NFB Tour
Toronto: Final Stop on the NFB Tour
NFB head Tom Perlmutter is wrapping up a cross-country tour with one more stop in Toronto.
Tom is holding town hall style meetings with Canadians to find out what matters to them in their particular place and also to share info on new directions from the NFB. The...
The NFB Tour resumes in October
In late 2010, we launched the NFB Tour, a series of town-hall style meetings across the country during which Tom Perlmutter, head of the NFB, met with a variety of people to discuss the new directions we're heading in, take questions and talk about ways in which we...
NFB Tour – Winnipeg
To prevent us from having to change the name of this blog to “Carolyne’s Films and Foods”, I’m going to go ahead and not tell you about what I had for lunch in Winnipeg. Ha! I will say it involved minestrone, but that’s about it. (OK it was...
NFB Tour – Regina
We were driven from Saskatoon to Regina by a very nice man called Amin (“You know, like when you’re praying,” he said, gently covering his face with both palms. I guess it wasn’t technically a blizzard, but it felt like we were travelling inside some hardcore Prairie version...
NFB Tour: Saskatoon
There was something wrong with the plane we were supposed to take to Saskatoon, so our pre-dawn flight turned out being a somewhat civilized mid-morning flight, except we’d all gotten up at 4 AM anyway. Some mechanical part had to be flown in from Calgary, the airline people...
NFB Tour: Edmonton
I’m not usually a huge fan of talking/writing about the weather, but I believe it bears mentioning it was -29 degrees Edmonton yesterday. Good morning! I had come prepared, though, fishing up my parka and shearling-lined boots from the back of the closet, items I hadn’t seen or...
NFB Tour: Little Tour on the Prairies
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Last month the head of the NFB, Tom Perlmutter, travelled to Ontario to meet with Ontarians and talk about film, stories, Canadian identities and the role of the National Film Board in the digital age. The initiative was part of the NFB Tour, a global conversation the Film...
The NFB Tour continues in the Prairies on November 22
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The above film, Dancers of the Grass, a short film by Saskatoon filmmaker Melanie Jackson.
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Tom Perlmutter, head of the NFB, will be kicking off the West leg of the NFB Tour in Edmonton on November 22, followed by stops in Saskatoon on November 23, Regina on November 24...
NFB Tour: Timmins, Ontario
* This post was translated from French.
Landing in Timmins wasn’t a sure thing given the bad weather, but we finally arrived—hale, hearty and in good spirits. It turns out to be misty and warm for an October day in Timmins and I spend part of the afternoon wandering...
NFB Tour: Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario
On Thursday afternoon, we left Windsor and made our way to Kitchener, a couple hours away by car. The evening meeting was to be held at the Tannery District’s digital media centre, a place I’d read about and was eager to see.
The Tannery District was created by the...
NFB Tour: Windsor, Ontario
Against all odds, our pre-dawn flight left Timmins on time. The previous night, the taxi driver who drove me to my motel told me that the weather forecasts were so bad that a businessman had just hired his colleague to drive him to Toronto, 9 or 10 hours...
NFB Tour: On the road again
The other day, my boss called me into his office and said something that caused me to erupt into a little dance. “Weldon. The President is going on Tour, as you know, and I’ve decided to send you along to blog and take pictures.” He said it would...
