
Understanding the City Through Culture








What distinguishes Carson from many of her contemporaries is the combination of intellectual audacity and emotional restraint.

What distinguishes Carson from many of her contemporaries is the combination of intellectual audacity and emotional restraint.

A lesser-known fact of Canadian history is that Métis people have routinely asserted their Indigeneity and rights through legal means.

Thélyson Orélien says he finished a draft of his novel, C’était ça ou mourir, long before generative AI was commercially available.

“Timid Leaves” is a poem that uses leaves and birds as symbols of the fragility of life.

OCT 14 - 18, 2026
Cineplex Scotiabank Theatre and Cinecycle
The Canadian music industry took notice of Jacqueline Teh at the 2021 Juno Awards. The respected jazz singer and songwriter co-wrote the final three tracks on Sammy Jackson’s five-song “With You” EP, which was honoured as Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. Teh also joined Jackson on vocals on the EP’s fourth track, “Bad Reception”.












Highlighting the diversity of Canadians with Chinese ancestry
Arts for Canadians Tomorrow Society created Toronto Spark to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
Arts for Canadians Tomorrow Society is grateful to be held on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, that is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We acknowledge our privilege to be gathered on this land, and commit to work with and be respectful to the Indigenous peoples whose arts and stories inspire us to bring communities together.