Featured Guests

Saturday May 26, 2012

Featured Guests:

John Lee Sanders

John Lee Sanders has been making music for his whole life.  He first performed on stage when  with his brother's band in Birmingham Alabama when he was 12 years old. 
Since then he's played major blues and jazz festivals around the world and worked with most of the legends in the business.  He's been nominated for an Emmy and won a bunch of Canadian Music Awards.  He's a pianist, sax and guitar player, songwriter and singer!


He came to Canada first to work with Long John Baldry and liked it so much he stayed.
He's going to be performing at the Powell River Blues Festival and the Pender Harbour Blues Festival early in June and opening for Bonnie Raitt in August.

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Saturday May 26, 2012

Featured Guests:

Peter Boychuk : Shelter from the Storm

Peter Boychuk is about to experience one of the most amazing moments of his play writing career.  It's not very long since Peter graduated with an MFA  from the University of Victoria.  Now he's getting to see a professional production of his first full length play, Shelter from the Storm, from Touchstone Theatre.

Shelter from the Storm looks at Canada's relations with young Americans escaping war by coming to our country.

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Saturday May 26, 2012

Featured Guests:

Dave Morris : Photo Booth

Dave Morris has no idea what will happen when he goes on stage with his show Photo Booth at the Uno Festival in Victoria.  Really, no idea.  But that doesn't bother him at all. In fact that's they way he wants it.   Dave performs improv and has been for more than a decade.  In Photo Booth, as in earlier works, he explores characters and stories based on audience suggestions.

It's interesting to talk to Dave about improv.  It's his way of performing and telling stories and also his way of living.  Check out his TEDx talk The Way of Improv.  (he's also a storyteller, poet, musician and blogger)

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• 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
     
  • Fri., 18 – Photographer Hua Jin
     
  • 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
     
  • 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 – 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
     
  • Fri., 13 – Evelyn Lau - Vancouver's Poet Laureate
     
  • Fri., 13 – David MacIntyre - Love In Public - an opera cabaret
     
  • 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 – '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 – Jeff Chiba Stearns' documentary 'Mixed Match'
     
  • Thu., 29 – My Year of the Racehorse - Kevin Chong
     
  • 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!
     
  • Thu., 22 – Western Canada Theatre - Ubuntu (The Cape Town Project)
     
  • Sun., 18 – Gurpreet Sian
     
  • Fri., 16 – June Goldsmith
     
  • Fri., 16 – Vanderhoof Artist Annerose Georgeson
     
  • Fri., 16 – Lynne Bowen and the story of Italians in BC
     
  • 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
     
  • 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
     
  • Fri., 24 – Sarah McLachlan at CBC Toque Session!
     
  • Thu., 23 – Author Madeline Sonik
     
  • 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!
     
  • 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
     
  • Thu., 2 – Donovan Hough: Metal artist
     
• January 2012
  • Sun., 29 – Fred Wah: Parliamentary Poet Laureate
     
  • Sun., 29 – Hans Berg in the Almost Famous Chef competition
     
  • Fri., 27 – No Sinner
     
  • Fri., 27 – Larry Wong: Dim Sum Stories
     
  • 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
     
  • 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
     
  • Fri., 6 – Jason and Pharis Romero
     
  • Fri., 6 – Wade Davis: Sacred Headwaters
     
• December 2011
  • Fri., 16 – Tariq's 5 music picks
     
  • Fri., 16 – Chef Bruce - Christmas Side Dishes
     
  • 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
     
  • Sun., 4 – The Bright Well: Contemporary Canadian Poems about Facing Cancer
     
  • 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 – Author and Poet George Bowering
     
  • Thu., 24 – Acoustic Guitarist Don Alder
     
  • Sat., 19 – Katie Burke: Featherettes
     
  • Fri., 18 – Babylon Buttons
     
  • Thu., 17 – Patrick Dewitt wins the Governor General's Award for Literature
     
  • Thu., 17 – Author Gayla Reid
     
  • Sun., 13 – Wade Davis
     
  • Sun., 13 – Michael Kusugak
     
  • 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
     
  • Tue., 1 – Author Janet Romain - Grandpère
     
• October 2011
  • 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 – Tom Landa - Locarno
     
  • Sat., 22 – Celebrating the Life of David Y. H. Lui
     
  • Thu., 20 – Barbara Hodgson and The Wundercabinet.
     
  • Sun., 16 – Zsuzsi Gartner Shortlisted for Giller Prize
     
  • Sun., 16 – Artist Chris Paul
     
  • Sat., 15 – Tabla & Sitar - Mohamed Assani
     
  • Fri., 14 – Artist Sandhu Singh
     
  • Fri., 7 – Author and artist Robyn Levy
     
  • Fri., 7 – A Green Dress at the MOA
     
  • Thu., 6 – Percussionist - Trevor Salloum
     
  • Thu., 6 – Viticulturist - Eric von Krosigk
     
  • Sun., 2 – Singing Away the Dark
     
  • Sat., 1 – Michael V. Smith
     
• September 2011
  • Sun., 25 – Sonny Assu - found art
     
  • Sat., 24 – J.J. Lee - The Measure of a Man
     
  • Sat., 24 – VIFF - Short Films
     
  • Fri., 23 – Dean Brody
     
  • 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
     
  • Sun., 11 – Rachel Ditor
     
  • Sun., 11 – Pictures, words and music.
     
  • Fri., 9 – Haruko Okano
     
  • Thu., 8 – Mary Fox - Potter
     
• August 2011
  • Thu., 25 – Roberta Rich
     
  • Wed., 10 – Lisa See in the Studio One Book Club
     
  • Wed., 10 – Jake James: blacksmith and artist