Journalism has become ground zero for the vocation crisis
Staff
July 4, 2024
This has been a grim year for journalism, with large-scale layoffs at many media companies in Canada and the United States.
Category: Education
Senegal has a rich history of traditional music—how it lives on in modern music
Staff
June 24, 2024
Youssou N’Dour, one of the most popular singers in Senegal, is also considered to be the pioneer of mbalax music.
With A Performance in the Church, filmmaker Hsu Chia-Wei breaks new ground in uncovering Spanish colonization of Taiwan
Charlie Smith
June 21, 2024
Hsu maintains that archaeology is how human beings are able re-create a time and space that they have never experienced.
The St. Anne’s fire in Toronto highlights the significance of space for cities and communities
Staff
June 17, 2024
The public reaction to the tragic fire that consumed St. Anne’s Anglican Church on Gladstone Street is remarkable on many levels.
There’s a strange history of white journalists trying to better understand the Black experience by “becoming” Black
Staff
June 14, 2024
Florida State University academic Alisha Gaines wrote about this in Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy.
Invisible Nation reveals how ex-president Tsai Ing-wen boosted pride in Taiwanese identity and democracy
Charlie Smith
May 30, 2024
Tsai granted filmmaker Vanessa Hope unprecedented access, enabling her to show how the president was able to tap into national aspirations.
Arts graduate education in Canada should be redesigned around students’ and society’s needs
Staff
May 29, 2024
Many arts graduate students aspire to become professors but Canada produces far more doctorates than available academic jobs.
Anti-Palestinian racism needs to be included in Canada’s Anti-Racism Strategy
Staff
May 21, 2024
The keffiyeh, a symbol of Palestinian culture and heritage, was banned in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in March by the Speaker.
Singing Back the Buffalo re-imagines collective future for Indigenous people and the Great Plains’ signature species
Charlie Smith
May 9, 2024
Filmmaker Tasha Hubbard tells a story of the interdependency of Indigenous people and the buffalo that remains strong to this day.
Why DEI in Canada struggles to uplift Black people
Staff
May 8, 2024
DEI was never designed to directly tackle history, according to University of Waterloo assistant professor Christopher Stuart Taylor.
Not All Dragons: David Ly’s debut novel weaves together myth and self-identity
becky tu
May 26, 2026
Gurpreet Singh: I Am a Cockroach
Staff
May 21, 2026
LiterASIAN Toronto features Farzana Doctor, Jack Wang, and June Hur
Staff
May 19, 2026
Canadian music world mourns passing of cellist Cris Derksen
Charlie Smith
May 17, 2026
David Suzuki: Regenerative practices breathe new life into forests
David Suzuki
May 14, 2026
6 African thinkers who help us understand the world—new book
Staff
May 13, 2026
In the age of AI, human creative output is becoming a luxury
Staff
May 11, 2026
Toronto Spark
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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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.
