 The Last Resort at The Waldorf, Shadows Into Dawn with Chor Leoni, and the words of Jack ShadboltNXNW Nov. 9/10, 2024 | Welcome to the NXNW newsletter! This Remembrance Day long weekend, we journey from Shadows Into Dawn with Chor Leoni, set sail with Dreamqueen Collective's new show The Last Resort, and dive into a new book based on the writings and art of the late Jack Shadbolt.
Looking for something from a past show? Check out our CBC Listen page. | | | Coming up on NXNW this weekend: | | | Saturday |  | Kagan Goh and Minerva Ravascara introduce us to their respective short films Common Law and Desync, which are both screening at the 28th annual Vancouver Asian Film Festival (Nov. 7-17). | | | | | Continuing our November "Heavy Metals" series, NXNW's Jeremy Ratt stops by the Circle Craft Holiday Market in Vancouver to chat with a few metalsmith jewelry artists from B.C. | | | | | Fairlith Harvey takes us through The Last Resort (Nov. 10, 17 and 24), Dreamqueen Collective's immersive theatre show that follows a group of cruise ship passengers who find themselves in the Bermuda Triangle. | | | | | | Susan Mertens talks about editing an honoured lifetime in Jack Shadbolt: In His Words, a curated collection of poetry, letters and illustrations from one of Canada's most influential artists. | | | | | Sunday | | | Adelle Purdham discusses writing I Don’t Do Disability…And Other Lies I’ve Told Myself, a book of essays navigating motherhood and confronting her ableism as the parent of a daughter with Down syndrome. | | | | | Gordon Clements previews Mayne Island Little Theatre's Emily Carr: Artist, Poet Singer! (Nov. 15-22), a new musical telling the story of the famous painter, based on her writings in combination with music from Clements. | | | | | Author Joseph Dandurand and illustrator Elinor Atkins share the storied relationship between bears and the Kwantlen people, as told in their new children’s book The Bears and the Magic Masks. | | | | | Chor Leoni's Composer-In-Residence Marie-Claire Saindon explains how their Remembrance Day concert Shadows Into Dawn responds to the trauma of war with hope and light. | | | | | | | | | The Last Resort At The Waldorf | | | Presented by Dreamqueen Collective, The Last Resort follows a group of cruise ship passengers who find themselves sailing into the Bermuda Triangle in 1971, to be never heard from again. Audience members find themselves wandering through the historical Waldorf Hotel, which may or may not be the afterlife. Director Fairlith Harvey takes us through this immersive theatre experience, and explains how her time in the funeral industry informed the audience's interaction with the actors during the show.
The Last Resort opens At The Waldorf in Vancouver on Nov. 10, and runs again on Nov. 17 and 24. | | |  | Fairlith Harvey in the Waldorf. | | | | | | | The Bears and the Magic Masks | | | Award-winning writer Joseph Dandurand and illustrator Elinor Atkins join us to talk about their new children's book, The Bears and the Magic Masks. Serving as the fourth entry in the Kwantlen Stories Then and Now series, the book chronicles the longstanding relationship between bears and the Kwantlen First Nation. When bears rescue a master carver from falling into a river, the carver gifts the bears a set of animal masks. Unbeknownst to the bears, the masks possess magical abilities.
We'll hear Dandurand and Atkins talk about what inspired this new story, and how important literature is for preserving Indigenous knowledge and traditions. | | |  | | |  | Joseph Dandurand and Elinor Atkins, joining us virtually and in studio. | | | | | | | In case you missed it... | | | Last week on NXNW, Joanne Thomson joined us to talk about storing her family history in watercolour canvas and poetry with her new art book 300 Mason Jars: Preserving History, published by Heritage House.
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The NXNW Team | | | | | |
