Last month we had a wonderful time in Toronto, Ontario filming with Nadima Kinjo, a newcomer from Syria, and Cara Benjamin-Pace, the Executive Director of Newcomer Kitchen at The Depanneur.

Nadima taught me a Syrian recipe for season three of my travel series Seeing Canada. You'll be able to watch the new episodes in 2022 on public TV stations in the USA including on PBS and Create TV and also on Amazon Prime Video around the world.

Newcomer Kitchen started in 2016 as a nonprofit organization that invited Syrian refugee women to cook a weekly meal in a kitchen. The meals were sold online and the proceeds shared among the cooks. It developed into a catering and cooking workshop social enterprise. Newcomer Kitchen now trains newcomer women from all over the world to start their own food businesses. Using real time food events it creates an experiential learning environment and revenue goes to the trainees.
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Recently filmmaker, Brandy Yanchyk, filmed in Southwestern Ontario for season three of her travel series Seeing Canada. You'll be able to watch the new episodes in 2022 on PBS stations, Create TV and on Amazon Prime Video.

In this new episode about Southwestern Ontario Brandy Yanchyk will be learning about Canada’s connection to the Underground Railway.

The Underground Railroad was not an actual railroad, but instead, a secret network of people who helped around 40,000 African Americans escape slavery from the United States.

The province of Ontario was the main terminus for the Underground Railway.

Brandy will be visiting museums and monuments and meeting descendants of the Freedom Seekers who used the Underground Railway to escape being enslaved in the United States.

Here are some photos of the filming at Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site in Dresden, Ontario.

At the site you will learn all about Josiah Henson who inspired the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

"After escaping to Upper Canada (now Ontario) from slavery in Maryland and Kentucky, Josiah Henson established himself as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, travelling the clandestine network of paths and safehouses in reverse. In his role as conductor, he rescued 118 enslaved people." - Ontario Heritage Trust https://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/.../prop.../uncle-toms-cabin

Thank you to the Curator, Steven Cook, and to Senior Archaeologist, Dena Doroszenko, for the wonderful interviews and your knowledge.

Thank you Linda Hoang for doing this blog about filmmaker Brandy Yanchyk!

Linda is a Canadian blogger based in Edmonton, Alberta.

https://linda-hoang.com/lindorks-lists-qa-6-with-brandy-yanchyk-filmmaker-journalist/?fbclid=IwAR2Ujuo8gex-M2kshMpzOb62rKiexCU1s18MgUjAyXWVSrlCp3GlwtLpo-U

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Filmmaker, Brandy Yanchyk, had the opportunity to film Edna Agnes Ekhivalak Elias.

She is a Canadian politician from Kugluktuk, Nunavut.

Brandy is so thrilled to be out in the field again.

Thank you Edna for sharing your story about your language with Brandy today.

Edna speaks Inuinnaqtun. It is an Indigenous Inuit language and is spoken in the central Canadian Arctic.

Journalist and Documentary Filmmaker Brandy Yanchyk has been reporting for BBC World TV about the heat wave and forest fires in Western Canada.

Click here to watch her stories:

Live report on July 3rd, 2021 - https://vimeo.com/570764169

Brandy shot and edited this package on July 1st, 2021 - https://vimeo.com/570168236

Live report on June 30th, 2021 - https://vimeo.com/569501009

Yahoo! Brandy Yanchyk's travel series Seeing the USA starts airing today (Monday, May 17th 2021) on Create TV across the USA on public TV stations including PBS.

On Mondays the seven part series will air for seven weeks at 10:30am, 5:30pm and 10:30pm.

Create® TV reaches more than 40 million adult viewers annually nationwide in the USA (Nielsen, 2018). The channel is produced and distributed by APT, WNET New York and WGBH Boston in association with NETA and PBS.

Here is the website: https://createtv.com

Check out the promo for the Utah episode here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N0rp8w7FA8

Brandy Yanchyk's travel series Seeing the USA will start airing Monday, May 17th 2021 on Create TV across the USA on public TV stations including PBS.

On Mondays the seven part series will air for seven weeks at 10:30am, 5:30pm and 10:30pm.

Create® TV reaches more than 40 million adult viewers annually nationwide in the USA (Nielsen, 2018). The channel is produced and distributed by APT, WNET New York and WGBH Boston in association with NETA and PBS.

Here is the website: https://createtv.com

Check out the promo for the Utah episode here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N0rp8w7FA8