There can be negative impacts when educators repeatedly stumble over a child’s name or treat a child’s food or language as strange.
The “Cherokee syndrome” is a phenomenon in which someone bases a shallow Indigenous identity on an unverified distant Cherokee ancestor.
Katherena Vermette’s 2025 novel Real Ones offers important reflections on the rippling effects of false claims to Indigenous identity.
Matas has received more than 100 awards and honours, and her works have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Lion Dances at annual Chinatown parades don’t represent the breadth of the East Asian and Southeast Asian diaspora with Chinese ancestry.
For anyone looking for a hopeful, practical response to today’s environmental challenges, the invitation is simple: start where you live.
Qian Liu, the author of a book on this subject, explains why the children of immigrants often feel such pressure to succeed.
As we move into the new year, we need more ruptures in mainstream thinking. It’s the cracks that let the light in.
A Barrie, Ontario–based theatre company is piloting a new national program to address a shortage of older, racialized actors in Canada.
ZIM owner Wayne Gallimore has become Canada’s foremost purveyor of magnificent Shona stone sculptures from southern Africa.
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.
