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Cherie Dimaline reads from her award winning book The Marrow Thieves as Cree songwriter Christa Couture expresses why she made such a deep connection to this powerful work.
Christa Couture is an award-winning performing and recording artist, non-fiction writer and broadcaster. She is also proudly Indigenous (mixed Cree and Scandinavian), queer, and a mom. Her seventh album Safe Harbour was released in 2020. Christa is a frequent contributor to CBC Radio and is currently the weekday after host on 106.5 elmnt fm in Toronto. In this episode, Christa sets out to create a new song that speaks to the harrowing journey the characters face in Cherie Dimaline’s award winning book The Marrow Thieves. Inspired by the theme of Indigenous resilience in the book and seeing that play out in the resilient Indigenous people around her she says, “You don’t know if you have resilience unless you need to call on it, unless you are suffering. And then you discover the parts of you that come out to help you survive.”
Métis writer and activist Cherie Dimaline features prominently in the episode reading excerpts from the book and explaining that it’s important to give Indigenous youth a vision of the future and a hopeful tomorrow. Part of the reason she wrote the book was to empower youth, she explains, “I wanted to build a world where they were absolutely everything. Where they were the heroes - where they were exactly what we needed to survive because I honestly believe that. They're heroes, we need them, we desperately need them.”
Part of being resilient is coming together as a community and creating things together so that all are unified and stronger for it.
Cherie Dimaline reads from her award winning book The Marrow Thieves as Cree songwriter Christa Couture expresses why she made such a deep connection to this powerful work.
Watch the music video for Christa Couture’s song Rebuild. This music video was edited by Francis Laliberte.
Songwriter Christa Couture is accompanied by her producer Jim Bryson, as they walk through the songwriting and studio recording process for Rebuild.
Rebuild was recorded at Woodshed Studio.
The Woodshed Studio is a discreet recording studio offering a casual yet professional environment for musical enlightenment located in downtown Toronto.
Address: Greektown, Toronto East End
Website: www.thewoodshedstudio.com
Filming locations: Another Story Book Shop, City of Toronto