The Halluci Nation & Fucked Up
Week 22 2023

Camchin/Lytton
A wildfire burned the entire village of Camchin/Lytton to the ground. In the ashes of their homes, this cohesive but diverse community, which includes a majority of First Nations people, had to confront the realities of climate displacement by being relocated away from their ancestral lands.
Burned to the Ground: the Canadian village incinerated by record temperatures
The small village of Lytton in British Columbia hit the global media when it smashed Canada’s highest temperature record in June 2021, at 49.6C. Two days later, a wildfire burned the entire village to the ground
Jeremy Dutcher
A great vid from Jeremy Dutcher for an utterly fantastic track one of my favourites of this year so far!

Week 21 2023

Bones of Crows
From the beginning, Metis-Dene writer-director Marie Clements had planned to shoot parts of her new film, Bones of Crows, at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. She established a relationship with the community to provide support to cast and crew members who belonged to that region. A week before the shoot, however, it was announced that 215 suspected unmarked graves were discovered on the site. “Obviously we’re a big machine, and as a production we’re thinking we’ll have to move and we better start on that right away,” Clements says in an interview. To her surprise, the organizers asked the team to continue with their plans. “They wanted the truth to be seen and heard.” “The blunt reality of it – that we’re working on a subject and we’re in the presence of it – it’s not in the past. It gave us a heightened consciousness,” Clements says. “We had to focus – for those families, for those babies that were found, and connecting our own families with that experience.

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Blackbird
On February 2, 2023 the Blackbird family was hit with a tragic loss as their home and studio were lost in a fire. The Blackbird Brothers saved all they could and made it out just before their studio ceiling collapsed. Through the support of so many countless people, a start over point was achieved, and now its part of the Blackbird story.
“Through life many challenges may come, never stop, persevere and keep going, everything will be ok……. Blackbird”

Week 20 2023

Osiyo Voices of the Cherokee People
Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee Peopleis a groundbreaking series inviting you to discover the rich traditions and compelling modern advancements of the Cherokee people told through a documentary lens. The edutainment show features the people, places, history, language and culture of the Cherokee Nation, the largest federally recognized tribe in the US with more than 450,000 citizens. Cherokee culture comes alive through 30-minute episodes featuring topics like ceremonial turtle shell shakers, buffalo grass dolls and basket weaving.
Episodes | OsiyoTV
Watch the latest episodes of the regional Emmy award-winning docuseries featuring Cherokee people, places, history & culture.

