An animated short about gay love enamours the internet and more arts stories you might have missed

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In a Heartbeat, crowd-funded animated short about gay love, goes viral (CBC News)

If anyone needs us, we'll be deep in our feelings. Last week, an animated short titled "In a Heartbeat" — created by filmmakers Beth David and Esteban Bravo as their senior thesis project in art school — about an adolescent gay couple captured the internet's collective heart, racking up more than 22 million views since being posted on Monday. And with good reason: it's beautiful and adorable and warms our cold dead souls.

These artists are celebrating community — one mosaic at a time (CBC Canada 2017)

How do you capture the spirit of a town? For this art project, it's through the people — and over 50,000 Canadians have painted so far. The Canada 150 Mosaic Mural is aiming to collect more than 80,000 individual paintings and put them together to form 150 murals, and so far they've seen contributions by everyone from grandparents and their grandkids to NHL stars and TV actors. As co-creator Phil Alain says: "Every mural has so many stories. When they all work together to create one unified image, it's a true time capsule legacy for the community."

Beyond a number: Inuit photo exhibit brings controversial 'Eskimo' I.D. system to light (Day 6)

This new photo exhibit by Barry Pottle — an Inuit photographer who grew up in Labrador — sheds light on a part of history Canadians might not know about: the Eskimo Identification Tag System, a program that existed from the 1940s through the 70s and which forced Inuit people living in the Arctic to wear numbered ID tags so the government could track their population. And although the system was dehumanizing, Pottle says his goal was to be objective rather than angry. In fact, the exhibit's title speaks to its M.O.: "The Awareness Project."

Sticking to tradition: Indigenous tattoo revival hopes to strengthen connections to culture (CBC British Columbia)

For these Indigenous tattoo enthusiasts, the ink on their skin is a lot more than just decoration. Dion Kaszas, who founded B.C.'s Earthline Tattoo School, says that traditional Indigenous tattooing is a powerful way for people to reconnect with their communities — and fellow Earthline Collective member Amy Malbeuf echoes his sentiments. "It's really important for our people to be tattooed by our own people and carry these markings that express our own identity," she told CBC British Columbia. "Even though we are visible people, we are still invisible."

Why Maria Qamar turned her art into a guide for girls growing up in South Asian families (CBC Books)

You probably know Maria Qamar, also known as Hatecopy, from last year's CBC Arts video feature or from her Instagram, where she has more than 106,000 followers — but now you can get to know her in print, too. She released her first comic book Trust No Aunty last week, and CBC Books checked with her about how she wrote and illustrated the sassily charming collection of stories, recipes and advice, and it turns out the journey has taken her from being let go by her corporate job to having her art showcased on The Mindy Project.

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