin Picard in the Sugar Shack
     
  • Sun., 6 – Mystery, murder and mayhem in May
     
  • Fri., 4 – Sculptor Trinita Waller
     
  • Fri., 4 – Cabinetmaker Melissa Moure
     
  • Fri., 4 – Bollywood Shenanigans
     
  • Wed., 2 – Gardener Egan Davis - spring planting
     
  • Tue., 1 – Author Anakana Schofield - "Malarky"
     
• April 2012
  • Sun., 29 – Artist Jacquetta Nesbit.
     
  • Sat., 28 – Art Deco Chic at the Museum of Vancouver
     
  • Sat., 28 – Roller Derby rocks!
     
  • Fri., 27 – Balkan Brass Music - Oliver Schneider
     
  • Thu., 26 – Naomi Wakan and the roller-coaster ride of aging.
     
  • Thu., 26 – Barbara Adler and Reach Out Psychosis
     
  • Thu., 26 – In the Flesh: Twenty Writers Explore the Body
     
  • Sun., 22 – Author Yasuko Thanh
     
  • Sun., 22 – O World!
     
  • Sat., 21 – V6A - Thursdays at the Carnegie
     
  • Sat., 21 – Richard Wagamese and Indian Horse
     
  • Thu., 19 – Anthony Griffiths - BC Recorder Society
     
  • Sun., 15 – Karen Trickett and fine woodworking
     
  • Sat., 14 – Karen Armstrong and The Compassionate Life
     
  • Fri., 13 – Evelyn Lau - Vancouver's Poet Laureate
     
  • Fri., 13 – David MacIntyre - Love In Public - an opera cabaret
     
  • Fri., 13 – Coming up...
     
  • Thu., 12 – 4 Play!
     
  • Thu., 12 – Chef Bruce celebrates spring
     
  • Thu., 5 – Julie Lawson - Ghost of the Titantic
     
  • Thu., 5 – Woodturner Jason Marlow
     
  • Mon., 2 – Listener Cooking Tips Contest
     
• March 2012
  • Sat., 31 – Maria Coffey and Dag Goering work to save elephants.
     
  • Sat., 31 – Susan Smith-Josephy's book on Lillian Alling
     
  • Sat., 31 – Songwriting Band Camp in Wells
     
  • Sat., 31 – Spring in the Okanagan
     
  • Sat., 31 – 'That Which Makes Us Haida: the Haida Language' exhibit at Bill Reid Gallery
     
  • Fri., 30 – From 'The Judy & Jim Show' to 'The Flying Walchuks'
     
  • Fri., 30 – The Farmhouse Natural Cheeses
     
  • Thu., 29 – Looneyspoons!
     
  • Thu., 29 – Jeff Chiba Stearns' documentary 'Mixed Match'
     
  • Thu., 29 – My Year of the Racehorse - Kevin Chong
     
  • Sun., 25 – NXNW's Newsday Student
     
  • Sun., 25 – Steve Edge from Rogue Folk Club
     
  • Fri., 23 – Elizabeth Pitcairn and her famous Red Violin come to Prince George
     
  • Fri., 23 – Maestro Giuseppe 'Joey' Pietraroia's farewell concert with the Victoria Choral Society
     
  • Fri., 23 – Fresco
     
  • Fri., 23 – Blooming Heather
     
  • Fri., 23 – Leslie Dala and Haydn's Creation
     
  • Fri., 23 – Ubuntu : The Cape Town Project
     
  • Fri., 23 – Kytami!
     
  • Fri., 23 – Eva Stachniak and The Winter Palace
     
  • Thu., 22 – Western Canada Theatre - Ubuntu (The Cape Town Project)
     
  • Sun., 18 – Gurpreet Sian
     
  • Fri., 16 – Voices of BC - Cecilia Bullen
     
  • Fri., 16 – June Goldsmith
     
  • Fri., 16 – Vanderhoof Artist Annerose Georgeson
     
  • Fri., 16 – Lynne Bowen and the story of Italians in BC
     
  • Fri., 16 – Chef Bruce's Irish Feast
     
  • Thu., 15 – Meet Vancouver Opera's Diva of Costume Design - Parvin Mirhady
     
  • Sun., 11 – Singer and songwriter Buckman Coe
     
  • Thu., 8 – Linda Ohama Cloth Letters Project
     
  • Thu., 8 – Emma Swan brings a library to a refugee camp in Palestine
     
  • Thu., 8 – Doug Koyama wants to get everyone singing
     
  • Thu., 8 – Party at Purden Ski Village!
     
