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at 8 p.m. (8:30 p.m. NT) and 4 a.m. (4:30 a.m. NT) | |  | Monday, June 30, 2025 | | | |  | Joyce Wieland hiding her mouth with her embroidered 'O Canada Animation.' (York University Libraries, Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections, Toronto Telegram fonds, ASC34381. Used with Permission) | | | * Please note this schedule is subject to change. | | | The theme of the week is... | Each week this summer, IDEAS is presenting five episodes around a special theme. This week's theme is Canadian art. | | | MONDAY, JUNE 30 | | | Joyce Wieland: O' Canada | In the 1960s and 70s, artist Joyce Wieland painted, sculpted, stitched and stretched the Canadian flag and our sense of national identity. Her artworks asked what it really means to be Canadian. She offered a vision of what the country could be, and of the need to preserve its distinctness from the United States. Her works were at once celebratory and a warning. A quarter century after Wieland’s death, Canadians are once again wrestling with questions of who and what we are as a nation. In this documentary by Alisa Siegel, art historians, curators and friends explore Joyce Wieland’s provocative ideas about Canadian nationhood then and now. *This episode originally aired on Sept. 13, 2022.
Today, June 30th, is the day artist Joyce Wieland was born in 1930. If you happen to be in Toronto this summer, the Art Gallery of Ontario is featuring a retrospective of her work. | | | TUESDAY, JULY 1 | | | The Idea of Canada: Nationalism Without Extremism | The IDEAS broadcast is pre-empted on Canada Day. But our podcast and the CBC Listen App will feature this episode below.
This was the year that the U.S. President hit a longstanding nerve in Canada: that it should swallow up Canada, and annex it as the 51st state. The widespread outrage indicates that some form of Canadian nationalism is very much alive — and that there's an idea of Canada that is deeply felt, if not exactly articulated. So we thought it would be appropriate to bring back an award-winning piece from 1992, called The Idea of Canada. Meech Lake and Oka had occurred. The 1995 referendum was looming. It was also the 60th anniversary of Glenn Gould's birth — and so the eight compositions that make up the piece were inspired by Gould's own documentary, The Idea of North. Composer Christos Hatzis joins host Nahlah Ayed in conversation about the origins, meaning and enduring relevance of The Idea of Canada. | | | WEDNESDAY, JULY 2 | | | Tom Thomson — 100 years from now | | Tom Thomson is one of the most mythologized Canadian painters of his time — and ours. Now, over 100 years after his mysterious death, IDEAS contributor Sean Foley asks one central question: does the mortal and material fascination with Tom Thomson leave us with something enduring — something to carry us through the next century, and beyond? *This episode originally aired on Nov. 9, 2018. | | | THURSDAY, JULY 3 | | | What Tom Thomson saw, and what he may have missed | | IDEAS contributor Sean Foley explores the landscapes of Algonquin Park which inspired Tom Thomson's work — while also examining Indigenous artists' perspectives of the same landscapes that Thomson and the Group of Seven may have missed. *This is the second episode of a two-part exploration into Tom Thomson. It originally aired on Dec. 14, 2018. | | | FRIDAY, JULY 4 | | | The 20th Anniversary of the Sobey Art Awards | A conversation with the finalists and winner of the 2022 Sobey Art Award. Their acclaimed art ranges from an exploration of what it means to be a Maroon; to reimagining the iconic and controversial Hudson Bay Blanket; to influences of the Egyptian sun god’s regeneneration from death to rebirth; to the compelling power of tombstones when representing exclusion and finally the meaning behind turning the iconic Taj Mahal into a bouncy castle. *This episode originally aired on Feb. 9, 2023. | | | | | | |  | | With performance art in the late 60's, Joan Jonas used masks in her pieces partly to hide her face. 'I didn't want to be Joan Jonas. I wasn't playing myself. I wanted to disguise myself and be another persona.' (Toby Coulson) | | | IDEAS IN THE AFTERNOON | MONDAY, JUNE 30 at 2 p.m. | | | | | Arts pioneer Joan Jonas is a central figure in the performance art movement of the late 1960s. She is 88 years old now. A major retrospective of her work is at New York's Museum of Modern Art, and will be on tour in Canada this summer. One of her exhibits is inspired in part by her love for Cape Breton — a 'magical landscape' where she lives in the summer. | | |  | Listen whenever you want.
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