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Winnipeg filmmaker Tyler Funk and dancer Emily Solstice Tait joined together with Halifax poet Michelle Elrick and musician Michael Belyea to create The ___ Place, a short film that explores the idea of creating joy during the pandemic.

Artists from Manitoba and across the East Coast create their happy places in dance, poetry, film, audio essays, illustrations, and photos in this national CBC Creator Network collaboration.

Posted: Apr 23, 2021 3:48 PM AT | Last Updated: April 23 Kym Nacita wrote her poem thinking about all the different ways she’d rather be seen than beautiful. (Margaret Donahoe for CBC) For poet Kym Nacita, getting called beautiful gets old pretty quick. Around five years ago, she was dating someone who used that as their main compliment. Nacita found it constant and boring, and started replying in her own way.  "When she would say, Oh, youre so beautiful, and I would say, Oh, I know as a j...

For more information about CBCs First Person stories, please see  I wrote the first instalment of The Quiet Sun during the early days of the pandemic, when none of us knew the enormity of the changes we would all experience. This new comic is a reflection on the prolonged anxiety and insecurity of a year of change, isolation and loss.  Some of us came up with new innovative ways to create and connect. Some of us came up with the perfect way to fold the couch blanket to cradle a bowl of chips....

At this virtual party, animated dancers are feeling themselves CBC News Manitoba28 days ago 4:02Filmmaker Emmanuel Bongar and songwriter Tuva Bergstrom created their pandemic happy place, a virtual dance party video where animated friends got their groove on.4:02 CBC Manitobas Creator Network asked local artists to imagine their happy place as we mark the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. Here is one of several projects we will share in the coming weeks.  Whats your hap...

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Posted: Feb 25, 2021 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: February 25 Intra-cultural skin shadeism at heart of new film CBC News Manitoba1 month ago 3:24Winnipeg filmmaker Joanne Roberts explores her struggles with skin shadeism within Filipino culture. She shares her personal journey understanding why light skin is praised while too dark skin may be considered less desirable. Video: Joanne Roberts and Alexander Decebal-Cuza.3:24 Winnipeg filmmaker Joanne Roberts has been told her skin is too dark by ot...