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#1: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner | Arts Presents: The 50 Greatest Films Directed by Canadians
From the first shot of Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, as dogs howl on a frozen tundra in Nunavut before we’re launched into an Inuktitut-language story, I knew that I was watching something unlike anything I’d ever seen before.
Sarain Fox 2023 Empowers Queer and Indigenous Voices Through Film
"I really only have a decade to capture as many pieces of who I am, who this world is and who our elders are before it’s all lost forever."
Celebrated author Michelle Good expands the conversation about colonialism in new nonfiction work - Quill and Quire
Since her debut novel, Five Little Indians, was released in 2020, Michelle Good has received hundreds of emails from people thanking her for opening their eyes to the residential school experience.
One woman even apologized for being a racist all of her life, and she wrote that reading Good’s book – which humanizes five young adults as they navigate life post-residential school – had changed her into a better person.
In Toronto, a Townhouse Maintains a Punchy Profile While Fitting in With Its Neighbors
Off a main thoroughfare in downtown Toronto, Eva Pianezzola’s house is tucked within a quiet street of Victorian townhomes. Its front facade blends in with the neighborhood of ornate redbrick mansions, but there are details—bright red trim at the windows and upside-down address numbers outside the front door—that hint at the surprising elements behind it.
5 Indigenous Makers On What Sustainability Means To Them
From durable materials and compostable packaging to innovative fabrics and circular fashion programs, here's how ethical practices have shaped their businesses.
Pamela Anderson Is On the Record
Anderson tells her side of a media-frenzied story in her autobiography and a new Netflix documentary.
Fox’s ‘Accused’ Is a Law Show, Not in the Usual Order
An inversion of the usual whodunit, a new crime-of-the-week drama from the producers of “Homeland” and “24” puts ordinary people in extraordinary trouble.
How Two Young Climate Activists Are Tackling Water and Food Insecurity Across North America
With a name derived from the Lakota tribe’s historical Tokala Society—a group of warriors who showed bravery and leadership from a young age—Tokala is a photography series spotlighting the next generation of BIPOC climate activists. Here, in part three, meet two activists working on the eastern shores of Canada and the US to improve water and food security within their own communities and far beyond.
In 2022, Kent Monkman went legendary with a celebration of the spirit that survived colonization | Arts
His ROM solo show Being Legendary brings an incisive eye to the story of Indigenous knowledge across time
In ‘Spirit Rangers,’ Elders Playing Elders
Two Native American acting legends, Wes Studi and Tantoo Cardinal, have shared a dozen film sets since 1990, beginning with “Dances with Wolves,” but never the same scene. It took “Spirit Rangers,” a children’s Netflix show overflowing with Indigenous talent, to pair the two onscreen at the same time, albeit in animated form.
The Santa Fe Indian Market Spotlights Indigenous Excellence In Fashion
One hundred years of fashion can feel like a long time, with styles evolving and, more often than not, returning. (We see you, low-rise jeans.) But for the designers who took part in the 100th edition of the Santa Fe Indian Market in New Mexico, clothing is about so much more than trends.
Jeff Barnaby’s indelible mark on Indigenous cinema will be felt for generations to come
Before entering the theatre to watch Jeff Barnaby’s Blood Quantum at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019, I heard buzz for the type of Canadian movie that rarely gets excitable word-of-mouth. But this was different: an Indigenous-focused film that was also a zombie thriller.
Why I'm excited my kids can finally see playful Indigenous representation in Netflix's Spirit Rangers | Arts
The animated series features an all-Native writers' room and a crew of over 100 Indigenous creatives
How Kent Monkman's alter ego is challenging colonial history
The Cree artist Kent Monkman has a striking alter ego: Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, a time-travelling, shapeshifting, gender-fluid agent of imagination who appears in many of his works. With her flowing dark hair, glamorous outfits and red-soled Louboutin heels, she stands out in Monkman’s work alongside his depiction of settlers and colonists.
Devery Jacobs Is the Leader of the Pack
The Kanien’kehá:ka actor, filmmaker, Indigenous advocate and star of the breakout hit Reservation Dogs, is showing us that there’s nothing she can’t do.
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These #PerfumeTok creators are here to help make fragrance more accessible.
Santa Fe Indian Market Celebrates 100 Years of Art and Fashion
Taking over the streets of downtown Santa Fe in white tents and technicolour outfits, the Santa Fe Indian Market celebrated 100 years this past weekend—and the event was filled to the brim with stunning displays of Indigenous art, fashion and culture.
TikTok is Making Perfume Accessible
Creators are dismantling the idea that perfume is a luxury product for people with expensive tastes.
As an ’80s kid, I was introduced to perfume via the iconic powdery Love’s Baby Soft; the scent was everywhere — it was advertised in the teen magazines I read and worn by all my friends. But after those years, I stopped seeking out perfume in a serious way. Rather, it came to me.
Journalist Brandi Morin tells her own difficult stories in debut memoir - Quill and Quire
Brandi Morin opens her debut memoir, Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising, with her visit, along with a New York Times reporter and photographer, to the home of Tina Fontaine’s great-aunt Thelma Favel for a piece on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG).
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