By streaming Arfat Sheikh’s Saffron Kingdom, Watermelon Plus is providing a platform for Kashmiri stories told by Kashmiris.
While media have focused on higher education and international students in Canada, secondary schools have attracted far less attention.
For immigrant and racialized students, belonging can be especially complex.
Toronto TAIWANfest’s Dialogue with Scotland includes an exhibition highlighting Presbyterian physicians who moved to west-central Taiwan.
Toronto’s rental market is unforgiving for everyone. But for students, it exacts a cost that has gone largely unmeasured in housing-affordability debates: academic performance.
Chang will speak at a Toronto TAIWANfest event examining women’s lived experiences at 2 p.m. on August 29 at Harbourfront Centre.
Described as unprecedented due to its reach, impact, and speed, this Gen Z movement shares a playbook with other recent youth-led uprisings.
A critical examination of symbolism within Canada’s multicultural landscape.
Panelists:
Melanie Fernandez, Arts & Cultural Leader and Educator / Clr. Lily Cheng, City Councillor
Joanne Wong, Educator
A dialogue exploring forms of inward and reverse racism within Chinese-speaking communities. Perspectives from first-generation and 1.5+ generation speakers examine whether these issues are cultural, societal, or systemic—and how they can be addressed constructively.
Panelists:
Tong Zhou, visual artist / Aiko Tomi, pop artist / Jeanette Kong, director
In August 2021, the Taliban recaptured Kabul and, within weeks, barred girls from attending school beyond Grade 6. The ban has not lifted.
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.
