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Check out our Incubation Projects and other community-based activities which reflect our commitment to work both across Canada and to recognize the specificity of various territories based on IBPoC histories, demographics, languages, connections (or not) to land-based arts practices, to name just a few considerations. W...
Search through a curated selection of relevant links that will expand as we sift through the extraordinary wealth of research - texts, videos, audio - that has already been developed by IBPoC artists, elders and scholars. We genuinely do not believe that we have ‘all the answers’, but we hope to pose some of the ‘right ...
Explore what we have learned together and are still in the process of learning from our artists collaborators and other partners in the art system. We strive to capture the distilled knowledge from specific events that we have held. We also commission essays, podcasts and videos that enhance, amplify and sometimes comp...
Take a look back at our gatherings, residencies and public presentations which we have organized since 2016. These events bring together artists and other arts-related folks to present, converse and share their experience about the Canadian art system. We plan and curate these events as ‘knowledge generators’ that inte...
Water is central to our story. My ancestors, the Black Refugee-Survivors of the War of 1812, were bold freedom runner...
Prayer is good O! is a phone call between my mother and I that reveals a ritual we have shared for 35 years. Every ye...
Feature image: Winsom, The Masks We Wear, December 22, 2018-July 7, 2019, Installation view from Winsom: I Rise at th...
Rodney Saint-Éloi. Haiti-born poet, essayist, and publisher Rodney Saint-Éloi authored fifteen books of poetry,...
Feature Image: George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic performing at the Phoenix Concert Threatre, Toronto, Ontari...
The photo was taken in Jérémie, Haiti by the artist. I have wished to be pure spirit. Without dying. I though...
Feature Image: photo by Kevin Calixte Zab Maboungou has succeeded in all aspects of arts and culture: she is...
Anna Binta Diallo is a Canadian multidisciplinary visual artist who explores themes of memory and nostalgia ...
Feature Image from left to right: Andrew Creightney, Adrian Neblett, Kiomi Pyke, Omari Newton, Chris Francisque. From...
"A Sister’s Song" Created by Diane Roberts Sound Design by Troy Slocum Mbira Music by Special thanks to...
Feature Image: Installation view from Never Apart Gallery, Massi Madi Festival, Montreal 2021. Image provided by the ...
BLM = BAMBlack Lives Matter = Black Artists Matter = Black Art Matters Almost one year ago, George Floyd, was ...
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