Alexander was born in Toronto on January 21, 1922—a time when there were very few Black people living in the city.
The Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre (C-SET) at the University of Regina launched the project as part of a Festival of Art and Discourse.
The Ọ̀ṣun Òṣogbo festival is an important annual event, drawing thousands of devotees and tourists from across Nigeria and worldwide.
Scholar Bettina L. Loves notes that hip-hop-based education enables urban and Black children and youth to critically reflect on the world.
Mahtani, the head of Canadian Studies at UBC, has written a non-linear series of vignettes, often redolent with emotion.
Ekezie, a humourist and journalist, has gained millions of followers with skits that poke fun at the world’s perceptions of the continent.
Housing over 10,000 objects, it offers more than 600 years of history of the Bamoun kingdom, one of the oldest in sub-Saharan Africa.
President Joe Biden recently spoke at a national museum focusing on the slave trade, which opened in 1977 near the Angolan capital of Luanda.
Iyashikei is a Japanese genre that tells stories designed to comfort and heal weary readers by creating an aesthetic of calm.
Authoritarian regimes rely on patriarchal structures to consolidate their power. In Iran, this partnership serves to control women’s bodies.
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.
