Viral Vancouver Island hip-hop duo don pink for kindness

Viral hip-hop dance duo Funkanometry from Nanaimo, along with countless other people across the globe, will be donning pink shirts for a good cause on Pink Shirt Day, Feb. 28. Pink Shirt Day gets its name from a group of Nova Scotia students who wore pink shirts to school in support of another student who experienced homophobic bullying after wearing a pink shirt on the first day of school. One way schools and organizations across the country will celebrate the day to take a stand against bullying is by tuning into the Pink Shirt Day Canada National Broadcast Show, for which Funkanometry along with Maggie Mac Neil, a Canadian Olympic Champion Swimmer, have been chosen as the featured special guests. “They’re just a fantastic dance duo, really engaging,” said Andy Telfer, executive director of WITS Programs Foundation, on Funkanometry. Duo members Jacksun Fryer and Carlow Rush, ages 19 and 20, were scouted for NBC’s World of Dance in 2019 after gaining recognition for their dance performances and a significant following on social media. They’ve since been scouted for America’s Got Talent in 2022, and their viral dance video to Stayin’ Alive by the Bee Gees has now garnered over 60...