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Take Me Home

Take Me Home

Released on: 2012
. Duration:2m
Closed Caption Available.
Content Rating:E

What does home mean? For each person, it's different and so personal. In Take Me Home, prominent British Columbians reflect on what home means to them.

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Episode Title:Alex Cuba

. Duration 2 minutes

Spending months on the road can strain your sense of home, so this musician followed his heart to a new home in Smithers, BC.

Episode Title:Cornelia Hahn Oberlander

. Duration 3 minutes

Landscapes that produce a unity between inside and outside spaces are the specialty of this architect who is inspired by the human longing for nature.

Episode Title:Michael Audain

. Duration 3 minutes

The repatriation of Indigenous People's art to their rightful home on the coast is informed by the connection between art and the history of the human species.

Episode Title:Nancy Green Raine

. Duration 2 minutes

In a busy life that takes her across Canada for her job as a senator, the feeling of heading home is one of nourishment and rejuvenation.

Episode Title:Sonny Assu

. Duration 3 minutes

Indigenous artist Sonny Assu finds that sometimes the most meaningful way to experience a sense of home is by reconnecting with what was left behind.

Episode Title:Wade Davis

. Duration 3 minutes

Considering the evolution of the notion of home, society is now able to move around with such speed and frequency that perhaps the earth itself is our home.

Episode Title:April White

. Duration 3 minutes

The Killer Whale Woman is both scientist and artist. She has lived in many places, but Haida Gwaii is her spiritual home.

Episode Title:Dr. Jaymie Matthews

. Duration 3 minutes

"I'm a traveler, because I'm an astrophysicist". With a career that provides him with a universal perspective, his home on earth is placed in a context that others could only imagine.

Episode Title:Mel Davis

. Duration 3 minutes

A long-distance relationship that spanned twenty-five years resulted in love and a new perspective of home for this former Harlem-Globetrotter.

Episode Title:Susan Musgrave

. Duration 3 minutes

A 400-year-old Douglas Fir and a Canadian writer both share the same home - a living, breathing house containing many dreams.

Episode Title:Home Is Where the Art Is

Episode 1
. Duration 23 minutes

What does home mean to you? For each person, it's different and so personal - in the backyard, on stage, in Tofino, in the kitchen, or wherever your family is.

Episode Title:Home Base

Episode 2
. Duration 21 minutes

A diverse range of BC artists, athletes and celebrities share what "home" means to them.

Episode Title:Welcome Home

Episode 3
. Duration 22 minutes

A diverse range of BC artists, athletes and celebrities share what "home" means to them.

Episode Title:Home Again

Episode 4
. Duration 22 minutes

A diverse range of BC artists, athletes and celebrities, including Spirit of the West's John Mann and his wife, playwright Jill Daum, share what "home" means to them.