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In Review: Lucy Lawless’ R...

The unbelievable, yet entirely true, story of a incredible woman comes to vivid light in Never Look Away, the new film a...
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5 Questions With… Filmmaker L...

SONG FOR NO ONEToronto Reel Asian International Film Festival World Premiere / Dramatic Short Film / Shorts Presentation...
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In Review: Mati Diop’s ‘...

In Dahomey, director Mati Diop achieves something rare and profound: she transforms a historical documentary into a poet...
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5 Questions With… Filmmaker Liam Ma

November 15, 2024

SONG FOR NO ONE
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival
World Premiere / Dramatic Short Film / Shorts Presentation: UNSUNG VOICES

SONG FOR NO ONE is the directorial debut from actor-turned-writer/director Liam Ma (Cruel Intentions).

From his apartment in Brooklyn, Gene (Giullian Yao Gioiello) hosts an independent radio show to platform his music in hopes of one day finding a dedicated audience. Instead, his radio show reaches his recently deceased mother, Sook-Ja (Felice Choi), in the afterlife, through a radio powered by the stationary bikes that Sook-Ja and her interpreter, Han Sol (Stella Kim), ride each day.

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Artist Spotlight, Books, Hye's Picks, Interviews, Literature
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TIFA 2024: Author Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez

September 20, 2024

The Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) returns this year with over 100 artists and authors from 11 countries. The 2024 festival will explore the concept of “writing home” – from books and stories about the places we all call home, to the ideas, cultures and conflicts that inform what home means to us. 

TIFA always gives us an opportunity to hear from and meet some new authors like Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez.

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Artist Spotlight, Concerts, Hye's Picks, Interviews, Music
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In The City: Amanda Martinez “RECUERDO” Album Launch Concert

June 23, 2024

Amanda Martinez is a Canadian singer-songwriter whose music is an original blend of influences from her Mexican and South African roots.

Described by World Music Central as “one of the great new voices in Spanish language Latin music,” Martinez has been embraced by audiences all over the world with four previously released, highly acclaimed albums to her credit: Sola, Amor, Mañana and Libre.

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In The City: ‘ Black Dreams and Aspirations’ Exhibition

February 19, 2024

Toronto Union brings us Black Dreams and Aspirations, a free publicly accessible art exhibition co-curated with MakeRoom Inc. featuring special guest artist Yasin Osman. The exhibit is sponsored by TD Bank Group (TD).

Black Dreams and Aspirations started with an open call for artists to address the question: What does it mean to dream while Black? Union’s programming team, TD’s Art Curator, MakeRoom Inc. and guest judges James Yeboah and Shuraine Otto-Olak, selected twelve artists for a two-part exhibition series that explores themes of community, self-possession, connection to the past, creativity, and the power of imagination.

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Artist Spotlight, Arts & Culture, Books, Interviews, Photography
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In Print: ‘Finding American: Stories of Immigration from the 50 States’ by Colin Boyd Shafer

October 20, 2023

Colin Boyd Shafer is a Canadian documentary photographer and social sciences educator. I came to know Colin and his work through his previous projects, INTERLOVE which tells interfaith love stories in Ontario, and Cosmopolis Toronto, a project that features someone from every country of the world who now calls Toronto home.

His latest project, the hardcover book Finding American: Stories of Immigration from the 50 States has just been released by Figure 1 Publishing Inc.

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Artist Spotlight, Interviews, Theatre, Theatre Previews
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Actor Hannah Levinson Returns to The Coal Mine Theatre

September 28, 2023

Hannah Levinson made her stage debut at 5 years old in The Sound of Music and at just 17 she is already a three-time Dora Nominee, and a Toronto Theatre Critics Award Winner.

This week, Hannah returns to Toronto’s Coal Mine Theatre for their production of Brendan Jacob’s Jenkins’ APPROPRIATE.

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Artist Spotlight, Film, Interviews, TIFF 2023
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TIFF 2023 Industry: Series Creators Cory Bowles & Cazhhmere Downey

September 17, 2023

As part of the Industry programming, TIFF brought back its TIFF Series Accelerator programme this year. The programme, presented by Canada Media Fund, was set up to provide mentorship for eight emerging Canadian series-creator teams from under-represented communities to refine their pitches and develop a business plan for their projects.

Here I spotlight series creators Cory Bowles and Cazhhmere Downey whose concept series Out of Pocket was one of the eight projects selected to participate in this year’s programme.

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Artist Spotlight, Interviews, Theatre
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Spotlight: Perfomer, Director, Damon Bradley Jang

March 31, 2023

Damon Bradley Jang (He/Him/His) is a multifaceted performing arts practitioner and creator. A graduate of Capilano University’s Music Theatre program and Innagural Bachelors of Performing Arts program. He is also the Co-artistic/marketing director of Fabulist Theatre in British Columbia, Canada.

Jang is currently in his second year as a member of the Stratford Festival‘s Birmingham Conservatory and he is the first IBPOC/BIPOC male directing candidate.

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Artist Spotlight, Concerts, Interviews, Music
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Music Notes: Multidisciplinary Artist SlowPitchSound & his work with Soundstreams

March 21, 2023

My Music Notes series returns with multidisciplinary artist SlowPitchSound (Cheldon Paterson).

Paterson has a new collaboration with Soundstreams, a company that showcases the work of Canadian and international composers through innovative musical experiences. His latest commission, A Fanfare for Spaces Between, will open Soundstreams’ 40th anniversary fanfare March 25th program.

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