Across The Back 40: A Story of COVID Connection

It’s hard to look anywhere in this day and age without seeing some sensationalized piece about the pandemic and the tremendous impact it’s having on communities across the world. One thing that’s harder to find however, are stories of people working to uplift one another and find a light in an otherwise gloomy period in our history.

Across the Back 40 is one such project which, funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, allowed people to communicate and connect with one another— in the midst of one of the most disconnected periods in modern history. This video serves as a reminder of what we are capable of, when we come together with the shared goal of staying closer together at a time when we need it the most.