Sep 11, 2020
Indigenous activist Autumn Peltier features in stunning short documentary film 'The Water Walker'
"Water truly has no flag and it has no borders. We must join forces."
June Chua
June Chua is a Canadian journalist and an award-winning filmmaker who has worked as a writer, reporter and producer with the CBC in radio, television and online. Her documentary, using 2D animation, "Travels With My Brother" (about how an autistic man sees the world) captured a directing prize in 2012 from the National Screen Institute and was screened at the MET Museum in New York and at festivals around the world. Her commentaries have appeared on CBC.ca, the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and Canadian Living. Her essay, "I Am Canadian," was also published in the anthology Strangers in the Mirror (Tsar Books 2004), musings about minorities in Canada. An avid traveller, she has visited more than 40 countries. Find out more at junechua.com
Aug 27, 2020
Catch the first broadcast of Canadian-made children's opera 'The Monkiest King'
"The Monkiest King" will be broadcast for the first time on August 29 on the CBC radio show "Saturday Afternoon at the Opera with Ben Heppner."
Jun 29, 2020
'Finding Sally': A family mystery wrapped in an enigma
"Finding Sally," a documentary film directed by Tamara Mariam Dawit, takes viewers on a journey through Ethiopia's violent history.
May 22, 2020
Artist confronts anti-Asian racism with cartoons designed to help targets and bystanders
During the COVID-19 pandemic, reports indicate an alarming rise in anti-Asian racist attacks. Christine Cheung's work seeks to help targets and bystanders respond to those incidents.
Apr 27, 2020
Human interventions in the environment as art experience
Two artists, D'Arcy Wilson and Oliver Kellhammer, explore reconnecting with the environment and nature through art.
Mar 25, 2020
The worldwide housing crisis: Unite, organize and check your pensions
The cost of housing is affecting everyone everywhere. Activists are organizing against the corporatization of neighbourhoods and calling on people to question pension funds invested in real estate.
Feb 5, 2020
Oscar-nominated 'St. Louis Superman' sears with powerful, intimate scenes
Documentary film 'St. Louis Superman' follows the journey of activist and former Missouri state senate representative Bruce Franks Jr.
Nov 20, 2019
Blackness in art symposium seeks 'positive visibility,' expanding a 1967 conversation
A 1967 conversation about "Black" as a concept, a medium, and a sociopolitical form of expression is the jumping-off point for the Bodies Borders Fields public symposium in Toronto.
Oct 23, 2019
Lesia Maruschak's award-winning photography explores erasure, migration and memory
In Project MARIA, Lesia Maruschak constructs a visual memory of the horrors of the 1932-1933 famine in Soviet Ukraine through two books, installations, a film, textile sculptures and lectures.
Aug 28, 2019
'Trace' outlines the plight of refugees, rescuers and NGOs
The documentary "Trace," directed by Raluca Bejan and Ioan Cocan, bears witness to the awful and strange triad that occurs between refugees, rescuers and NGOs.
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