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Indigenous comedy duo forms in B.C. out of community need for laughter – BC

Just a couple of “dirty old grannies,” is how Lilet and Soogah – or Bev Prince and Winnie Sam – describe their comedy duo. The grannies are from Nak’azdli Whut’en First Nation near Fort St. James, B.C. They grew up together, live two houses apart and say comedy sort of …

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Tomson Highway to explore life through laughter in 2022 Massey Lectures

Cree artist Tomson Highway will deliver this year’s CBC Massey Lectures to audiences across Canada in the series’s first live event since 2019. In his 2022 CBC Massey lectures, titled Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death and Accordions, Highway brings his signature irreverence to an exploration of five themes …

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