The “Cherokee syndrome” is a phenomenon in which someone bases a shallow Indigenous identity on an unverified distant Cherokee ancestor.
Nagata Shachu is the only taiko troupe outside of Japan that has attracted sponsorships from four major Japanese drum manufacturers.
Katherena Vermette’s 2025 novel Real Ones offers important reflections on the rippling effects of false claims to Indigenous identity.
Lame became famous for reacting to absurd “life hack” videos with a blank, slightly annoyed face, showing the hack wasn’t needed.
Pillion is a love story about connection and self-discovery through submission, pain, and bootlicking.
Airstrikes near historic districts in Tehran and Isfahan have damaged cultural monuments that have survived for centuries.
Written in the late 1970s, it was immediately banned on publication in Iran. Now, Women Without Men is available in English.
Rafiki is a charming urban Kenyan love story in which two teenage girls’ close friendship slowly turns into first love.
Weeks later, a single word from the Super Bowl half-time show continues to reverberate across social media: “Canadá”.
In response to Ford’s comments, basket-weavers and craft organizations across the country noted the lucrative nature of their practice
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.
