“Man in the Captain’s Seat” songwriter Daniel Lew pursues his Destiny on the road
Charlie Smith
August 6, 2024
Where do songs come from? For Lew, the title track of his new album, Destiny, emerged from his sleep.
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Filmmaker Fawzia Mirza centres joy, hope, and love in queer Muslim stories because that’s what people need to see
Charlie Smith
July 22, 2024
Mirza wrote and directed the 2023 film The Queen of My Dreams, which won two Canadian Screen Awards and was nominated for three others.
Flamenco de Formosa will add Taiwanese choreographic twist to passionate Spanish artform at TAIWANfest Toronto
Charlie Smith
July 20, 2024
Flamenco star Hsueh Yu-Hsien will make her Canadian debut on August 25 in the Fleck Dance Theatre at Harbourfront Centre.
Kaeja d’Dance presents Porch View Dances in Toronto’s Seaton Village
Charlie Smith
July 17, 2024
Mayumi Lashbrook, a mixed-race Japanese Canadian, is curating this year’s edition of Porch View Dances around the theme of joy.
Marie Nelson leaves top job at Hot Docs
Charlie Smith
July 11, 2024
Nelson was hired as president of Hot Docs in July 2023 after a four-year stint as a senior vice president of ABC News.
Where is the emphasis on soft power and cultural exports in Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy?
Charlie Smith
July 8, 2024
Author Joseph Nye defined has soft power as “the ability to obtain preferred outcomes by attraction rather than coercion or payment”.
Identity: Lost and Found explores how a Canadian tour affected Indigenous musicians from Taiwan
Charlie Smith
July 2, 2024
Suana Emuy Cilangasay, Masaw Ali, Vaqacun Kalevuwan, and Abus Tanapima visit a former residential school in Identity: Lost and Found.
Lilium breaks Asian pop mold by integrating Taiwanese lyrics and traditional instruments with indie rock
Charlie Smith
June 28, 2024
Lilium lead singer and chief songwriter Lin I-Shuo would love to create a new musical genre that’s made in Taiwan.
Brainy Serrini gains cult-like following with charismatic stage presence and bold lyrics
Charlie Smith
June 27, 2024
Serrini, a Hong Kong singer and songwriter, is looking forward to her first performance in Canada in November at the Jade Music Fest.
Filmmaker Chen Yi Jung adapts Freud’s study of Dora into virtual reality experience that promotes empathy for his patient
Charlie Smith
June 25, 2024
The famous psychoanalyst concluded that Dora suffered from “hysteria” triggered by sexual desire—a diagnosis that many now feel was sexist.
From Singapore to Canada, musician Chinyi C finds connection in a divided world
Charlie Smith
January 6, 2026
Ghinwa Yassine’s “A Dream Pointing to Aadchit” examines land as a site of renewal from war
Charlie Smith
January 3, 2026
David Suzuki: Unstoppable renewable energy revolution powers on
David Suzuki
January 2, 2026
Cathy Xinman: What We Carry into the New Year
Cathy Xinman
January 1, 2026
Hand-carved stones from Zimbabwe tell colourful stories at ZIM Sculpture Gallery
Charlie Smith
December 31, 2025
Apongo was a rebel leader in Jamaica—a diary entry sheds light on his west African origins
Staff
December 27, 2025
Cathy Xinman: Today, Like Yesterday, Has Gone Far Away
Cathy Xinman
December 26, 2025
The dangers of blurring fact and fiction in Holocaust TV narratives
Staff
December 25, 2025
Seven of the best novels of 2025—chosen by our literary experts
Staff
December 24, 2025
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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.
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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.
