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With her Renaissance film, Beyoncé turns her concert into a culture
Culture critics Niko Stratis, Rollie Pemberton and A. Harmony discuss how much the famously private superstar pulls back the curtain on her record-breaking world tour. 15 Canadian books to mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Here are 15 works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and children's books to highlight disabled writers in Canada.- Q with Tom Power
Romeo Candido tells us how a viral video inspired his new musical Prison Dancer
Back in 2007, a video featuring 1,500 inmates in a Filipino prison dancing to Michael Jackson’s Thriller became one of the internet’s first viral videos. The footage inspired a new musical called Prison Dancer, created by Romeo Candido and Carmen De Jesus. For Alica Hall, the new Nia Centre was a grand vision worth pursuing
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Are Canada's museums honouring their promises to Indigenize and decolonize?
Here & Queer celebrates and amplifies the voices of LGBTQ creators and performers
Following Folk takes us on a journey to discover the artists who are redefining folk music today
How to Lose Everything: 5 beautiful animated Indigenous short films share personal stories of loss
Watch 5 short dance films that explore the digital destiny of humankind in Future Futures
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With synthesizers and sensors, a musician turns the pulse of the life of plants into beautiful music
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Tree Harps: This duo turns trees into gorgeous ephemeral instruments to record music in the forest
CBC Arts1 year ago - Duration 2:46
Poet Jennifer Alicia: 'To be the successor of legacy is also to be the inheritor of generational trauma'
CBC Arts1 year ago - Duration 3:00
Turning nothing into something: the history of the steel pan
CBC Arts1 year ago - Duration 8:17
A Polish folk festival became a lifeline for Ukrainians fleeing war — with help from Canadian musicians
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How I realized I was trans by making terrible horror movies
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All in Good Time: A guided ceremony of love, gratitude and release
(not applicable)1 year ago - Duration 4:57
Kahsenniyo performs a poem reckoning with the wounds of colonialism and breaking cycles of trauma
CBC Arts2 years ago - Duration 5:33
Watch artists carve and raise a Haida memorial pole in Prince Rupert
CBC Arts2 years ago - Duration 5:24
Singer-songwriter Desirée Dawson found the peace that she needed by moving into an RV
CBC Arts2 years ago