
Fújì music in Nigeria: new documentary shines light on a popular African culture
Fújì did not begin as a secular and commercial sound. Its musical ancestor, wéré, was a seasonal Islamic performance during Ramadan.

Fújì did not begin as a secular and commercial sound. Its musical ancestor, wéré, was a seasonal Islamic performance during Ramadan.

An upcoming show, “Our (Orihon) Nobuo”, will honour the artistic talents of Nobuo Kubota at Shintani Gallery in Toronto.

University of Portsmouth film and screen studies professor Deborah Shaw reveiws the history of lesbians in cinema.

The Australian-born Dao’s novel, Anam, is a work of imagination in which the narrator tries to allow all the rival voices to be heard.

When James Clavell’s novel Shōgun was turned into a TV miniseries, some 33 percent of American households with a television tuned in.
Whereas anime made for Japanese audiences can have hundreds of episodes, U.S.-made live-action versions tend to have much shorter seasons.

Le is best known as the author of The Boat, a collection of short stories that includes a story a young girl who is smuggled out of Vietnam.

Nine years after #OscarsSoWhite, millions of us tuned into watch the 96th annual Academy Awards—some to see how much had changed.

This year, all of the Academy Award nominees for best documentary feature come from outside of the United States.

Eya and Tayssir Chikhaoui appear as themselves in Four Daughters, but some other characters are played by actors.










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.