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A travel series for the senses.

AMI & BLACK RHINO CREATIVE PRESENTS

AMI’s new series Postcards from… is an invitation to everyone to reimagine travel through the five senses.

What does it feel like to climb a mountain on your hands? To hear your breath as you float free in adaptive scuba gear? To taste the char of fire-roasted salmon while watching an elder tell stories in indigenous sign language? From culture to culinary, nature to adventure, you’ve never experienced Canada like this. Every episode, Christa Couture meets up with fun and entertaining locals in-the-know.

These locals are our guide to a sensory experience that goes beyond the traditional hop-on hop-off bus tour. Each episode will contain segments that explore the five senses; taste, touch, smell, sight and sound. Join us on this journey that will captivate you like never before.

Postcards Season 5

Join host Christa Couture as she retraces her steps to Drumheller, the “Dinosaur Capital of the World” she once visited as a child. Roll up your sleeves and dig into the past with prehistoric expert Kathryn from the Tyrell Museum. Fascinating locals introduce us to the lesser known side of Drumheller as we chase ghosts, rev up a motorbike and try the infamous culinary delicacy prairie oysters.

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Episode 1: Postcards From Drumheller

Get charmed in Fredericton, a delightful historical city in the heart of Canada’s maritimes. Host Christa Couture arrives just in time for the highland games, a Celtic infusion of music, dance, and outrageous Scottish athletics like the giant log toss. We try everything this charismatic city has to offer: axe throwing, celebrity latte art, fiddlehead ferns and a trip back in time to King’s Landing.

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Episode 2: Postcards From Fredericton

Episode 3: Postcards From Dawson City

Who are the new adventurists of Dawson City, once the heart of the Klondike Gold Rush? Our host Christa Couture travels to this remote haven tucked into the wilds of Canada’s Yukon where she’s welcomed with a sourtoe cocktail, a legendary drink with a real human toe. Join Chista as tries her luck at gold panning and meets with an off-grid artist, a queer burlesque dancer, and an Indigenous river guide.

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Getaway to laid-back Salt Spring island and unwind with our host Christa Couture on Canada’s West Coast. Slow down and enjoy as Christa tries her hand at cow milking, beekeeping and sampling the local cannabis cuisine. Christa stops in to see disabled artist Murray Siple at his studio for a creative collaboration, and dives in with the Salt Spring Seals, a group of women who swim in the ocean year round.

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Episode 4: Postcards From Salt Spring Island

Episode 5: Postcards From Niagara Falls

Take a trip on the kooky side at Niagara Falls, one of Canada’s most famous tourist hot spots. Feel the raw power of the Niagara Falls up close on an accessible tour with our host Christa Couture and local disability advocate Donna Herrington. Prepare for wackiness we stop in on Clifton Hill for Go-Karting with local Comedian Joe Pillitteri and sneak a backstage look at Greg Frewin’s spellbinding magic show. A lucky meeting with the charismatic town Mayor leads to an epic and colourful surprise at Niagara Falls by night.

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Episode 6: Postcards From Montreal

Are you ready for a glow-up in Montreal, Canada’s most fashionable city? Join our host Christa Couture as she takes on the town with a fresh fade and new art for her prosthetic leg. The fun continues as we swing by a laughing yoga class, a circus session and a medieval-themed meal. A visit to St. Viateur Bagel for a taste test completes this fabulous vacation.

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Episode 7: Postcards From Edmonton

Join host Christa Couture for a nostalgic visit back to her hometown, Edmonton. Reconnecting with old friends and new, we head straight for the action with a trapshooting lesson, a hoop dancing performance, and a crash course in pro wrestling. A meetup with STUMP Kitchen to make green onion pancakes and the musician Tzadeka for a jam session rounds out the trip.

Airs July3rd

Episode 8: Postcards From Whistler

Whether you like to ski or decidedly do not, adventure awaits in the mountain town of Whistler. Host Christa Couture is on a mission to find accessible excitement, starting by taking a lap with the sit-ski community at Whistler Adaptive. For Apres? Chainsaw ice carving, champagne sabering, and a gourmet meal cooked on the fire by “Adventure Chef” Jen Wong. Listen in as Christa tries her luck at yodeling with some tips from some of Whistler’s Swiss-born residents.

Airs July 10th

Postcards Season 5 is hosted by Christa Couture, musician, writer and amputee.

Christa Couture is an award-winning performing and recording artist, non-fiction writer, filmmaker and broadcaster. She is also proudly Indigenous (mixed Cree and Scandinavian), queer, disabled, and a mom.

Over the course of her acclaimed career, Christa has become known, unenviably, as an expert in loss: singing, speaking and writing about the childhood cancer that led to the amputation of her left leg, abortion, and the tragic deaths of her two infant sons. When it came time to make her fourth album, 2016’s eclectic, upbeat and twangy Long Time Leaving, a more run-of-the-mill loss, divorce, provided inspiration.

Postcards Season 4

Big adventure awaits in Yellowknife, home to the elusive Northern Lights. Join host Therese Estacion as she learns the ways of the North from locals: dog sledding, ice fishing, and how to keep warm in sub zero temperatures. Don’t miss this epic look at life in the Northwest Territories, including a tour of the Snow Castle, a massive structure built every year on the Great Slave Lake by the maverick Snow King.

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Episode 1: Postcards From Yellowknife

Join host Therese Estacion as she explores what makes Vancouver one of the most irresistible destinations in the world. We try everything this outrageously beautiful coastal city has to offer: flying high with an acro yoga lesson, a meetup with celebrated slam poet Brandon Wint, and an insider’s trip through Chinatown, Granville Island and the Punjabi market.

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Episode 2: Postcards From Vancouver

Episode 3: Postcards From Toronto

What are the travel secrets of the 6ix, Canada’s big and bold metropolis of Toronto? Join host Therese Estacion as she dives into what makes Toronto one of the most diverse cities in the world. We try it all: a traditional handpoke tattoo, beatboxing, and a soca dance lesson. Talented locals including comedian and actress Ann Pornel and activist Spencer West show us a side of Toronto we’ve never seen before.

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Can adventure and accessibility co-exist in Squamish, the famous outdoor sports mecca? Chief Ian Campbell welcomes our host Therese Estacion to Squamish territory with song and story before a cook-off with Indigenous Chef Mr. Bannock. Fascinating locals offer a new perspective on Squamish including para alpine athlete Alex Cairns, cold plunge specialist Claudia Medina, and freediver JennaMae Togado-Webb.

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Episode 4: Postcards From Squamish

Episode 5: Postcards From Lunenburg

Travel back in time in the maritime town of Lunenburg, where local ingenuity is keeping old traditions alive and thriving. Join host Therese Estacion as she’s invited to learn the secrets of this historic shipbuilding community, including how to fire a live cannon and shear a sheep. A tour by horse carriage of this UNESCO town explores how history can be both preserved and accessible.

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Postcards Season 4 is hosted by Therese Estacion, poet, writer and amputee.

Therese Estacion is part of the Visayan diaspora community. She is an elementary school teacher and is studying to be a psychotherapist. Therese is also a bilateral below knee and partial hands amputee, and identifies as a disabled person/person with a disability, and lives in Toronto/ Tkaronto. Her first collection of poems, Phantompains, was published by Book*Hug in Spring 2021 and was a finalist for both the 2021 Indies Foreword Reviews and CLMP Firecracker awards.