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Arts & Entertainment Programs
Whether from right here at home or from around the world, we strive to present the best arts and entertainment programming available.
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| art inCLINEd art inCLINEd is a quirky combination of artistic exploration, discussion and play. Host and mixed media artist Heather Cline takes viewers on a visual and material discovery of art - profiling artists in their studio at work, then in her own studio environment for a unique creative encounter. Themes revolve around practice, place and the history of various forms of Art - from authors and guitar maker, to blacksmiths, painters and singer-songwriters. Each episode creates an understanding of the artists' practice and process in turn creating an understanding that links these practices to our daily experiences and surroundings. These personal stories provide insight into how art and art production is tied to and inspired by everyday life. | ||
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| Hollywood (Saskatchewan) Saskatchewan has slowly been gaining a reputation as a great place to make movies. As a result a number of Hollywood filmmakers have been bringing their projects here, contributing to the growth of a vibrant and dynamic industry. Today's success is built upon a legacy of filmmaking that began with the birth of Saskatchewan as a province. Hollywood Saskatchewan is a thirteen part documentary series that takes an in-depth, behind the scenes look at several diverse and influential film and television productions produced in the province. You'll also meet some of the many talented people who helped shape and build Saskatchewan's exciting and expanding entertainment industry. | ||
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| Landscape as Muse Through the artist`s eye, this beautiful cinematic series examines the inspirational relationship that exists between art and landscape. Filmed in 7 provinces, 2 territories and 2 countries, featuring major Canadian artists like Joe Fafard, Aganetha Dyck, Peter von Tiesenhausen and Edward Burtynsky, Landscape has Muse has claimed two significant Canadian film and television industry awards in the past year. | ||
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| Private Life of a Masterpiece; The Behind beautiful canvases and sculptures lie tales of political revolution, wartime escapes, massive ego clashes, financial wrangling and physical attacks. This series reveals the truth behind seminal works of art, illuminating little-known facts and uncovering surprising revelations. | ||
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Individual Documentaries
| Cult of Walt: Canada's Polka King; The Walter Ostanek is Canada's most accomplished musician. Don't believe it? Consider that he holds the Canadian record for Grammy nominations, 16 in total, netting him three wins. He's put out enough albums to rival the Stones - 62 records and 20 singles in his 50 year career. He's hosted radio and TV shows and toured endlessly to fans around the globe. His star is on the walk of fame and he's received The Order of Canada. All this and you may not have heard of him. Maybe that's because Walter plays polka - the oft-maligned music of weddings, family reunions and Oktoberfests. Being the Polka King takes guts, dedication and a serious love for a music that is unappreciated by many people. The Cult of Walt is a one-hour documentary that looks at the illustrious 50-year career of Walter Ostanek and the devoted fan base that's sustained it. | ||
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| Ravel's Brain Ravel's Brain is a musical, visual tone poem at once tragic and celebrative in its mood. The film portrays the inner being of a great artist who was rendered incapable of communicating with the outside world. | ||
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| Sounds Like Motown Sounds Like Motown is a documentary about a high school R&B band from Canada that develops a musical bond with Motown legend Martha Reeves. The students meet Reeves on a school band trip to Detroit. Impressed by their talent and dedication to Motown music, she decides to mentor them. When Reeves is invited to headline the 2006 Victoria Jazz Festival, she insists that the Victoria High R&B Band perform with her. Structured around the final two weeks of school, the documentary follows the students and their music teacher, Eric Emde, as they experience the stress of finals, graduation, rehearsals and the fast-approaching concert. | ||
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| To Dublin With Love In the cruel month of March twelve performers and forty of their fans, they call Hare Heads, pack their bags and head to Ireland to celebrate the 20th Anniversay of The March Hare. During a two week tour the crowd travels by bus from Dublin to Waterford, Dun Laoghaire to Cork and places in between. There's no shortage of talent on the tour bus as it makes its way across Ireland. Michael Crummey, Joel Hynes, Ron Hynes, Lisa Moore, Pamela Morgan, Kyran Pittman and Des Walsh delight the crowds gathered in pubs and castles to hear some of the best music, poetry and writing Newfoundland has to offer To Dublin With Love | ||
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| Travelling Light Travelling Light: Artists on the Move follows 5 nomadic artists on their quest to live life as an art form. Filmed in 11 countries, this roaddocumentary explores the relationship between creativity and travel. Crossing borders of all types, our roaming protagonists take on the world, providing tonic insight into contemporary life. | ||
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