F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby celebrates its 100th anniversary on April 10. Collections adviser and book historian Spencer W. Stuart joins us to reflect on why the book continues to hold a lasting legacy, even down to its front cover. 

Stitched: Merging Photography and Textile Practices is showing at the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art from April 3 - June 21 as part of the Capture Photography Festival. Co-curator Emmy Lee Wall gives us a tour of the exhibit, revealing how the featured artists are threading these two mediums together. 

Squamish ethnobotanist and author Leigh Joseph explains how traditional knowledge, scientific knowledge and family inform her new children's book The Land Knows Me: A Nature Walk Exploring Indigenous Wisdom.

Award-winning singer-songwriter Krystle Dos Santos stars in A History of Motown, the musical journey running April 2-13 at the Firehall Theatre in Vancouver. For more on the show and her influences, Krystle stops by for another edition of Recordkeeping. 

Can a past housing crisis offer solutions to the present housing crisis? Author John Lorinc takes us back to the end of the Second World War to explore how government policies helped shape parts of Vancouver, and suggests what we can learn from those policies today.

Renowned artist Robert Bateman is being celebrated in Unexpected Bateman, a retrospective exhibit, running April 11-27 at the Mahon Hall on Saltspring Island. We'll revisit our conversation with Robert in June 2024, when the exhibit first premiered at the Penticton Art Gallery. 

To launch our April Poetry series, Vancouver poet Holly Flauto discusses the anxiety of her immigration journey from the U.S. and the bureaucratic structures that contrast lived reality, as explored in her debut collection, Permission to Settle. 

Food and travel journalist Don Genova is here with samples, celebrating local makers and growers with the new edition of Pacific Palate: Food Artisans of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands.