On this episode of Face to Face: Santee Smith

Kaha:Wi Dance Theatre, launched in 2005, now has more than a dozen productions and numerous short works attached to its name that have toured worldwide.

Smith has also become an internationally recognized leader in the performing arts, the 19th Chancellor of McMaster University and a member of the Order of Canada.

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On this episode of Face to Face: Shane Belcourt

Filmmaker Shane Belcourt's most recent documentary is Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising, a documentary about an Indigenous-led occupation in Anicinabe Park over nearly 40 days in 1974.

He tells Face to Face it was an electric time in history.

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On this episode of Face to Face: Francis Baptiste

If you visit Francis Baptiste's website, the first thing you'll notice is the harsh way he describes himself as "a washed-up, divorced, recovering alcoholic and drug addict" who "tries to balance being a single father and a middle-aged musician, living under the poverty line in East Vancouver."

Baptiste says the description is a little "tongue-in-cheek" but also the reality of the life he has lived for the last decade.

Baptiste's latest album, Lived Experience in East Vancouver, was released on Oct. 24. It's his third full length and one he is particularly proud of.

One of his goals with the new music is to break down the stigma around addiction.

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