 Delving into the world of The Phoenix Crown, touring the Beatty Biodiversity Museum, and exploring the memories behind art with Colleen BrownNXNW Mar 2/3, 2024 | Good evening and welcome to the latest edition of the NXNW newsletter! There's an excellent show lined up for you this weekend. We're chatting with a few authors behind some real page-turners, getting a slice of Hoobiyee from CBC's Wawmeesh Hamilton, and returning to our March Museum Series!
Looking for something from a previous show? Stop by our CBC Listen page. | | | Coming up on the show this weekend: | | | Saturday |  | We revisit our chat with writer-director Meredith Hama-Brown, who joined us late last year to dive into her award-winning feature debut Seagrass, which is now screening in theatres across B.C. and beyond. | | | | | Artist and author Colleen Brown memorializes her mother in the memoir If you lay down in a field, she will find you — which also ties in with her visual art, as featured in a new exhibit and discussion at the UBC Belkin Gallery on March 9. | | | | | CBC Indigenous Affairs Reporter Wawmeesh Hamilton visits the Nisga'a Tsamiks Traditional Dancers' rehearsal ahead of their upcoming performance at Hoobiyee 2024, which runs March 1-2. | | | | | Juno-nominated singer Joani Taylor, also known as Canada's First Lady of the Jazz Ballad, joins us ahead of her appearance at the Nanaimo International Jazz Festival, kicking off the "Women in Jazz Series" on March 8. | | | | | Sunday | | | Omar Mouallen balances family, journalism and wrestling as the star of the new Absolutely Canadian documentary Making Kayfabe on CBC Gem. | | | | | We rewind to our January 2023 interview with Jessica Johns, as her debut novel Bad Cree is one of five novels being championed at the 2024 Canada Reads debate from March 4-7. | | | | | We kick off our March Museums Series with Jackie Chambers, Christopher Stinson and Derek Tan, who give us a tour of the Beatty Biodiversity Museum at the University of British Columbia, which features a fascinating collection of flora, fossils and fungi from the past. | | | | | Authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn unpack the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 through the eyes of a Chinese seamstress and a failing opera singer in their new historical fiction novel, The Phoenix Crown. | | | | | | | | | | | Museums - Beatty Biodiversity Museum | | | We're returning to our March Museum series, which we first launched last spring.
To start us off, NXNW's Margaret Gallagher visited the Beatty Biodiversity Museum at the University of British Columbia, which holds over 200,000 specimens from the natural world, including Big Blue, the blue whale skeleton.
We'll hear from the museum's education manager, Jackie Chambers, exhibitions manager, Derek Tan, and lead curatorial assistant of mammals, reptiles and amphibians and cross collections, Christopher Stinson. | | |  | Derek Tan, Jackie Chambers, and Christopher Stinson in front of Big Blue. | | |  | Margaret and Christopher go through the museum's fossils and hides. | | | | | | | Record Keeping with Joani Taylor | | | Joani Taylor is known to some as Canada's First Lady of the Jazz Ballad. Her singing career began when she was a child, nearly 70 years ago.
Since then, she's released seven albums, worked with greats like Stevie Wonder and Bon Jovi, and received a number of JUNO nominations and jazz awards.
This week on NXNW, Joani dropped by the studio for some Record Keeping, as she prepares to kick off the Nanaimo International Jazz Festival's "Women in Jazz Series" on March 8 — International Women's Day.
Here's what Joani brought to the turntable:
A song from your youth?
Teddy Bear's Picnic by Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra.
A song you keep coming back to?
Slow ballads, like Make Someone Happy, from The Art of the Ballad, recorded with Bob Murphy.
A song you're listening to right now?
Alchemy by David Sinclair and Keith Bennett. | | |  | Joani Taylor in the NXNW studio | | | | | | | In case you missed it... | | | Last week on NXNW, Kwagiulth and Stó:lō singer Marion Newman spoke to us about portraying an early feminist icon in the new City Opera Vancouver production, Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt, which is running its final shows at the York Theatre this weekend: 7:30 p.m. PT on March 2, and 2 p.m. PT on March 3.
Stream the interview via CBC Listen. | | | | | Thanks for listening! | Have comments or suggestions you'd like to share? Email us!
Jeremy Ratt, editor | | | | | |
