 Going live with you at the Pinoy Festival, Indigenous Rights in One Minute, and Charity Trickett Is Not So GlamourousNXNW June 14/15, 2025 | Welcome to the NXNW newsletter! We've got a lot of dynamic, thoughtful and fun conversations lined up for this weekend. This Saturday, Margaret Gallagher will be hosting North by Northwest LIVE from the Pinoy Festival at Burnaby's Swangard Stadium. This year's festival theme, "We Rise," reflects the Filipino community's commitment to both honour the victims of the Lapu Lapu Day Festival tragedy and to celebrate Filipino culture. We'll be connecting with festival organizers, performers, filmmakers and more!
On Sunday, North by Northwest returns to our Vancouver studio, where Christine Stringer will tell us about her new novel set in 1990s Hollywood, and Bruce McIvor exercises his Indigenous law expertise with a new book.
Looking for something from a past show? Check out our CBC Listen page. | | | Coming up on NXNW this weekend: | | | Saturday |  | Burnaby City Councillor and festival organizer Maita Santiago gets us primed for the Pinoy Festival with a rundown of what to expect at the event. | | | | | Continuing our June series "Take it Outside," Filipino filmmaker Trixie Pacis gives us a preview of her new documentary Ahon (Rise), which follows the Filipino mountaineering group K8 in the Rockies. | | | | | PhilCAS, a non-profit Filipino dance society, takes to the stage at the Pinoy Festival this weekend. PhilCAS board president and performer Rachel Ambrosio explains how the group is staying connected to the Philippines’ Indigenous culture with music and movement. | | | | | Grant Lawrence returns with the seventh chapter of his series, Whale Tale, following a unique family of West Coast orcas. | | | | | Before she hosts the Pinoy Festival's Philippine Cultural Fashion Showcase in the afternoon, CBC's Michelle Eliot stops by to reflect on what it means to participate in this year's celebrations. | | | | | Sunday | | | Heart. Liver. Hamstrings. Achilles tendon. You might wonder how these body parts got their names. Word Guy columnist Jonathan Berkowitz gives us a lexicon lesson on the human body and its many organs. | | | | | In his three-decade career, Metis lawyer Bruce McIvor has heard many questions from Canadians who want a better understanding of Indigenous Peoples. Bruce reveals how he's answering the 100 most essential questions in his new book Indigenous Rights in One Minute: What You Need to Know to Talk Reconciliation. | | | | | Christine Stringer tells us about the fiction (and her lived reality) informing her new novel Charity Trickett Is Not So Glamorous, which follows the bizarre adventures of a young screenwriter on a mission to make it big in 1990s Hollywood. | | | | | T'la-amin elder Osil/Betty Wilson and artist Prashant Miranda reflect on bringing language revitalization to a young audience with their new children's book Herring to Huckleberries, which Osil wrote both in English and Ayajuthem. | | | | | | | | | Trixie Pacis and Ahon (Rise) | | | Filmmaker Trixie Pacis regularly shines a spotlight on diversity and mountain culture in her work. Her newest documentary follows the Filipino mountaineering group K8 as they explore the Canadian Rockies. We’ll hear her thoughts on following the group, the film's use of Tagalog, and what it means to be part of an all-Filipino cast and crew. | | | | | | | Charity Trickett Is Not So Glamourous | | | The year is 1997. Charity Trickett has moved to Los Angeles, and she's landed a job assisting the director of the biggest blockbuster film of the year. While the situation begins as a dream come true, Charity realizes Hollywood isn't all it's cracked up to be. And soon enough, she finds herself caught in a web of backstabbing co-workers, a dwindling bank account, and an FBI investigation that could land her in prison.
That's just a slice of Charity Trickett is Not So Glamourous, the new novel from screenwriter and author Christine Stringer. As you'll hear this Sunday, some events in the novel are based on Christine's true story, having worked as an assistant at a major Hollywood studio in the early 2000s. | | |  | | Christine Stringer and a copy of Charity Trickett. | | | | | | | Indigenous Rights in One Minute | | | Why do Indigenous people have special rights? Why is the Haida decision important? What is required to prove Aboriginal title? And what is Aboriginal title? These are just some of the essential questions that Bruce McIvor answers in his new book Indigenous Rights in One Minute: What You Need to Know to Talk Reconciliation. Bruce is the founder and a senior partner at First Peoples Law. He's also an adjunct professor at UBC's Peter Allard School of Law, and a member of the Manitoba Métis Federation. Drawing from his three decades of practice, Bruce has compiled what he believes to be the 100 most essential questions to help Canadians get a better understanding of Indigenous rights and issues.
For more on Indigenous Rights in One Minute, Bruce will be holding a conversation and book launch at Vancouver Public Library's Central Branch on Wednesday, June 18 from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. | | |  | | Bruce McIvor in the NXNW studio. | | | | | | | In case you missed it... | | | Last week on NXNW, Suzie Ungerleider spoke with us about her intimate new album Among the Evergreens, chronicling her experiences with adolescence, motherhood, and the Vancouver of days gone by.
Stream this interview on CBC Listen. | | | | | Thanks for listening! | Have comments or suggestions you'd like to share? Email us!
The NXNW Team | | | | | |
