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Lucius Dechausay

Lucius Dechausay is a video producer at CBC Arts, as well as a freelance illustrator and filmmaker. His short films and animations have been screened at a number of festivals including The Toronto International Film Festival and Hot Docs. Most recently he directed KETTLE, which is currently streaming at CBC Short Docs.

    Latest from Lucius Dechausay

    This 'diaspora kid' is bringing one of Haiti's most famous plays to a Canadian stage

    Abigail Whitney's revival of The Noose, a play originally written in Haitian Creole about life in exile, couldn't come at a more important moment
    Premiere

    I Pity the Country: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson builds on a legacy of Indigenous resistance in new music video

    Watch our premiere of Simpson's striking Willie Dunn cover, a collaboration with directors Lisa Jackson and Conor McNally, ahead of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
    Poetic License

    Poet Mahlikah Awe:ri has a suggestion for reconciliation: don't speak

    "Do you speak, broken treaties, broken promises, do you speak?"
    Poetic License

    Warrior Cry: Peterborough's first poet laureate Sarah Lewis performs an ode to Indigenous warriors

    For the Ojibwe/Cree poet, her appointment as the first poet laureate of Nogojiwanong-Peterborough is a form of resistance.
    Poetic License

    Kahsenniyo performs a poem reckoning with the wounds of colonialism and breaking cycles of trauma

    As part of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the Mohawk artist offers her poem Decolonizing Love for a new edition of Poetic License.
    Poetic License

    Brampton-based emerging poet Toks Ayinla aims to empower youth in her short vignettes

    "I want a life that will move me to tears."
    Poetic License

    Ifrah Hussein is the friend who tells you what you need to hear in her poem Till the Moon

    "You cannot force a lifetime of what was only meant to live with you for a moment."
    Poetic License

    Petra Amoako writes 'small poems with big meanings' — and this one is a meditation on healing

    "Ignoring pain is like ignoring the sun, it will follow you, no matter how far you run."

    'Where is our light?' Roen Higgins's poetry on race and mental health is searching for a way forward

    In her poem Dark Phase, Higgins is looking for the light after the uprising.
    Poetic License

    Yusuf Saadi's poems are like the introspective thoughts that come up on a long walk on a cold day

    "On St-Hubert a toothless snowman stares into my window, smiles. This wintry air is anaesthetic — ringing glass-on-glass of interlocking crystals."