Glorious & Free

Glorious & Free is a social enterprise who wants to help curate the Contemporary Canadian Identity and bring it to life through inspirational stories, images and other means to help us demonstrate that when we embrace what makes ourselves different, we free others to do the same. We started this mission with the launch of an illustrated coffee table book with original and intimate photography that shares the lives of 33 audacious Canadians who truly embrace who they are. They are bold, original, audacious, hardworking risk-takers. They're creators and doers who have a vision of how they want to live and then make it happen. They succeed, fail, invent, and reinvent over and over again. They show us that we are more than just landscapes, polar bears, Mounties, and canoes. More than just "thank yous," "sorrys," hot prime ministers, and doughnut shops. We are also tattoo artists who have discovered the secret to cheating death. Designers hell-bent on winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Super soldiers who take "live vests" off suicide bombers. Freethinkers who refuse to be tamed. We are global-village visionaries, world record setters, ambassadors of the imagination, and conquerors of the Rockies. We hope they will inspire you, just as they inspired us, to fall deeply in love with life, to use your energy, gifts, vision, and heart to put your own stamp on the world. As you do, you'll be contributing something bigger than yourself to the ever-changing beauty of Canada—spreading a culture that is glorious and free and our collective belief that the world is more beautiful when we are all free to be whoever we dream ourselves to be. All proceeds will be donated to PEN Canada in support of its efforts to defend freedom of expression. Please feel free to get in touch by sending us an email at info@gloriousandfree.ca