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Join Sheryl MacKay and authors Terry Gould and Hester Rumberg on stage as part of the Jewish Book Festival. The event is titled The Need to Tell: Two Writers Recount the Tragedy of Senseless Deaths. Sunday Nov. 22,  6-7:30 pm at the Jewsich Community Centre in Vancouver.


Saturday Nov 21
7:10 Peak behind the scenes at the Met auditions in Vancouver.
7:40 A new solo guitar CD from performer and composer Ed Henderson.
8:10  Artist Chris Woods presents Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms at Gallery Jones in Vancouver.
8:40  BC playwright Kevin Loring, winner of Governor General's prize for drama.

Sunday Nov 22
7:10  Richard Side, creator and producer of the Debaters talks about the upcoming taping.
7:40 Yuri Arajs is part of a group show at the View Gallery in Victoria.
8:10  Juanita Rose Violini is the author of The Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible and the Ignored
8:40  David Zieroth is the winner of the Governor General's prize for poetry.




Saturday Nov 14

Deborah Willis one of the BC fiction writers up for the Governor General's Literary Award. Her short story collection is titled Vanishing.
Listen to a conversation.
Bela Fleck Studio One Music Club
Listen to part 1
Listen to part 2

Sunday Nov 15
Alan Twigg of BC Bookworld celebrates writer Alice Munroe.
Listen to our conversation
Kids Book Club Author Susin Nielsen in the TD Kids Book Club. Her book is called Word Nerd.
Listen to the  book club
Brian Boulton is a visual artist with a show of his masterful pencil drawings.
Listen to our conversation
Kevin Hutchings is a UNBC professor who sets the poetry of The Romantics to music.
Listen to our conversation



Saturday Nov 7 (Live from Nelson)

Eil Bukowski 14 year old writer, musician and actor. Listen to a conversation.

Liesel Forst and Robyn Lamb; stage and musical directors of Nelson Community Opera's production of Into the Woods    by Steven Sondheim. Listen to a conversation.

Author Anne Degrace.  Her latest novel is Sounding Line. Listen to a conversation.

Singer and songwriter Nicole Byblow who is a second year student at Selkirk College in Nelson in the ContemporaryMusic program. Listen to a conversation.

Visual artist and professional forester Julie Castonguay whose work is in a show called Reflections on Water at Touchstones Gallery in Nelson. Listen to a conversation.

8:00   Ballet Kelowna wraps up the big fall tour in Nelson and Creston. Listen to a conversation.

8:30    Lucas Myers is an actor, singer, writer and director who is touring his one man show on the challenges and rewards of being a father.     (can you add his website..his company is pilot co pilot) Listen to a conversation.

Sunday Nov 8 (Live from Nelson's Co-op Radio HQ)

Flora Ware is a singer and songwriter based in Nelson.  Her latest  CD is Insight. Listen to a conversation.

Kootenay Coop Radio is celebrating 10 years of broadcasting.  Terry Brennan and Bill Metcalf are two of the folks who make it all happen. Listen to a conversation.

John Steinman is a writer and broadcaster whose show Deconstructing Dinner is heard around Canada and the US. Listen to a conversation.

Aspen Switzer is a singer and songwriter who won in the Folk and Roots categories at the BCIMA this weekend in Kelowna. Listen to a conversation.

A profile of a musical couple in Nelson.  Don MacDonald is a composer, performer, and head of the composition department at Selkirk College in the Contemporary Music Program.  Alison Girvan is a singer, arranger, music director and choir leader.  Listen to a conversation.




Saturday Oct 31

Brad Cran is Vancouver's Poet Laureate.
Listen to a conversation.

Dalannah Gail Bowen is a singer and arts activist participating in 6th annual Downtown East Side Heart of the City Festival.
Listen to her music and our conversation
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Wade Davis Pt 3 anthropologist,  film maker and author.  He is giving the Massey Lectures on CBC this year titledThe Wayfinders  2009 Massey Lecturer
Listen to part 3  Listen to part 4

Sunday Nov 1

Lee Provost and Crystal Chapman are artists who offer workshops in Cedar weaving through The Reach Gallery in Abbotsford.
Listen to our conversation.

Neil Ritchie talks about the music of Louis Armstrong.  He is doing a free public lecture on Armstrong at
Listen to our conversation and the music.

Pamela Podmoroff and Elizabeth Hudgins from Urban Beat Dance Company talk about what they'll be doing at the CBC Dance Party Fundraiser for The United Way on Nov 6th.
Listen to our conversation.

Aaron Bushkowsky is an award winning playwright and his new play is a black comedy called The Project. at Performance Works on Granville Island.
Listen to our conversation






Saturday Oct 24

Jane Kenyon is an international award winning textile artist from Vancouver.   She's the first Canadian to win the Pfaff International Award.
Listen to a conversation.

Jarrett Morrison has published his first  book with a letter press edition of The Importance of Being Earnest  (Bowler Press.) . He'll be at the Wayzgoose at the VPL main branch Oct 24 from 10 to 4.  It's been a long project from setting type for the pages, to creating the original illustrations!
Listen to a conversation

Wade Davis is this year's Massey Lecturer He visited
us in the CBC Radio Studio One Book Club to talk about his lectures titled The Wayfinders.
Listen to part 1  Listen to part 2

Sunday Oct 25

Patricia Lawton is a Vernon artist with a series of paintings called Girl Friends.  She painted them as a fundraiser for Vernon Hospice House.
Listen to a Conversation.

Bruce Alcock is a film maker whose latest work is based on Emile Benoit's singing an old French songVive la Rose.
Listen to a conversation.

Keith Bennett stops by with a sack full of harmonicas on his way to a competition in Germany.
Listen to a conversation.

Bulletin Board

  • Rob Kapilow is our next guest in the CBC Studio One Music Club.  We had him here in January for his book All You Have to Do is Listen and jumped at the chance to have him back again.  Rob Kapilow is a composer, conductor, pianist and broadcaster.  He is best known for his series What Makes It Great on stage at the Lincoln Centre in New York and on National Public Radio in the US.  If you love music you won't want to miss this chance to meet one of the most enthusiastic and energetic people anywhere and hear what he has to say about playing and listening!  It's all happening at CBC Studio One Thursday November 19 beginning at 6pm. Please call 604-662-6100 to reserve your seat. Leave your name and phone number as well as how many people. Doors open at 5:30 and of course it's free! But don't forget your chequebook as CBC's annual Foodbank Drive is already underway.
Rob Kapilow
Thur Nov 19 - 6:00 pm
Phone 604-662-6100 to reserve

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