Artifactuality

With Kim Thúy

Welcome to Artifactuality, a new podcast series that imagines a museum of the future . . .

made up entirely of the stories we tell each other. Not the history that is captured in textbooks, but in the voices of the people who lived it.

Guided by prolific writer and podcast host Kim Thúy, listeners will hear remarkable stories told by Canadian and Indigenous personalities including a pop star, athletes, Elders, an expert on issues facing refugees and migrants, and a world-famous industrial designer.

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Season 1

The Meaning of Mitsou

In this episode, we talk to Mitsou about her early costumes and the highs and lows of her music career. As it turns out, being a pop star may have been Mitsou’s origin story, but there was much more to come.

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Breaking Ice

The National Hockey League was dominated by white men until 1958, when the first Black player made history by joining the Boston Bruins. Listen to two special guests talk about hockey and the racial barriers of yesterday and today, including why more needs to be done to tear down barriers so that anyone who wants to play, can play.

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We Have Always Been Here

For the Blackfoot of southwestern Alberta, there is no doubt: their stories, songs and ceremonies have always been here. A discussion between archaeologist Gabriel Yanicki and Blackfoot Elders.

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Hearts of Freedom

Between 1975 and 1985, refugees from Southeast Asia came to Canada in what was the largest refugee resettlement in Canada since the Second World War. Take a closer look at two individual’s stories: Stephanie Stobbe, the lead curator of the Hearts of Freedom exhibition, and Kim Thúy, the show’s host.

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The Prince of Plastic

Why can’t the objects we use every day be beautiful, unique and useful? This is the question that drives Karim Rashid, an industrial designer known for his affordable designs.

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