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The National Career-ending injuries affect musicians too
Career-ending injuries aren't exclusive to athletes — severe back, neck or arm injuries can also have a serious impact on musicians. There is a solution though: a unique Canadian clinic helps make sure the world's best musicians don't have to play through the pain.
- 2018
- 00:04:55
- 13-14
- Added on: 04/03/2018
News in Review - December 2017 The Forgotten Soldier: Helping Veterans with PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may be better understood these days, but those who have it often still suffer alone. Jim Lowther served in the Canadian Army, but when he left the service he found his nightmares still dogged him. His search for help brought him to others who were also suffering. So Lowther launched VETS Canada – a network of ...
- 2017
- 00:12:24
- 13-14
- Added on: 12/20/2017
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CBC Arts Gord Downie's Secret Path in Concert
“If this is the last thing I do, I'm very happy. This is what I want to do." This intimate concert film captures Canadian musician Gord Downie’s remarkable and emotional Secret Path performance in October 2016, interwoven with footage from the original animated film. This live tribute to Chanie Wenjack, an Anishinaabe boy who died trying to escape residential school, ...
- 2017
- 00:58:31
- 13-14
- Added on: 12/11/2017
CBC | Radio-Canada Documentary Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas
An offbeat, irreverent documentary that tells the story of a group of Jewish songwriters, including Irving Berlin, Mel Tormé, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Gloria Shayne Baker and Johnny Marks, who wrote the soundtrack to the world’s most musical holiday. It’s an amazing look at the 20th century North American immigrant experience and the extraordinary outburst of musical energy from the ...
- 2017
- 00:44:10
- 13-14
- Added on: 12/08/2017
#StandForCanada #StandForCanada Youth Challenge: K-8 students at Harriett Todd Public School
This video was created by K-8 students at Harriett Todd Public School in Orillia, Ontario, for our #StandForCanada Youth Challenge. Their Canada 150 celebration is truly a movement!
- 2017
- 00:04:02
- 9-12
- Added on: 12/05/2017
#StandForCanada #StandForCanada Youth Challenge: Grade 5 students at Pleasantville Public School
This video was created by Grade 5 students in Ms. Mangat's class at Pleasantville Public School in Richmond Hill, Ontario, for our #StandForCanada Youth Challenge. Led by Glenn Marais, the students sing a song they wrote about the power of respect and equal treatment for all.
- 2017
- 00:03:16
- 9-12
- Added on: 12/05/2017
#StandForCanada #StandForCanada Youth Challenge: Grade 3/4 students at Queen Mary Elementary School
This video was created by Grade 3/4 students in Mr. Weir's Songwriting Workshop (MrWeir.ca) at Queen Mary Elementary School in Vancouver, B.C., for our #StandForCanada Youth Challenge. It started with a simple statement: "Canada is 150 years old". But then one child raised his hand and said, "That doesn't sound right. There's gotta be more. What about the First Nations? ...
- 2017
- 00:02:09
- 9-12
- Added on: 12/05/2017
George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight Wab Kinew: Full Interview (Part 2 of 2)
Why are stereotypes of Indigenous people so prominent in Canada? Why is it so hard to get non-Native Canadians to pay attention to the experiences that Indigenous people have endured? Wab Kinew talks with George Stroumboulopoulos about some of the problems facing Canadian society and suggests some possible solutions. Part 1 of the interview is available here.
- 2012
- 00:02:57
- 9-12
- Added on: 10/25/2017
Dot. A Song for Everyone
Dot and her friends work together to write a song for the Winter Concert that will speak to the entire town, regardless of what holiday they celebrate, but their performance is threatened by a snow storm.
- 2016
- 00:11:02
- 5-8
- Added on: 09/08/2017
We Are Canada We Are Canada, Episode 5
A rock musician uses music to battle youth suicide and inspire hope; a millennial is making democracy cool; and an ingenious program that inspires troubled teens to stay in school. In this episode: Robb Nash, Caro Loutfi and Gabriel Lopez.
- 2017
- 00:44:08
- 13-14
- Added on: 05/24/2017
Exhibitionists Exhibitionists, Season 1, Episode 10
This episode of Exhibitionists look at people who create and why they do it, with host Amanda Parris.
- 2015
- 00:21:54
- 13-14
- Added on: 04/26/2017
Exhibitionists Exhibitionists, Season 1, Episode 9
In this episode, a film project allows two women to explore and reconcile their conflicting feminist ideals. Plus, witness a collision between punk rock and opera and hear from the artists of Medellin, Columbia as they grapple with the importance of memory.
