What it means to “love” in different languages – inspired by CBC Poetry Prize Winner Kyo Lee
becky tu
December 7, 2023
What it means to be bilingual and redefining “love”. Inspired by CBC Poetry Prize winner Kyo Lee.
Category: People
Writer Sunita Balsara’s tinnitus inspires animated short film, “Ostinato”, made by women in ACE program
Charlie Smith
November 9, 2023
Women in Animation Vancouver’s ACE [Animation Career EXCELerator] program aims to address gender inequality.
Artist DZI..AN finds joy investigating human vibration and finding pathways for connection
Charlie Smith
October 11, 2023
Canadian interdisciplinary artist DZI..AN has an open heart, which has been forged by a very unusual life journey. In an interview in the Libby Leshgold Gallery at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, she reveals that she lived with many different families by the time she turned 18.
Eat, sleep, resist: Migrante Canada leader Christopher Sorio starts Philippine martial-law memoir
Carlito Pablo
September 25, 2023
Sorio, a longtime B.C. resident now living in Toronto, is adding a twist to his story about being tortured in the Philippines in the 1980s.
Film reveals how librarian Tsao Yung-ho shattered assumptions that Taiwanese history should be viewed through Chinese lens
Charlie Smith
August 25, 2023
TAIWANfest is exploring historic ties between the East Asian nation and the Netherlands, which Tsao researched for decades.
Artist Tong Zhou embraces shifting identity in TAIWANfest self-portrait after overcoming fear of losing his “Wǒ”
Charlie Smith
August 14, 2023
Zhou believes that change is not always easy even though one’s past identity doesn’t necessarily help a person grow.
Cultural researcher Kathleen Zaragosa nurtures Filipino heritage through power of language
Carlito Pablo
August 14, 2023
Zaragosa, who is about to begin graduate studies in Toronto, speaks Tagalog and is now learning her family’s heritage language of Oasnon.
On edgy Animal’s Awake, Aiko Tomi offers deep insights into monolids, giddy romance, and Asian joy
Charlie Smith
August 1, 2023
Tomi offers Asian women in North America reasons to celebrate their identity through melodic pop and hard-driving alternative music.
Ricecake CEO Van Dang celebrates fifth year of Queer Asian Revolution
Charlie Smith
July 25, 2023
Ricecake, which was founded by Dang, has a busy summer calendar with events at the Vancouver Mural Festival, Celebrities, and ENXW.
Isabel Kanaan channels Filipina immigration experience to Canada through comedy
Carlito Pablo
July 12, 2023
Kanaan co-created a groundbreaking series about immigration, Abroad, which is broadcast on Sundays on OMNI TV.
Women Without Men: a novella that tells the history of Iran through women’s bodies
Staff
March 10, 2026
1849 and 1904: Two Fires That Built Toronto
Paige Wen
March 9, 2026
David Suzuki: Saving humanity requires systemic change
David Suzuki
March 9, 2026
Cathy Xinman: The Rose Doesn’t Know
Cathy Xinman
March 7, 2026
What Bad Bunny meant when he said ‘Canadá’—and why we’re still talking about it
Staff
March 5, 2026
Omorose Osagie combines live action with animation as she explores grief felt for strangers in “Lost Wax”
Charlie Smith
March 4, 2026
A Downtown by Design: North York’s Unusual Centre
Paige Wen
March 1, 2026
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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.
