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Art installation inspired by Métis artist Jaime Black. Photo: Edna Winti/Wikimedia Commons
Art gives powerful expression to issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women
Krystalline Kraus | A series of art projects and installations explore the difficult subject of Canada's missing and murdered Indigenous women.
Podcast
David Lester - radical music, graphic history, and the Winnipeg General Strike
Radical music, graphic history, and the Winnipeg General Strike
Scott Neigh | David Lester talks about his decades of combining radical politics with music -- including as half of a rock duo -- and art, and about 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike.
Podcast
Jawad Rhalib - When Arabs Danced
New film, 'When Arabs Danced' explores artistic expression and harmful stereotypes.
Face2Face | Jawad Rhalib & Face2Face host David Peck talk about the new film 'When Arabs Danced', exploring themes of stereotypes, the gender gap, art, fundamentalism, culture and the power of knowledge.
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Photo: Tania Ehret
'What are our Supports' art series looks at Vancouver footnotes
Tania Ehret | The Dril Art Collective wants the installation to offer “a way to process the things that stimulate us through the senses.”
Podcast
Image: Slowking/Wikimedia Commons
'Writing as Resistance' - Chris Hedges speaks about the role of writers and artists in social change
Victoria Fenner | A talk from the Precarious: ArtsWORK Festival in Peterborough
Podcast
Image: provided by Precarious: Peterborough ArtsWORK Festival
Precarious work -- not just a problem for artists anymore
Victoria Fenner | Kate Story, co-organizer of the Peterborough ArtsWORK Festival, talks to Victoria Fenner about what precarious workers can learn from artists
Podcast
Robert Cenedella on Art Bastard, The "Art Game" & a Narrow Minded Establishment
Robert Cenedella on 'Art Bastard,' the art game, and the narrow-minded establishment
Face2Face | Robert and I talk about his new film "Art Bastard," how not to play the "art game," the narrow-minded establishment, and what isn't art.
Podcast
Political Hot Potato
Political hot potato
Daryn Caister | This week's episode includes the move from ocean oil drilling to ocean strip mines, the connection between art and environment and the TPP, Hillary Clinton and privatization.
Blog
No, letting creepy men grope your objectified body will not combat objectification
Meghan Murphy | Milo Moiré's new performance art piece sends a regressive message, disguised as "feminist."
Podcast
Common Notions: A film about the Purple Thistle Centre
Redeye Collective | The Purple Thistle operated for years as a youth-run space for arts and activism in Vancouver's East Side. The film, Common Notions, explores what made the Purple Thistle work for young people.
Podcast
Bahia Shehab
Artist and historian Bahia Shehab on the Arab Spring, memory, art, and why beauty is 'a Western luxury'
Charlene Sayo | The TED Senior Fellow and UNESCO Accomplished Women Speaker shares her thoughts on the Arab Spring, and choosing between being a spectator or participant in times of revolution.
Podcast
Lawrence Hass on Mystery, Failure and Art.
Lawrence Hass on mystery, failure and art
Face2Face | Lawrence talks about mystery, context, the fear of failure, wonder and the "business" of art-making. He speaks about obstacles to good living, how art can be life-giving and why philosophy matters.