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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, you're so beautiful,' and I would say, 'Oh, I know' as a joke," Nacita said. "At one point she said, a bit annoyed with me … 'You know, you can just sa...
For more information about CBC's 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. It seems that no matter how we spent the past year, it has felt especially easy to find reasons to...
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 Manitoba's 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. What's your happy place? For Winnipeg filmmaker Emmanuel Bongar, his pandemic happy place is a virtual dance par...