
The Island’s Gaze: How Mata reframes a 19th-century encounter between a Siraya boy and a Scottish photographer
Toronto TAIWANfest will screen Mata – The Island’s Gaze for free at 5 p.m. on August 29 in the Studio Theatre at Harbourfront Centre.

Toronto TAIWANfest will screen Mata – The Island’s Gaze for free at 5 p.m. on August 29 in the Studio Theatre at Harbourfront Centre.

The “Cherokee syndrome” is a phenomenon in which someone bases a shallow Indigenous identity on an unverified distant Cherokee ancestor.

Aboriginal artist and broadcaster Destiny Deacon embraced “Blak” as a term of Indigenous empowerment long before the emergence of AI.

Many Indigenous cultures caution against the concept of “heroes,” which is rooted in western narratives that elevate people as saviours.

Residential school denialism, as historian Crystal Gail Fraser has outlined, is an attack on truth.

Upadhyay maintains in the book that some upper-caste immigrants perpetuate racial stereotypes.

Malcolm (right) tells Dr. Adams how he was able to free himself from drugs and alcohol by coming to terms with intergenerational trauma.

Suana Emuy Cilangasay, Masaw Ali, Vaqacun Kalevuwan, and Abus Tanapima visit a former residential school in Identity: Lost and Found.

Organizers of this year’s LunarFest GTA’s Lunar Lanterns exhibition have embraced the theme “Born to Be Free”.










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.