 | Sunday, June 19, 2022 | |  | Sunday, June 19, 2022 | | Hi, art lovers! | | | This Tuesday is National Indigenous Peoples Day, and CBC is marking the occasion on all platforms. From CBC TV to CBC Gem, stories reflecting First Nations, Métis and Inuit perspectives will be airing all day long as part of a special slate of programming that includes everything from feature documentaries to pop music. This guide will give you a complete overview of everything that’s on deck, but why wait until Tuesday? Here are a couple of featured programs you can stream right now: SGaawaay K’uuna (Edge of the Knife), a period drama set on Haida Gwaii, which happens to be the world’s first Haida-language feature film; and Buffy, a five-part podcast about the legendary Buffy Sainte-Marie. Also: if you’re curious about the new CBC logo that’s been appearing all over social media for National Indigenous History Month, here’s a little behind-the-scenes featurette about the design.
As for browser tabs I’ve kept open all week: ready to meet the Couch Monster? (Brian Jungen — previously seen here — will unveil a new work outside the Art Gallery of Ontario this week, the museum’s first-ever public art commission.) Remember this story about a long-lost de Kooning and the pensioners who (very likely) swiped it? An exhibition about its recovery recently opened at the Getty Center in California. The Billboard chart is dunzo (because Kate Bush). The video star’s dead too (because TikTok). And yet one of these 13 tracks will be Canada’s song of the summer. Even more music for your weekend: the Polaris Music Prize revealed its 2022 longlist. For sale: the Rose Apothecary. And on the subject of homegrown TV, all of these new shows have Canadian connections. | | |  | @doras_creator/Instagram | | Elsewhere in the city, Doras just wrapped this ground mural (Niamh) outside the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. | | | | |  | @fredbread/Instagram | | A reminder from Freddy Carrasco (who made this poster): it’s TCAF weekend in Toronto! The in-person event wraps today, but its online marketplace will be running through June 26. | | | | |  | CBC Arts | | Spotted at OCAD U: a new mural by Jordan Bennett! The piece is called pi'tawita'iek: we go up river, and Jordan also has a solo exhibition (Souvenir) happening right now at the school’s Onsite Gallery. | | | | |  | Elijah Nichols | | | | | Dixon Road is the story of a Somali family who arrives in Toronto in the early ‘90s. After earning raves, it closes its run at the High Park Amphitheatre today. Amanda Parris spoke with its creator, Fatuma Adar. | | | | |  | Dahlia Katz | | | | | The makers of Trojan Girls & the Outhouse of Atreus, a new play that’s coming to Toronto, have learned a few things from the era of digital pivots. But as Carly Maga writes, the show embraces the live aspect of theatre “in a way not seen in the city since pre-pandemic days.” | | | | |  | Clandestinos | | | | | | | For the better part of a decade, Shalak Attack and Bruno Smoky (a.k.a. Clandestinos) have made Toronto their psychedelic canvas. What mark do they want to leave on the city? We checked in with the artists, who recently opened a gallery exhibition — their first solo show in Toronto. | | |  | @coco.monnet/Instagram | | You’re looking at Comfort Boost, a 2022 work by Caroline Monnet, but we reached out to the acclaimed artist and filmmaker to chat about a piece that’s even more recent. In fact, it’s still in progress. Caroline’s in Montreal to make her first mural. Read all about it. | | | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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