Level 10 Practical & Applied Arts

No project is too big or too small for Helen Kerr. She designs everything from physical objects to abstract concepts.

Pressman Nicholas Kennedy works with ghosts of printing's past, using salvaged equipment that the modern industry now considers obsolete.

Architect Trevor McIvor creates homes designed to take advantage of the innate energy efficiencies found in nature.

Designer Patty Johnson travels to the country of Haiti, where she works with local artisans and craftspeople.

Canadian designer Sarah Hall works at a studio in Germany to create revolutionary solar energy-collecting windows.

Street artists redesign the cityscape with clever urban interventions that use natural elements as their materials.

Dempsey Bob is a Tahltan-Tlingit artist in the Skeena River area of British Columbia. He shares about his youth and his history as an artist. This episode joins him as he works on a piece in the airport while he tells us about the folklore that inspired the work.

This episode follows Jane Isakson as she ventures to the White Pass to do some sketching. Viewing some of her works she shares some of her history. She also explains her process of painting landscapes. From colours to textures, and even the techniques, every step of her creation process is revealed.

Ce programme a été conçu pour expliquer le concept de la reconnaissance, de l'évaluation et de la prévention des risques. Il aborde les principes sous-jacents, examine la signification de chacune des composantes du concept et explique minutieusement le rôle de ce concept dans le domaine de la séc...

Les procédés de soudage sont extrêmement techniques et peuvent créer des conditions de travail dangereuses. Le soudage oxyacétylénique et le soudage à l'arc électrique présentent des risques de sécurité et de santé aux soudeurs et aux travailleurs situés à leur proximité. L'exposition à ces risqu...

By 1830, the struggle for democratic government in the colonies of British North America has reached a fever pitch. As the colonies grow in wealth and population, a generation of charismatic reformers - Joseph Howe in Nova Scotia, Louis-Joseph Papineau in Lower Canada and William Lyon Mackenzie i...

The Canadian West is opened by the great fur-trading empires (Hudson's Bay and Northwest Companies), the Indigenous people who were their indispensable allies, and bold explorers and mapmakers: Pierre Esprit Radisson takes New France's trade far into the continent's interior creating an English t...

At the beginning of the American Revolution (1775), American rebels invade Canada but les Canadiens refuse to take up arms against British rule, and the invasion ultimately fails. The mass migration of 40,000 Loyalists that follows creates an English-speaking Canada virtually overnight. When the ...

This episode looks back more than 15,000 years at the history of the first occupants of the territory that would become Canada. From the rich resources of native oral history and archaeology come the stories of the first people - how dozens of distinct societies took shape, and how they encounter...

Confederation is barely accomplished when the new dominion must face an enormous challenge: extending its reach into the vast prairies and beyond, to the Pacific Ocean. Canada blunders catastrophically in seeking to take over the west without the consent of its inhabitants, especially the Métis o...