Gleeson’s grandfather told him that when he was young, there used to be caribou everywhere in his Nation’s traditional territory.
Namewee is facing drug charges in his homeland. It’s not the first time he has generated controversy.
Calorie is poignant and profound family drama weaving together intergenerational relations and diasporic reconnection with the homeland.
Two queer-themed films set in Asia were each a big hit with those who attended the recent Reel Asian screenings.
Parwana received $25,000 for winning the Dhahan Prize; runners-up Mudassar Bashir and Bhagwant Rasulpuri each took home $10,000.
Birdy choreographer Lai Hung-chung was inspired by an Alan Parker film starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage.
Aysanabee will take his The Way We’re Born Tour to Ontario in late November and December.
Graphic novelists Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas are the other honourees.
Laurie Townshend won the Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary for her film about spoken-word artist Staceyann Chin.
Chen will deliver a talk called “Mending Generational Gaps Through Music” at the Jade Music Fest on Saturday (November 8).
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.
