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Instagram takeover: Toronto International Festival of Authors

Online · TIFA

Oct 24 ,  2020

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5:00 pm
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https://festivalofauthors.ca/event/christa-couture-live/

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The Toronto International Festival of Authors takes place October 22-November 1, 2020, at venues across Toronto. And, in 2020, online!

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Art as memorial ✨ Watch “How to Lose Everythi Art as memorial ✨ Watch “How to Lose Everything: A Field Guide” from @cbcarts on YouTube and @cbcgem Directed by Christa Couture and bekky O’Neil Animated by @bekkyoneil at @cardboardrealitystudio Written and performed by Christa Music by @cris_derksen Produced by Christa and @mosaintj #howtoloseeverything #grief #animation #rotoscope
GIVEAWAY! Now that How to Lose Everything the ser GIVEAWAY! Now that How to Lose Everything the series is available globally, I want to give away the very last HtLE tote bag! Only 15 of these bags were hand silkscreened by @greenbyhand and given to the artists who worked on the series. BUT THERE'S ONE LEFT OVER. The design is based on the How to Lose Everything series opener which is based on the cover of memoir which uses the floral print on my leg. What can I say, I love that floral. 🌸 To enter, simply leave a comment or emoji, a paragraph or a string of words, whatever you want to use to tell me how you're doing today. That's been my prompt every time I've given something away and I find it makes us all feel a little less alone. I'm grateful for that. On Saturday December 9, I'll use an online thingy to draw one comment to send the bag to. And then you can not lose things by keeping them in the lovely, thick (no flimsy totes on my watch) How to Lose Everything bag. So, how are you feeling? Image description in pinned comment Watch how to lose everything from @cbcarts on YouTube and on @cbcgem #howtoloseeverything
It's International Day of Persons with Disabilitie It's International Day of Persons with Disabilities, folks! In response to this ableist world that tells me in countless ways I'm not good enough because I'm disabled, I sometimes lean into a different extreme, shouting from mountaintops, I SWEAR TO YOU I LOVE BEING DISABLED! And I do, most of the time. Which is to say I love myself. What I don't love is being in pain. I don't love intrusive questions. I don't love that I can't access the same spaces as non-disabled people can. But I certainly don't hate being disabled. Being disabled is inextricable from who I am. If my leg hadn't been amputated when I was 13, I would have grown into a very different person. The person I am here and now, in my heart and mind, would not exist. Here's me a few weeks ago in a lovely moment of autumn light and colours, and me, years ago ,when I was first learning to walk with a prosthetic leg. In the second photo, at 13, I didn't yet know how much hate and exclusion disabled people experience. In the first photo, at 45, I know the fierce love and disability community that has taught me something different — for all bodies. One of the best ways to humanize an experience that isn’t yours is to take in the perspectives of those with that experience. So if you are non-disabled, read some Eli Clare, some Kaleigh Trace, some Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Syrus Marcus Ware… and others! Listen to some Rae Spoon, Molly Joyce, Prudence Mabhena… and others! Happy IDPD, all. Consider access, care and interdependence in your life. Make change ✨ #idpd #idpd2023 #internationaldayofpeoplewithdisability #amputee Autumn photo 📸 @blackrhinocreative
Connection through grief ✨ Watch the series How Connection through grief ✨ Watch the series How To Lose Everything on @cbcgem or @cbcarts YouTube —- About How to Lose Everything: How to Lose Everything is a series of Indigenous animated short films that explore personal stories of loss. From instructions on how to survive tragedy, to parallels between two Scottish and Inuit communities, to a bear named Jesus, the five stories span nations, languages, and perspectives on heartache. #howtoloseeverything #indigenousanimation #grief #loss #animation
Megan Kyak-Monteith's animation is like watching a Megan Kyak-Monteith's animation is like watching a moving painting. She captures the oil pastel images frame by frame as she creates them on a glass surface, sometimes with a painted backdrop underneath. Watch the film closely for when she "erases" and creates new lines: they're my favourite moments of movement and change in the film. With twelve festivals and counting, "Grape Soda in the Parking Lot" has been on big screens around the world and is now available on YouTube from @cbcarts Directed by @mk.monteith and Taqralik Partridge Written and performed by Taqralik Partridge Music by Inge Thomson Grape Soda in the Parking Lot is the fifth and final episode in the series of Indigenous animated short films, "How to Lose Everything" available on @cbcgem and YouTube #howtoloseeverything #indigenousanimation #inuitart
What if every language that had been lost to Engli What if every language that had been lost to English — every word, every syllable — grew up out of the ground in flowers? In “Grape Soda in the Parking Lot”, Taqralik Partridge’s grandmother’s Scottish Gaelic and her father’s Inuktitut unfold in memories of her family, of pain, and of love. Through Megan Kyak-Monteith’s incredible oil pastel animation, Inuit towns and Scottish landscapes move through memory and into a vision of the future. Watch the short film on @cbc arts YouTube channel now Directed by @mk.monteith and Taqralik Partirdge Animated by @mk.monteith Written and performed by Taqralik Partridge Music by @ingethomsonmusic “Grape Soda in the Parking Lot” is the fifth episode of the Indigenous animated series “How to Lose Everything” created by Christa Couture #howtoloseeverything #indigenousanimation #oilpastel #inuit #inuitart #inuktitut #languagerevitalization
1) From Beverly Hills to London, UK, to Yellowknif 1) From Beverly Hills to London, UK, to Yellowknife, "There Are Hierarchies of Grief" is still on the festival circuit -- but now also on YouTube! 2) The text message," I need you," is one of my favourite parts 3) "on days like these i find strength in your presence —like a lighthouse on fire in a storm i couldn’t find my way out of alone. 4) Roadtrips, camping, tending fires -- another one of my favourite scenes Episode four of "How to Lose Everything" is directed and animated by @meky.ottawa and written and performed by @smokiisumac . Music by @grgritt Now available on YouTube from @cbcarts
A love poem to bereaved moms, and to all who may f A love poem to bereaved moms, and to all who may feel hopeless, this piece is about finding the strength to keep going, and remembering that no matter how we feel, we are not alone in our grief. Watch “There Are Hierarchies of Grief” on YouTube now, from @cbcarts Written and performed by @smokiisumac Directed and animated by @meky.ottawa Music by @grgritt Produced by @christacouture and @mosaintj “There Are Hierarchies of Grief” is episode four in the series of short animated films, “How to Lose Everything” #howtoloseeverything #ktunaxa #indigenousanimation #animation #grief
1) Oh the places we've been! "Heart Like a Pow Wow 1) Oh the places we've been! "Heart Like a Pow Wow" has been selected for seven film festivals worldwide so far 2) The illustrations and rotoscoping = @chiefladybird working for many many hours 3) CLB adding stars in the sky (with a killer manicure) "Heart Like a Pow Wow" is out now on YouTube from @cbcarts Directed and illustrated by Chief Lady Bird Written and performed by @epingishmook_nenookaasi Animated by @bekkyoneil Part of the series of animated Indigenous short films, “How to Lose Everything” #howtoloseeverything #animation #indigenousanimation #anishnaabe
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