May 18, 2024

Exploring Accessible Travel with Christa Couture

27 minutes

Joeita previews Season 5 of AMI-tv's "Postcards from..." with the show’s new host, Author & Artist Christa Couture. Christa discusses her travels to various parts of Canada, the challenges of travelling with a prosthetic, and the joy of exploring new places with all 5 senses.

Highlights:

Opening Remarks (00:00)
Introducing Christa Couture – Writer, Musician, Broadcaster (01:19)
About AMI-tv’s “Postcards From…” (03:23)
Season 5 Travel Locations (04:37)
Drumheller, the Dinosaur Capital of North America (05:30)
Navigating Rugged Terrain with a Prosthetic (08:40)
Bringing Attention to Accessibility Barriers (12:26)
Prairie Oysters & Testy Festy (13:42)
Dawson City & Whistler (16:36)
Learning to Travel More Accessibly (18:09)
Accessibility in Transportation (19:58)
Unpacking the Suitcase Strategy (21:34)
Travelling with Small Children (22:54)
The Ultimate Souvenir (24:01)
Show Close (25:55)

Guest Bio:

Christa Couture is an award-winning performing and recording artist, non-fiction writer and broadcaster. She is also proudly Indigenous, queer, disabled and a mom. Her sixth recording, Safe Harbour, was released March 2020. Her writing has been published in Room, Shameless and Augur magazines and cbc.ca. As a speaker and storyteller, she has addressed audiences for The Walrus Talks, CBC's DNTO, Moses Znaimer's ideaCity and Imaginate in Port Hope, ON. She is a frequent contributor to CBC Radio's Now or Never and The Next Chapter, and hosts Season 5 of AMI-tv’s accessible travel series “Postcards From…”

Watch "Postcards From..." on AMIPlus.ca

Find Music from Christa Couture on Bandcamp

“A remarkable chanteuse, singing superb material,” deems Roots Music of Christa Couture, an award-winning indie artist who has built a reputation for transforming tragedy into musical triumph, with sharp-shooting wit, effortless grace, and heart-on-sleeve intensity.

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Christa Couture's Book - How to Lose Everything: A Memoir

Christa Couture has come to know every corner of grief—its shifting blurry edges, its traps, its pulse of love at the centre and the bittersweet truth that sorrow is a powerful and wise emotion.

From the amputation of her leg as a cure for bone cancer at a young age to her first child’s single day of life, the heart transplant and subsequent death of her second child, the divorce born of grief and then the thyroidectomy that threatened her career as a professional musician, How to Lose Everything delves into the heart of loss. Couture bears witness to the shift in perspective that comes with loss, and how it can deepen compassion for others, expand understanding, inspire a letting go of little things and plant a deeper feeling for what matters. At the same time, Couture's writing evokes the joy and lightness that both precede and eventually follow grief, as well as the hope and resilience that grow from connections with others.

"How to Lose Everything" series on CBC Gem

How to Lose Everything is an Indigenous series of animated short films that explore personal stories of loss. The five films’ stories span nations, languages, and perspectives on heartache.