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Life Off Grid

2016

Off-grid is not a state of mind. It is not about being out of touch, living in a remote place, or turning off your mobile phone. Off-grid simply means living without a connection to the electric and natural gas infrastructure. From 2011 to 2013 Jonathan Taggart (Director) and Phillip Vannini (Producer) spent two years travelling across Canada to find 200 off-gridders and visit them in their homes. They met off-gridders in every single province and territory and through their film they narrated our travels and chronicled in depth the experiences, challenges, inventions, aspirations, and ways of life of people who have chosen to radically re-invent daily life in a dramatically innovative but also quite traditional way.

86 min

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New Ways of Looking at Landscapes

Ansel Adams's Legacy and the Diverse Artists Building on an Icon

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He Uses Art to Make State Parks in California More Accessible for All

Joe Colmenares and many others, Bayview-Hunters Point is not simply a representation of urban blight. It’s a living, breathing community where people live and work, love and lose, join together and get by.

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The Gap by Ira Glass

A video on the importance of 'taste' in creativity and storytelling.

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Focus

SARK’s whimsical, hand-printed, hand-painted books . . . are guides for adults (kids, too) who long to play and be creative, but have forgotten how.

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SARK’s Journal and Play!Book: A Place to Dream While Awake

SARK invites the journal writer to compose his/her own creative companion through gentle instructions and playful directions toward artistic freedom. Your “inside child” will peek out to want, wish, find pleasure, and amaze you.

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SARK’s New Creative Companion: Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit

We all need reminders that it’s little things that make us feel really alive—those small actions and subtle gestures that can potentially lead to great moments of magic and joy.

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Inspiration Sandwich: Stories to Inspire Our Creative Freedom

Sark’s first book, A CREATIVE COMPANION, has charmed all who come across it, so we were delighted when she came back to us with this collection of 43 ways to awaken your creative self—including “invite someone dangerous to tea,” “take lots of naps,” and “make friends with freedom and...

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Pure Grit: Stories of Remarkable People Living with Physical Disability

Nineteen people from across the globe, ranging in age from twenty to seventy-plus, tell their stories of living and thriving in diverse fields — in sport, the arts, medicine, business and more.

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Access Denied: Will Art Ever Learn to Embrace Disability?

This is not about meeting criteria and ticking boxes, it’s about finally creating the generous, plural and radical art world that many of us want and need.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageOne of the deepest purposes of all art is to marry what is with what can be.

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EXPLORE TOPIC

Connection with Nature