Jean-Claude Roy, the visual artist who splits his time between N.L.and France, talks about his career and his upcoming investiture into the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador

Corner Brook dancer Robert Azevedo tell us about their new show, where they perform 18 dance solos dances inspired by reality-tv dance competitions.

Artist and researcher Camille Turner is digging into the connections between the transatlantic slave trade and ships built in Newfoundland.

The BMO Winterset Award honours the best book by a local writer. CBC reporter Jessica Singer was at this year's ceremony at Government House and spoke with this year's finalists and winner.

Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin checked out the action as the Apple TV+ series Severance, shoots in Port Union and other towns on the Bonavista Peninsula.

From early start times, sensory awareness, and creating safe spaces, we talk with Kate Lahey of the band Weary about what it means to create an inclusive show.

Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin goes for a walk on Fogo Island with Toronto curator Katie Lawson to talk about art and the environment.

The annual St. John's Shorts Festival runs Sept 6-17. CBC reporter Ife Alaba meets a few of the playwrights to learn how they're sharing their personal stories on stage.

Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin caught up with NL comedian Matt Wright in the green room at the Juno Comedy Show.

Aaron Rodgers, the farm manager at the O'Brien Farm Foundation, takes us on a tour of the farm, its new learning centre, and kitchen barn.

MusicNL CEO Rhonda Tulk-Lane talks about the process of choosing nominees for this year's MusicNL Awards, and a brand new category for Francophone music.

Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin visits The Bookstore and More in Clarenville to celebrate independent Canadian bookstores.

Sister Diane Smyth and Danielle Irvine tell us how a group of theatre loving nuns came to sell their Conception Harbour convent property to Perchance Theatre.

It's a huge loss for the local comedy scene. Comedians Colin Hollett, Liam Small and Luke Lawrence pay tribute to Tyler MacDonald, their friend and collaborator, who died suddenly at the age of 32.

William Kigbu, the beekeeper at the O'Brien Farm Foundation, is adapting his Nigerian beekeeping skills to care for bees in the Newfoundland climate.

Stunt performer The Amazing Martika drops by the studio to do some sword swallowing and to bring us an uplifting message

Los Angeles based music producer Greg Wells is opening a music performance and recording venue in Winterton, Newfoundland and Labrador

Hanif Hosseini and Ellie Vaziri of Rug the Rock display some of their one of a kind, hand made rugs from the Middle East.

Storyteller Harry Ingram brings us a new recitation for Father's Day

Hillary Simms, a trombonist from Torbay, Newfoundland and Labrador, talks about her new gigs with the American Brass Quintet and as the first female trombone professor at the Juilliard School of Music.

Jeff and Jane Sears are operating a unique weekend getaway spot in Port Rexton

Keshia Snook, the chair of the Town of Lourdes Regional Recreation Association, tells us how her town was named Participaction's Most Active Community in Newfoundland and Labrador

Sheila Coultas, a multidisciplinary artist and journeyperson welder, talks to the CBC's Amanda Gear about her work at the Newfoundland Bronze Foundry.

JUNO nominee Jud Haynes talks about graphic design with Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin while browsing in a nifty stationery store in Edmonton.

Nancy Dahn and Robert Chafe talk about the premiere of Taking On Water, a dramatic musical work about coastal communities and climate change, premiering at the Tuckamore Music Festival.

Photographer Kara O'Keefe gives us her pointers on taking your best photos of ice and icebergs - and doing it safely.

Weekend AM's Ife Alaba meets Susan Lester Ryan at the farm to check out the crops and activities.

Annie McEwen moved to Newfoundland for school. And when she met Chris Brookes, it changed her whole life.

Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin is at the Juno Awards in Edmonton! She caught up with local nominees Fortunate Ones before they played for an Alberta audience.

Sam Reid, a founding member of the Canadian band Glass Tiger, talks about the band's gig at a high school reunion in the Green Bay community of Triton

Best friends Krista Winsor Maloney and Charlene Feehan Hiscock, originally from Port Union on the Bonavista Peninsula, celebrate their 45th birthdays with a trek to the Mount Everest Base Camp.

Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin goes shopping in a stationery store with graphic designer Jud Haynes.

Ken Pretty of Dildo tells us about his attention grabbing photos of a phallic shaped iceberg

Susan Evoy, a nominee for the MusiCounts Teacher of the Year award at the 2023 JUNOs, talks to Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin about why learning and making music is important for every student.

It started as a joke in, but ended up creating the most sought after LPs in the province. Peter Morris and Wallace Hammond, aka Stig Stilletto and Kirt Sic-o-via, join Melissa Tobin to talk about their legacy of Da Slyme and their new archival release, If there’s no rubble, you haven’t played!

Exploits Valley High in Grand Falls-Windsor, N.L. is putting on the ABBA themed musical Mamma Mia. As the CBC's Jason Vermes tells us, the high school musical is alive and well in Canada

Canadian rock icon Alanis Morissette is the headliner for this year's Churchill Park Music Festival. She speaks with Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin about her eclectic career.

Glen Power and his dog Toto are familiar faces in the Georgetown neighbourhood of St. John's. When they needed help, the community came together.

Ann Hui, author of Chop Suey Nation, a book about Chinese restaurants across Canada, talks about the closure of a long running Asian restaurant in St. John's and the opening of other restaurants run by newer Canadians

Local musician Tim Baker is thinking about his carbon footprint - and how, as a touring musician, he can work to reduce it.

Author Pauline Spurrell speaks with Weekend AM host Melissa Tobin about her memoir, From the Shadows: Surviving the Depths of Mental Illness, which explores her story of surviving mental illness.

The Association for New Canadians is using the universal language of chess to bring newcomers and longtime central Newfoundland residents together.

Jarrod and Amanda Oglan are the new owners of Living Waters Hydroponic Farm in Stag Harbour on Fogo Island.

British actor Stuart Hickey is beside himself to be in Gander, the place where all the action in Come From Away really happened.

Homesick Newfoundlanders in Brampton can still find toutons, Pineapple Crush, and their favourite bologna, thanks to a pair of women who didn't want to lose a little piece of home.

Riley Stairs is the youngest professional piano tuner in Newfoundland and Labrador, and Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin paid him a visit at work.

Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin visits the Rendell Forge in Heart's Content, where she meets Ed Arnott of the Mizzen Heritage Society and Darlene King, a blacksmith at the forge.

Dalhousie architect students' thesis re-imagining of St. John's harbour front has gone viral. Cynthia Williams tell us about her ideas.

Andre Lorenz Feria, an ethnomusicology graduate student at Memorial University, wants to find out about Filipino Canadians and the music they enjoy.

Glenn Gear, animator, film maker, visual artist, and urban Inuk, talks about the work he is creating at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery in St. John's.

Kathleen Lawlor, a volunteer at Our Lady of Mercy Heritage Church, tells us about the kinetoscope in the church museum's basement.

Christine Carter, an associate professor at Memorial University's School of Music, says there is a more effective way to practice your musical instrument

Chris Brookes was instrumental in establishing the Resource Centre of the Arts and turning an old union all into the arts hub it is today. CBC's Jessica Singer gets a tour of the LSPU Hall with Nicole Rousseau and learns more about his legacy in the arts.

Marina Sexton, noted hat collector on Newfoundland's west coast, donates part of her collection to the Theatre Arts program at Memorial's Grenfell campus in Corner Brook.

CBC reporter Ife Alaba meets with 11-year-old business owner Ava Rose Lundrigan to learn about Sweet Lips, her lip gloss business.

The Come From Away Gander production invited the public to be part of the show. We hear how people are stitching their memories into the set.

He had a front row seat for some of the best theatre this province has ever seen, playing a key role in making it happen. Pat Foran wraps up his time with Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland.

We talk to musical couple Jordan Harnum and Joelle Blandford, who are turning their Twillingate home into a concert venue this summer.

Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin visits Pollen Nation Farm in Little Rapids to learn about beekeeping, sustainable agriculture, and farm to table food.

Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin meets up with some knitters and crocheters in Gander who are creating part of the set of the Gander production of Come From Away.

The 71st annual provincial drama festival hits the stage in Grand Falls-Windsor this week. We talk to organizers about the event and the state of community theatre in the province.

After several decades, the Loong Wah Restaurant in downtown St. John's is closing. Owner Zoe Wu reflects on the restaurant's legacy.

CBC's Jamie Fitzpatrick talks to artist John McCallum, who's latest installation tells the story of the hydroelectric project, through paint, photos, text, sculpture, paper, cardboard, and a whole lot more.

Radical Theologian Barry Taylor talks to CBC's Heather Barrett about finding faith when the world seems to be falling apart.

Fancy food, fashion and fun! We take a peek inside the glossy first edition of Pie NL with publisher Sandra Roberts.

Niall Hickey of The Embassy in St. John's and Brian Hurley of Iron Rock Brewery in Labrador City talk about the issues they see with the drug crisis in the province and what can be done to make their businesses and the community safer.

We talk about the joys of Artificial Intelligence with local photographer and designer Jamie March.

Weekend AM' Melissa Tobin talks to Alan Doyle, co-producer of the album Sonny Don't Go Away: A Tribute to Ron Hynes, about the huge mark the man of a thousand songs left on the Newfoundland and Labrador songbook.

Inuk soprano Deantha Edmunds, Holy Heart Chamber Choir director Robert Colbourne, and project commissioner Jane Liebel tell us about a music and video project, inspired by the blue whale skeleton at Memorial University's Core Science Building

Friends of Chris Brookes are paying tribute to the radio-maker by re-airing his work from Cabot Tower. CBC's Gavin Simms takes us to Signal Hill to learn more.

Kevin Blackmore, a.k.a. Buddy Wasisname of Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers,, is sharing his comedic inspirations in an upcoming talk.

A ballet with roots in the Wolastoqey Nation of New Brunswick is earning rave reviews. Co-directors Possesom Paul and Igor Dobrovolskiy tell us about how this all came together.

Leslee Lake and Chris Martin.are co-workers, brothers-in-law, and fierce rivals in the giant pumpkin game. We spoke with them to learn what it takes to grow the gigantic gourds.

The author of a new biography on the iconic Canadian artist talks about the intersection of life and art, and what Mary Pratt's art means to her.

It's local lore that may keep you up at a night, and now it's on the small screen. We spoke with Shane Mills, one of the producers behind the new show, A Newfoundland Nightmare: The Hag.

We’ll meet the owners of Las Reinas, a Mexican restaurant located in the Trailside Motel near Goobies.

We catch up with Torbay trombonist Hillary Simms and her Chinese pop star husband, Ricky Nan, at their new home in New York City

Young people in Sheshashiu work with Indigenous music and video collective N'we Jinan to record an original song and music video

From the whistles to roaring crowds, there are a lot of sounds in sports. Jordan Zalis, a PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology at Memorial University wants to know what those sounds say about our society.

Ryan Hayward of Retro Tech NL shows us some classic computers of the late 20th century.

Selina McCallum and Safa Ali Modei tell us about their film, "Fitriya: Muslim On and Off the Court," showing at the St. John's International Womens' Film Festival.

Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin goes for a drive in a Model T Ford with Jaydee Edison and his grandfather, John Follett.

Musicians Pamela Morgan and Teofila Cerqueira tell us about a musical project that unites Newfoundland and Labrador - and Portuguese - musicians.

Singer/songwriter Rachel Cousins and Errin Williams, wellness lead for the EMCA, talk about the group's call for its members to pause drinking alcohol in January and reflect on the role that alcohol plays in their workplaces.

The staff at Kelly Hynes Dentistry in Paradise have teamed up with horror film collective Grind Mind to create their sixth annual horror film.