  • Tue., 6 – KHAOS, the opera
     
  • Mon., 5 – Film Maker Kagan Goh - Stolen Memories
     
  • Sun., 4 – Dancer Margaret Grenier
     
  • Sun., 4 – Big World Band
     
  • Fri., 2 – Storyteller Paul Michel
     
  • Fri., 2 – Prince George Spelling Bee Kids
     
• February 2012
  • Mon., 27 – Plastic Acid
     
  • Sun., 26 – Lost Childhood Food
     
  • Fri., 24 – Sarah McLachlan at CBC Toque Session!
     
  • Thu., 23 – Chef Bruce - Nettles & Marmalade
     
  • Thu., 23 – Author Madeline Sonik
     
  • Mon., 20 – Lost Childhood Foods
     
  • Sun., 19 – Thistallalh Library, Bella Bella
     
  • Sat., 18 – The National Ballet of Cuba in BC
     
  • Sat., 18 – Desperately seeking skyr!
     
  • Fri., 17 – Voices of BC: J.W. Inglis
     
  • Fri., 17 – Gurpreet Sian and the South Asian beat
     
  • Fri., 17 – Poet Harold Rhenisch "The Spoken World"
     
  • Fri., 17 – Les Dala and The Vancouver Bach Choir
     
  • Fri., 17 – Author Charlotte Gill wins BC National Award for Non-Fiction!
     
  • Fri., 17 – Mariko McCrae Ceramics
     
  • Mon., 13 – Gentlemen of Fortune - Serenade Your Sweetheart
     
  • Sun., 12 – Dan Mangan
     
  • Sun., 12 – Julia Trops
     
  • Sat., 11 – Bernadette McDonald: Freedom Climbers
     
  • Sun., 5 – June Goldsmith and The Symphony
     
  • Sun., 5 – Keith Powell and Jack Fisher
     
  • Sat., 4 – The Be Good Tanyas
     
  • Sat., 4 – Jordan Scott and Stephen Collis: Decomp
     
  • Sat., 4 – Canada Reads NXNW contest winners
     
  • Fri., 3 – Dr. Mike Evans goes viral!
     
  • Fri., 3 – CBC Kelowna's Alya Ramadan to guest host NXNW
     
  • Thu., 2 – Donovan Hough: Metal artist
     
  • Thu., 2 – Great Northern Way Scene Shop
     
• January 2012
  • Sun., 29 – Fred Wah: Parliamentary Poet Laureate
     
  • Sun., 29 – Hans Berg in the Almost Famous Chef competition
     
  • Sun., 29 – David Alexander: The Shape of Place
     
  • Fri., 27 – No Sinner
     
  • Fri., 27 – Chef Bruce; Oats!
     
