 Exploring The Gulf with Adam de Souza, reading Soft Shelters with Marie Metaphor Specht, and Record Keeping with Sandy ScofieldNXNW April 20/21, 2024 | Happy Friday! We've got a lovely show greeting your ears this weekend. We're continuing our April poetry series by chatting with Victoria poet laureate Marie Metaphor Specht, connecting with musician Kardias Quing about Record Store Day and 100 Collective, and doing some Record Keeping with award-winning Métis artist Sandy Scofield.
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We'd also like to take the time to welcome Bonnie Gill, our new intern from UBC. She'll be accompanying NXNW and helping us out for the next few weeks.
Glad to have you on the team, Bonnie! | | |  | Bonnie in the studio | | | Coming up on the show this weekend: | | | Saturday |  | Jody Allair of Birds Canada shares advice on what you can do to protect our feathery friends during nesting season. | | | | | In celebration of Record Store Day on April 20, Filipino Canadian musician Kardias Quing talks about physical media, songwriting, and their signing with Teon Gibbs' new label, 100 Collective Records. | | | | | Ahead of its Nelson Museum Archives & Gallery launch on April 20, curator Arin Fay shares stories from Grow Show, a new coffee table book that examines how cannabis shaped the Kootenays culture and economy. | | | | | Victoria's poet laureate Marie Metaphor Specht joins us with her new book of poetry, Soft Shelters, as she prepares to perform at the Verses Festival of Words on April 20. | | | | | Sunday | | | Veterinarian and "cozy mystery" writer Dr. Philipp Schott has a sneak peek of his new book, Eleven Huskies, the third instalment in his Dr. Bannerman mystery series. | | | | | Visual artist Colleen Heslin gives us a tour of her home studio in the qathet region, where the landscape often inspires her works. | | | | | Adam de Souza shares the story behind his new graphic novel, The Gulf, a coming-of-age tale set on a Gulf Island off the coast of Vancouver. | | | | | Award-winning Métis musician Sandy Scofield joins us with music from her latest album, Red Earth, and talks about her work as the composer of Inner Elder, a new theatre production running April 23-27 at Kamloops' Pavilion Theatre. | | | | | | | | | Poetry - Marie Metaphor Specht on Soft Shelters and the Verses Festival | | | In the latest entry of our April poetry series, we're joined by multidisciplinary artist and Victoria poet laureate Marie Metaphor Specht. This week, the award-winning writer will perform at the 14th Verses Festival of Words (April 18-27), which will include works from her collection Soft Shelters.
Released in 2023, the book serves as a meditation on the power of relationships, how we can protect them, and how we can reframe our worry and turn it into strength. | | |  | Marie Metaphor Specht with a copy of Soft Shelters | | | | | | | Adam de Souza writes a coming-of-age tale with The Gulf | | | This week on NXNW, Adam de Souza joins us to talk about his new YA graphic novel The Gulf. The book follows a group of friends who run away from home to join a remote island commune as the final days of high school draw closer.
On April 25, de Souza will be at Lucky's Books and Comics in Vancouver for a special launch event. | | |  | Adam de Souza with a copy of The Gulf | | | | | | | Connecting with Kardias Quing at Neptoon Records | | | Earlier this month, 100 Collective Records announced their inaugural lineup of artists, a diverse group that transcends genres with their unique sounds. One of those artists is Kardias Quing, a Filipino Canadian artist from Vancouver. Drawing influences from alternative pop and R&B, Quing brings a message of love and sovereignty with their ambitious songwriting and powerful vocals.
With Record Store Day coming this Saturday, story producer Jeremy Ratt connected with Kardias at Vancouver's Neptoon Records to chat about memories of physical media, their signing with the label, and their songwriting philosophy. | | |  | Jeremy Ratt and Kardias Quing in front of Neptoon Records | | |  | In the basement of Neptoon Records | | | | | | | Record Keeping with Sandy Scofield | | | Sandy Scofield is a Métis musician and composer with five Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards, a Canadian Folk Music Award, and three consecutive Juno nominations to her name. She also composed the music for Inner Elder, a new theatre production from award-winning artist Michelle Thrush that will run at the Pavilion Theatre in Kamloops April 23-27.
Scofield joins us for some Record Keeping and shares music from her latest album, Red Earth. | | |  | Sandi Scofield in the NXNW studio | | | | | | | In case you missed it ... | | | Last week on NXNW, Leela and Jay Gilday joined us to talk about why their celebrated musical journeys were converging to form the duo Sechile Sedare (which means "my younger brother, my older sister" in Dene).
Sechile Sedare will perform April 20 at New Westminster's Anvil Theatre.
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Jeremy Ratt, editor | | | | | |
