Heated Rivalry and North of North capture major Canadian Screen Awards in TV categories
Charlie Smith
June 1, 2026
Hudson Williams and Anna Lambe won for best performance in a TV drama and comedy, respectively.
Category: People
Not All Dragons: David Ly’s debut novel weaves together myth and self-identity
becky tu
May 26, 2026
Ly speaks about his debut novel, Not All Dragons, which explores self-identity, acceptance, and Vietnamese myth.
Canadian music world mourns passing of cellist Cris Derksen
Charlie Smith
May 17, 2026
Derksen was killed in a car crash while driving home from her father’s funeral in Northern Alberta.
Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho shares deep insights into hidden world of astronaut children in page-turning memoir
Charlie Smith
May 3, 2026
The Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street shines a light on kids who’ve been largely overlooked by the Canadian literary world.
Mayumi Lashbrook travels through time in Enemy Lines to make sense of intergenerational trauma
Charlie Smith
May 2, 2026
Lashbrook depicts the incarceration of Japanese Canadians through contemporary and modern dance, movement-based theatre, and performance art.
Seeing Ghosts / Home to China (an excerpt from Reconciling: A Lifelong Struggle to Belong)
Staff
April 29, 2026
Musqueam Elder Larry Grant created Reconciling in conversation with writer Scott Steedman.
In the documentary Replica, Chouwa Liang explores Chinese women’s intimate relationships with AI
Cathy Xinman
April 29, 2026
Replica not only touches on generational differences and feminist dilemmas but also reveals humanity’s self-exploration in the digital age.
Jade Music Fest in Asia singer-songwriter Straw Lim describes Pulang album as her love letter to Malaysia
Charlie Smith
April 26, 2026
Straw Lim was raised in Kuala Lumpur and now lives in Kota Kinabalu on northern Borneo.
Rising star Sebastian Gaskin dishes on musical influences, “Brown Man”, and headlining Jade Music Fest in Asia
Charlie Smith
April 22, 2026
The Tataskweyak Cree Nation singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer won a Juno in 2025 and received a second nomination in 2026.
Drew Hayden Taylor draws on Morrisseau forgeries to expose hidden truths in Undeniable Accusations
Charlie Smith
April 17, 2026
The Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver will present Hayden Taylor’s new play about a mother-daughter relationship from April 18 to May 3.
A bestselling novel was pulled from a French literary prize after AI accusations—what next?
Staff
September 28, 2026
Burnaby native Kevin Moon unleashes his inner “FREECHILD” through K-pop solo career
Staff
September 25, 2026
The stories we tell ourselves shape who we are
Staff
September 22, 2026
Cathy Xinman: Timid Leaves
Charlie Smith
September 20, 2026
For Métis, it matters to say ‘let’s get together’ to share stories
Staff
September 19, 2026
Alaa Shehada–directed film will screen in Vancouver in response to Palestinian performer’s visa hassle
Charlie Smith
September 19, 2026
Gurpreet Singh: Why I refuse to sing “Vande Mataram”
Staff
September 16, 2026
They were already reading: What a TAIWANfest audience revealed about the Invisible Cross of Toronto
Paige Wen
September 15, 2026
Reforming DEI: From identity-based exclusion to genuine equality of opportunity
Staff
September 15, 2026
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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.