  • Fri., 27 – Larry Wong: Dim Sum Stories
     
  • Sun., 22 – Canada Reads Writing Contest
     
  • Sun., 22 – Heidi Cave: Fancy Feet
     
  • Sun., 22 – Artist Arlene Ness
     
  • Sat., 21 – John Izzo: Stepping Up
     
  • Fri., 20 – Blockbuster Film "The Grey" shot in Smithers
     
  • Sun., 15 – Roy Henry Vickers: Artist and Storyteller
     
  • Sun., 15 – The Food Lover's Guide to Wine
     
  • Sat., 14 – Max Stern on CBC Newsday
     
  • Sat., 14 – Urban Weaver Project
     
  • Sat., 14 – The Idiot
     
  • Fri., 13 – Genevieve von Petzinger: Cave Art Research
     
  • Fri., 13 – Canada Writes Finalists from BC
     
  • Sun., 8 – Cantonese Opera Costumes at MOA
     
  • Sat., 7 – Canada Reads Writing Contest
     
  • Fri., 6 – Jennifer McLagan: Odd Bits
     
  • Fri., 6 – Jason and Pharis Romero
     
  • Fri., 6 – Wade Davis: Sacred Headwaters
     
• December 2011
  • Sat., 17 – Snap Crackle Christmas with Roy Forbes
     
  • Fri., 16 – Tariq's 5 music picks
     
  • Fri., 16 – Chef Bruce - Christmas Side Dishes
     
  • Fri., 16 – Golden Civic Centre
     
  • Sun., 11 – Voices of British Columbia : Sperry Cline
     
  • Sat., 10 – Moon Eclipse
     
  • Fri., 9 – Gentlemen of Fortune
     
  • Fri., 9 – Don Alder : Guitar Idol!
     
  • Fri., 9 – Mark Perry
     
  • Fri., 9 – Anna Olson : Back to Baking
     
  • Fri., 9 – Author D. W. Wilson and Once You Break a Knuckle
     
  • Fri., 9 – Gift Ideas For The Book Lover
     
  • Sun., 4 – Puntledge River Courtenay
     
  • Sun., 4 – The Bright Well: Contemporary Canadian Poems about Facing Cancer
     
  • Fri., 2 – Author Linwood Barclay
     
  • Thu., 1 – A Moose in a Maple Tree
     
• November 2011
  • Wed., 30 – The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver
     
  • Wed., 30 – The Cow Bay Cafe Cookbook
     
  • Wed., 30 – Just Dance!
     
  • Sun., 27 – Behind the Scenes at the Museum of Anthropology
     
  • Fri., 25 – Go Lions Go!
     
  • Fri., 25 – Saltspring's Chef Bruce Wood
     
  • Fri., 25 – Author and Poet George Bowering
     
  • Thu., 24 – Acoustic Guitarist Don Alder
     
  • Sat., 19 – Katie Burke: Featherettes
     
  • Sat., 19 – Winter in the Kootenays
     
  • Fri., 18 – Babylon Buttons
     
  • Thu., 17 – Patrick Dewitt wins the Governor General's Award for Literature
     
  • Thu., 17 – Author Gayla Reid
     
  • Wed., 16 – The Yale Hotel Celebrates 130 years!
     
  • Sun., 13 – Voices of British Columbia : Agnes Russ
     
  • Sun., 13 – Wade Davis
     
  • Sun., 13 – Chef Mark McEwan
     
  • Sun., 13 – Michael Kusugak
     
  • Sat., 12 – Craft Fairs!
     
  • Sat., 12 – Ed Henderson and VICO
     
  • Sat., 12 – Okanagan Symphony Orchestra
     
  • Sun., 6 – Dead Horse on the Tulameen
     
  • Sun., 6 – Singer Isabel Bayrakdarian
     
  • Fri., 4 – Alex Cuba
     
  • Fri., 4 – Author Daniel Kalla
     
  • Fri., 4 – Violinist Timothy Chooi
     
  • Fri., 4 – Vive la Poutine!
     
  • Tue., 1 – Author Janet Romain - Grandpère
     
• October 2011
  • Sat., 29 – Adam Gopnik : Winter
     
  • Sat., 29 – Poet - Jamella Hagen
     
  • Fri., 28 – Ippiksaut Friesen and The Dimming
     
  • Fri., 28 – The Squaw Hall Project: A Community Remembers
     
  • Fri., 28 – Seasonings Cook Book
     
  • Fri., 28 – Film Maker - Desiree Lim premiers The House at VAFF
     
  • Fri., 28 – Author Sheryl Salloum - The Life and Art of Mildred Valley Thornton
     
  • Mon., 24 – Supernatural Noir
     
  • Mon., 24 – Voices of BC - Leon Ladner
     
  • Sun., 23 – Neil Ritchie and Ella!
     
  • Sun., 23 – Tom Landa - Locarno
     
  • Sat., 22 – Chef Bruce - Apples Pears & Quince Oh My
     
  • Sat., 22 – Celebrating the Life of David Y. H. Lui
     
  • Sat., 22 – Artist Patrick Hughes
     
  • Thu., 20 – Barbara Hodgson and The Wundercabinet.
     
