
Who were the first Africans at the Olympics? The disturbing story of two 1904 marathon runners
They were Jan Mashiani and Len Taunyane (Tau), who appeared along with a white South African runner—B.W. Harris—in the Olympics marathon.

They were Jan Mashiani and Len Taunyane (Tau), who appeared along with a white South African runner—B.W. Harris—in the Olympics marathon.

The renewable energy transformation is accelerating—no matter how hard the fossil fuel industry and its supporters push back.

Mirza wrote and directed the 2023 film The Queen of My Dreams, which won two Canadian Screen Awards and was nominated for three others.

A Dalhousie University scholar looks back at Hage’s second novel, Cockroach, on the centenary of the death of Franz Kafka.










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.