 Nuxalk Strong at the Museum of Anthropology, Indigenous Futurism with Raven Grenier, and Tami Knight's cartoons about climbing NXNW Feb. 22/23, 2025 | Happy Friday, and welcome to the latest edition of the NXNW newsletter! This weekend, we'll take a tour through the Nuxalk Strong exhibit at the Museum of Anthropology, reflect on Indigenous Futurism with Raven Grenier, and talk cartoons and climbing with Tami Knight.
Looking for something from a past show? Check out our CBC Listen page. | | | Coming up on NXNW this weekend: | | | Saturday |  | Blue Rodeo unpacks a 40-year journey of writing songs and playing live in a new documentary on CBC Gem. Vocalist and guitarist Jim Cuddy joins us to explain why it felt like the right time to tell their story. | | | | | NXNW's Jeremy Ratt travels to the Museum of Anthropology at UBC to speak with Dr. Snxakila-Clyde Tallio, the co-curator of Nuxalk Strong - Dancing Down the Eyelashes of the Sun, a new exhibit honouring Nuxalk Nation's treasures and ceremonies. | | | | | Have you ever heard of the world's fastest Skytrain rider? CBC’s Emma Jean hits the rails with a former world record holder to talk about speedrunning and the “SkyTrain challenge.” | | | | | Ahead of her appearance at the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival on Feb. 22, Squamish cartoonist Tami Knight shares the illustrated journey of Secret Plans Vol. III, a compilation of her toons from the past 40 years and beyond. | | | | | Sunday | | | The Junos are next month. CBC’s Pablo Pietropaolo drops in to discuss “Classical Road to the Junos,” a celebration of Vancouver's classical music talent coming to the Annex in Vancouver on Feb. 25. | | | | | The 40th Annual JCC Jewish Book Festival starts this weekend. Author Tom Wayman is attending the festival on Feb. 25, but before then, he stops by to preview his new poetry collection, Out of the Ordinary. | | | | | Our February Chocolate series continues as we meet Amélie Remon, a chocolatier in Atlin, B.C. We'll hear why she made the decision to move to the very small town and how her chocolate business succeeds in a town of roughly 500 people. | | | | | The 18th Annual Costal Dance Festival is taking place in early March. Gitxsan artist Raven Grenier joins us in studio to discuss this year’s theme of Indigenous Futurism, and how she's honouring that with her song Wolverine. | | | | | | | | | | | Atlin Chocolate | | | In the latest edition of our February Chocolate series, NXNW's Jeremy Ratt spoke with Amélie Remon of Atlin Chocolate. Remon explains how she fell in love with the town of roughly 500 people, and how she's making her chocolates anything but ordinary. | | |  | Amélie Remon's restaurant, Kershaws Café in Atlin, B.C., where she sells hot chocolate she calls, "heaven in a cup." | | | | | | | Naa Sheka | | | For the second year in a row, Naa Sheka has been contacted by the Vancouver Canucks to design their Black Excellence line for Black History Month. She speaks with CBC's Missy Johnson about how she's honouring her father's home country of Ghana with everything she does. | | |  | Naa Sheka on the ice wearing her Black Excellence Canucks design, she said was inspired by her love for Ghana. | | | | | | | In case you missed it... | | | Last week on NXNW, musician and childhood educator Jessica Schellenberg talks about her family-inspired folk band called Oh Clementine! and their debut album "One Thousand Mornings."
Oh Clementine! is holding an album release party this Sunday, Feb. 23 at the Mel Lehan Hall in Vancouver. Doors open at 4 pm.
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The NXNW Team | | | | | |