  • Sun., 16 – Zsuzsi Gartner Shortlisted for Giller Prize
     
  • Sun., 16 – Artist Chris Paul
     
  • Sat., 15 – Singer Songwriter Roy Forbes Celebrates 40 Years of Music
     
  • Sat., 15 – Tabla & Sitar - Mohamed Assani
     
  • Fri., 14 – Artist Sandhu Singh
     
  • Fri., 14 – Lost Childhood Books
     
  • Sun., 9 – Peter Levitt on Libraries
     
  • Sun., 9 – Why Music Works with June Goldsmith
     
  • Sat., 8 – CBC Studio One Book Club with Adam Gopnik
     
  • Fri., 7 – Author and artist Robyn Levy
     
  • Fri., 7 – Nathan Moes
     
  • Fri., 7 – A Green Dress at the MOA
     
  • Fri., 7 – Gabriola Artist Tammy Hudgeon
     
  • Thu., 6 – Percussionist - Trevor Salloum
     
  • Thu., 6 – Gnocchi recipe
     
  • Thu., 6 – Viticulturist - Eric von Krosigk
     
  • Sun., 2 – Singing Away the Dark
     
  • Sat., 1 – Michael V. Smith
     
  • Sat., 1 – Kim McMechan singer, songwriter, poet and photographer
     
• September 2011
  • Mon., 26 – Favourite Young Adult Books
     
  • Sun., 25 – Elizabeth Courtney - Music and Mythology
     
  • Sun., 25 – Sonny Assu - found art
     
  • Sat., 24 – J.J. Lee - The Measure of a Man
     
  • Sat., 24 – VIFF - Short Films
     
  • Fri., 23 – Erin Bow
     
  • Fri., 23 – Dean Brody
     
  • Fri., 23 – Why Music Works in Kelowna!
     
  • Tue., 20 – Vancouver Kids author Lesley McKnight
     
  • Tue., 20 – Chin Injeti
     
  • Fri., 16 – Voices of BC - Lillian Collier
     
  • Fri., 16 – Bus Stop Sheet Music
     
  • Fri., 16 – Shawn Place: Award-winning furniture designer
     
  • Thu., 15 – Preserves
     
  • Sun., 11 – Rachel Ditor
     
  • Sun., 11 – Pictures, words and music.
     
  • Sat., 10 – World Jampion!
     
  • Sat., 10 – Sarah Salway and William Gibson in the Studio One Book Club
     
  • Fri., 9 – Haruko Okano
     
  • Thu., 8 – Mary Fox - Potter
     
  • Sun., 4 – Sam S Mullins and Tinfoil Dinosaur
     
  • Sun., 4 – Peter Levitt
     
  • Sat., 3 – Summer Melon Salsa Recipe
     
  • Sat., 3 – Cherry Clafouti Recipe
     
  • Sat., 3 – Figs!
     
  • Sat., 3 – Margaret Evans
     
  • Fri., 2 – Edac sails again in the pages of a new memoir
     
  • Fri., 2 – Sarah Salway and William Gibson
     
  • Fri., 2 – Figs, Cherries and Melons...OH MY
     
  • Fri., 2 – June Goldsmith on Dvorak
     
• August 2011
  • Sat., 27 – David Lester: The Listener
     
  • Fri., 26 – Timothy Taylor: The Blue Light Project
     
  • Thu., 25 – No Words Barred
     
  • Thu., 25 – Roberta Rich
     
  • Thu., 25 – Ranj Singh and The Discriminators
     
  • Sun., 14 – A.J. Woodworth rocked the Nooner stage
     
  • Sun., 14 – Chinstraps!
     
  • Sun., 14 – Chocolate Heaven
     
  • Sun., 14 – Hiking the Rockies
     
  • Sun., 14 – Rebecca Davies
     
  • Fri., 12 – Chef Bruce Wood on beets and zucchini
     
  • Wed., 10 – Thanks to Gary Diers
     
  • Wed., 10 – Lisa See in the Studio One Book Club
     
  • Wed., 10 – Jake James: blacksmith and artist