A 911 call turns into a dance-off and more arts stories you might have missed

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These are the week's can't-miss stories:

When a 911 call ends up being a dance video — you bust a move (CBC Toronto)

Constable Jarrod Singh thought he was heading to break up a fight — but the scene that had concerned callers turned out to be a perfectly peaceful music video shoot. So, naturally, Singh decided to join in on the fun and show off some dancing of his own. With moves this fire, we're pretty sure they should've called a different department when they dialled 911.

Tell their stories or opt out? Indigenous artists torn about joining Canada 150 party (CBC News)

Canada's 150th anniversary is stirring up mixed emotions for our Indigenous communities (as proven by the last two Art Post Outposts, which have both featured Kent Monkman's latest project addressing this issue). CBC News sat down with a number of Indigenous artists, including Monkman, to hear their perspectives as celebrations ramp up across the country. Some of them are boycotting the event altogether, some are creating art in response to it, but all of them are doing one thing the same: encouraging Canadians to think more critically about what the milestone year really means.

Bob Marley live recordings restored after 40 years in a mouldy London basement​ (As It Happens)

While moving out, the owners of a London hotel stumbled upon the surprise of a lifetime: boxes of reel-to-reel master tapes featuring live recordings of Bob Marley from the 1970s. The boxes were damp and mouldy from four decades in the basement — but with the help of an audio expert and over a year of painstaking work, the tapes have been restored to their original glory. British musician Louis Hoover, who helped connect the hotel owners with the tape restorer, summed up hearing those recordings for the first time perfectly: "like finding Picasso's paint palettes."

How racism kept B.C.'s 'first professional painter' from fame (CBC British Columbia)

Did you know that British Columbia's first professional painter, Grafton Tyler Brown, was black? If you didn't, we can't blame you — he ended up listed as white in the national censuses and quickly realized that, given his light skin, identifying as white provided him with better opportunities. After moving to B.C., he put together a collection of his breathtaking west coast landscapes for Victoria's first professional art exhibit, but ended up abandoning art after a few years — potentially because he feared people would learn the truth. (A little-known piece of Canadian art history for Black History Month.)

MoMA takes quiet stand against Trump travel ban — and a Canadian artist is part of it (CBC News)

After Trump's controversial executive order was first signed, The Museum of Modern Art responded by installing eight works by artists from Muslim-majority countries — all countries targeted by the travel ban. And Iranian-Canadian sculptor Parvis Tanavoli is one of them: his bronze sculpture The Prophet is now a part of the MoMA's permanent collection. While Tanavoli praises the move, calling it "a voice for the artists of the seven countries," it's unlikely that he'll get to experience it in person: "I would have liked to go see it for myself," he told CBC News, "but I hear a lot of people like me are getting hassled at the border."

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