- 2015
- 00:21:54
- 15-17
- Added on: 04/25/2017
Exhibitionists Exhibitionists, Season 1, Episode 8
In this episode a visual artist wields 50,000 pieces of LEGO; a Toronto musician bucks the norm with her theremin playing; and a Montreal street artist takes you along for the ride; plus more!
- 2015
- 00:21:54
- 15-17
- Added on: 04/25/2017
Exhibitionists Exhibitionists, Season 1, Episode 7
Meet a young poet who tore up Instagram with a single photograph; a visual artist whose performance could be called back-breaking; and musician Peaches tells a story of when art equals danger.
- 2015
- 00:21:54
- 15-17
- Added on: 04/25/2017
The Nature of Things I Got Rhythm: The Science of Song
Why do we sing? Are we hardwired for melodies? Scientists and musicians explore the many ways that music profoundly affects the human body, the brain and human emotions. It's one of the oldest forms of communication, and like language, music seems an essential tool employed by humans for multiple needs.
- 2016
- 00:43:45
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/30/2017
Exhibitionists Exhibitionists, Season 1, Episode 4
The theme for Episode 4 is wanderlust. David Trevelyan talks about his mask-making and sculpture in Bali; House of Venus founder Michael Venus discusses his films, culture and wearable-art headpieces. Gemini-nominated actress and producer Jennifer Podemski explains how she turns travelling for work into an opportunity for creative development. Also highlighted: Anick La Bissonniere, Owen Pallett and the students of ...
- 2015
- 00:21:50
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/14/2016
Cross Country Checkup Art and reconciliation
The Secret Path is a powerful film about an Indigenous boy who dies escaping a residential school. Does art — films, books and music — offer the best path to heal historical wrongs? Guests include Joseph Boyden, award-winning author of Three Day Road, The Orenda and most recently the novella Wenjack; Susan Aglukark, Inuk singer and songwriter; Ry Moran, Director of the National Centre for ...
- 2016
- 01:53:03
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/10/2016
Exhibitionists Exhibitionists, Season 1, Episode 2
This episode on resistance opens with Salman Rushdie reading selected lyrics from hip hop icon Drake and street dance crew BUCC N FLVR shows off their krumping moves. Plus video collective The Creators Bureau looks at how people from battle-scarred parts of the world talk about how important movies were to them.
- 2015
- 00:21:49
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/08/2016
Interrupt This Program Port-au-Prince
This episode of the groundbreaking Interrupt This Program series takes us to Port-au-Prince where a radio host, a photographer, a Rabòday singer and a creole rapper showcase the emerging and subversive sounds and images of Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake.
- 2015
- 00:21:54
- 15-17
- Added on: 07/14/2016
My Brilliant Brain Born Genius
At two years old, Marc Yu taught himself how to play Mary Had a Little Lamb on the piano. One year later, he was tackling Beethoven. Without ever studying, Marc also has perfect pitch – the ability to identify musical notes as easily as identifying colors – a skill that only one in 10,000 people has. How did Marc develop his amazing ...
- 2007
- 00:47:16
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/15/2016
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Interrupt This Program Medellin
This episode of Interrupt This Program visits Colombia's city of Medellin, once considered the most dangerous place in the world. Here a rapper, a musician, a filmmaker and an urban planner take us on a tour of their city currently experiencing a cultural renaissance.
- 2015
- 00:21:55
- 15-17
- Added on: 01/11/2016
Interrupt This Program Athens
The third episode of Interrupt The Program visits Athens, Greece. A photographer, an electronic pop band, a mural artist and a writer demonstrate how art is a means of survival in the midst of a city under economic crisis.
- 2015
- 00:21:58
- 15-17
- Added on: 12/01/2015
The Nature of Things Sonic Magic: The Wonder and Science of Sound Classroom Favourites
Sound surrounds us. Whether it's sound we choose to hear, like the music we play in our headphones, or sound we'd rather do without, like the noise of the city, we live in a sonic world that we seldom think twice about. Sonic Magic takes us behind the scenes in cutting-edge hospitals and research labs where sound is eliminating cancer ...
- 2015
- 00:44:14
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/23/2015
Interrupt This Program Kiev
The second episode of Interrupt The Program takes us to Ukraine and the city of Kiev, where we meet a poet, a rocker and a performance artist. They continue to push creative boundaries in a city that is struggling in the wake of the Euromaidan Revolution.
- 2015
- 00:21:53
- 15-17
- Added on: 11/23/2015
Interrupt This Program Beirut
The opening episode of the Interrupt This Program series takes us to Lebanon and the city of Beirut. The artists we meet — a writer, a graffiti artist, a hip-hop artist and a Baladi (belly) dancer — embody art as protest in a post-civil war city divided by religion.
- 2015
- 00:22:01
- 15-17
- Added on: 11/20/2015
