Featured Guests: August 2011 Archives

Thursday August 25, 2011

Featured Guests:

Roberta Rich

In her first novel, Roberta Rich takes on 16th Century Venice. The Midwife of Venice tells the story of Hanna, a Jewish woman in a city ghetto who has a talent for delivering babies safely as well as a talent for escaping from certain disaster!

The book is quite a romp. It's funny, suspenseful and filled with wonderful historical detail.The Midwife of Venice has had some very good reviews including one from the Globe and Mail which includes this:
"a lively tale involving love, blackmail, family, murder, plague, intercultural compassion, dramatic last minute rescues and some very creative disguises"

It has all been very exciting for Roberta!  I had a chance to talk to her recently about the book and about her change of career from law to writing.

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Wednesday August 10, 2011

Featured Guests:

Lisa See in the Studio One Book Club

We were thrilled to host Lisa See in the Book Club.  She's a critically acclaimed and best selling author of  Snowflower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, Shanghai Girls and Dreams of Joy. Her first book was On Gold Mountain which tells the story of her extraordinary family history in Los Angeles.

I enjoyed each of the novels immensely.  I started with Snowflower and the Secret Fan and when I found myself crying buckets while reading the story of two friends in 19th century China I knew I was going to enjoy meeting Lisa See and getting to talk to her in the book club.

Each of these novels is set in a different and very interesting period of Chinese history.  Besides being engrossing stories with vivid characters they are a window into times and places I really knew nothing about.

I haven't read On Gold Mountain yet but when I ran into author Judy Fong Bates at the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts this weekend she told me it was amazing.
We recorded this Studio One Book Club at the Dr Sun Yat Sen Chinese Garden in Vancouver.

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Wednesday August 10, 2011

Featured Guests:

Jake James: blacksmith and artist

I had a great visit with Jake James in his forge and studio in Metchosin recently.  Jake is a blacksmith who moved here from England after apprenticing with a Fellow of the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths. I knew I was in the right place because as I approached the barn at the end of a long, tree lined lane I could hear the distinctive sounds of the forge.

 Besides talking to Jake about how he discovered his passion for metal work and some of the commissions he's worked on for clients also had a chance to see some of his wonderful sculptural pieces in a gallery he's created above the forge.

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• March 2012
  • 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
     
  • Thu., 1 – Susan Smith-Josephy's book on Lillian Alling
     
• 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