 Chris Wong's Journeys to the Bandstand, The Davison Orchards Cookbook, and Dancing on the EdgeNXNW June 15/16, 2024 | Welcome to the NXNW newsletter! Whether you're celebrating Father's Day or you're just kicking back this weekend, we've got a great show lined up for you.
We'll spotlight B.C. native bees in our June Pollinators series, stop by Emily Carr University for a new exhibit, and get a sneak peek of the Dancing on the Edge Festival!
Looking for something from a previous show? Be sure to stop by our CBC Listen page. | | | Coming up on the show this weekend: | | | Saturday |  | The Canadian Veterinary Medical Association says veterinarians tend to experience more mental health issues than the general population. For more, we've reached CVMA's Kathy Keil. | | | | | June Pollinators: Biologist Bonnie Zand sheds some light on the province's lesser known bees, and explains what the Native Bee Society of B.C. is doing to protect them. | | | | | | Curator Daina Warren gives us a tour through the soft articles, poetry, and other Indigenous art featured in Your Old Way Kind of Vision, running at Vancouver's Libby Leshgold Gallery until June 30. | | | | | Author Chris Wong chronicles the Vancouver jazz scene and its most influential artists in Journeys to the Bandstand: Thirty Jazz Lives in Vancouver. | | | | | Sunday | | | When you're shopping for fish at the grocery store, what fish do you get? Farmed or wild? Inland or open sea? Food and sustainability writer Aruna Antonella Handa helps us navigate the sea of options. | | | | | NXNW Word Guy Jonathan Berkowitz goes the extra mile with some wonderful insight into the world of idioms. | | | | | Queer Canadian Filipinx performance artist Ralph Escamillan combines fashion and dance in FakeKnot's Croquis show, ahead of its Western Canada premiere at the 36th annual Dancing on the Edge festival (June 13-22). | | | | | Tamra and Rachel Davison share the stories, faces, and delicious recipes found in The Davison Orchards Cookbook, drawing from their multigenerational family farm in Vernon, B.C. | | | | | | | | | Pollinators - Bonnie Zand | | | In the latest entry of our June Pollinators series, we're joined by Bonnie Zand, a registered professional biologist and board member of the Native Bee Society of B.C.
With our province being home to nearly 500 different species of bees, Zand joins us to explain how we can help our buzzy friends, and also to identify the differences between the many pollinators that live on the West Coast.
Bonnie gave us a few bee photos to share with you — check out these pollinators! | | |  | A male Halictus rubicundus, a.k.a. the orange-legged furrow bee (Photos: Bonnie Zand) | | |  | A female Andrena, a.k.a. a miner bee | | |  | A male Megachile fidelis, a.k.a. the faithful leafcutting bee | | | | | | | The Microscopy Mystery - Part 2 | | | Last week, our June Pollinators series had us connect with scientist Elaine Humphrey of the University of Victoria's Advanced Microscopy Facility. She's crafted an ongoing "whodunnit" mystery for you to solve, using close-up images from the microscopy lab.
The answers for puzzles 86 and 87 are listed below. She's also provided a clue for Puzzle 88 - give it a look!
Note that Humphrey originally posted these images in the Friends of North by Northwest Facebook page. | | |  | Answers to Puzzle 86 | | |  | Answers to Puzzle 87 | | |  | Clues for Puzzle 88 | | | | | | | Dancing on the Edge with Croquis | | | The 36th annual Dancing on the Edge Festival opened Thursday with more than 30 performances being featured until the festival's conclusion on June 22. On the program is FakeKnot's Croquis at the Firehall Arts Centre Courtyard on July 18 and 19.
Queer Canadian Filipinx choreographer Ralph Escamillan is the solo performer behind the project. We'll hear about his relationship with dancing, why he incorporates textiles and fashion into his work, and how forms of gender expression may have changed in dance and beyond. | | |  | Ralph Escamillan with a garment constructed out of paper (Photo: David Cooper) | | | | | | | Journeys to the Bandstand with Chris Wong | | | This week on NXNW, author Chris Wong stops by with a very special book published earlier this year. Journeys to the Bandstand: Thirty Jazz Lives in Vancouver honours some of the creative voices that helped shape the jazz scene in Vancouver and beyond.
We'll hear Wong's reflections on sorting through seven decades of jazz history, finding the right photos, and committing to the decade-long journey he took to write the book.
Published by FriesenPress, Journeys to the Bandstand: Thirty Jazz Lives in Vancouver is available at select bookstores, as well as Wong's website.
Wong will hold a conversation about the book at Vancouver's Ocean Artworks as part of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. The free event will take place on June 21 at 4 p.m. PT. | | |  | Chris Wong in the NXNW studio | | | | | | | In case you missed it... | | | Last week on NXNW, we visited the studio of painter and animator Prashant Miranda, who is the permanent artist-in-residence at the Tidal Art Centre in Lund.
Stream this interview via CBC Listen. | | |  | Prashant Miranda with his work on display | | | | | Thanks for listening! | Have comments or suggestions you'd like to share? Email us!
Jeremy Ratt, editor | | | | | |