Glenn Nuotio, Than Brown, and Julie Vogt tell us about a new Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Arts Society fund to support and develop 2SLGBTQIA+ artists

Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin has a visit and a conversation with Sarah Fulford, the owner of the Fogo Clay Studio

Toronto based comedian Jesse Singh tells us why he found a standup gig in St. John's so memorable, he opens his new comedy album with the tale of the experience.

Heather Braaten, Artistic Director of the Stephenville Theatre Festival, talks about the festival's latest production, which tells the stories of local women who worked at and lived near the American military base in Stephenville.

The Association for New Canadians hosts its first ever Diwali celebration event in Gander.

Musician and music educator Rosemary Lawton tells us about her research into teacher directed violence towards music educators, and what she and others in the profession say could be done to make their workplace safer. 

Virgil Cheung, avid kayaker, visits Newfoundland for the first time and invites all hands to join him on a paddle near Cape Broyle

Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin talks to Bruce Pashak and Jan Langdon, the curators for the Gander Art Series, and to Ethan Murphy, the series' feature artist.

Anvar Lafi, born in Russia, and Oleksandra Frolova, from Ukraine, get married at Anvar's workplace - the Mary Brown's restaurant in Gander.

A McDonald's restaurant in St. John's has become a hot spot for chess players of all ages

St. John's based trad musician Kevin Evans tells us what it was like to play on stage with the colourful Pogues front man

Composer Cait Nishimura talks about her two passions - composing music and connecting with our natural environment

A farmer and a baker talk about what they learned on a food, beverage and hospitality mission to the French islands of St. Pierre et Miquelon.

Audio engineer Peter Green talks about how he has built a career working with Alan Doyle, Fortunate Ones, and Death From Above 1979

Over the past three decades, thousands of students have traveled up Salmonier Line to improve their environmental literacy. The chair of the Echo Pond Environmental Education Centre stops by to tell us why that mission is more important than ever... and how you can help. (The CBC's Jamie Fitzpatrick with Piers Evans)

There's no meat or dairy, no gluten, no cooking oils or sugar... but the meals are absolutely irresistible. That's the claim in a new cookbook written by a chef from this province. The CBC's Jamie Fitzpatrick asks Ashley Madden how she does it.

We meet model and designer Shauna Griffiths, founder of SG Fashion House, as she prepares for an even brighter future in the industry.

Irish folklorist Michael Fortune talks about the Newfoundland traditions that pop up in his book, The Folklore of Wexford, Volume 1.

An old clock on a historical building in Carbonear is ticking once more, thanks to a newly arrived Ukrainian clock repairwoman.

Writer and actor Dave Sullivan remembers his friend Elsie Higgins, the inspiration for the lead character in the Fibe comedy series, The Missus Downstairs

Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin takes a tour of the Canadian Glove Museum in Point Leamington - the only museum in the country devoted exclusively to gloves.

Will Small, runner and running coach, and Sally Best, runner, talk about their participation in the 12-Day Christmas Challenge.

Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin takes a tour of the Superior Glove Factory in Point Leamington

Bollywood film fans Pranshu Pandey and Hitesh Arora give their recommendations on where to start if you want to get into movies from India's thriving film industry

The Tuckamore Festival presents an innovative new work consisting of chamber music, animation, and ghost stories

George Andrews, the mayor of Happy Valley-Goose Bay, unwinds by making stained glass art out of snowshoes.

Eldon Murray of The Postmaster's Bakery is learning about pastry at "The Harvard of Bread" in Paris.

We'll learn about a new, inclusive hiking group for women in the Bay St. George area.

Textile artist Daze Jefferies and curator Emily Critch tell us about their groundbreaking exhibit, Stay Here Stay How Stay - at The Rooms until April 7.

St. John' s mindfulness practitioner and instructor Andrew Safer has developed workshops to help people deal with eco-anxiety.

Leonard Pecore, the new interim CEO of MusicNL, talks about his hopes for the province's music industry.

Paul Pike, Cultural Outreach Officer with the Qualipu First Nation, tells us about a Mi'kmaq tradition that honours the spirit of winter.

Folklorist Cory Thorne Gutierrez explains how merculture connects Newfoundland and Labrador, Cuba and west Africa