Confronting residential schools denialism is an ethical and shared Canadian responsibility
Staff
September 23, 2025
Residential school denialism, as historian Crystal Gail Fraser has outlined, is an attack on truth.
Author: Staff
Jazz vocalist and songwriter Jacq Teh credits pianist father Jimmy for inspiring her love of music
Staff
September 22, 2025
Jimmy Teh grew up in Rangoon, Burma (currently known as Yangon, Myanmar) in a family with musical roots.
Nigerian photographer Michael Oyinbokure challenges stereotypes about migrants
Staff
September 16, 2025
Oyinbokure presents what immigrants bring with them: their resilience, inventiveness, and enduring connection to their homelands.
Film festivals like TIFF set the tone for wider industry norms—here’s what we’re watching around AI
Staff
September 13, 2025
Researchers within the Creative Labour Critical Futures project are tracking media responses to AI use across the film industry.
KPop Demon Hunters gives a glimpse into K-pop culture in South Korea
Staff
September 7, 2025
Huntr/x, the musical girl group featured in KPop Demon Hunters, has topped charts worldwide with their track “Golden”.
God and Nollywood: How Pentecostal churches have shaped Nigerian film
Staff
September 4, 2025
In Nigeria today, one doesn’t have to attend a church service to hear a sermon. The pulpit has moved onto screens and across YouTube.
K-pop soloist LIYVZ speaks out on new single, “NASTY BOY”, and empowering future artists
Staff
September 2, 2025
LIYVZ, who also goes by Lindiwe “Lindi” Senzeni Sibongo, began realizing her dream of becoming a singer when she was a child.
Netflix’s Mo delivers humour, heartache as it explores Israel-Gaza war and Palestinian and Mexican migrant life in the U.S.
Staff
September 2, 2025
In Netflix’s Mo, characters deal with immigration, war, poverty and memories of Palestine.
Donald Trump or Xi Jinping: Who will fall first?
Staff
August 31, 2025
Trump and Xi are challenged by domestic political and economic crises—and each other.
Art Museum brings environmental precarity into focus in Dwelling Under Distant Suns exhibition
Staff
August 27, 2025
The curator included film-based works because other representations of catastrophe have wreaked havoc on attention spans.
Legendary Indian playback singer Asha Bhosle dies
Charlie Smith
April 12, 2026
Indigenous JUNO-winning artist Sebastian Gaskin and six other GTA musicians play Jade Music Fest in Asia
Charlie Smith
April 11, 2026
The Room Upstairs inspired by John Coltrane’s music and creative process
Charlie Smith
March 26, 2026
David Suzuki: Renewable energy saves lives and money
David Suzuki
March 24, 2026
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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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About Us
- Vision Statement
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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.
