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The Faith Project (Ages 15-17)

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This project focuses on how young Canadians weave faith into their daily lives, not as an obligation but as something that is essential to their identity and their place in the world. Also included in this playlist are classroom discussions exploring the themes presented in the films. Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici. Films in This Playlist Include Focus and Distraction Making Space Breaking Bread Urban Kora Kindest Spirit The Four Pillars Circling A Classroom Discussion on Working Together A Classroom Discussion on Spirituality A Classroom Discussion on Practicing Faith in Canada A Classroom Discussion on Practicing Faith …

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The Faith Project (Ages 15-17)

This project focuses on how young Canadians weave faith into their daily lives, not as an obligation but as something that is essential to their identity and their place in the world. Also included in this playlist are classroom discussions exploring the themes presented in the films.

Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici.

Films in This Playlist Include
Focus and Distraction
Making Space
Breaking Bread
Urban Kora
Kindest Spirit
The Four Pillars
Circling
A Classroom Discussion on Working Together
A Classroom Discussion on Spirituality
A Classroom Discussion on Practicing Faith in Canada
A Classroom Discussion on Practicing Faith in a Secular World
A Classroom Discussion on Knowledge
A Classroom Discussion on Beliefs

Playlist

  • The Faith Project - Focus and Distraction
    The Faith Project - Focus and Distraction
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    2015 4 min

    Kashif Pasta is a recent university graduate and a filmmaker from Surrey, British Columbia, a suburb of Vancouver. As a young Muslim studying in downtown Vancouver, Kashif struggles to find time and space to perform his daily prayers. He manages to find a quiet spot in a secluded stairwell on campus, even though his focus is interrupted by the occasional passerby.

  • The Faith Project - Making Space
    The Faith Project - Making Space
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    2015 4 min

    Preetinder Narang is a behaviour specialist for children with autism, and a Sikh living in the metropolitan area of Vancouver, British Columbia. Preetinder and her husband, Manpreet, perform daily prayers together every evening in the family home her mother designed, a home that was built around their family prayer room.

  • The Faith Project - Breaking Bread
    The Faith Project - Breaking Bread
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    2015 5 min

    Allison Chubb is a chaplain at the University of Manitoba and an ordained priest in the Anglican Church. She “loiters with intent” on campus, counselling students of all backgrounds. She also connects physically with God through the Christian service of Eucharist in the university chapel that is under her stewardship.

  • The Faith Project - Urban Kora
    The Faith Project - Urban Kora
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    2015 6 min

    Sonam Tsering is a freelance DJ and community organizer in Toronto, Ontario. Despite his frantic schedule—working in the family store and volunteering in the Tibetan community—he quietly recites Buddhist mantras in the bus with his prayer beads, and makes time to visit the neighbourhood monastery.

  • The Faith Project - Kindest Spirit
    The Faith Project - Kindest Spirit
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    2015 5 min

    Ivana Yellowback is a student and youth mentor in Winnipeg, Manitoba. As a Cree woman living in the city and away from her land, she struggles to maintain her spiritual identity. Knowing that other Aboriginal youth struggle as she does, she helps them find balance by re-engaging with traditional practices that have been suppressed for centuries.

  • The Faith Project - The Four Pillars
    The Faith Project - The Four Pillars
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    2015 7 min

    Jetan Mistry is a mechanical engineer who has grown up in the Swaminarayan Hindu community in the Greater Toronto area in Ontario. The opulent temple near his home is the focal point in his life. In its halls of carved marble, he softens and lays down before sacred images of deities and gurus.

  • The Faith Project - Circling
    The Faith Project - Circling
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    2015 7 min

    Aviva Chernick is a recording, performing and touring musician, a prayer leader and a teacher of voice and prayer at congregations in and around Toronto, Ontario, and as a guest across North America. She anchors her leadership of Jewish worship through private prayers in her home, combining traditional Jewish practice with mindfulness and chanting.

  • The Faith Project: A Classroom Discussion on Working Together
    The Faith Project: A Classroom Discussion on Working Together
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    Christopher Romeike 2015 6 min

    The Faith Project is an interactive documentary and app that features evocative short films about being spiritual in the modern world. This accompanying six-part video discussion series was developed to assist educators in exploring the diverse perspectives that exist across religious, spiritual and cultural lines among an array of young people practising various faith traditions in Canada. We encourage educators to begin an ongoing discussion on the many different faiths that are practised throughout the country and to use this project as a springboard to a thoughtful conversation about what it means to be spiritual.

  • The Faith Project: A Classroom Discussion on Spirituality
    The Faith Project: A Classroom Discussion on Spirituality
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    Christopher Romeike 2015 5 min

    The Faith Project is an interactive documentary and app that features evocative short films about being spiritual in the modern world. This accompanying six-part video discussion series was developed to assist educators in exploring the diverse perspectives that exist across religious, spiritual and cultural lines among an array of young people practising various faith traditions in Canada. We encourage educators to begin an ongoing discussion on the many different faiths that are practised throughout the country and to use this project as a springboard to a thoughtful conversation about what it means to be spiritual.

  • The Faith Project: A Classroom Discussion on Practicing Faith in Canada
    The Faith Project: A Classroom Discussion on Practicing Faith in Canada
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    Christopher Romeike 2015 9 min

    The Faith Project is an interactive documentary and app that features evocative short films about being spiritual in the modern world. This accompanying six-part video discussion series was developed to assist educators in exploring the diverse perspectives that exist across religious, spiritual and cultural lines among an array of young people practising various faith traditions in Canada. We encourage educators to begin an ongoing discussion on the many different faiths that are practised throughout the country and to use this project as a springboard to a thoughtful conversation about what it means to be spiritual.

  • The Faith Project: A Classroom Discussion on Practicing Faith in a Secular World
    The Faith Project: A Classroom Discussion on Practicing Faith in a Secular World
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    Christopher Romeike 2015 5 min

    The Faith Project is an interactive documentary and app that features evocative short films about being spiritual in the modern world. This accompanying six-part video discussion series was developed to assist educators in exploring the diverse perspectives that exist across religious, spiritual and cultural lines among an array of young people practising various faith traditions in Canada. We encourage educators to begin an ongoing discussion on the many different faiths that are practised throughout the country and to use this project as a springboard to a thoughtful conversation about what it means to be spiritual.

  • The Faith Project: A Classroom Discussion on Knowledge
    The Faith Project: A Classroom Discussion on Knowledge
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    Christopher Romeike 2015 4 min

    The Faith Project is an interactive documentary and app that features evocative short films about being spiritual in the modern world. This accompanying six-part video discussion series was developed to assist educators in exploring the diverse perspectives that exist across religious, spiritual and cultural lines among an array of young people practising various faith traditions in Canada. We encourage educators to begin an ongoing discussion on the many different faiths that are practised throughout the country and to use this project as a springboard to a thoughtful conversation about what it means to be spiritual.

  • The Faith Project: A Classroom Discussion on Beliefs
    The Faith Project: A Classroom Discussion on Beliefs
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    Christopher Romeike 2015 5 min

    The Faith Project is an interactive documentary and app that features evocative short films about being spiritual in the modern world. This accompanying six-part video discussion series was developed to assist educators in exploring the diverse perspectives that exist across religious, spiritual and cultural lines among an array of young people practising various faith traditions in Canada. We encourage educators to begin an ongoing discussion on the many different faiths that are practised throughout the country and to use this project as a springboard to a thoughtful conversation about what it means to be spiritual.